Naser Jason Abdo (born April 1, 1990) is an American former United States Army private first class who was arrested in 2011 for attempting to commit a terrorist attack against a restaurant frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas.

[4] After being convicted in 2006 of soliciting a minor over the internet, the senior Abdo served three years of a five-year sentence in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice before being deported back to Jordan in 2010.

[4] At the time of the Fort Hood shootings later that year, he condemned the actions of Nidal Malik Hasan, who was arrested and charged in the case.

In an interview with Al Jazeera TV, which aired on August 21, 2010 (as translated by MEMRI), Abdo said, "I don't believe I can involve myself in an army that wages war against Muslims.

[2] After being charged with possessing child pornography, which he denied, Abdo went AWOL from Fort Campbell during the Independence Day weekend in 2011.

[9] In the spring, two anti-war groups, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Courage to Resist, had initially supported Abdo's conscientious objector bid.

In Abdo's hotel room, police found a handgun and the ingredients for an improvised explosive device, including gunpowder, shrapnel, and pressure cookers.

[7] Also in the room was an article entitled "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom" from Inspire magazine, the English-language publication of al-Qaeda.

Abdo had also purchased a uniform with Fort Hood patches from a military surplus store to fit in with local soldiers.

[7] According to court papers, Abdo "admitted that he planned to assemble two bombs in the hotel room using gun powder and shrapnel packed into pressure cookers" to explode at a restaurant popular with soldiers.