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One gunman reportedly ID'd in shootings outside Muhammad art show in Garland
DallasNews.com ^ | 05/04/2015 | Staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: curtisculwellcenter; eltonsimpson; enemywithin; garland; isis; islam; religionofpieces; texas; waronterror
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To: Boogieman

Even better!


21 posted on 05/04/2015 6:32:14 AM PDT by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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To: corlorde

I too, enjoyed that. it is a crying shame the authorities did not just let them lay there until they started to rot.

I guess my real question is;
Why are there no pictures of the gunmen?
But wait! I think we know that answer.


22 posted on 05/04/2015 6:32:41 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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To: All

Elton Simpson be his slave name.

What be his jihady warrior name?


23 posted on 05/04/2015 6:33:44 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Tupelo

One has been identified by name (Elton Simpson), and his picture is out there.


24 posted on 05/04/2015 6:34:42 AM PDT by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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To: MrB

Obama will refuse to call this an act of terrorism, too.


25 posted on 05/04/2015 6:35:35 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: corlorde
“My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front...”

Tag line material

26 posted on 05/04/2015 6:36:20 AM PDT by Cooter (Radicals always try to force crises because in a crisis, everyone must choose sides. - J. Goldberg)
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To: advertising guy

Whoa. They were next door to you?


27 posted on 05/04/2015 6:36:33 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: MrB

Watching CNN would leave someone with the impression that Pamela Gellar is the problem — and not the Muslims.


28 posted on 05/04/2015 6:38:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: GIdget2004

Despite the sympathies — if not outright support — towards their “cause” by the Democrat Socialist Party and the Left in America ... the violent members of the ROT (religion of terror) are going to have a tough go of it here. Unlike in England and France where the population has been disarmed, we fight back here ... hard!


29 posted on 05/04/2015 6:39:38 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: corlorde

What was the jihadi’s IQ?


30 posted on 05/04/2015 6:42:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: advertising guy

http://www.yelp.com/biz/autumn-ridge-phoenix

Is this the place?


31 posted on 05/04/2015 6:43:01 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: corlorde

An American son of obama and a muslim; in other words, a democrat.


32 posted on 05/04/2015 6:44:28 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: GIdget2004
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.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F6XAEifyLEEJ:https://twitter.com/atawaakul+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari


33 posted on 05/04/2015 6:45:53 AM PDT by maggief
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To: GIdget2004

I heard there were metal detectors. As a CHL holder if they denied me entry I would not have gone in and entrusted my care to others at an event of this nature.


34 posted on 05/04/2015 6:46:30 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: maggief

Isn’t that photo from “Romancing The Stone: Jewel Of The Nile”?


35 posted on 05/04/2015 6:49:18 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: advertising guy

Sheesh. ISIS next door.


36 posted on 05/04/2015 6:53:47 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Resolute Conservative
I heard there were metal detectors. As a CHL holder if they denied me entry I would not have gone in and entrusted my care to others at an event of this nature.

that would be my decision too. if i could carry i would go but would probably carry a larger weapon than i usually carry.

37 posted on 05/04/2015 6:54:47 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: Resolute Conservative
I heard there were metal detectors. As a CHL holder if they denied me entry I would not have gone in and entrusted my care to others at an event of this nature.

that would be my decision too. if i could carry i would go and would probably carry a larger weapon than i usually carry.

38 posted on 05/04/2015 6:55:11 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: bravo whiskey

Well it happened at a school and we know NO BAD GUYS shoot anything at a school


39 posted on 05/04/2015 6:58:30 AM PDT by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: LegendHasIt
What be his jihady warrior name?

Dead Sheepfukr?

40 posted on 05/04/2015 6:59:58 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were judged by the content of their character.)
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