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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/11/2015 12:51:58 AM
	ISIS Attacks Capital Of Iraq's Anbar Province, Hundreds Of Families Flee Area Reuters Posted: 04/10/2015 12:14 pm EDT Updated: 50 minutes ago Smoke plumes are visible over buildings in the Iraqi town of Hit, in western Anbar province - 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of Baghdad - after an attack by the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State group, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. The Islamic State group stormed Hit on Thursday, its latest victory against the embattled Iraqi military in Anbar province. (AP Photo) \| ASSOCIATED PRESS (Adds killing of 15 civilians) BAGHDAD, April 10 (Reuters) - Islamic State militants attacked the capital of Iraq's vast Anbar province on multiple fronts on Friday, seizing two areas on the city outskirts in a setback for a government campaign to retake the desert terrain. The jihadists deployed vehicle and suicide bombs to tear through Iraqi government lines north of the city of Ramadi overnight before attacking on foot, said security officials and a hospital source. The head of Anbar's provincial council, Sabah Karhout, called on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to send urgent military reinforcements and supplies to fighters, saying they were running low on ammunition. Abadi visited Anbar on Tuesday and declared the start of the operation to liberate the Sunni Muslim heartland, seeking to build on a victory over Islamic State last week in the city of Tikrit. But a police source in Ramadi said early on Friday the insurgents had taken half of the Albu Faraj area, and provincial council member Athal al-Fahdawi later said it had been overrun completely. Hundreds of families were fleeing Albu Faraj, just north of Ramadi, after Islamic State militants broke into the homes of policemen and soldiers in the area and killed 15 members of their families. A car bomb blew up the bridge linking Ramadi and Albu Faraj across the Euphrates river, a police source said. An army officer and the police source blamed some members of the Albu Faraj tribe for letting the militants infiltrate their area. The insurgents also took over the adjacent Albu Aitha area, according to Fahdawi and local tribal leader Sheik Ghassan al-Ithawi. Large parts of Anbar had slipped from the government's grasp even before Islamic State overran the northern city of Mosul last June and surged through Sunni areas of Iraq. The group controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, last year declaring a caliphate across the territory. Security forces and Shi'ite Muslim paramilitaries have since regained some ground in Iraq, although core Sunni territories remain under Islamic State control including Anbar and the northern province of Nineveh. In Anbar, which shares a long border with Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, pockets of territory have remained under government control and Ramadi itself has been contested. Shi'ite militia have played a leading role in reversing the insurgents' advances elsewhere, but officials from predominantly Sunni Anbar have expressed reservations about a role for the paramilitary forces on the battlefield. (Reporting by Saif Hameed; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Crispian Balmer and John Stonestreet)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/11/2015 1:03:58 AM
	Russia lashes out at law to erase Ukraine's Soviet past By Claire Rosemberg, Oleksandr Savochenko1 hour ago A pigeon sits on a Soviet era statue of Lenin with a Urkainain flag wrapped around it as an EU flag flies in the background, near the the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, in Donetsk region, on March 12, 2015 (AFP Photo/Sergei Supinsky) View Gallery Kiev (AFP) - Controversial laws designed to leave Ukraine's Soviet past behind stoked tension in the war-divided country Friday and prompted an angry reaction from Russia which called the ban on communist-era symbols "totalitarian". Related Stories Ukraine outlaws Communist names in fresh break with Soviet past AFP [$$] Ukraine Bans Soviet-Era SymbolsThe Wall Street Journal From rebellion to stalemate: a year of war in east Ukraine AFP In Ukraine, some Russians take up arms against Putin AFP Moscow says new U.S. national