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.
I think the authorities are scared to call a Muslim murderer a terrorist because of the large number of Muslims in the country.
Lets put it like this:
Our own authorities in former Yugolsavia, at the end of the 80es hidded from us that attacks on civillians are Islam/based, we hade several casses of Albanian Muslim conscripts killing several of their Christian friends with AKs, and they did killings cause "Mendal dissorder".
Five years later whole-out war broke-out
Terrorism? Shhh, we can't have that leaking out! Nope, nothing to look at, move along.
Have they confiscated his computer and searched his home? I certainly doubt it or we would have heard from CAIR by now.
Well, he does have the beginnings of a little beard! (He's 18, after all, so can't grow a full one yet.)
There have been proven examples of one-man jihad-inspired mass murders in the US. Now that it's harder for islamists to organize a large-scale conspiracy here without getting caught, this might become the usual jihadist modus operandi, as some terrorism experts have speculated.
And who would suspect a poor victimized "Bosnian" muslim "refugee", except for a "Serb nationalist extremist" like me!!!! </sarcasm off>
"..Muslim conscripts killing several of their Christian friends.."
We do not have conscripts like you have, but I expect Muslims to start killing Christians here soon enough using all kinds of justifications.
No one knows for sure if Islamic desire to kill infidels was the motive, but OF COURSE IT WAS TERRORISM. The very act of randomly gunning down screaming civilians in a mall is a textbook definition of terrorism. There is no way this can be classified as anything but terrorism, pure and simple.
bttt
Bingo....you have hit the nail on the head.
Law Enforcement knows the cells are here and they are afraid because of the number of cells inside the nation.
Nineteen kill nearly 3,000.
When you make a deal with the devil, you are forced to worship him.
A deal has been made with the devil and Law Enforcement doesn't have the people to deal with the devil if the devil becomes angry, and begins to act in earnest.
Therefore as you stated, I think the authorities are scared to call a Muslim murderer a terrorist because of the large number of Muslims in the country
It would be nice if the FBI would get the message that it is OK for them to say "We don't know yet" for a while.
It would cut down on the aggravation *I* get at people around here assuming that every shooting, stabbing and traffic accident is terrorism.
You forget the Muslim Sargent that fragged his buddies in Kuwait!
And what is so ominous is that the government continues to allow Muslim immigration knowing full well that it will be the end of this country. One wonders whose side the goverment is on.
The most interesting thing is it's almost a week since the atrocity and the authorities have released no information about how he got the guns and ammo. In every "alienated teenager" shooting, like Columbine, this information comes out almost immediately. Why not here? Could the authorities know exactly where the stuff came from but be suppressing the information? Why??
The powers that be in Utah are trying to prevent a "backlash against Bosniaks" in that state.
Could a cover-up (which I hope is temporary) be part of those efforts?
I strongly suspect it is.
For example, just look at what happened after Columbine. The Feds and the media gave the two subhumans posthumous anal exams that covered everything they did, particularly how they got their weapons. All of this was disclosed within a week or less of the atrocity.
nothing about how this subhuman obtained his guns and ammo, even though there's no report of his having either a legitimate or an illegitimate way of getting them. This is particularly disgusting because, of all the recent random shootings, SLC smells more like a conspiracy than any other because it appears somebody provided him the gear precisely so he could go out and commit an atrocity.
The DBM and governmental silence about this leads me strongly to suspect that some imam gave him the guns, ammo and training. After all, the DBM and government have consistently done their best to cover up Islamic involvement in a number of similar incidents, indicating that's probably what they're doing here.
Here's another one the MSM and officials are ignoring:
"Man hit by cab after driver made anti-Semitic comments, witnesses say
Driver said he hitler was trying to "cleanse" world of the Jews
Sheila Burke
A Nashville cabbie made anti-Semitic statements and praised Adolph Hitler’s campaign against Jews during a religious argument that culminated when he ran over one of the passengers as he left the taxi, witnesses said during a hearing today.
The cab driver, Ibrahim Ahmed, said Hitler was “trying to rid the world of Jews,” the alleged victim, Jeremie Imbus, told the court.
“I just remember …(being)… I guess the word is ‘shocked,’” Imbus said of the Feb. 18 incident.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/NEWS03/70226043
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