Leader of Army Plot to Assassinate Obama Apparently Attended the '08 Republican Convention as a Page

[kpete]

Source: Gawker

Leader of Army Plot to Assassinate Obama Apparently Attended the 2008 Republican Convention as a Page




Isaac Aguigui, the Army private and alleged ringleader of a plot to assassinate Barack Obama and "take over" Ft. Stewart in Georgia, apparently served as a page at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Minn. That's his mug shot after he was arrested for the alleged murder of Pvt. Michael Roark on the left. At right is a 2008 Reuters photo with the caption: "Republican National Convention page Isaac Aguigui watches from the edge of the floor at the start of the first session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 1, 2008."
http://www.daylife.com/photo/00GB1AZdt20sC

Of course, there could be two Isaac Aguiguis who look startlingly alike. Aguigui, according to Georgia prosecutors, financed a plot to kill the president, take over Ft. Stewart and poison apple orchards in Washington state with a $500,000 insurance settlement he got last year after his wife's death. The group—its numbers are unknown—called itself F.E.A.R., for Forever Enduring, Always Ready.

Aguigui is one of four soldiers charged in Roark's death, allegedly because he was a "loose end" who threatened to foil their plans. According to the AP, Aguigui and his compatriots bore "distinctive tattoos that resemble an anarchy symbol," but that's the extent of the reporting thus far on their political motives.

Read more: http://gawker.com/5938288/leader-of-army-plot-to-assassinate-obama-apparently-attended-the-2008-republican-convention-as-a-page

[DeSwiss]

1. Of course.

- K&R

[Coyotl]

9. Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, age 19 today. NOT the same person it seems

unless the other image is of a 15 year old boy!

[highplainsdem]

11. Pages can be as young as 15.

[highplainsdem]

12. Correction. 15 is the minimum age for at least some GOP state conventions. National convention

might have a minimum age of 16.

[Coyotl]

16. Does the guy on the right look like he is 15 years old?

[highplainsdem]

19. He could be 15 or 16. Is Aguigui still 19, not 20? He was identified as 19 in

photo captions from late last year. Here's one of them:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/soldiers-charged-plot_livejpg/

**FILE** U.S. ArmySgt. Anthony Peden (left), 25, and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 19, are led away in handcuffs Dec. 12, 2011, after appearing before a magistrate judge at the Long County Sheriff's Office in Ludowici, Ga.

He was 19 nearly 9 months ago. He could very well be 20 now.

And if he's 20 now, he was 16, old enough to be a page, at the RNC in 2008.

[freshwest]

15. Isn't image on left Roark, who he admits to kiiling with his girlfriend, downthread article?

And the insurance money he got from the death of his own pregnant woman is how he financed his terroristic actions.

Hate women much? Other humans much? He'd be at home with the American Taliban.

If I"m confused on these guys it's because my vision is blurred. I think that's how this is working out here.

[Raster]

20. No. Neither image is of Roark. Both are of Aguigui. The left image is his mugshot. The right is..

...when he was a page at the RNC in 2008.

[freshwest]

28. Thanks, yeah, I got confused at the links. Look at those dead eyes:

In a videotaped interview with military investigators, Aguigui referred to himself as "the nicest cold-blooded murderer you will ever meet."

http://www.heavy.com/news/2012/08/pfc-michael-burnett-the-anarchist-soldier-top-10-facts-you-need-to-know/

His friends killed a man along with his girl friend and he may have killed his own wife who was pregnant. Why these other guys are interested in associating with such a man, I don't know.

People reporting on the Koch meeting in CA when Greenpeace flew a ballon over their compound, said they were planning a revolution. So it's not all in the realm of public opinion.

I hate that we have to have a network of people seeking these people in the first place. Americans going along with this are pushing us into a police state, not saving us from it.

[Raster]

30. yeah, the story was confusing. And yes, the eyes in the mugshot look dark, black. I have....

....no trouble imagining him murdering his pregnant wife. "the nicest cold-blooded murderer you will ever meet."

Okay, I'm creeped out.