security strategy is anti-Russian Reuters "Kiev used truly totalitarian methods, attacking freedom of the press, opinion or conscience," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement, also accusing Ukraine of "rewriting history". Ukraine's parliament voted on Thursday to ban communist-era and Nazi symbols in what supporters said was a bid to break with the country's tragic World War II past and Moscow's domination through most of the 20th century. The measure, which was enacted quickly and with little debate, exacerbating tensions with pro-Moscow rebel forces who have seized control of a swathe of territory in Ukraine's east. The insurgents, who are alleged to operate with Russian military assistance, make a point of their attachment to the Russian-dominated Soviet era. Russia said the law would "create divisions" and promote a "nationalist ideology". View gallery A Soviet-era flag flutters above rubble at the top of the destroyed Savur Mohyla memorial in Snizhne … Moscow also honed in on the law's controversial reference to nationalist Ukrainian guerrillas in World War II as "patriots". The Ukrainian Insurgent Army temporarily supported the invading Nazis before turning both on them and the Soviet army and ultimately being crushed by communist forces. The Russian foreign ministry said Ukraine was "betraying millions of veterans" and trying "to extinguish the collective memory of millions of Ukrainians." The package of laws bans Soviet flags and means Soviet-era Lenin statues will have to be knocked down and town squares renamed across the country of some 45 million. Historian David Marples at Canada's Alberta University was critical. View gallery Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, speaks during an … "In the West, friends of Ukraine will have a difficult time accepting both the wisdom and timing of such a facile and asinine decree," he said. "The all-encompassing rejection of any facets of the Soviet legacy is troublesome," Marples wrote. "The Red Army after all removed the Nazi occupation regime from Ukraine in alliance with the Western Powers." Soviet WWII veterans will be entitled to continue to wear their medals however, and graves will be left in peace, even if they are inscribed with the hammer-and-sickle or other Soviet insignia. - Law 'a death wish'? - As fears mount of an end of the fragile ceasefire and resumption of the fighting in east Ukraine that has left more than 6,000 dead in a year, Marples said "it is hard to escape the conclusion that this acceptance into law is a major error, even akin to a death wish vis-a-vis the Donbas," the name of the Russian-speaking industrial east. View gallery The statue of late Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin stands in the central square in the eastern Ukrainia … The Ukraine parliament's praise for the nationalist insurgents -- whom Soviet authorities and today's rebels in the east label fascist -- was swiftly criticised by the eastern rebels. The move "will lead to the complete disintegration of the country", warned one pro-Russian separatist leader, Alexander Zakharchenko. "It causes disgust and revulsion. It formalises the victory of fascism," said the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. But Kiev sociologist Andriy Bychenko said the parliament's anti-Soviet drive was in tune with widespread belief that Russia is fuelling the bloody rebellion in the east. "Feelings towards the symbols of the Soviet Union have become sharply more negative since the beginning of the Russian aggression," he told AFP. "A shining example" of that, he said, was the Communist Party's flop at elections last year when it failed to win a single seat for the first time in the more than 20 years since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991. During the 2014 Maidan protests that led to the ouster of then pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych and triggered Ukraine's descent into conflict, there were frequent calls for a purging of Lenin statues. However for a significant minority of Ukrainians, especially in the east and in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea, pro-Russian and communist sympathies remain strong. "This law embodies the mood after the Maidan, but it's too radical," said Volodymyr Fesenko of the Penta Centre for Political Studies. "Not everyone will like it."
