{"id":154867,"date":"2012-01-19T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T08:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=154867"},"modified":"2012-01-19T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T08:06:37","slug":"uzbek-who-threatened-to-kill-obama-to-plead-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/19\/uzbek-who-threatened-to-kill-obama-to-plead-guilty.html","title":{"rendered":"Uzbek who Threatened to Kill Obama to Plead Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A native of Uzbekistan accused in the United States of threatening to kill President Barack Obama is to plead guilty, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.ria.ru\/world\/20120119\/170838962.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">RIA Novosti<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reported Thursday, citing The Birmingham News..<\/p>\n<p>Ulugbek Kodirov earlier denied the accusation, as well as a related charge of possession of illegal firearms, However, he will formally change the plea during a Feb. 10 hearing, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Kodirov, who is on trial in Alabama, was arrested last July, soon after he purchased an M15 rifle from undercover agents of the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>He told the agents at their previous meetings that he would be prepared to kill Obama, even if it meant sacrificing his own life.<\/p>\n<p>Kodirov was a devout Muslim and expressed sympathy for Islamic terrorists, frequently visiting their web sites, court documents say.<\/p>\n<p>Kodirov also had four illegally obtained grenades in his possession, although &#8220;without gunpowder in them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, he was not a suicide bomber, as his prime plan was to shoot Obama long-range, agents told the court earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The Uzbekistan national came to the United States on a legitimate student visa in July 2009 but stayed in the country illegally when his visa was revoked last year after he failed to enroll in a school.<\/p>\n<p>Kodirov faces up to five years in prison for threatening to kill Obama and 10 years on each charge of illegal firearms possession.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A native of Uzbekistan accused in the United States of threatening to kill President Barack Obama is to plead guilty.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24280,10677,37020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}