Posted on 07/17/2015 3:28:15 PM PDT by xzins
U.S. authorities believe the suspect in the fatal shootings of four Marines in Tennessee visited Jordan last year and possibly Yemen as well, two U.S. government sources said on Friday, as investigators looked for any connection to Islamist militants.Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old Kuwait-born U.S. citizen
A little more than 24 hours after the shooting, the FBI said it continued to investigate it as an act of terrorism and that it was "premature" to speculate on the motive. Abdulazeez's travel was part of the investigation.
"We do know that he has traveled outside of the United States," Ed Reinhold, FBI Special Agent in Charge, said during a news conference.
Born to Palestinian parents and raised in a Chattanooga suburb, Abdulazeez may have family in Jordan, investigators believe, making a visit to that country highly likely, one of the sources close to the probe said. He may have made several stops, and a visit to Yemen has not been ruled out.
A trip to Yemen, long viewed as a training ground for Islamic militants, would raise special concern.
POSSIBLE TRAVEL IN 2014
Abdulazeez, who studied engineering at a local university, is believed to have traveled to the Middle East between April and November 2014, according to one of the sources, who was not authorized to speak on the record.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks extremist groups, said Abdulazeez blogged on Monday "life is short and bitter" and that Muslims should not miss an opportunity to "submit to Allah."
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Surely, all of this should have raised red flags.
You can say that again. Wait, you just did.
“... this should have raised red flags...”
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With “who” and for “what”?
Just a little innocent sightseeing.
Or maybe he was visiting his goatfriend.
Why is it premature to speculate about a motive in this case, when after the Charleston shooting, everyone jumped to the conclusion that a white racist attacked a black church??
his mosque :
Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga
2533 Gunbarrel Rd, Chattanooga TN 37421
info@chattislam.org
I kid you not : gun barrel road
Well, he only worked at a nuclear facility...
Actually, he failed their background check so they let him go after less than two weeks. How come a private company could find him suspicious, but not the DHS?
How many more are out there, along with their spawn, eager to flip their sudden jihad switches?
Stop fomenting trouble. We’ve been told every day since 9/11 that Islam is a religion of PEACE!
Did you not get the memo? ;)
Pretty much a non-answer...
You mention the DHS.
What are you saying he did that should put him on the DHS radar?
Traveled to the middle east?
(he never really “worked” at a nuclear plant)
“How come a private company could find him suspicious, but not the DHS?”
Is that a serious question?
Nothing bad ever happens in Yemen.
Bump!
His girlfriend dumped him.
Generally, the anti-gun crowd is out front in these shootings, demanding "assault" weapons be banned and "gun-show loopholes" be immediately closed. So far, there has been very little of that. In fact, the lack of it has been striking.
There has been little discussion (either in the media or by the authorities) concerning what sort of weapon Abdulazeez used, or where he obtained it. Usually, this sort of information is front and center because it gives grist to the anti-gun mill and deflects attention away from the perp to the tool.
Maybe I missed something in the news, but this is mysterious, isn't it? Why is information about the weapon and how the authorities tracked him down and killed him so scarce? Was a genuine automatic assault rifle used? From the looks of the sprayed bullet hole pattern at the mall from a very short range, it seems likely. The fact he quickly gunned down the victims at the Reserve Center leads one to believe it was done quickly.
If he used an real automatic assault rifle, where did he get it? Was it gotten through cartel or ISIS sources? Why are the authorities so quiet about the weapon(s)? If it were simply an ugly black rifle one can buy at WalMart, why is everybody ignoring it? Wouldn't it be front page news?
The silence on this subject is deafening. Does anybody have any good clues here? But perhaps I missed them all in the past wall-to-wall 30 hours of coverage...?
I have never bought that line for one minute , it was George W Bush worse mistake .
Ever since Hezbollah blew the Marine barracks in Beirut
Islam has been the enemy to me
Never forget
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