OK, the Taliban in Pakistan did claim responsibility for the NY shooting, but only Reuters is taking it seriously.
The guy did change his name slightly, to Wong, a more Chinese sounding name, but I’m pretty sure he did work at IBM.
The man was distraught over losing his job and complaining about being taunted for not being able to speak English, despite having been in the country for 10 years. (He must have been working as a janitor at IBM)
We’re hearing now that the Binghamton shooter worked at a ShopVac assembly plant, and not at IBM. They have no record of his employment there, according to reports.
Not necessarily. Just because his English skill were poor, that could just mean his pronunciation, doesn't indicate his other skills were also poor.
I had a coworker who felt his English skills were holding him back, although he'd been speaking English since grade school and I did not agree, he has a PhD in Physics, from a US university. He had an accent alright, but it did not inhibit understanding, any more than a New Joisey accent does.
Interestingly, we have a step niece who is a native Russian speaker, although since she came here when she was 5, at 16 she has no accent that I can hear. But she says that listening to my son-in-law and his parents talking makes her feel like she's in an episode of "The Sopranos&quo;, they are from New Jersey, right across from New York City