AWOL Muslim Solider Guilty of Fort Hood Bomb Plot

Pfc. Naser Abdo, an AWOL infantryman accused of plotting to kill GIs and their families in revenge for America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was found guilty Thursday.

Pfc. Naser Abdo, an AWOL infantryman accused of plotting to kill GIs and their families in revenge for America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was found guilty Thursday, reports the San Antonio Express-News.

Abdo, 22, arrived in Killeen nearly a year ago bent on killing fellow soldiers. He was on the run from Fort Campbell, Ky., after plotting to kidnap a soldier and execute him on video.

Abdo checked into a budget hotel near Fort Hood in the wee hours of July 26. Evidence showed he had already bought many of the items needed to blow up a Chinese restaurant and gun down the survivors with a handgun fed by extended-round clips.

Read the full San Antonio Express-News story.

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