Several hours after being taken into custody, Yonathan Melaku has been identified as the suspect arrested in Arlington Cemetery earlier today. He is a Muslim and a Marine Corps reservist.

The decorated Marine reservist lurking in Arlington National Cemetery who prompted a bomb scare near the Pentagon on Friday morning has been determined not to be a public threat. Fort Myer police spotted and initially detained Yonathan Melaku, 22, of Alexandria, in the cemetery around 1:30 a.m., well past the normal closing time, the FBI said in a statement on the case. Melaku, a lance corporal in the Marine Corps reserves, was carrying a backpack that the FBI said “contained unknown materials which initially caused public safety concerns.”

Yonathan Melaku, 23, of Alexandria, Va. is the man authorites have in custody who was carrying suspected bomb making materials and pro al-Qaeda propaganda in his backpack near the Pentagon early this morning Read more: globalgrind.com...

"We are told he had a backpack with five pounds of something labeled ammonium nitrate but as of this juncture, has not passed the test that indicates explosive capacity," Kelly said. " Read more: globalgrind.com...

Originally posted by neo96
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the most hilarious part there beezer is that those people who refuse to call him a muslim

are the same people who will report you to peta for abusing a chicken.