Abdulhakim Muhammad, who shot and killed two soldiers outside a Little Rock, Arkansas military recruitment center last June, plead guilty to the attack and admitted what only our feckless President and the media he controls hadn’t already figured out: He’s associated with Al Qaeda in Yemen, and committed the attack as an act of jihad.

Despite Muhammad’s terror connections being widely reported shortly after the attack, based mostly on reporting done by ABC News, no one in the government will acknowledge that this was the first Islamic terror attack on US soil since September 11, 2001.

Mr. Muhammad, 24, a Muslim convert from Memphis, spent about 16 months in Yemen starting in the fall of 2007, ostensibly teaching English and learning Arabic. During that time, he married a woman from south Yemen. But he was also imprisoned for several months because he overstayed his visa and was holding a fraudulent Somali passport, the Yemen government said.

Under pressure from the United States government, Yemen deported Mr. Muhammad in late January 2009. But just four months after his return, Mr. Muhammad used a semiautomatic rifle to gun down two soldiers — Pvt. William A. Long and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula — while they were standing outside a military recruiting station in Little Rock, killing Private Long and wounding Private Ezeagwula.

The New York Times does a lot of hemming and hawing about whether Muhammad’s claim to be part of Al Qaeda is actually true.

I don’t remember who it was, someone on the radio, but they made the point around the time of the Christmas Bomber (maybe it was Mark Steyn) that Al Qaeda doesn’t have sign-up sheets or membership drives or meetings.  If you say you’re hanging with Al Qaeda and committing your acts of terror in concert with their agenda, then you’re part of Al Qaeda.  It’s a mindset, not a club.

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Arkansas, Military, Religion of Peace, Terrorism, War on Terror