Posted on 03/14/2006 1:43:39 PM PST by quidnunc
"Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers." I wrote those words days after September 11, 2001, and have been criticized for them ever since. But an incident on March 3 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill suggests I did not go far enough. That was when a just-graduated student named Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, 22, and an Iranian immigrant, drove a sport utility vehicle into a crowded pedestrian zone. He struck nine people but, fortunately, none were severely injured.
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This is what I have dubbed the Sudden Jihad Syndrome, whereby normal appearing Muslims abruptly become violent. It has the awful but legitimate consequence of casting suspicion on all Muslims. Who knows whence the next jihadi? How can one be confident a law-abiding Muslim will not suddenly erupt in a homicidal rage? Yes, of course, their numbers are very small, but they are disproportionately much higher than among non-Muslims.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Only luck and lack of training kept Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar from committing a deadly act in the name of Allah, three terrorism experts said Monday.
Even so, the former high school honor student, who drove a rented sport utility vehicle into a crowded campus gathering spot at UNC-Chapel Hill on March 3, matches the modern profile of the unaffiliated, lone-wolf terrorist.
Such hard-to-track suspects present a burgeoning security challenge to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents, said Solomon Bradman, chief executive officer of Security Solutions International, a Miami company that will present a one-day suicide terror prevention course for local law enforcement officials today at Wake Technical Community College.
"Well, he's a terrorist," Bradman said of Taheri-azar. "In this world of global terrorism, you don't have ties back to any particular group. In this new world, terror comes from incitement — it doesn't come from an organization. The only thing that makes this not look like a terrorist act is that he did a lousy job of it."
Taheri-azar's open-court statement that he plowed a Jeep Cherokee through The Pit, injuring nine people, to avenge the killing of Muslims by the U.S. government echoes the motivations of Middle East suicide bombers and the suicide hijackers of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Bradman, whose lead lecturer will be Omer Cohen, a former officer with the Israeli internal security and counterintelligence agency Shin Bet.
So far, Taheri-azar, 22, faces only state charges of first-degree attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill for each of the nine people he struck with the rented vehicle. He is being held at Raleigh's Central Prison in lieu of $5.5 million bail.
But Taheri-azar shows the characteristics of a terrorist with religious and cultural motivations, Bradford said. The UNC graduate has said he intended to kill those he struck, will defend himself in court with the aid of Allah and sees a future trial as a forum for instructing people about the will of Allah.
"The person who is willing to do this is the perfect recruit for terrorists," said Bradman. "The guy made a decision and he went through with it. We got lucky he wasn't better trained."
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(Jim Nesbitt in the Raleigh [NC] News & Observer, March 14, 2006)
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I wonder if any of the anti-American professors (which he must have had) had a role in this... for which they can be held liable.
Oh good. Then, during his appeals, he can learn all about the will of Bubba, his horny cellmate.
One case doesn't make a Syndrome. Are there so many other normal, well-behaved people going berserk in the name of jihad? The author should have a list ready.
If our elected representatives were worth a damn they would bar further Muslim immigration and throw out any one of them who gave any indication of this kind of behavior. When are we going to get serious about these people? They mean to kill us all.
The brain washers who brainwashed these zombie fools must be held accountable.
People who knew the 7/7 London Underground bombers made a point of how normal, well-spoken and British-acting the bombers appeared.
You raise a good point but if one looks at this guy's actions as something akin to those of a serial killer (comparing the call of jihad to the urges of a psychopath), we don't need a volume of cases to identify a cause and effect relationship.
What is a reasonable person like you doing in a place like this? LOL ;)
It is an actual category of Terrorism. Law enforcement agencies such as the FBI have identified a pattern of lone-wolf terrorist acts carried out by individuals who appear not to be acting as part of a conventional group, although they may function with the tacit approval of a group, and protect it by operating alone.
Terrorists cited as lone wolves include the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski (1978-1995), Austrian letter-bomber Franz Fuchs (1993-1997), Cave of the Patriarchs gunman Baruch Goldstein (1994), Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (1995), Centennial Olympic park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph (1996), "London Nailbomber" David Copeland (1999), and gunman Buford O. Furrow, Jr. (1999).
Examples are:
The Christian Identity adherent, Eric Robert Rudolph, who between 1996 and 1998 launched a series of attacks against civilians in the American south, resulting in the deaths of three people and injuries to at least 150 others.
