Document: Firebomb Suspect Railed Against Muslims

Court documents show a 24-year-old man arrested in the November firebombing of an Oregon mosque had ranted against Muslims in subsequent encounters with police officers and said Christians are also capable of jihad.

Cody Crawford was arrested Wednesday night. He’s accused of setting fire to the Corvallis mosque just two days after FBI agents arrested a Somali-American on a charge of plotting to set off a bomb at Portland’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

A court document says that during an encounter with a police officer three weeks after the firebombing, Crawford ranted against Muslims and told the officer, “Christians can jihad too.”

The document also says Crawford is a “potential major contributor” of DNA on a flashlight found near the mosque the morning of the firebombing.

Crawford said in an earlier Associated Press interview that he is “100 percent innocent.”