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Suspect in soldier shooting says he was justified
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Muslim convert charged in the killing of a soldier at a recruiting center in Arkansas says he didn't consider it murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.
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Abdulhakim Muhammad told The Associated Press Tuesday in Little Rock that he confessed to police that he killed Pvt. William Long outside an Army-Navy recruiting center.
But he said murder exists only "without a justified reason."
In a collect call from jail, the 23-year-old man said he didn't specifically plan the June 1 shootings but that they had been on his mind for awhile.
He disputed his lawyer's claim that he had been "radicalized" in a prison in Yemen.
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