Updated: Muslim Convert Who Shot US Soldier Says Killing “Justified”
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Muslim convert charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting center said Tuesday that he doesn’t consider the killing a murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.
“I do feel I’m not guilty,” Abdulhakim Muhammad told The Associated Press in a collect call from the Pulaski County jail. “I don’t think it was murder, because murder is when a person kills another person without justified reason.”
Pvt. William Andrew Long, 23, of Conway had just completed basic training and was volunteering at the west Little Rock recruiting office before starting an assignment in South Korea. He was shot dead June 1 while smoking a cigarette outside the building, and a fellow soldier, Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville was wounded.
“Yes, I did tell the police upon my arrest that this was an act of retaliation, and not a reaction on the soldiers personally,” Muhammad said. He called it “a act, for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military.”
In the interview, Muhammad also disputed his lawyer’s claim that he had been “radicalized” in a Yemeni prison and said fellow prisoners that some call terrorists were actually “very good Muslim brothers.”
He also said he didn’t specifically plan the shootings that morning.
“It’s been on my mind for awhile. It wasn’t nothing planned really. It was just the heat of the moment, you know,” said Muhammad, who was arrested on a highway shortly after the attack.
Prosecutor Larry Jegley, who on Monday won a gag order in the case, declined to comment specifically on Muhammad’s remarks.
“I asked for the gag order to protect Mr. Muhammad’s right for a fair trial,” Jegley said. “I’ve never had a situation like this with a gag order and I’m sure Mr. Muhammad’s attorney will take care of it.”
Muhammad, 23, said he wanted revenge for claims that American military personnel had desecrated copies of the Quran and killed or raped Muslims. “For this reason, no Muslim, male or female, sane or insane, little, big, small, old can accept or tolerate,” he said.
He said the U.S. military would never treat Christians and their Scriptures in the same manner.
“U.S. soldiers are killing innocent Muslim men and women. We believe that we have to strike back. We believe in eye for an eye. We don’t believe in turning the other cheek,” he said.
Asked whether he considered the shootings at the recruiting center an act of war, Muhammad said “I didn’t know the soldiers personally, but yes, it was an attack of retaliation. And I feel that other attacks, not by me or people I know, but definitely Muslims in this country and others elsewhere, are going to attack for doing those things they did,” especially desecrating the Quran.
Last week, defense lawyer Jim Hensley said his client had been tortured and “radicalized” in a Yemeni prison after entering the country to teach English. He was held there for immigration violations, and Yemeni officials have denied mistreatment.
“Those claims … are all lies,” Muhammad said Tuesday. “That never happened in Yemen. The officials dealt with me in a gentle way.”
Hensley said Tuesday that any information spread by any of the parties since Monday morning would violate the gag order and declined to say whether he would advise his client to remain silent pending a trial.
Original Story Below:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Muslim convert charged in the killing of a soldier at a recruiting center in Arkansas says he didn’t consider it murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.
Abdulhakim Muhammad told The Associated Press Tuesday in Little Rock that he confessed to police that he killed Pvt. William Long outside an Army-Navy recruiting center.
But he said murder exists only “without a justified reason.”
In a collect call from jail, the 23-year-old man said he didn’t specifically plan the June 1 shootings but that they had been on his mind for awhile.
He disputed his lawyer’s claim that he had been “radicalized” in a prison in Yemen.
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Islam is peace!
Premeditated murder one. Pound his stones flat and push him over a cliff. Semper Fi.
Gee, big fuckin’ surprise. The crazed jihadist believes his actions were justified. Oh, and his lawyers are claiming he’s just a product of his enviroment. Well, shiite! I’m just shocked and awed all around by this revelation.
Btw, this a soldier, not a Marine. This is the second time I’ve seen that, get your shit together.
Glad the title was changed, but you have a picture of a Marine outside an Armed Forces Career Center, when it was soldiers shot outside and Army/Navy recruitment center.
Who fuckin gives a shit? What did you take from the fucking story?
Note to Abdulhakim, we are a nation of LAWS you idiot, and murder is against OUR LAWS.
If you felt so compelled to pick up a weapon, why not travel to the ME and fight like a real brave jihadi… I’m sure some of our fine men in uniform could arrange a quick trip to the afterlife for you.
“I do feel I’m not guilty,” Abdulhakim Muhammad told The Associated Press
Maybe he will find an empathatic judge like soto-mayor.
He is an enemy combatant. His reason for doing this is for retaliation for US attacks in the middle east. We are at war and now this man has struck back. He should be treated as such and should not have the luxury of being tried for murder in a US court. It should be a military court. Unfortunately the article does not say if this guy was a US citizen so I do not the legal standing he would have if he was or was not a US citizen.
Reverand Wright + Farrakhan + Abdulhakim Muhammad = Obama. You do the math…
You left out Ayers, Alinsky & Soros. This radical, America-hating, Kenyan-born fucking Muslim radical MUST be stopped and stopped soon!!
Wonder who Obama is going to side with?
The two brave US Army soldiers or the
“misguioded Muslim”?
he just wont say anything…as always!!! like the muslim he is, he will try to wipe it under the carpet! THIS IS THE 3rd ATTACK ON US SOIL.
first one was in New York @ a post office where hezbollah claimed (killing 14 people)
second one was an IED in a Starbucks in New York City.
and now this one!
-aTb
does that mean that the Army is justified storming into American mosques now?
I think the average citizen would be. Just your average vigilante with vengeance and justice on his mind.
I am altering my bumper sticker.
It will read in large letters
WHO WAS PRIVATE WILIAM LONG?