Timothy McVeigh, an American domestic terrorist convicted and executed for the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds with a bomb-laden truck.
Baruch Goldstein, previously associated with Kach, who on February 24, 1994 opened fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, killing 29 people and injuring at least 100.
The neo-Nazi David Copeland, who became known as the "London nailbomber" after a 12-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London's black, Asian, and gay communities, killing three and injuring 129.
Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the "Unabomber", who attempted to fight against what he perceived as the evils of technological progress by engaging in an almost eighteen-year-long campaign of sending mail bombs to various people, killing three and wounding 29.
Buford O. Furrow, Jr., a member of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations, who on August 10 1999 attacked a Jewish daycare in Los Angeles, injuring five, and subsequently shot dead a Filipino American US Postal Service carrier.
On August 4, 2005, Eden Natan-Zada, 19, an armed Israeli soldier who had been AWOL for weeks, shot dead four Israeli Arabs on a bus and wounded 12. An Arab crowd then lynched him. Natan-Zada had recently turned to religious extremism and had deserted his unit after he refused to remove settlers from the Gaza Strip. He was believed to have involvement with the illegal Kach group. Prime minister Ariel Sharon described the incident as "a reprehensible act by a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist who sought to attack innocent Israeli citizens." [1] However, under Israeli law, only attacks by "enemies of Israel" are considered terrorism, and so Natan-Zada has not been legally recognised as a terrorist nor the people he killed as victims of terrorism (leading to calls for a change in Israeli law) [2].
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, in an attempt to disrupt Israel's planned disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Asher Weisgan, a 40-year old Israeli bus-driver, shot and killed four Palestinians and injured two others in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh. The Palestinians worked in the settlement's aluminum factory and two of them had been driven there by Weisgan. He had snatched the rifle used in the slayings from a settlement guard, after threatening him with a knife. The Haaretz newspaper quoted Weisgan as saying before entering a courthouse outside of Tel Aviv, "I'm not sorry for what I did." Ariel Sharon said of the attack, "I view this act of Jewish terror, which was aimed at innocent Palestinians with the twisted thinking that it would stop the disengagement plan, very gravely."
On November 4, 1995, Yigal Amir, a follower of Meir Kahane, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and injured a security guard at a rally held in support of the Oslo Accords in Tel Aviv, and was sentenced to life plus 14 years in prison. Amir was a law student at Bar-Ilan University and a right-wing activist who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Accords.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/27/terror.alert/
So, no problem, this is what I do as the general public is not aware of what terrorist actions, types, capabilities are...........the answer I gave was cut and pasted, from other sources to save time. The other types are what you know as terrorist cells which could include a sleeper cell etc..........Those are very bad. They were sent here years ago, to integrate into a society and gave the trust of the indigneous people. When activated, they start killing. It could be anyone of any nationality for whatever cause.
He is not even close to a serial killer. Completely different profile. They are like night and day......he was motivated by the passion he had for Islam. They are not all Islamic by no stretch of the imagination. I just gave example of several that nothing to do with Islam.
Obviously, the solution is to ethnically cleanse all traces of islam from the western hemisphere at least and the entire civilized world preferably.
A little on the slow side, ain't he?
I do believe I could put together such an attack a good deal more quickly, should I choose to do so.
LOL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/04/AR2005060400147.html
Just more background on a long wolf terrorist.
Cheese and crackers, man. Can you read?
Different profile???
I didn't say this perpetrator was a serial killer. I suggested using a different paradigm for looking at the case.
Like that fellow in the (LA?) airport who shot Jewish counter clerks. My wife and I have ceased going to Mohammedan doctors. There are several who are probably the best ones hereabouts but I don't want to be in one's office when he feels that call from allah.
It is an open question as to whether McVeigh had anything to do with Islamics. His movements and associations indicate, not adherence to the religion but cooperating with Iraqis to further his own vision.
There is a complete difference between serial killers and mass murderers. A basic difference is that a mass murderer whacks out a bunch of folks at one time in one place. An example would be the fellow that murdered several folks at a McDonalds in San Diego 20 years ago. A serial killer kills more than one person at different times, and places. Their motives are entirely different. Mass murderers are usually highly pissed off, and serial killers are thrill/sexual murderers.
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