Soldier Accused In Bomb Plot
Attacks Officers In Courthouse Elevator!
Army Pfc. Jason Abdo, who’s accused of plotting to
set off a bomb in a restaurant frequented by
Fort Hood soldiers,
attacked a U.S. marshal and a deputy sheriff
who were escorting him back to jail
Friday evening after a pretrial hearing in
U.S. District Court in Waco.
Abdo, who's from Garland,
joined the Army in March 2009.
He went AWOL on July 4, 2011,
on the eve of his first deployment to Afghanistan.
In November 2011 he told a television station
in Tennessee he was originally planning an attack
on his home base of Fort Campbell, Ky.
He told WSMV-TV in Nashville his target
at the base on the Kentucky-Tennessee line
was a high-ranking official whom he did not name.
He was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's
Company E, 1st Brigade Combat Team
(Rear Provisional) at the time of his arrest.
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Attacks Officers In Courthouse Elevator!
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