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Official Identifies One Suspect in Attack at Texas Anti-Islam Event
The New York Times ^ | MAY 4, 2015 | By MANNY FERNANDEZ and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

Posted on 05/04/2015 9:57:31 AM PDT by Salman

GARLAND, Tex. — One of the two gunmen who were killed Sunday after opening fire at an event where people were invited to present cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was identified on Monday by a law enforcement official as a man who had previously been labeled by the F.B.I. as a jihadist terrorism suspect.

Police officers shot and killed the man, identified as Elton Simpson of Phoenix, and his companion Sunday evening, outside the Curtis Culwell Center, at an event organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a New York-based group that also uses the name Stop Islamization of America. The gunfire, which began shortly before 7 p.m., left a security guard wounded.

In 2010, federal prosecutors in Arizona charged Mr. Simpson with plotting to travel to Somalia “for the purpose of engaging in violent jihad,” and then lying to a federal agent about his plans. A judge found him guilty of lying to the agent, but said the government had not proved that his plan involved terrorism, and sentenced him to three years’ probation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; curtisculwellcenter; eltonsimpson; freepmuch; garland; jihad; religionofpieces; texas; waronterror
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To: cripplecreek

LOL. See #39 below.


41 posted on 05/04/2015 10:39:29 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Above actually.


42 posted on 05/04/2015 10:40:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Salman

http://az.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.20110314_0000473.DAZ.htm/qx


43 posted on 05/04/2015 11:01:44 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: don-o
You are absolutely right, don-o.

That's exactly what it is.

44 posted on 05/04/2015 11:14:04 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: Salman
the Prophet Muhammad

The New York Times, CNN, the media really does honor the guy as "the Prophet Muhammad".

45 posted on 05/04/2015 11:28:45 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Salman
Official Identifies One Suspect in Attack at Texas Anti-Islam Event

Notice how they tag it as a "Anti-Islam" event rather than a freedom of speech event? This is how they distort the news.

46 posted on 05/04/2015 12:12:43 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
Notice how they tag it as a "Anti-Islam" event...

Are you opposed to communism? Then you're anti-communism. Are you opposed to Nazism? Then you're anti-Nazi. I oppose islam in all forms and will do my part to ensure its annihilation. Being tagged as anti-islam is a badge of honor.

One can be either pro-islam or anti-islam. Destruction of this satanic cult demands nothing less than plain speaking and clearly identifying islam as the enemy.

47 posted on 05/04/2015 12:36:30 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: re_nortex
One can be either pro-islam or anti-islam. Destruction of this satanic cult demands nothing less than plain speaking and clearly identifying islam as the enemy.

The trouble is, while they are identifying this event as "anti-islam", they are also identifying Islam as a "religion of peace" rather than a blood thirsty murder cult.

48 posted on 05/04/2015 12:55:03 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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