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Suspect arrested for assassinating British MP is finally named by police, but the New York Times won’t print his name: Ali Harbi Ali
American Thinker ^ | 10/17/2021 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 10/17/2021 9:04:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

We can guess that British Member of Parliament Sir David Amess, cruelly and painfully stabbed to death while meeting with constituents, was likely targeted for his pro-Israel and philo-Semitic views, now that the name of the suspect arrested at the scene has been released.

Around 6 PM EDT Saturday, the UK Guardian first reported:

Sources have confirmed to the Guardian that the suspect’s name is Ali Harbi Ali, 25.

Other British media picked up the story and added details. The Sunday Times and Evening Standard both chose to emphasize the suspect’s family as victims: “Father’s shock after son held over Sir David Amess murder” and “Terror suspect’s family have been left ‘traumatised’ by arrest.” They respectively headlined.

It turns out that Mr. Ali already had been on the radar of the UK’s counter-terrorism apparatus:

Ali had been referred to Prevent, the UK’s counter-terrorist scheme for those thought at risk of radicalization a few years ago, the BBC reported. Ali is believed not have spent long on the program, which is voluntary in nature, and was never formally a “subject of interest” to MI5, the domestic security agency, said the BBC.

Police and security services believe the attacker acted alone and was “self-radicalized,” The Sunday Times reported, while he may have been inspired by Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in Somalia.

Ali’s father Harbi Ali Kullane, a former adviser to the prime minister of Somalia, confirmed to The Sunday Times that his son was in custody, adding: “I’m feeling very traumatized.”


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ali; aliharbi; aliharbiali; alqaeda; alshabaab; assassination; davidamess; islam; islamists; kullane; somalia; somalis; terrorism
While media around the world, including the New York Times’ local rival, The New York Post, have reported Ali’s name, the newspaper formerly regarded as the paper of record refuses to report it, as of 7:30 AM EDT today, more than 12 hours after the news broke.

SO MUCH FOR: "All the News That's Fit to Print"


1 posted on 10/17/2021 9:04:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Did Ali shout “Aloha Snackbar?”


2 posted on 10/17/2021 9:07:12 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SeekAndFind
We can guess that British Member of Parliament Sir David Amess ... was likely targeted for his pro-Israel and philo-Semitic views ...

Why assume that? Not everything is about Jews or Israel. Muslims hate whites and Christians regardless of their views on Israel. Consider the burning of Notre Dame. Or the war on black Christians in Africa.

3 posted on 10/17/2021 9:10:32 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: SeekAndFind

Has Ilhan Omar publicly praised Ali yet?


4 posted on 10/17/2021 9:20:35 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: SeekAndFind

Police and security services believe the attacker acted alone and was “self-radicalized,”
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All it takes is reading the Koran.


5 posted on 10/17/2021 9:21:55 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“I’m feeling very traumatized.”
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Yeah, almost as much as the victim’s family, I’m sure.


6 posted on 10/17/2021 9:23:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ali Harbi Ali





7 posted on 10/17/2021 9:29:24 PM PDT by Bikkuri ("Anyone who trusts this government hasn't been paying attention." <Hat tip to DJ Macwow>)
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To: Angelino97

Sir David was an obvious target for a jihadist:

Amess was a longtime member of Conservative Friends of Israel. He campaigned successfully for a statue in London for Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, and enjoyed warm ties to the British Jewish community. He was also a trenchant critic of the ayatollahs’ regime in Iran.

“He always stood with the Jewish community and was a true friend of Israel. May his memory be for a blessing,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Friday.


8 posted on 10/17/2021 9:31:59 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: SeekAndFind

Jihadist destabilization of Western Culture is an important factor in the globalist strategy. Did anyone really expect the New York Times to lament the death of a white, pro-life Christian political leader in a church by a dedicated jihadist?


9 posted on 10/17/2021 9:33:17 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Bikkuri

While media around the world, including the New York Times’ local rival, The New York Post, have reported Ali’s name, the newspaper formerly regarded as the paper of record refuses to report it, as of 7:30 AM EDT today, more than 12 hours after the news broke.

So much for “All the news that’s fit to print.”


10 posted on 10/17/2021 9:33:29 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Bikkuri

His head would look much better laying on his chest, atop his prone body.


11 posted on 10/17/2021 9:43:38 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: SeekAndFind

Another unexpected sudden jihad syndrome victim.


12 posted on 10/17/2021 9:49:18 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: SeekAndFind

***a new detail:

17 Oct: UK Sun: TWISTED BY HATE Sir David Amess murder suspect ‘radicalised after watching YouTube videos of hate preacher Anjem Choudary’
by Isaac CrowsonTom WellsNick PisaMike Sullivan

***Ali’s uncle Awale Kullane is Somalia’s ambassador to China...
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3876488/david-amess-murder-suspect-radicalise-anjem-choudary/


13 posted on 10/17/2021 10:25:34 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Allegra
Has Ilhan Omar publicly praised Ali yet?

"Some person did something."

Regards,

14 posted on 10/17/2021 10:45:42 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MarvinStinson

And Amess had been very critical of Iran. Last month he gave a talk in Budapest where he said:

“One of the most honorable things I have done in my political life is to support the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which wants to replace the Iranian regime with a safer and more democratic government.”

He added that I myself attended a conference of the National Council of Resistance in Paris in 2018, in which an Iranian diplomat had planned a terrorist attack, which was fortunately foiled by French police before the bombing took place.

In his speech, he stressed that the world must now be more aware than ever of the international threat posed by the Iranian regime.

It is noteworthy that the above diplomat, named Assadollah Asadi, the third secretary of the Iranian embassy in Vienna was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a trial in Belgium in February 2021.

As late as the day before his murder an article by him was published where he called for the trial of Iranian President Ebrahim Reisi.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4004557/posts


15 posted on 10/17/2021 10:57:57 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy
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To: EinNYC
"His head would look much better laying on his chest, atop his prone body."


Can't disagree there...
16 posted on 10/17/2021 11:42:26 PM PDT by Bikkuri ("Anyone who trusts this government hasn't been paying attention." <Hat tip to DJ Macwow>)
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To: MarvinStinson
This Daily Mail article offers another possible motive:

... police and MI5 also looking whether Sir David was chosen due to his support for Qatar, which has been exerting its influence in Somalia, the country of [Ali Harbi Ali's] diplomat father's birth.

17 posted on 10/18/2021 12:57:20 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: SeekAndFind

***already had been on the radar ***

Same for American shooters. But the law will not act until after he actually does something.


18 posted on 10/18/2021 7:14:28 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? Back in jail again! 4th time this year!)
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To: lightman

Exactly! And “JIHAD!”


19 posted on 10/18/2021 7:46:47 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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