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/11/2015 1:27:15 AM
	Utah gays and Mormon leaders cut a deal to protect the rights of both. Can they show religious conservatives a way forward? Jon WardSenior Political CorrespondentApril 10, 2015 Members of Mormons Building Bridges march during the Utah Gay Pride Parade, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) WASHINGTON — In 2010, Jonathan Rauch — a longtime advocate of same-sex marriage who is also part of the D.C. conservative policy world — issued a warning to the gay community. After decades in which gay rights drew support from only a minority of the country, Rauch argued, there was now an emerging majority in favor of them. As the public increasingly moved into alignment with gay leaders on questions from same-sex marriage to military service, he said, the gay community should move away from the combative, confrontational style of its outsider years and adopt a more tolerant attitude toward opponents whose views were now in the minority. “We need to allow some discrimination and relinquish the ‘zero tolerance’ mind-set,” Rauch wrote. “Paradoxical but true: We need to give our opponents the time and space they need to let us win.” Rauch pointed to the then-recent example of a bakery in Indianapolis that had refused to bake rainbow cupcakes for a gay college group event — a decision backed by the city at that time — as instructive. It would be “positively dangerous,” Rauch wrote, for LGBT advocates to push for the bakery to lose its city-owned space. A lot has changed in the five years that followed — in the gay community, in public opinion, and in the tactics that religious conservatives are taking to defend their now-minority views. “A lot of what I wrote in 2010 is now out of date, unfortunately,” Rauch told Yahoo News. “It is no longer possible to get gay people to look on religious-liberty exemptions with anything other than extreme suspicion. That is because conservative legal groups and others have weaponized these laws. … They now have the specific purpose of opting out of gay weddings or gay pride or other gay-affirming events.” Advocate Jonathan Rauch (http://jonathanrauch.com) As demonstrated by the recent controversies in Indiana and Arkansas over attempts to put in place religious-freedom statutes, religious conservatives have a real problem on their hands. As they scramble to enact similar laws around the country, those laws are being seen as discriminatory, and so these groups have lost the support of the most conciliatory gay rights thought leaders, such as Rauch — not to mention the nation as a whole. Conservatives are angry over the characterization of the Indiana law, in particular, as an anti-gay bill. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins referred to the coverage as “media malpractice,” pointing to the fact that Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) laws have never been used to discriminate against gays. But the context of the new law made it appear targeted at gays, Rauch wrote in Time magazine during the uproar. First of all, he noted, there are no protections in Indiana law against discriminating against gays to begin with, so adding an RFRA law to an already lopsided legal environment looked like piling on. Second, the Christian leaders photographed with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence when he signed the bill are perceived to be hostile to legal protections for gays and lesbians. And third, the Indiana statute was written so that it looked like a direct response to a 2014 case in New Mexico where a same-sex couple brought suit against a photographer who refused to photograph their wedding. The language in the Indiana law ensured that a court could not deny a religious-freedom-exemption request on the grounds that the New Mexico Supreme Court did. The conservatives argued repeatedly, however, that the differences between the Indiana law and the federal RFRA — promoted by Senate Democrats in 1993 and signed by former President Bill Clinton — were minor and that the basic thrust of all RFRA laws was the same. “RFRA simply allows religious people to challenge government activities that encroach on their beliefs. They have to show that the government action substantially burdens a religious belief that they sincerely hold. And if they prove all that, it falls to the government to show that the challenged action is justified as the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling governmental interest,” Mollie Hemingway wrote in the Federalist. “Having a RFRA doesn’t mean that you know which side wins, it just sets the terms of the debate.” Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock agreed with conservatives. “The main thing is this charge that it’s a license to discriminate. That’s the principal allegation, and it’s based on nothing in real experience,” he told Vox. But Laycock also said that conservatives fueled concerns by making claims about what the law would do that were not accurate. “You’ve got Republican legislators fueling the fire by saying when the bill was under consideration that this would protect Christians against gay rights. They either don’t know what they’re talking about, don’t know what the bills have actually done, or they’re just pandering to the base and promising things they can’t deliver,” Laycock said. “There’s blame to go around here, but neither side is talking much about what these bills have actually done in practice.” Little of that mattered in the Indiana debate, which conservatives lost as Pence backtracked on the law