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Alleged attacker ‘admires’ Ft. Hood shooter

Two ex-convicts planned an attack on a Seattle military recruiting station hoping that it would get attention from the media, authorities say, and even imagined...

Federal News Network Staff

June 24, 2011 9:40 am

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Suspects charged with planning to attack a Seattle military recruiting station were inspired by the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre. That’s according to the complaint filed against Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Dominque Junior. FBI agents arrested the pair Wednesday night. Police were tipped off by a third man recruited to help in the planned attack. The complaint was written by FBI Special Agent Albert C. Kelly III and filed in U.S. District Court. It says that in conversations with an informant, Abdul-Latif spoke admiringly of the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood. An Army officer turned Muslim extremist is charged with those killings.

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