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Sources: NYPD Hatchet Attacker May Have Been ISIS Supporter
Vocativ ^ | 10/23/14 | M.L. Nestel

Posted on 10/23/2014 5:23:25 PM PDT by jimbo123

The hatchet-wielding man who attacked four NYPD officers earlier today and was then shot dead by police may have had ties to ISIS, sources told Vocativ.

Law-enforcement sources we spoke with identified Zale Thompson as the armed man who charged at a group of NYPD uniformed police assembled on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, at around 2 p.m. today. The 32-year-old Muslim, who lived in Queens, struck one of the officers in the back of the head with his hatchet and gashed another on the arm, the police said.

After they were provoked, two of the four cops drew their weapons and fired several times, gunning the attacker down; the gunfire struck a 29-year-old woman who happened to be walking by. Her condition was critical, authorities said.

Law-enforcement sources said that a look into Thompson’s chatter online revealed he had ties to a radical U.S.-based radical Islamic leader who advocated aggression against the American government.

Last month, Thompson, who says on his Facebook page that he graduated from the Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, commented on YouTube: “If you’re looking for ‘perfect’ Muslims who never make any mistakes in their Jihad, then you will be looking in vain! If the Zionists and the Crusaders had never invaded and colonized the Islamic lands after WW1, then there would be no need for Jihad! Which is better, to sit around and do nothing, or to Jihad fisabeelallah!”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: axeattack; isis; islam; jihadattack; muslim; nyc; rop; terrorattack; zalethompson
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To: jimbo123

I wonder if the executive amnesty will include a lot of jihadists, I mean peace activists.


21 posted on 10/23/2014 6:25:55 PM PDT by Williams
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To: jimbo123

Gee, ya think?


22 posted on 10/23/2014 6:27:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: jimbo123

Seriously, in the good old days, the NYPD would have whupped on this dirtbag so much he would spend six months in hospital before he could stand trial, with two broken kneecaps, a broken jaw, two smashed hands, broken cheekbones and broken collarbones.

If they didn’t just pop him and drop him in the East River.


23 posted on 10/23/2014 6:37:27 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: jimbo123

Mass deportations MUST take place NOW. Do it NOW. This is going to get worse if all known Muslims are not deported now.


24 posted on 10/23/2014 7:14:03 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: wtd

Where’s the pic of this Muslim creep full of police bullets and lying dead?


25 posted on 10/23/2014 7:34:37 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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... the gunfire struck a 29-year-old woman who happened to be walking by. Her condition was critical, authorities said.

Good shoot, but it would be nice if they could do a little thinking while defending themselves.

26 posted on 10/24/2014 2:42:18 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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