LR FOLLOW-UP

From Eric Dondero:

Three weeks ago CBN broke the story of 5 Muslim US Army troops suspected of an attempt to poison the food supply at Ft. Jackson base in South Carolina. The 5 were translators in a special division of the Army for strictly Middle Eastern recruits.

Now an update from CBN.com:

Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said the soldiers' laptops had been seized and were being analyzed. Congressional officials with knowledge of the case said cell phones and Arabic writings had been confiscated as well.

Wilson said the soldiers were discharged because of unrelated incidents of minor theft.

Four of the five have been discharged from the Army with "administrative separation," (military lingo for less-than-honorable).

Erick Stakelbeck, CBN News Terrorism Analyst advances the story, noting that the five now ex-soldiers are all from the metro-Washington DC area. His source indicates that there's reason to believe that they were allegedly in touch with another group of Washington, D.C. area Muslims "that traveled to Pakistan to wage jihad against U.S. troops in December. That group was arrested by Pakistani authorities, also just before Christmas."