Posted on 02/16/2007 2:58:05 PM PST by kronos77
While the FBI stated it has found no evidence Islamic terrorism was a motive in the Salt Lake City mall shooting, investigators have not ruled it out, a police spokeswoman told WND.
But Salt Lake Police spokeswoman Robin Snyder told WND the FBI is still working with her department on the case, and investigators continue to explore the terrorism angle.
"We will pursue every single lead," she said. "There is not one lead we are not willing to pursue. At this point, we don't have any idea of any motive. Nothing is ruled out."
Nevertheless, Tefft – a founding member of the CIA's counter-terrorism center in 1985 – said the FBI's quick downplaying of terror ties in such cases is all too familiar and believes spokesman Kiernan probably was embarrassed by his statement.
"It's almost a joke in any counter-terrorism circles that within half a day of most unexplained incidents the FBI comes out and says it isn't terrorism," he said. "They'll come out with a conclusion based on no information."
Kiernan did not reply to WND's request for comment.
Harvey Kushner, a counter-terrorism adviser to the federal government, told WND he also sees the FBI's response as typical.
"It follows a pattern where media, and often even law enforcement itself, would rather dismiss it as an act of a crazed gunman and ignore the person's background, his religious beliefs," said Kushner, chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice at Long Island University and author of "Holy War on the Home Front: The Secret Islamic Terror Network in the United States."
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Arround here, in Serbia, word is that he was Wehabbi.
"no evidence Islamic terrorism was a motive"
Killer was muslim.
I never ruled it out.
Of course it was terrorism. And we will see more of them, especially against Jews, because of the type of immigrants we are importing, hordes from enemy nations.
And hollering "Allah Akbar" is usually a pretty good clue. If they don't want to call it terrorism because he wasn't part of a big plot, maybe we should just coin a new term.
How about "a la carte terrorism"?
Well, at least they are looking into it.
I have two words: "Well,DUH!"
Exactly. If hard evidence was found that he was directed and supplied by an organized cell, maybe they'd call it terrorism. If he was used and exploited by an apocolyptic cult of death worshipping moon bats, then, no, just a loner and an abberation.
Well, that's certainly intelligence that we can take to the bank. (sarcasm off).
Yeah... yuk it up.
We already have a perfectly good term for this, SJS (Sudden Jihad Syndrome).
Right - so if there are one thousand isolated cases of muslims killing westerners that's ok according to the MSM they're all isolated instances .... seems the MSM has kicked this one under the rug ....
It is easier to call it a act of a lone gunman then a act of terrorism.
First motive that occurred to me.
Some day, sooner or later, one of these head cases that happen to be dedicated to Islamofascist terrorism, is going to trip the wire of a REALLY big anti-personnel, property-destroying, home-rigged bomb in some urban area, and maybe, just MAYBE, a faint sense of self-preservation will kick in among the American people, and religious profiling will be pursued with a vengeance.
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