[NativeNewYorker]

An excellent post.

I know NOTHING about weaponry, training, etc.

This increased my understanding by two full orders of magnitude.

Everything fits except the tarot card.

[EternalVigilance]

Everything fits except the tarot card.

That doesn't throw me at all. Islam is historically steeped in all sorts of spiritism, demonism and strange superstitions.

This 'operation'--and that is exactly what it is--has every hallmark of exactly the kind of operations that Al Quada 'soldiers' were trained for. Same with the killing of the Marine in Kuwait.

The training materials found in Afghanistan described just these kinds of attacks.

EV

[GoreNoMore]

Could the display of the tarrot card be an activation call to other terrorist cells. The card specifically said do not notify the press, sort of like don't through me in the briar patch.

[Wolfstar]

I can't help thinking the tarot card is a red herring. "Dear policeman, I am God." Come on. That sounds so juvenile and silly that it doesn't ring true to me. There is supposed to be more to the message, and I wonder if it is less juvenile in tone. Also, there have now been 10 shootings definitely ascribed to the same perp(s): one into a building, seven fatal and two wounded. Plus one in early September (one shot, one wounded man) that is being investigated as possibly linked to the other 10. As far as we know, a tarot card has been found only at the scene of the school shooting.