Killeen: A US Army soldier arrested with bomb-making materials near Fort Hood, Texas, planned to attack military personnel, local police said on Thursday.
"Military personnel were a target," Killeen Police Chief Dennis Baldwin told a press conference in response to a question whether Naser Jason Abdo planned to attack Fort Hood.
Abdo was arrested on Wednesday after materials that authorities said could have made a bomb were discovered in his motel room in Killeen, Texas, a small city just outside the base. He was being held in the Killeen jail pending the filing of federal charges.
Abdo had been absent without leave from his home base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky since the July 4 weekend.
Baldwin said he would classify Abdo's plans as a "terror plot."
Fort Hood was the scene of a shooting rampage in 2009 that killed 13 people. An Army psychiatrist charged with the shootings faces court martial next year.
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