{"id":469870,"date":"2011-07-28T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/28\/us-soldier-held-for-fort-hood-plot\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T16:11:01","slug":"us-soldier-held-for-fort-hood-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/28\/us-soldier-held-for-fort-hood-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"US soldier held for ‘Fort Hood plot’"},"content":{"rendered":"

28 July 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 12:11 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An Awol US soldier who allegedly planned an attack on the US Army base at Fort Hood in Texas is in custody, according to US media.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old accused was arrested after buying guns near the base and was found with bomb-making materials, officials reportedly said.<\/p>\n

The private first class allegedly told law enforcement officers he was at the base to “get even”, US media reported.<\/p>\n

Fort Hood was the scene of a gun rampage in 2009 that claimed 13 lives.<\/p>\n

The man arrested on Wednesday in the city of Killeen, Texas, is currently being held on an unrelated child pornography charge, according to law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n

A statement<\/a> on the Fort Hood website acknowledged the soldier’s arrest.<\/p>\n

It said: “We are aware at this time that Killeen Police Department arrested a soldier yesterday.<\/p>\n

“The incident leading to the arrest did not occur on Fort Hood and the soldier was not a Fort Hood-based soldier.”<\/p>\n

FBI agent Eric Vasys told Reuters news agency that the detainee had been missing from work at the Fort Campbell military base in Kentucky, near Fort Hood.<\/p>\n

The Army private is reportedly a Muslim American who had refused to deploy to Iraq.<\/p>\n

He was arrested after police in Killeen received a call from the owner of a gun store about a suspicious man, a defence official told the CNN news network.<\/p>\n

The accused allegedly also visited another store and bought a military uniform.<\/p>\n

FBI agents reportedly searched the soldier’s hotel room in Texas and found gunpowder, shotgun shells, four magazines and ammunition.<\/p>\n

On 9 November 2009, Major Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who was due to deploy to Afghanistan, allegedly shot dead 12 soldiers and one civilian before police bullets wounded him.<\/p>\n

He faces the death penalty if convicted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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