[freshwest]

31. I hope they can convict him of the murder his wife (and child) for that half million. And I have...

A bad feeling that his intended acts of terrorism, and his crew's willingness to commit two murders, possibly more, was in line with their desire to have a place in some interim government. Financed by who, one might ask.

But some may already suspect, with Nordquist saying they only want to replace Obama with someone who will sign the bills that are handed to match their agenda. It seems so 1930-ish. Like they're planing Business Coup Part 2.

[DeSwiss]

21. The ears never lie.

No matter how old you get.

[nilram]

24. ditto. That's what I always look at.

You can kind of see the cleft in the chin in the picture on the right, and the thickness of the lips is in the same ballpark. But the ear shape and configuration cinches it.

[Coyotl]

32. So explain how a gangsta gets to be a page?? Read his MySpace page

and not how political it is === NOT!

People want to believe this story, to be sure, but until it is proven, don't run with it!!!!!

[highplainsdem]

33. See my reply #22 below. His father confirmed the RNC-page story, speaking to a KING-TV reporter.

[Coyotl]

35. Got it. It is starting to turn into really bad news for Tampa

God really must be a woman, given the timing of this information,
and she is taking the Republican War on Women seriously.

[DeSwiss]

36. The raging hormones of youth.....

...explain everything about the change in his features when comparing the earlier photograph with the more recent one. That, and the starchy Army diet he's been eating and the musculature he's added at their behest.

It's the same guy.

- Sorry, you'll have to find another windmill.....

[KamaAina]

2. Oh, for Pete's sake. Half the people on my block are named "Isaac Aguigui".

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. Who else funded him?

Inquiring Minds want to know....

[DallasNE]

4. Makes You Wonder About

The circumstances surrounding his wife's death. It might be time for authorities to take another look. Was the $500,000 from life insurance? This is not a very big settlement otherwise.

[NBachers]

10. Yeah, "Wife's death" really raised a red flag with me, too

[leveymg]

42. Was the wife's death and insurance payout while he was still in the Army?

I'd be curious when the payout occurred, if indeed it has. I saw a report that says he funded the militia last year with the payout. Also, did the wife's death occur before or after he enlisted?

Anyone know the timeline?

[Coyotl]

5. Is this page the same person as the "highly suspicious" Army private?

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1145552.1346097849!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/terror28n-1-web.jpg



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http://www.heavy.com/news/2012/08/pfc-michael-burnett-the-anarchist-soldier-top-10-facts-you-need-to-know/
....
Aguigui funded the militia using $500,000 in insurance and benefit payments from the death of his pregnant wife a year ago. Aguigui was not charged in his wife's death, but prosecutor Isabel Pauley claims her death was "highly suspicious." ....

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http://www.myspace.com/ElvenMercenary/photos/15743431

[freshwest]

13. Yes, you found it... And financed by the death of his pregnant woman... Allegedly.

I wonder what they'd been offered by bigger money interests for carrying this off.

Although the men in orange are his accomplices, not him.

[Ohio Joe]

6. I'm shocked... And amazed....

oh wait.... No, I'm not.

[phm]

7. isaac aguigui myspace page

still up: http://www.myspace.com/ElvenMercenary

[freshwest]

18. Working in an assisted living facility in WA as a facilitator/housekeeper?

Washington state should check out this information. And he has 119 friends at his MySpace page.

[Nevernose]

25. There are still 119 people on MySpace?

That's far more surprising than some right wing asshole plotting to kill the president.

[freshwest]

29. George Zimmerman had one too, although he may have had to shut it down.

[Blue_Tires]

44. seems damn near normal then

must have been before he dropped off the deep end

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. I'm Shocked!

Really. Shocked I tell you! I had him pegged as an Acorn type!

[Mz Pip]

14. Has Fox Noooze reported on this story?

They'd be all over it if he were an Obama supporter.

[Coyotl]

17. They will get on it as soon as the embarrassing mistaken identity is revealed.

In other words, once it is known to not be a story at all, they can smear the people who made the big mistake.

Meanwhile, let's wait and see if these are one and the same person.

