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April 20, 2006
Another Hometown Terrorist?
An Afghani has been arrested locally for threatening to kill the President.
An Afghanistan native who applied for a job at a Van Buren trucking firm said he planned to use one of the company’s trucks to assassinate President Bush, according to federal court documents.
He's allegedly made such threats before, but this time someone took him seriously.
[Agent] Briscoe wrote that Dost told others last weekend that he and his friends were going to carry out the assassination by turning a tractor-trailer into a bomb, “or if unsuccessful with the assassination of the president, he would use the bomb to inflict mass casualties upon the public.�
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On Saturday, Briscoe wrote, Dost made statements to four other applicants at a Fort Smith motel that, among other things, Bush had assassinated all of Afghanistan’s United Nations representatives, he handled the situation in Afghanistan poorly and he was a corrupt leader who didn’t deserve to live.
One applicant, identified as Thomas Brown, told the Secret Service that Dost said he and his people would assassinate President Bush and that Osama bin Laden would be president when he came out of hiding.
Like many liberals, he doesn't seem to understand presidential succession.
Briscoe interviewed Dost on Monday. His affidavit said Dost expressed extreme anger at the United States and Bush and said they ruined his native country. Dost referred to Bush as a gangster and criminal but said he did not threaten to kill him.
His attorney naturally has asked for a mental eval. Is he crazy? Terrorist? Both? Neither? A left-wing loony in disguise?
Dunno yet.
Posted by Rita at April 20, 2006 07:32 AM