{"id":59217,"date":"2015-04-12T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59217"},"modified":"2015-04-11T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T19:07:00","slug":"john-t-booker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59217","title":{"rendered":"John T Booker news"},"content":{"rendered":"

John T Booker, Junior had planned to wage a jihad against the US Army. When the plan failed because the Army thought he was a little too nutty to enlist, he decided to team up with the FBI to create a bomb and attack Fort Riley, Kansas. Apparently, the FBI tried to get his local Muslim cleric to talk him out of being nutty, according to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Imam Omar Hazim of the Islamic Center of Topeka told The Associated Press that two FBI agents brought Booker to him last year for counseling, hoping to turn the young man away from radical beliefs. Hazim said the agents told him that Booker suffered from bipolar disorder, characterized by unusual mood swings that can affect functioning.<\/p>\n

Hazim said he expressed concerns to the FBI about allowing Booker to move freely in the community after their first encounter.<\/p>\n

Hazim said he later heard that two others were involved in a bombing plot with Booker. He said the FBI told him they were undercover FBI agents and that the sting was arranged to get Booker “off the streets.”<\/p>\n

“I think the two FBI agents set him up, because they felt at that point someone else might have done the same thing and put a real bomb in his hands,” Hazim said.<\/p>\n

He said he has come to the conclusion that the sting was the right thing to do. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The cleric said that Booker had stopped taking his medication. A pretty blonde classmate of Booker, Chelsee Link<\/a>, says that he was quiet in school;<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t believe that I heard his name, and that he was said to be involved in something like this,” she said.<\/p>\n

Link described Booker as quiet, a student who never got into fights with other students at Topeka West. But he took an interest in history classes and war events, and would argue with the teacher about the circumstances and dates of battles.<\/p>\n

“He seemed to know a lot about that, but other than that, didn’t say anything in class,” she recalled. Link remembers the 20-year old as an ROTC cadet who also stay connected at school to his brother, Jeremy, and was picked on occasionally as being strange.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, the Feds have arrested another dude, Alexander E. Blair, for not reporting Booker’s plans according to ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 A second Topeka man is now charged in connection with an alleged plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at the Fort Riley.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 28-year-old Alexander E. Blair is charged with one count of failing to report a felony. A criminal complaint filed Friday alleges Blair knew of a plot by John T. Booker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure how I feel about that – sure Blair should have reported Booker’s activities, but I’m not happy that an American citizen can be arrested for not reporting something. I’m not saying that Blair didn’t have a responsibility to the nation and the community to report it, but that should come from his heart, not from the force of law.<\/p>\n

But, it’s good to see that the media is being predictable and generating sympathy for the devil, which is probably the reason that Blair didn’t feel a responsibility to report Booker and his activities. The media is in the business of making celebrities out of these lone wolf fan boys instead of making them look like petty criminals with deadly intentions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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