Terrorist Attack Averted? Authorities Seize Grenade Launcher, Weapons Cache And Maps Of A U.S. Military Facility From Virginia Man...
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From Weasel Zippers:
A Jihadi attack plot?..
(nj.com) - Somerset County investigators seized a cache of weapons including a grenade launcher and hundreds of rounds of ammunition today from the Branchburg motel room of a Virginia man, who also had maps of a U.S. military facility and an out-of-state civilian community.
Lloyd Woodson, 43, whose last known address was Reston, Va., today faces multiple offenses, including second-degree unlawful weapons possession and fourth-degree possession of prohibited weapons, Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said.
At the time of his arrest, Woodson was wearing a military-style ballistic vest with a reinforced steel plate and carrying a .223-caliber assault rifle that had been altered to fire .50-caliber ammunition, Forrest.
He was also carrying four loaded magazines with hollow-point ammunition, Forrest said. Branchburg police confronted Woodson at 3:55 a.m. at the Quick Chek convenience store on Route 28 after receiving a call reporting a suspicious person.
Branchburg Patorlman Steven Cronce noticed a large bulge beneath the green, military-style jacket that Woodson was wearing, which was later determined to be the assault rifle with a defaced serial number, Forrest said. Woodson appeared "extremely nervous" as Cronce questioned him, and he ultimately ran from the convenience store toward the Regency Trailer Park on Route 22, Forrest.
Officers found Woodson hiding in the bushes and he attempted to run, Forrest said. Officers tackled him and used pepper spray to subdue Woodson, Forrest said.
Detectives later searched Woodson’s room at the Red Mill Inn on Route 22 and found weapons including a .308-caliber semi-automatic assault rifle with a defaced serial number, a grenade launcher, hundreds .50-caliber and .308-caliber rounds, a police scanner, and the maps of a U.S. military installation and an out-of-state civilian community, Forrest said.
Investigators also found Middle Eastern red and white traditional headdress, Forrest said.
UPDATE -
Google his name and find dozens of references to a defunct "Metal Cutting" business in Sun Valley, CA, with the same expired domain defining a variety of business specialities:
Indexable Milling Cutters in Milling Machines and Tools
Engine Rebuilding Service
Barbed Wired
servicing Aircraft & Wagon Cranes/Aerial Lifts
Consider his cache of weapons included "a .223-caliber assault rifle that had been altered to fire .50-caliber ammunition. . .coincidence?
Ft. Hood shooter was from that area in Va. too.
Quote: "A U.S. Navy spokesman, Lt. Justin Cole, said Woodson joined the service in February 1988 and served aboard the USS Orion, a submarine tender, before deserting in April 1989. It would be eight years before he was returned to Navy custody, Cole said. A month later, in August 1997, Woodson was discharged.
It remained unclear last night whether he was passing through New Jersey or settling in for a longer period. He took a room last week at the Red Mill Inn, on Route 22. "
and
"On Saturday night, Desai said, he was working the evening shift and heard the sound of a CB or a radio coming from Woodson’s room. The lights were off, but Desai could see the faint glow of the television.
"I’m glad I didn’t open the door," said Desai, who has a master key to all units.
He said his colleague had gone into Woodson’s room Sunday morning and didn’t see any weapons."
MSM in full tuquoque mode [other's did it too, so what?]:
FBI: N.J. Weapons Cache 'Not a Terrorism Thing' abcnews
Since suspect, Lloyd Woodson's last known address was in the same Northern VA area the Fort Hood shooter came from, it begs the question, was Woodson also a recruit of Anwar al-Awlaki or the Islamic center Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia?
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MyFoxdc.com video report
No-one at his last known Reston VA address recognize him.
via Fox News
". . .Forrest said they seized another Bushmaster .308-caliber semiautomatic rifle with a defaced serial number, a 37 mm Cobray grenade launcher, a second bulletproof vest, . . .
A second bulletproof vest?
For whom?
Are the authorities even considering there may be an accomplice still out there?
Video:
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Warren comments:
If you aren't too delicate about injuring someone, coat-hangars make excellent restraining devices. i.e. makeshift handcuffs and ankle restraints.
Epaminondas comments:
Ft Drum is the home of the 10th Mtn Div, which has units almost always deployed to Afpak.
Culled from the comments over at PJ Media/Annie Jacobsens post:
". . .Reston Virginia is only a few miles from Falls Church where the largest Mosque on the East coast is located. George mason University, only a few kilometers from the last know residence of this terrorist has a huge endowment from Saudi and other terror sponsors for “Islamic Studies”. The place is an Islamic hotbed crawling with Muslim terrorists, all funded and fomented by their Saudi paymasters, the same ones who have our politicians and functionaries, from Presidents to CIA chiefs to Senators, Congressmen, and Ambassadors in their trillion dollar financial thrall.
Only a few miles beyond the perimeter described above lies the “Saudi Academy” of terror, the place where the valedictorian from 1999, one Raed Alsaif, was arrested in 2003 in a plot to assassinate GW Bush."
Fox News reveals Lloyd had maps to Fort Drum, NY - would not disclose the civilian neighborhood other than to say it was NY near the Jersey border. Recall the appen Zee elementary breach earlier this week?
more at NJ.com
"They also found a loaded Bushmaster assault rifle inside his coat, police said He was wearing a ballistic vest had four additional magazines carrying ball-type and hollow0point bullets and several bent coat hangers in his jacket pocket, police said."
WTH? S-E-V-E-R-A-L (?) bent coat hangers . . .in his pocket??
Anyone got a clue?