in the face of overwhelming pressure from corporations and even from other states. That’s left religious conservatives facing an existential question: Where do they go from here? Some think that a recent compromise reached in Utah and signed into law last month offers a way forward. The Utah Legislature worked with advocacy groups from the gay community and with the Mormon Church to reach a deal. Churches in the state, along with affiliated institutions such as Brigham Young University, would retain rights of conscience to hire and fire and employ based on their beliefs. But LGBT people were also given protected-class status in housing and employment, though small businesses with fewer than 10 employees and places of lodging with four or fewer units were exempted from these nondiscrimination clauses, according to one of the bill’s chief sponsors, state Sen. Stuart Adams, a conservative member of the Mormon Church. On the issue of same-sex marriage, which has been legal in Utah since the end of 2013, the Legislature said that county clerks could opt out of performing a gay ceremony but must arrange for someone else to do it in their place so that a gay couple would not be discriminated against by the government. The Utah law also protects county clerks from being fired or punished by the government for opting out of performing a gay wedding, Adams said. Michael Otterson, the chief spokesman for the LDS church, said that Mormon leaders were reacting to the pummeling that conservatives took over the debate on religious liberty in other states, where people representing other religions sought to put in place protections for themselves without extending any rights or concessions to gays. Indiana’s RFRA debate had not yet taken place, but similar situations had popped up in Arizona and New Mexico. As Otterson put it, unilateral campaigns by religious conservatives to pass religious-liberty bills have prompted fierce backlashes that have left conservatives in an even worse position than before. Speaking about the Indiana law, Otterson said, “Whether the law is perfectly framed or not is not for me to say. But if you don’t get your messaging right to begin with, if you can’t argue from a basis of what is fair and legitimate, if you seem to come across as pushing only one side, then you’re going to invite the retaliation of the other side that is very well organized and very well funded.” LGBT groups executed “a shock-and-awe campaign, and they overwhelmed the argument” in Indiana, Otterson said. “We avoided that in Utah by meeting with the LGBT community and trying to find a middle ground.” The Utah law, said Rauch, was a “significant development.” “The Mormons have broken with the rest of the conservative Christian world,” he said. “They’ve looked at the way the world is going and said, you’re not going to get religious liberty exemptions anymore unless they’re paired with protections in law for gay people.” Rauch said that Utah was also crucial to buying time, ironically, for the religious conservative side of this debate. “Without Utah, we were six months to a year to a situation where [the Human Rights Council, the leading gay rights advocacy group] could no longer do that because the resistance from the grassroots would be so intense because of all the [religious liberty] bills going forward,” Rauch said. “HRC, if it makes these deals, is going to have to fend off a lot of criticism from people who say, ‘Why are you doing this? Because in five to 10 years the other side just loses.’” Robin Fretwell Wilson, a University of Illinois law professor who worked closely with the Utah lawmakers on their compromise, agreed that religious conservatives need to move quickly to secure protections like the ones reached in Utah. “Perhaps most urgent for the religious right is the clarity the faith community receives in the Utah Compromise. Faith communities are struggling to sustain their received traditions about marriage in a world that recognizes same-sex marriage,” Wilson said. “Twenty-two states now have sexual orientation nondiscrimination laws. Twenty-eight do not, but in those 28 are municipalities that do provide these important protections to the LGBT community. “If care is not taken to be clear, sexual orientation protections that are about commercial services like taxis and large apartment buildings inadvertently spill over to a religious sacrament like marriage. Utah — and all the voluntary same-sex marriage states — went to great lengths in their statutes to be exceedingly clear — for example, that religious counseling that occurred before same-sex marriage can occur after, exactly as it did before,” she wrote. “People of faith need to know how to proceed in a world that recognizes same-sex marriage, and the Utah Compromise charts the way forward.” Rauch agreed that Utah could be the model: “We need to move quickly to find one or two other states to do this.” That may prove difficult. There are few leaders on the religious conservative side who want to recognize LGBT people as a protected class under the law on the same level as ethnic and racial minorities. Crossing that threshold would be, for many on the right, ceding the argument over whether being gay is an inborn trait rather than a lifestyle choice. And for many religious leaders, that remains a bridge too far. Michael Wear, however, is one religious conservative in favor of a compromise approach. Wear, who was a deputy in President Obama’s White House office of faith-based initiatives and directed faith outreach in Obama’s 2012 campaign, opposed the administration’s