[detskpit]

By Eric Tucker - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jun 17, 2011 7:34:46 EDT

ARLINGTON, Va. — One person was taken into custody early Friday in connection with an investigation into a suspicious vehicle near the Pentagon, authorities said.

U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said the man was in Arlington National Cemetery overnight, when it is closed, triggering an investigation. In the course of interviewing the man, police were directed to a car, he said.

"This is an unfolding situation," Schlosser said, adding that the proximity of the car to the Pentagon made the situation more suspicious.

Pentagon police ... Read the rest of the story here.

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What do you think about suspicious vehicle?

[legal-advicer]

What does that mean? Suspicious? Suspicious to who? The overpaid Pentagon contractors? Sounds, smells and looks like more fear-mongering.

[M_Marked]

What does that mean? Suspicious? Suspicious to who? The overpaid Pentagon contractors? Sounds, smells and looks like more fear-mongering.

Suspicious because he was in Arlington Cemetery overnight when it is closed. That seems suspicious to me if someone is in a place when it is supposed to be closed.


Heck would not confirm earlier reports that a notebook was also found containing threatening phrases like "Al Qaeda" and "Taliban rule" and "defeated coalition forces."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/17...#ixzz1PXxK5Hkr

I don't see how Taliban and Al Qaeda are "threatning phrases." Depends on what context it was written in but those two words alone are not "threatening."

[ssupermegatone]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/17...near-pentagon/

Yonathan Melaku, a Lance Corporal Marine corps reservist who lives in Virginia and who is Muslim, has been identified as the suspect in custody, Fox News has learned.

Can't wait for people to say 'Look the Muslims are infiltrating our ranks! Get 'em!" or similar comments.

[janeseymore09092]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/17...near-pentagon/

Yonathan Melaku, a Lance Corporal Marine corps reservist who lives in Virginia and who is Muslim, has been identified as the suspect in custody, Fox News has learned.

Can't wait for people to say 'Look the Muslims are infiltrating our ranks! Get 'em!" or similar comments.

Well, it is a concern: Who are the ones doing these things in our ranks: Guy today--Yonathan Melaku, Muslim

Fort Hood shootig: US army officer called Major Nidal Malik Hasan(Muslim) has been named as the man responsible for killing 13 people and injuring 30

Kuwait: Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar (Muslim) killed two fellow military officers and wounded 14 others in an attack

It is something to think about. Radical islam obviously HAS infiltrated our ranks.

[dodadaxia]

Well, it is a concern: Who are the ones doing these things in our ranks: Guy today--Yonathan Melaku, Muslim

Fort Hood shootig: US army officer called Major Nidal Malik Hasan(Muslim) has been named as the man responsible for killing 13 people and injuring 30

Kuwait: Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar (Muslim) killed two fellow military officers and wounded 14 others in an attack

It is something to think about. Radical islam obviously HAS infiltrated our ranks.

The only one who could be considered radical Muslim is Hasan. He had direct contact with Anwar al Awlaki. But you only name three people. I would not call that radical Islam has infiltrated our ranks and the two that killed fellow military personnel, there have been plenty of other soldiers who have killed fellow soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the States.

There's the soldier who just had his court martial for killing his two NCOs. There was the guy who walked into the combat stress clinic in Baghdad back in 2009 and shot up the soldiers in the waiting room.

There is this story: The Associated Press reports that four soldiers were in an argument and one shot the other soldiers.

Pvt. 1st Class Gebrah Noonan, 26, of Watertown, and Specialist John Carrillo Jr., 20, of Stockton, California, were shot and killed in a non-combat incident, according to the Department of Defense, and a third service member was wounded last Thursday in Fallujah, Iraq. They sustained injuries on Sept. 23 and died the next day.

The Department of Defense has detained Spc. Neftaly Platero, who is now in pre-trial confinement, according to the The Stockton Record. No other information about Platero was released on Tuesday morning.

Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman, told the Associated Press that a "verbal altercation" broke out among four soldiers last Thursday and the suspect "allegedly took his weapon and began shooting the other soldiers."

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/l...103903369.html

This: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/wo...st/12iraq.html

Which might be the one I mentioned in 2009 because it seems to be about the same time frame and it goes on to mention other deaths caused by soldiers toward soldiers.

The only one I would call a concern as a radical Muslim is Hasan because he showed signs that should have been caught and not ignored prior to that. But one instance of actual radical Islam is not an infiltration.

[Abaronos]

Well let's see what we have here: take automatic weapon ammo, add a few pounds of ammonium nitrate, stuff the crap in a backpack, hide out in a cemetery overnight, then go hang around the Pentagon. While a few spent rounds and some oxidizing agent alone are nowhere near enough to enable one to orchestrate a complete wide-scale massacre, it's way more than enough to justify suspicion. He sure wasn't going wildlife hunting, or fertilizing cemetery grounds with that ammonium nitrate.