looney lone gunman kills soldiers at recruiting station

Suspect pleads not guilty in soldier's death

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Muslim convert who already was under federal investigation pleaded not guilty Tuesday in what police called a likely "political and religious" attack that killed a young soldier at a military recruiting center.

Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, of Little Rock, was charged in Monday's death of Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway outside an Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center. He pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge and was ordered held without bail.

A prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past."

An FBI-led joint terrorism task force based in the southern United States has been investigating Muhammad since he returned to the United States from Yemen, a law enforcement official said. The suspect had been arrested and jailed in Yemen at some point for using a Somali passport, the official said. The time of that arrest was not immediately clear.

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No idea what this crazed madman might have been trying to accomplish by this random act of murder, but it obviously wasn't part of any coordinated plot.

And yet, somehow the crazed right-wingers are trying to say that "the Left" drove this guy to the killing, though they don't have any clear explanation as to how or why.

Obviously, they are in spin mode because of the clear links with the domestic terrorist who killed Doctor Tiller over the weekend and anti-choice groups, right-wing blogs and Fox News. So they are desperately trying to manufacture some tenuous links that clearly don't exist anywhere other than in their demented minds.

Crooks and Liars has more on the right-wing's absurd arguments:

Now the right-wingers want to blame military-recruiter slayings on liberals

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