Posted on 11/29/2016 8:20:04 AM PST by Jyotishi
The Somali-born student, who injured 11 people in a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University before being shot and killed, had lived in Pakistan along with his family for about seven years.
The 18-year-old attacker, identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident, NBC News quoted law enforcement officials as saying.
He temporarily lived in Dallas before settling in Ohio.
He rammed his car into a crowd at Ohio State University on Monday and attacked them with a butcher knife, injuring 11 before police fatally shot him.
Investigators are investigating whether the attack was an act of terror by Artan, who had once criticised the media for its portrayal of Muslims.
In a magazine in August, he was quoted as saying that he is scared to pray in the public because of media coverage of the religion.
"I'm a Muslim, it's not what the media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they're going to think, what's going to happen. But, I don't blame them. It's the media that put that picture in their heads," Artan had aid.
He also appears to have made an anti-US posting on Facebook minutes before the attack, on a page that was quickly disabled or taken down by authorities, US media said.
"I can't take it any more. America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that," the post quoted by ABC television said.
"If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace," the post reads. "We will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Muslims."
Officials said 11 people were being treated at local hospitals for stabbing wounds and injuries from the motor vehicle. None of their injuries were life-threatening.
“How does a Somali living in Pakistan walk into the US as a permanent legal resident?”
The answer to your question has a lot to do with Barack Hussein Obama and his intentions.
They also qualify for financial aid to attend college...
Yeah....after I posted....I figured I shoulda included free education.
Refugees are eligible after one year. We fast track the undesirables through immigration and let those we should allow to come here get stuck in the system.
Must have been quite a student. Somalia to Pock-E-Ston at 9, then to Dallas for a couple of years then to OSU along with the other 18 y/o freshmen without missing a beat. Says alot about early childhood education in Somalia.
Like the Boston bombers.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were also financed through Pakistan, according to the news.
Paki Daddy went on jihad in Afghanistan and got killed?
Wife a somali and kids left alone to be resettled?
Wonder who his dad was?
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