[Blue_Tires]

45. Fox is busy photoshopping his face at all the OWS rallies

[highplainsdem]

22. KING-TV, Seattle, reporter confirms Pvt. Aguigui was a page at 2008 convention

From Twitter account of Chris Daniels, identified as "Emmy & Murrow Award winning KING TV Reporter," referring to Drew Mikkelson, whose Twitter account identifies him as "KING-5's South Bureau Chief."

http://twitter.com/ChrisDaniels5/status/240249641998905344

Chris Daniels ‏
@ChrisDaniels5

My colleague @drewmikk spoke w/father of alleged anarchist militia leader by phone today, & confirmed Isaac Aguigui was Page at RNC in 2008.


7:49 PM - 27 Aug 12

[alfredo]

23. Holy shit

[Rene]

26. Pvt. Michael Roark appears to be a hero who paid an ultimate price

and his girlfriend.

[highplainsdem]

27. More about him and his family background, from the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch site:

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/27/prosecutors-secret-militia-in-army-planned-to-blow-dam-poison-apples/

Many of the firearms were purchased at High Mountain Hunting, a gun store in Wenatchee, Aguigui’s father, Ed Aguigui, confirmed today when contacted by Hatewatch. “We don’t talk about any of our customers’ purchases,” an employee at the gun store replied when asked about that today.

Ed Aguigui told Hatewatch that he had “no clue” as to the location of the land in Washington State that reportedly was purchased by his son and members of his militia group. “I served my country for 20 years and I honor that, take pride in that,” Ed Aguigui said when asked about his son’s alleged antigovernment activities. “I don’t know what my son’s views are, and where they came from.”

“The only thing I can say right now is this case is moving from the military to the state courts in Georgia,” Ed Aguigui said. “I don’t think it would be right to say much more at this point.”

The suspect’s grandmother, Gloria Aguigui, of East Wenatchee, Wash., said her large family is from Guam. Annette Aguigui, the suspect’s mother, homeschooled Isaac and his five brothers and sister while their father spent a career as a U.S. Army combat engineer. “When they were little kids, they weren’t even allowed to have guns,” Gloria Aguigui told Hatewatch. “Isaac never got into trouble, and was always helping out. I have no idea what happened.”

[Coyotl]

34. Home schooled n/t

[DJFrey]

37. PVT.

Privates don't lead successful coups against the gov., however this a really BAD intelligence indicator concerning the state of our country.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

38. The headline might be a little misleading

"The Army" is not plotting to assassinate the president. Just a couple of guys with loose screws.

I'd imagine the Secret Service has this weak threat contained.

[Coyotl]

39. Actually, it is completely mangled. Army Private leading plot .....

[Coyotl]

40. Anarchist Leader In Assassination Plot Was Apparently A Page At The 2008 GOP Convention

It is time to drop "apparently" from this 15-minute-old headline!

"One commenter on the Gawker story quipped about how long it would be before hyperbolic pundits like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh somehow tied this into a well-timed democratic conspiracy to sabotage the RNC. The timing is uncanny though. Break out the tinfoil hats folks."

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Anarchist Leader In Assassination Plot Was Apparently A Page At The 2008 GOP Convention

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/anarchist-leader-in-assassination-plot-was-republican-page-in-2008-convention-2012-8#ixzz24qWUAaiO

..... Aguigui allegedly started an Anarchist group that branded itself with anarchy tattoos, openly recruited, and stock piled weapons, in an alleged plot to overthrow the government and kill Barack Obama.

Their plan ran into a snag though ... a messy execution in the woods—leading to the eventual indictment ...

[warrior1]

41. the guy on the right has a name badge

looks like it's him to me.

[Big_Mike]

43. This is not an ARMY plot - it is about the plot of 4 losers

What everyone must stop and think about is that this is four people out of 2.3 million service members. It is as generic as stating that blondes were planning to assassinate the President.

The military has been very, very good at tossing out extremists. Also, please note that the two dilwads pictured are being tried by local officials, not by courts-martial.

Also, their political beliefs are not mentioned, as the final graph in the OP states. After the ruckus with identifying Lochner from AZ and Holmes from CO as right wing was incorrect, let's wait see what exactly falls out.