Posted on 05/04/2015 6:03:53 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Two men who opened fire outside a contest for cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad were killed by police Sunday at a Garland ISD events center.
A senior FBI official confirmed that one of the suspects in the attack has been identified as Elton Simpson, an Arizona man who was previously the subject of a terrorism investigation, ABC News reports.
FBI agents and a bomb squad reportedly converged on Simpson's apartment in Phoenix, where police were conducting an initial search with a robot.
KPNX-TV (Channel 12), an NBC affiliate in Arizona, reported that the two suspects had been roommates. The second man, though, has not been named officially or in media accounts.
Simpson was well known to the FBI, ABC News reported. Five years ago he was convicted for lying to federal agents about his plans to travel to Africa, "but a judge ruled the government did not adequately prove he was going to join a terror group there."
According to ABC News, officials suspect Simpson was behind several Twitter messages sent out before the attack, the last of which came half an hour before the shooting and used the hashtag "#texasattack."
“May Allah accept us as mujahideen [those engaged in jihad],” the tweet said.
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A much needed announcement:
Attention Muslims!
Our society has freedom of expression.
We will draw images of Muhammed,
and if you react violently, we will put you down.
we’ve found the flypaper. another few thousand of these allah ahkbar art contests, and we can completely rid the country of jihadists.
they can’t resist, and we don’t miss when we get a clear shot.
...we need a rolling “Cartoon of Mohammad” event nation wide.
“My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front...”
Credit goes to a guy named Evan Sayet from Twitter
You win the prize.
Yup..he was going on a safari..it is cheap to go there ya know..
I am on the scene,the apt is next door to my office apt,cops and helicopters everywhere right now
A follower of Mohammed. Whodathunkit?
That just brightens one's day. Here's hoping the officer who was shot recovers quickly.
Simplist thing in the world is PROFILING.
The Israelis do it with no shame and you know what? It works!
No need to pat down a grandmother in a wheelchair when you can stop Jihad Jihadi on his way to the airport, or wiretap his phone. Sure it borders on the illegal but, it works.
Can’t these moozlum degenerates take a joke? Sheesh!
Riiiiiiight, looks just like a ‘typical mooooooslem’.
“Credit goes to a guy named Evan Sayet from Twitter”
He’s a FReeper :)
they put the suspected jihadist...on PROBATION...
thats the spirit....protect.....the Islamic Thug ...from Incarceration....at all costs
May Allah accept us as mujahideen [those engaged in jihad],” the tweet said.
What a shock it must have been to end up in Hell.. Oh well...
Otherwise it's just a pleasure trip, Caribbean cruise is waaaay too expensive. (wink wink)
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