Accused Pentagon shooter pleads guilty
S. city dweller from Ethiopia was marked by law enforcement on Fort Myer and ran inedible, leaving a backpack behind. He was later on trapped and arrested next to Arlington citizen graveyard. The episode prompted a massive security scare in the field of and around the Pentagon. within the backpack control found spent shell casings; five pounds of ammonium nitrate, a everyday material within homespun explosives; two cans of spray paint; and a notebook within Arabic with the purpose of enclosed references to Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and the path to jihad. Melaku eventually admitted to establishment with the intention of he premeditated to violate dire markers fashionable the burial ground by spraying Arabic graffiti on them, and to ponderously leave the ammonium nitrate behind.