mandate that religious institutions provide contraception to employees. Wear said that a compromise is the right thing and is also the only pragmatic way forward. “It might have seemed to Republicans that they were playing offense by pushing RFRA legislation, but in this climate it is more like sending an all-out blitz with no safety to prevent the Hail Mary,” Wear wrote in an email. “Incredulous assurances that Republicans are not interested in discrimination are not convincing to many Americans. Republicans need to prove they are both opposed to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and religious identity by advancing laws that protect both.” Wear said that “the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, that received the support of Democrats in the Senate and included a strong religious exemption, would be a good start.” Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, has been a leading voice among evangelicals for immigration reform and has established a reputation as something of a moderate on that issue and a few others. If any religious conservative were a seemingly prime candidate for some openness to a compromise approach, he would be it. But on the question of pairing religious-liberty measures with antidiscrimination laws in various states, Moore gave little ground. “I have yet to see antidiscrimination measures that do not seek to restrict the speech and free exercise rights of those with moral objections to sexual expression outside of conjugal marriage,” Moore said in an email. “I think the attempts to thread the needle the way Indiana did is counter-productive and leaves religious liberty in the state in worse shape than before,” he said, referring to the changes that Indiana Republicans made to the law. Talking with conservative radio talk show host Bill Bennett last week, Moore said that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s decision to add clarifications to the law was “an incoherent approach,” and he suggested that Pence looked “panicked.” “[Pence] should have stood by the law, and he should have articulated and used this as a teaching opportunity to say to the people in Indiana and around the country, here’s why religious freedom matters, and it matters for everybody,” Moore said. Republican politicians tend to follow the lead of religious conservative leaders on issues like these. And so far, there’s little evidence that any Republican presidential hopeful has an appetite to challenge his religious supporters to seek compromise with the gay rights movement. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this past Sunday whether he would sign a bill in his state’s Legislature that could deny employment benefits to employees based on their sexual orientation. Jindal was noncommittal but gave no indication that this provision would disturb him. “I want to look at the bill. I’m always in favor of defending religious liberty,” he said.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/11/2015 1:48:00 AM
	Kansas man arrested in bomb plot in support of Islamic State: U.S. 6 hours ago U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom holds news conference on Friday, April 10, 2015 at the Federal Courthouse in Kansas City, Kan. John T. Booker was charged Friday with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to damage property by means of an explosive and attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group. Grissom says Booker was arrested Friday near Manhattan, Kan., about 100 miles west of Kansas City. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, John Sleezer) View Gallery By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Kevin Murphy Related Stories US man arrested in suicide bomb plot at Kansas military base AFP Man charged with plotting bombing at Kansas military base Associated Press ISIS-Inspired Kansas Man Accused of Plotting Another Ft. Hood-Type AttackABC News New York women charged in US bomb plot AFP Islamic State militants claim suicide bombing in Libya's Benghazi: statementReuters WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - A U.S. man was arrested on Friday as part of a sting operation by the FBI in which he was plotting a suicide car bombing at Fort Riley army base in Kansas in support of the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said. John T. Booker, Jr., 20, of Topeka, Kansas, had arrived at the base with two undercover FBI agents to detonate what he did not realize was an inert bomb, prosecutors said. Booker has been charged with three criminal counts including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to Islamic State, a militant group that has captured parts of Iraq and Syria over the past year and has symphathizers in several countries. According to the criminal complaint, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been tracking Booker since March of last year when he posted Facebook messages in which he said: "Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush!! I am so nervous. NOT because I'm scared to die but I am eager to meet my lord." If convicted, Booker faces up to life in prison. A lawyer for Booker could not be immediately identified for comment. View gallery Sign outside Fort Riley army base, Kansas. (AP Photo) Booker had signed up for the U.S. army in Kansas the previous month and when interviewed by FBI agents after the Facebook postings admitted he had enlisted "with the intent to commit an insider attack against American soldiers" similar to the attack carried out in November 2009 by Major Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood, Texas, the