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Garland Shooting Suspect Elton Simpson's Father Says Son 'Made a Bad Choice'
ABC News ^ | 5/4

Posted on 05/05/2015 12:23:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Today FBI agents and a bomb squad were at Simpson's home in an apartment complex in north Phoenix conducting searches of the apartment. Officials believe Simpson is the person who sent out several Twitter messages prior to the attack on Sunday, in the last one using the hashtag #TexasAttack about half an hour before the shooting. Prior to that, the Twitter account holder had published messages sympathetic to Islamic terror groups such as ISIS.

Dunston Simpson said his son worked at a dentist's office but was "on vacation" for the last few weeks and that the two last spoke three weeks ago. But they "had not much to talk about, because we had some very serious differences."

Still, the elder Simpson said that while he was a strict father, Elton was "always a good kid."

John Iannarelli, Assistant Special Agent in Charge FBI's Phoenix office, said authorities in Texas traced both suspects to the Phoenix apartment and that the two appear to have been roommates. The second suspect has been identified as Nadir Soofi, according to law enforcement officials.

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The investigation into Simpson reached back to July 2007, when he was recorded saying of fighting with Islamists, "I know we can do it, man. But you got to find the right people that… Gotta have connects."

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1 posted on 05/05/2015 12:23:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Cue the pic of the old knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...


2 posted on 05/05/2015 12:29:18 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: nickcarraway
Still, the elder Simpson said that while he was a strict father, Elton was "always a good kid."

Yes, so often, so many were "such good boys."


3 posted on 05/05/2015 12:35:55 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: nickcarraway

ISIS jihadi butt buddies - the unspoken secret truth


4 posted on 05/05/2015 12:37:40 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: nickcarraway

They blow up so fast.


5 posted on 05/05/2015 12:44:47 AM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: nickcarraway

“He was a good kid.” Yeah, ok Pops. Whatever you say.


6 posted on 05/05/2015 12:45:54 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Gator113
Sunrise, sunset

Pretty soon it's time for their BOOM Mitzvah

7 posted on 05/05/2015 12:45:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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The other reality where life was and had the potential of continuing to be “normal”.

Islam is an infection.


8 posted on 05/05/2015 1:03:15 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: LeoWindhorse

>> ISIS jihadi butt buddies - the unspoken secret truth

Buttfuhqistan.


9 posted on 05/05/2015 1:04:28 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nickcarraway

His Son’s choice, had he not been stopped, was to Massacre a room full of helpless Innocent People he disagreed with.

The Father must be proud of the Idiot Man he raised...


10 posted on 05/05/2015 1:14:07 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary, because it's time for a POTUS without a SCROTUS...)
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To: nickcarraway

He deserves to be dead.


11 posted on 05/05/2015 1:24:13 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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Yep.. he made a bad choice all right. He tried to kill infidels in.. of all places .. Texas.

Gunny sez:

"Someone picked the wrong state."


12 posted on 05/05/2015 1:51:19 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Hillary is nothing more than a white, wrinkled form of Obama in pants.)
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Photo fail on my previous.. Trying again..


13 posted on 05/05/2015 1:55:32 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Hillary is nothing more than a white, wrinkled form of Obama in pants.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
The Father must be proud of the Idiot Man he raised

He made a bad choice? No, marrying the wrong person is a bad choice. He chose evil Jihad. He got what was coming to him.

14 posted on 05/05/2015 1:58:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forever more endure.)
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15 posted on 05/05/2015 2:52:39 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: mkmensinger

...and there it is!


16 posted on 05/05/2015 3:09:18 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: Oberon

Somebody had to do it!


17 posted on 05/05/2015 3:25:30 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: ScottinVA

I silently say a pray of thanks when the terrorists turn out to be stupid.


18 posted on 05/05/2015 4:08:31 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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Terrorist’s have yet to do anything

But Stupid!


19 posted on 05/05/2015 4:32:48 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Veggie Todd

“He was a good kid.” Yeah, ok Pops. Whatever you say.

He WAS.....

Thank goodness! He could have shot up an elementary school.

BTW it is coming. A school or mall massacre is fast approaching. I just wonder what the reaction will be.

The sentiment in this Kipling Poem is growing amongst the silent, suffering majority in this country:

THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.


20 posted on 05/05/2015 7:06:06 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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