PITTSBURGH — An Idaho man accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House was charged Thursday with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama or his staff, and prosecutors say he called Obama “the devil” and said he needed to be killed.

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, of Idaho Falls, made his first court appearance before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh on Thursday, one day after he was arrested at a western Pennsylvania hotel.

According to a court document released after the hearing, authorities recovered nine spent shell casings from Ortega’s car, which was abandoned near the White House. A person who knows him subsequently told investigators that he had become increasingly agitated with the federal government and was convinced it was conspiring against him, the document said. Others told investigators that Ortega had said Obama was “the anti-Christ” and the “devil.” Ortega also reportedly said he “needed to kill” the president.

If convicted, Ortega faces up to life in prison.

Ortega’s public defender, Christopher Brown, declined comment after the hearing.

He will be taken back from a federal court in Pittsburgh to face the charges in Washington, D.C. and will remain in federal custody at least until a magistrate in Washington can determine if he should remain jailed until his trial on the charge.

Ortega sat quietly as the hearing began, his hands free but his feet shackled. The 21-year-old said only, “Yes, ma’am” when he was asked if he understood that he would be going back to Washington to face the charge.

Authorities said a man clad in black who was obsessed with Obama pulled his car within view of the White House on Friday night and fired shots from an assault rifle, cracking a window of the first family’s living quarters while the president was away.

Soon after, U.S. Park Police found an abandoned vehicle, with an assault rifle inside it, near a bridge leading out of the nation’s capital to Virginia. The car led investigators to Ortega.

The FBI took custody of Ortega’s car Thursday afternoon to continue the process of reviewing evidence, said Lindsay Godwin, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington field office.

Ortega was arrested Wednesday afternoon at a hotel near Indiana, Pa., about 55 miles east of Pittsburgh, after a desk clerk recognized his picture. He had been reported missing Oct. 31 by his family.

OP: you are mentally deluded. Just like Mutallab, this man has a severe mental illness, Why are there so much young and immature ethnic and religious bigots in Nigeria ?

Where was it ever mentioned that he was christian?? 

I know the story and I read it this morning. The guy is a native-american who just said that because he had a beard.
In no where was it specified he was a christian. The thing though is that even if he does claim to be a christian & I saw that guy, I'd probably smack [b]him [/b]for pulling that stuff off.

Muslims on the other hand would do nothing to curb a jihadist terrorist and would only "talk" and be neutral and indifferent. Because deep down, you actually support their acts cuz that's what your Allah has asked you to do. If muslims truly supported peace, THEY THEMSELVES would root out the fanatic terrorists in their neighbourhood and hand them over to authorities. . . but they will never do this, because they support them secretly, not knowing that inaction in itself is an action.

^ and your smacking him will erase the evil already done?

2buff is extremely too buffed up.
i hope you live in western pa so that you can do the smacking in court/

^ My point: I'd out him to the police and probably smack him too, like Jesus flogged out all those "thieves" as he put it who were doing their thing in the temple, tainting it's reputation.

Yet "peaceful" muslims in their indifference, knowing their own people that are busy jihading the innocents, keep silent and talk only in general, pointless terms instead of outing these murderers.
Don't these Boko Haram people have neighbours? They live in islamic enclaves and clusters where no-doubt a lot of "peaceful" muslims live yet they have never been moved to out them to the authorities. That group of rapists and murderers would find it significantly harder to survive save for the cooperation of the islamic communities they live in.

^^^^^^and biblical Jesus was so gentle as he flogged out the thieves.
i am sure you will be so gentle when you smack out the guy with your 2buffed meaty hand[s].

Jihading is not about fighting. i m jihading with you right now; dialogue or if you want to be the type of extremist that you are; debating.
not all muslims love or will harbor boko haram. i know christians don't fight anyone. even in the spanish conquistador efforts to rid everyone else.

Catholic (crusades, inquisitions,etc) or Christian?
HUGE difference as the catholics also killed christians along with the pagans.  In fact you guys have more in common than you think. . .but that's a well-beaten topic for another thread entirely. Thankfully God de-throned them and Rome. Don't confuse the word "church" for christian. There is also an organization called "the Church of Satan". Just as well, is the "Catholic Church", to which I have no connection.

And no I won't be "gentle" when I smack him. Much in the same way I won't be "gentle" if I had a 9 year old child who should know better, throwing tantrums and embarrassing me in a public shop.

In fact, it would have to be the police that come and rescue him from me if I find out he went and did something evil and put my family crest on it saying he did it in my name. The same cannot be said about your peeps. You either support, or are indifferent (peppered with pointless speeches). You never [b]actively [/b]reject those that commit grave crimes against humanity.

christ worshipers; catholic, protestants, others like the orthodox. church goers.

all branches of christianity. let us say the catholic among them. you can't deny the catholic as christians.

it will be laughable if you do.

Christians are those that follow Christ(God) and pray to Christ(God) heeding the will of God not to erect graven images to worship.

Not those that pray to Christ, Mary, dead fishermen, statues, shrines (gbo gbo e, gbo gbo e).
By your sweeping generalization, even Jehovah's witnesses would qualify as "Christians".

@wunmi, ask frosbel, all your MOGs, your pastor why there are bigots. Watch I have just started if your religious fanatics on NL don't let muslims be. We have been peaceful enough. slowpoke

Get over drugs. Love your neighbor as yourself.

@2buff, so as the peaceful christians kill people globally, deny people of their rights, militants killing during their heydays, I hope you have not forgotten October 1st. What about the Norwegian; a muslim? Why is truth tasted so bland on your tongue?

Sorry, I am not like you god that was slapped on the right cheek and turned the left. Wunmi wants me to love my crazy and naughty neighbours without correcting them. So sad!

@ alien, oya its ok. Stop fighting. Inshallah,

Oya stop being naughty in name of ,

2buff what can you say about cele pple. May I know where you belong?

alienvirus:

@2buff, so as the peaceful christians kill people globally, deny people of their rights, militants killing during their heydays, I hope you have not forgotten October 1st. What about the Norwegian; a muslim? Why is truth tasted so bland on your tongue?

What is this one talking about?   
Drink some beer. Maybe you'll make better sense when u get drunk 

alienvirus:

2buff what can you say about cele pple. May I know where you belong?

I don't pray to angels either. the cele do that, among other things.

If you detest others so much will they enter the kingdom of God? Where do you belong?

Since when did "I don't agree with them" translate to "I hate them"?
Oh wait. . .that's a muslim thing isn't.

Alien , E don do now.