complaint said. He was denied entry into the army before his basic training began last April as a result. Since October, he had unknowingly been in contact with an undercover FBI agent and in March of this year was introduced to another undercover agent who posed as a high-ranking Islamic sheik planning attacks on the United States. Booker planned to carry out a suicide bombing because it would ensure he would hit his mark and never be captured, the complaint said. On March 10, Booker, accompanied by the two undercover agents, made an Islamic State propaganda video near Marshall Army Airfield at Fort Riley, prosecutors said. He made an additional video two days ago in front of what was, unbeknownst to him, a stack of inert explosive materials. (Additional reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Andre Grenon and Grant McCool)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/11/2015 1:59:21 AM
	Federal prosecutor: 2nd man charged in Kansas bombing plot By NICHOLAS CLAYTON and JOHN HANNA1 hour ago WSJ Live FBI Charges Kansas Man Tried to Bomb U.S. Military Base Watch video TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man charged Friday with plotting a suicide bomb attack on a Kansas military base to help the Islamic State group is mentally ill and was acting strangely only days before his arrest, according to a Muslim cleric who said he was counseling him at the request of the FBI. John T. Booker Jr., 20, of Topeka, is accused of planning a suicide attack at Fort Riley, about 70 miles west of Topeka. Prosecutors allege he told an FBI informant he wanted to kill Americans and engage in violent jihad on behalf of the terrorist group, and said he believed such an attack was justified because the Quran "says to kill your enemies wherever they are," according to a criminal complaint. Authorities arrested Booker on Friday as he was trying to arm what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb outside the Army post, according to prosecutors. The criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Topeka charges him with three crimes, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The top federal prosecutor for Kansas also charged another Topeka man, Alexander E. Blair, 28, with failing to report Booker's plans to authorities. The complaint alleges that Blair and Booker shared some "extremist views" and that Blair loaned Booker money to rent space to build and store a bomb. Imam Omar Hazim of the Islamic Center of Topeka told The Associated Press that two FBI agents brought Booker to him early in 2014 for counseling, hoping to turn the young man away from radical beliefs. Hazim said the agents told him that Booker suffered from bipolar disorder, characterized by unusual mood swings that can affect functioning. Hazim said he expressed concerns to the FBI about allowing him to move freely in the community after their first encounter. View gallery This 2010 yearbook photo provided by Topeka Public Schools from a Topeka West High School shows John … Hazim said he later heard that two others were involved in a bombing plot with Booker. He said the FBI told him they were undercover FBI agents and that the sting was arranged to get Booker "off the streets." "I think the two FBI agents set him up, because they felt at that point someone else might have done the same thing and put a real bomb in his hands," Hazim said. He said he has come to the conclusion that the sting was the right thing to do. He said Booker admitted to him on Tuesday that he had stopped taking his medication because he didn't like the way it made him feel and it was expensive. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Kansas declined to comment on Hazim's remarks. The soft-spoken Booker made his first court appearance Friday in U.S. District Court in Topeka, answering basic questions and correcting the spelling of his alias, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan. Booker was ordered to remain jailed. A grand jury is expected to consider the case next week. Booker's public defender, Kirk Redmond, declined comment following the hearing. Blair's attorney, Christopher Joseph, said he met with his client only briefly Friday. Blair has a hearing Thursday on whether he should remain in federal custody. Booker was recruited to join the Army in February 2014, but came to the attention of federal investigators after posting a Facebook message on March 19, 2014, that read: "Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush! I am so nervous. NOT because I'm scared to die but I am eager to meet my lord," according to the criminal complaint against him. His military enlistment was terminated days later, according to the Army. His father, John T. Booker Sr., told the AP that his son moved out about two years ago after graduating from high school. The elder Booker, an Army veteran who served in Desert Storm, said he and his son had talked only about four times in the past year. He said he is Methodist and his wife is Catholic, and that he knew nothing about his son's religious beliefs. "I did everything that a father should do: I took him to school, I took him to doctor's appointments, I made sure he graduated. But once kids turn 18 and graduate, parents have no control over them," the father said as he placed a no-trespassing sign in front of his Topeka home. ___ Associated Press writers Bill Draper and Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri, and Roxana Hegeman in Wichita contributed to this report. (Updated 11/4)
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