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Guess the 'history of mental illness' meme has run it's course with these cases of sudden jihad syndrome. Now, backed into a corner, authorities admit it's terrorism, but to tone down alarm, limit characterizing each incident to a 'lone wolf' whose 'extremist' leanings were self inflicted.

No jihad is a lone-wolf event. Fourteen hundred years of this garbage proves the consistency of collective brainwashing the Islamic doctrine creates.

Sigh. The msm persists with the 'lone wolf' narrative when it's highly unlikely any of these jihad attacks were done without some coordination from fellow believers fulfilling their doctrinal obligation to perform jihad. This instance is no exception. There were two very early reports online which revealed details ignored by the mainstream media. No surprise there.

• dnaInfo provided the following tidbit of information @ October 23, 2014 2:58pm:

  a freelance photographer approached four officers assigned to foot patrol with the 103rd Precinct and asked to take their picture . . .As the officers posed for the shot on the rainy street, Zale Thompson, who was swinging an 18 1/2-inch metal hatchet, charged and struck Officer Joseph Meeker

  then from the

• Gothamist I cull the following detail:

  "...Police were responding to a dispute between the man and a woman, the Post reports.

  The statement above suggests that detail was in the NYPost, but it does not appear there. Only the Gothamist suggested the four 'rookie officers' were responding to request for assistance due to an alleged 'dispute'.

  No further identification of this 'freelance photographer is provided anywhere.

  Did this individual provide a witness statement to the police and preserve any images captured during requested pose?

  Are we to believe this was merely a fantastic COINCIDENCE that this 'freelance photographer' managed to distract these four officers PRECISELY COINCIDENTAL to this hatchet assault?

  Is there a police report filed for this alleged assault for which these four 'rookie' LEOs responded? Or, was the call a ruse to bring uniformed officers to that location as a set up for jihad propaganda - complete with 'freelance photographer' and a decent surveillance camera positioned to film the episode with unusually good resolution to that angle on that spot in the middle of the sidewalk?

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I agree that few of these are true lone wolves.

I believe that a considerable number (Sandy Hook, in particular) had someone else pulling the strings. It is pretty easy to groom someone who is mentally unstable to commit a rash act. It may be hard to control the details, but getting them to go on a shooting spree or something similar would not be difficult. You just need to play into their need to feel important. This is similar to how cults acquire members. (like the democrat party, for example).