Posted on 07/16/2016 6:19:15 AM PDT by maggief
NICE, France (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed Saturday that the Tunisian man who barreled his truck into a crowd in the French resort city of Nice was a "soldier" of the group. It's the first claim of responsibility for an attack that claimed 84 lives at a July 14 fireworks display for France's national holiday.
The claim — circulated on social media by a news outlet affiliated with the group — didn't name Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old Tunisian who authorities say was behind the wheel as a truck crashed into revelers Thursday night. But the statement quoting an IS security member said the man was following calls from the group to target citizens of countries fighting it.
The veracity of the group's claim couldn't immediately be determined, but French officials didn't dispute it.
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This is a lie. PMSNBC told me he was a ‘petty criminal’
But that is very different from methodically gathering weapons and renting a truck over a period of time and killing and maiming people and destroying hundreds of lives.
MSNBC and the Obama White House plan an hour-long tribute to the Truck driver.
Lone wolf. Not true Islam. Getting his act together. Good kid going to college. After alone.
They grab these lies out of a bucket apparently.
no. motivation unclear.
I've been enough hotel bars in the Middle East to discover with my own two eyes that Muslims are sinners just like the rest of us. ISIS has discovered that many of these "bad" Muslims want to repent and make great fodder for Jihadi attacks. Meanwhile, the Left twists themselves into pretzels trying to excuse this latest atrocity as anything other than motivated by Islam.
Must be frustrating being a terrorist. How much clearer do they need to be?
The scenes and sins describes represent the Islamic reformation that has occurred in lock step with the modern world.
The radicals in ISIS and AQ etc are the counter reformation attempting to return to a perceived state of purity
Takes a lot of money to amass an arsenal like he had. Plus the planning. Also aren’t firearms banned in France. Lots of planning and thoughtful premeditation over a long period of time. No, this was not a random act.
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