Everywhere I ask people if they know about Private Long. Most do not and I tell them, loudly. Most were not aware that there was an attack on a Recruiting station IN this country.
I am telling everyone.
Are you?
YES
I’ve been noticing a change in the reporting of the American Press Force Service. Now I see Donna Miles will spin when told.
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=54712
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2009 - A soldier wounded last week during an attack at a recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark., that claimed a fellow soldier’s life expressed no bitterness today at his attacker, and said the incident has done nothing to dampen his desire to serve in the Army.
Army Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, spoke publicly about the incident for the first time since he was gunned down outside an Army recruiting office June 1. He is recovering from gunshot wounds to his neck, back and buttocks.
Army Pvt. William Long, 23, was killed in the attack. He was buried yesterday at Camp Robinson, Ark.
Abdulhakim Muhammad, the alleged shooter, was arrested shortly after the attack. He faces charges of capital murder and committing a terroristic act.
“I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe,” he said. “I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.”
Asked by a reporter today about his recovery, the understated Ezeagwula stated simply, “I’m doing fine, sir.”
Ezeaguwula said he joined the military because he “wanted to be able to help my family out,” and thought the Army sounded like a good way to do so.
“I actually learned to love the Army,” he told reporters today.
Ezeaguwula expressed thanks about the Army’s support since the incident. “I really appreciate what they have done for my family and for Private Long’s family,” he said.
His mother, who joined him at the news conference, echoed her son’s thanks and said the experience reaffirmed her confidence that the Army will look out for him.
“I really would like to commend the Army for everything they have done for us,” said his mother, who was not identified by name. She said the support Army caregivers have provided her son makes her feel “very secure about my son being in their care.”
“I couldn’t ask for a better person than God himself,” she said. The soldier’s mother added that she’s happy her son wants to continue his Army service.
“I feel very good about him staying in the Army and wanting to represent the United States,” she said. “I think that’s a wonderful thing.”
She said she hopes the incident sends a message that the United States “is going to step up to the plate and take whatever necessary steps need to be taken to protect Americans.”
“You just can’t [launch an attack] like that and think it’s OK,” she said.
Still, she said, she harbors “no ill feelings” toward her son’s attacker.
“I just pray that justice be served,” she said, adding that she hopes the outcome will “be fair.”
Ezeagwula and Long recently completed basic training and infantry training and were serving a temporary recruiting assignment before moving on to their first assignments. Once he recovers, Ezeagwula will continue to his assignment at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
camel jocks are messed up
what a sackless shit. send him to isreali jails for a real ass pounding and slow death.
“what a sackless shit. send him to isreali jails for a real ass pounding and slow death.”
No, that would be Egypt or any other Arab dictatorship, Israel is a law abiding nation.
Muhammad: “I don’t think it was murder, because murder is when a person kills another person without justified reason.”
By that reasoning putting two in his brain bucket ought to be justified. Stupid fucking moozlim.
Honestly, I think the mook is right, what he did was an act of war, not murder. Now we need to start perpetrating our own acts of war.
Exactly right! I could get into a little “perpetration” on moozlim’s.
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That tells us all we need to know about Islam, doesn’t it? The more you follow Islam, the more you are likely to be a terrorist…
I think it was a study done some years ago that showed that more terrorists than not are muslim.
I think it was in the 99.8% range. Fuck Islam as a child molesting, rape committing, atrocity factory.
Imagine if there were people in that parking lot armed by state law, with the right to carry concealed. That bastard would feel all of us from the constitution. Target destroyed. Soldiers wounded but not dead.
A loud message to those who wpuld appease us into slaughter - sent.
We will not be destroyed and you cannot come into this country or be born here and betray us and brandish a firearm against one of us.
Let’s see who rushes to the side of these soldiers and protects their honor and the sanctity and holiness of the genesis of this nation.
I suspect the ACLU will support the asshole, not the victims.
It is good to see that Obama and his allies, Islam, the Democratic party, acorn, academia, MSM and felons in the prison system have shown every American just what they support and believe.
The war was started by the results of the last free election. I don’t believe there will be another.
The 30 year war will look like a cake walk compared to whats coming.
,”in the heat of the moment”, Grizz just pumped moohamadasshats chest full of double 00 buck shot.details at 9,now on the sports front,the rockies have won 5 in a row………
Off with this assholes head.
How about the DC Sniper John Mohammed and that rat punk Salvo. They also admitted they were jihadists.
Of course that was covered up quickly
On another note an 83 year old Florida Marine combat vet Clair C Chaffin who fought at Iwo Jima was senselessly shot on his way to a 4th Marine Division reunion in Tampa.
Two gang bangers did it.
Rest in peace Mr Chaffin
APESHIT!!! I would BURN that fucking town down if that was my gramps.Pull these rat bastards out of their holes and …….AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
GRIZZ
I am not good with the link stuff but you can Google his name and I am sure the article is there.
I feel exactly the same way as you
godspeed chaffin, i hope those coons get the death penalty
“In the interview, Muhammad also disputed his lawyer’s claim that he had been “radicalized” in a Yemeni prison and said fellow prisoners that some call terrorists were actually “very good Muslim brothers.”
when will people realise that the more devout the muslim the more dangerous they are? islam itself is radical
i am going to piss alot of people off with this but…. i hear alot of talk of “doing something” nock it off, your not going to do anything that involves violence. rather change the hearts and minds of commie fucks and quit your rambling.
Look at this muslim piece of dirt, and the family he destroyed, The anger is rising as we see what these muslim cowards condone. Not one muslim said a word in protest of what this monkey did. What is it with you child killing woman hating freaks that lets you murder unarmed civilians but won’t fight armed soldiers. Send em to allah as fast as possible.