it would appear that this man was under careful watch by the fbi for several months before he was arrested today. he is his name is john t. booker, 20 years from topeka and about a year ago, february of 2014, he was recruited into the army and shortly after he was recruited, someone told the fbi that he had posted the following on facebook quote, i will soon be leaving you forever so good-bye. i m going to wage jihad and hope that i die. i m eager to meet my lord. a few days after that the fbi met with him and according to the court documents filed today, he said yes, that s right, i did write that and what i wanted to do was join the army and so i could carry out an insider attack like nidal hassan did, if he was sent overseas, rather shoot a fellow soldier than a fellow muslim. needless to sax the army didn t
backing isis. federal officials now have charged a kansas man with they say trying to provide material support to the radical islamic terrorist group. there have been a spate of similar arrests across the country. in the latest, john t. booker, they claim he wanted to blow up a car at the ft. riley military base in kansas. the pentagon says booker recently enlisted with the army. they say with the intent to carry out a potential insider attack. apparently they say just like major nidal hasan s shooting at ft. hood in 2009. we re told booker was arrested. he s set to appear later this afternoon in court inny to peek amp authorities also say in topeka. authorities also say there was no breach of security at ft. riley. we ll stay on top of the developing story. newly released dash cam video showing the moments before that horrible deadly police shooting in south carolina. does it answer any questions? mother nature crippling towns across the midwest as
wolf his name is john t. booker 20 years old from topeka, kansas. the fbi arrested him this morning as he was attempting to carry out a suicide car bombing attempting to kill u.s. military personnel at fort riley in kansas. he came on the radar of the fbi last year. he apparently attempted to join the u.s. army in kansas city. he was recruited and was scheduled to arrive for basic training in april of last year. but some time in march, he publicly posted on facebook the following, i will soon be leaving you forever, so good-bye, i m going to go wage jihad in hopes that i die. this got the fbi very concerned and they introduced him to some undercover informants over the next period of months. he discussed carrying out an attack here in this country on u.s. military on the streets or on the base. wanted to carry out something
in this case, this young man 21 years old, john t. booker is charged with a whole host of other is he a convert to islam? do they say in that charge sheet how he was recruited, if you will? what inspired him to join this jihad yeah as a teenager he started referring to himself as muhammad abdullah hassan so he was a convert and was apparently inspired by looking at things online from various terrorist groups. that s typically where we see this behavior a lot with a lot of young people. it s not certainly very common for the fbi to come and talk to you and for you still a year later to be trying to plot this even when you know the fbi is watching. another disturbing story. this is 20 arrests so far 21. 21 arrests in the united states individuals accused of working or at least inspired to try to help these terror organizations in this particular
1,000-pound car bomb on him. now that bomb was actually set not to explode. it was planted by fbi agents who have been tracking booker dating back to march of last year. what radicalized him? give me his history. it s difficult to say. something like holly and i are working to figure out here in the coming days. it s difficult to say. his father, john t. booker senior spoke with the associated press this afternoon and said that the bookers have always been christian and that he is not long his son has been a muslim even let alone one that would seem to be radicalized. 2014 he enlisted in the military planning to go to basic camp sometime in april. in the interim period sometime in march, he began making threatening staples so then in march of 2014, he was said that he would not be able to be in the military. but then they wait about 13 months to arrest him?