FBI: Gunman at Army post accused of threatening to kill Obama

[spanone]

(CNN) -- A former soldier arrested after a hostage incident at a military base in Georgia faces multiple charges that include threatening to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, according to federal court documents filed Tuesday.

Robert Anthony Quinones, 29, of Hinesville, Georgia, was arrested Monday after the two-hour hostage situation at Winn Community Hospital on Fort Stewart, about 45 miles from Savannah, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Officials and a family member said he had demanded mental health care at the hospital.

Quinones is charged with assault of a federal officer and kidnapping in the incident, which ended with the gunman's surrender and no injuries.

After he was taken into custody and during interviews, Quinones "expressed his plans, preparation and intentions to kill President Obama and former President Clinton," according to an affidavit filed in federal cour. "Quinones detailed his studies of Secret Service protocols, sniper techniques and means of disguise and weapons concealment to implement his assassination plans."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/07/georgia.fort.stewart.gunman/index.html?hpt=T2

[lonestarnot]

1. Bah bah dumbass.

:thumbsdown:

[spanone]

2. Officials and a family member said he had demanded mental health care at the hospital.

sounds like maybe he knew he was fucked up

[lonestarnot]

3. Ya'd think now wouldn't cha.

[jberryhill]

7. Constructing a defense

After you are arrested for something, be sure that you make the police aware that you are, in fact, Napoleon Bonaparte.

[alp227]

4. Threatened to kill CLINTON? Why...he can't get over the Lewinsky scandal still?

Wow...the uber-violent imagery of the extremist right wing just never goes away.

He asked for mental health, he needs it. ESPECIALLY as he's threatening violence against a head of state.

[Pirate Smile]

5. Details sound worse then it looks initially:

Court documents say Quinones told FBI, Secret Service and Army investigators after his arrest that as part of his assassination plots he had studied Secret Service protocols, sniper techniques and ways to disguise himself and conceal weapons.

Investigators said a search of the suspect's home turned up at least 15 guns, including high-powered rifles with scopes, as well as books and DVDs on Secret Service protocols, Israeli sniper techniques, Osama Bin Laden and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

An affidavit by FBI and Secret Service agents who interviewed Quinones, filed in court, says the suspect was asked if he would kill Obama and Clinton given a chance.

"Yes. On a scale of 1 to 10 about being serious, I am a 10," Quinones responded, according to the affidavit.

[Bobbieo]

6. Unfortunately, he does not come across as a 'dumbass'.