Soldier arrested at Ft. Hood with explosives
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A U.S. Army soldier was arrested after police found him in a motel room near Fort Hood, Texas, with possible “bomb-making materials,” authorities said on Thursday
FBI Special Agent Eric Vasys said the soldier, who was absent without leave from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was being held in a jail in the city of Killeen, Texas near Fort Hood, on an unrelated child pornography charge.
He was identified as Naser Jason Abdo, 21, originally from the Dallas area. He disappeared from Fort Campbell over the July 4 weekend, Fort Campbell base spokesman Bob Jenkins said. The FBI initially gave his name as Jason Abdo Nassar.
“Whatever threat Mr. (Abdo) posed yesterday or up until yesterday has been eliminated and mitigated, and there was nothing to indicate he was acting with anyone else,” said FBI agent Vasys, who is based in San Antonio.
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In June, the U.S. military approved Abdo as a conscientious objector to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but that status was put on hold after he was charged with child pornography in Kentucky.
Abdo applied for conscientious objector status in 2010 after he decided Islamic standards would prohibit his service in the U.S. Army in any war, military officials said.