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Suspect holed up in motel room with bomb-making ingredients

Ashley Powers, Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, July 29, 2011 - 5:27pm

KILLEEN, Texas -- The suspect accused of planning another attack on Fort Hood had holed up in a motel room in Killeen earlier this week, authorities said, with a 40-caliber handgun, a litany of bomb-making ingredients and a plan to make this military city ache all over again.

Instead, Naser Jason Abdo appeared Friday in U.S. District Court in Waco.

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AWOL soldier condemned Fort Hood shootings

Jamie Stengle The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 29, 2011 - 9:58am

KILLEEN, Texas -- As Pfc. Naser Abdo beseeched officials to grant him conscientious objector status and release him from the military, he condemned a fellow Muslim soldier accused of shooting 13 people to death at Fort Hood. Such acts, he wrote, "run counter to what I believe in as a Muslim."

Less than a year later, officials say Abdo has admitted planning to launch another attack on Fort Hood with a bomb in a backpack and weapons stashed in a motel room where he was arrested Wednesday, about 3 miles from the Texas Army base's main gate.

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This undated frame grab provided by WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tenn., shows Pfc. Naser Abdo. Abdo, 21, arrested Wednesday, July 27, 2011, who had weapons stashed in a motel room near Fort Hood, Texas, admitted planning an attack on the post, where 13 people died in 2009 in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation, the Army said in an alert issued Thursday. (AP Photo/WSMV-TV)

AWOL soldier accused of plotting to kill Fort Hood troops

Chris Vaughn, Darren Barbee Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Last updated Friday, July 29, 2011 - 9:11am

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pfc. Nasser Jason Abdo, after raising suspicions at a Killeen, Texas, gun shop where he purchased six pounds of gunpowder and several boxes of shotgun shells, was in police custody in Killeen on Thursday, accused of plotting to kill fellow soldiers in a frightening reprise of the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood.

Abdo, 21, who grew up in Garland outside of Dallas, was close to pulling off a "terror plot" in which the intended target was troops based at Fort Hood, said Killeen Police Chief Dennis Baldwin.

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Jed Paul “Cole” Naisbitt, of Ogden, poses with children in Iraq.

Death of Fort Hood soldier from Ogden may have been homicide

Michael McFall, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 12:59am

KILLEEN, Texas -- Police are investigating the death of Jed Paul "Cole" Naisbitt, a Fort Hood soldier from Ogden.

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Police officer descrbes shooting, then helping murder suspect at Fort Hood

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 1:16pm

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- A civilian police officer told a military court Wednesday that he shot the gunman during last year's deadly rampage at Fort Hood, then secured the shooter in handcuffs and tried to save his life.

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