Posted on 10/02/2017 4:34:07 PM PDT by SkyPilot
The shooter in Sunday night’s mass slaughter of 59 concert goers in Las Vegas, identified as 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, a man with no criminal history, is now being investigated for possible ties to Islamic terrorists.
At least 527 people were injured in what was described by Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as a well-coordinated attack.
ISIS claimed credit in an Arabic-language website, but authorities immediately tried to debunk the claim saying they had no evidence to support it.
“We will investigate that down to the end,” but thus far nothing has been found to connect Paddock to international terrorism, Lombardo said at one of four news conferences held Monday on the shooting.
“We have determined, to this point, no connection to an international terrorist group,” said an unidentified spokesman for the FBI in a brief statement at a news conference at 11:40 a.m. Monday in Las Vegas.
The questions stemmed from a Twitter posting by the group Site Intel Group that ISIS spokesman Amaq has claimed Paddock was one of its “soldiers” who converted to Islam months ago.
BREAKING: #ISIS claimed #LasVegas attack, reporting through ‘Amaq that executor is one of its “soldiers” & he converted to Islam months ago pic.twitter.com/4E85vEIUzH
— SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) October 2, 2017
The statement, in Arabic, read, “Attacker of the #Las_Vegas shooting is a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to targeting coalition countries,” Jihadoscope, a cybermonitoring company that monitors jihadi activity, confirmed in a translation sent to Newsweek.
Michael S. Smith II, co-founder of terror analysis company Kronos Advisory, who regularly tracks ISIS activity, also confirmed to Newsweek the claim of responsibility and the claim about Paddock’s conversion.
After media continued to discredit the ISIS claims, the terrorist organization doubled down by sending out...
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
That was fast!
Let’s reassign Mueller to this case, since there is even less evidence (none) of Russian collusion.
The FBI can perform, and has recently performed,other prodigies of investigation. After all, they most recently concluded that the Democrat wannabe mass murderer who almost assassinated Steve Scalise was not a terrorist in spite of massive evidence, in that subhuman’s own words, that he was out to murder Scalise and other Republicans because they were Republicans. Then there was the Hillary email investigation. Tes indeed, the FBI is truly believable in cases like this.
ANTIFA - They’re saying it’s not International terrorism, nothing about domestic terrorism.
I’ll be on you like ugly on a Baldwin brother when you like fake news sites.
That does look suspicious. More suspicious info here.
Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Had Recent Large Gambling Transactions
by Pete Williams, Tracy Connor and Kalhan Rosenblatt
Oct 2 2017
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-vegas-shooting/stephen-paddock-las-vegas-shooting-suspect-identified-n806471
“On several occasions, Stephen Paddock gambled more than $10,000 per day — and in some cases more than than $20,000 and $30,000 a day — at Las Vegas casinos,...Bruce, who said he hadn’t talked to Stephen in approximately 10 years, said his brother made money through apartment buildings, which he owned and managed with his mother, who lives in Florida.”
” a man with no criminal history”
Neither do Hillary and Obama,
A caller into Rush today made this same point: Inside of 12-18 hrs, the FBI “definitively rejected” that the LV shooter was associated with ISIS, Yet.... here we are, a year past the election, and they still won’t admit there is NO EVIDENCE, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH that President Trump and the nefarious Russians “colluded” to “steal” the election from the Butcher of Benghazi.
Gunman Stephen Paddock was an accountant who played $100-a-hand-poker
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-attack-stephen-paddock-trnd/index.html
[Oh, yeah. That’s makes a lot of sense...not!]
“We have no motive, but we know for sure it ain’t that.”
Didn’t we hear the same story from them after the night club attack and San Bernardino?
Yeah I thought so.
The FBI is going to go to any links to dismiss terrorism in any event like this. They can’t admit to terrorism as it makes them look like complete fools along with the rest of the Intelligence community. How can they justify the budgets if acts of terrorism can, do, and will continue to occur.
Right now we don’t know enough about this guy and any connections he may have to any terrorist group.
ISIS just may be playing us on this, then again who knows.
“But for the FBI to quickly give us this “No Connection!!” BS is just too much.”
Oh the same FBI that can find no intent in any democrat’s crimes? That FBI?
you picked up on that also!!!
WND is an excellent source.
And they were quick to exonerate the live in girlfriend.
I see. Well, the shooter WAS here in USA . There’s no question of that We will eventually learn exactly WTH he was. It’s always possible it wasn’t another Muslim terrorist attack. Could be just a guy who went nuts. Maybe.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the FBI helped the shooter organize the slaughter. And HOW do we know WHO the shooter was? A dead man in a room is deemed the shooter? Now WHAT kind of conclusion is that?
Yup, the FBI doesn't have a great record as of late. And former FBI chief Mueller is now doing his best Joseph Stalin impression.
So let's discuss the shooter:
- He's screwing an Indonesian chick (the nation with the largest Muslim population on the planet), and she was formerly married to a left wing activist
- He had access to automatic weapons and tons of cash
- ISIS is putting out press releases that claim him as a convert and responsible for the carnage
But, hey....nothing to see here folks! Move along......
Special Agent Muhammad Muhammad stated, “We have determined that the shooter had no connection to Islam. Islam is a religion of peace. Allahu Akbar!”
Yup. Just your "average guy" (his brother's words).
Also, his brother said he had 'no political motives, no religion.....it doesn't make sense.
Gee, I guess left-wing atheists who commit mass murder on an industrial scale and whose girlfriends are Muslim get a pass on this "profile" thingy.
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