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Official: Suspected Gunman Told FBI He Was Being Forced To Fight For ISIS
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/01/06/sen-bill-nelson-identifies-suspected-fll-gunman/ ^ | 1/6/2017 | CBS

Posted on 01/06/2017 2:13:09 PM PST by dragnet2

Law enforcement said he was found with an active military ID and is an American citizen, born in New Jersey. Previous known addresses include Penuelas, Puerto Rico and Anchorage, Alaska.

They add that in November 2016, he walked into an FBI office in Anchorage claiming that he was being forced to fight for ISIS. He was sent to a psychiatric hospital.

In 2011 or 2012, he was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations for child porn. Three weapons and a computer were seized, but there was not enough evidence to prosecute, according to law enforcement sources.


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: airport; airportshooting; banglist; ftlauderdale; guncontrol; guns; isis; islam; jihadist; muslim; santiago; secondamendment; terrorattack; usjihad
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To: PGR88

Well, yes. Like attracts like.


41 posted on 01/06/2017 2:43:25 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Reno89519

No, he was not.

He enlisted in the National Guard in August 2016, and was discharged in September.


42 posted on 01/06/2017 2:43:57 PM PST by AbnSarge
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To: bgill

Maybe Homeland Security is investigating these guys for recruitment.


43 posted on 01/06/2017 2:44:39 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Strac6

Radio news calling him an army veteran!


44 posted on 01/06/2017 2:45:16 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: AbnSarge

He was in for one month?! How did he get an honorable discharge?


45 posted on 01/06/2017 2:46:29 PM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: funfan

CNN lightened his skin in their copy of the perp’s picture.


46 posted on 01/06/2017 2:47:05 PM PST by arthurus
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To: dragnet2

Another shooter investigated by FBI!


47 posted on 01/06/2017 2:47:08 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: mewzilla

If they don’t make it through basic, they get an entry-level discharge, which in the absence of criminal behavior, is considered honorable.

It’s a bit much for the media (or most of the people) to understand the minute details


48 posted on 01/06/2017 2:50:01 PM PST by AbnSarge
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To: M. Thatcher

He’s wearing an arab caftan in military olive drab.

Computing....


49 posted on 01/06/2017 2:51:49 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Which probably means that he’s a BSer. That is, they start asking him who, where, and when he was being threatened and he can’t tell them anything. With a lot of these nuts, their story changes continually and they wind up being put on a 72-hour psych hold because they seem unbalanced. A lot of times, the cops don’t want to release them just to have them immediately go do something crazy but they just don’t have enough to hold them on anything either, hence the 72-hour psych hold. It can be a tough situation.

I’m seriously doubting this guy was ever in the military unless he washed out of boot camp and didn’t give his ID back.


50 posted on 01/06/2017 2:52:42 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: dragnet2

FEDGOV on the ball, as usual.


51 posted on 01/06/2017 2:54:54 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: AbnSarge

If information true it speaks to ineptness of our FBI and Homeland
security to coordinate against terrorism. Let’s see guy confessed
To being recruited by ISIS , FBI sends to
Psychiatric hospital. Guy then is able to get on
Flight with gun and ammunition no alerts set off


52 posted on 01/06/2017 2:55:41 PM PST by shoedog
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To: Yaelle

He is also proved to be a member of The Men Who Ate Spinach.


53 posted on 01/06/2017 2:56:57 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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To: dragnet2

Dude goes for help in November saying someone’s trying to program him to be a killer.

People say no way dude.

Dude shoots 5 in Junuary.


54 posted on 01/06/2017 3:01:48 PM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I just saw a link to the Daily Mail. So he was in the military for a year and was honorably discharged. That tells me that he probably got out on a psych. If he got kicked out for misconduct or just being an incurable F-up, it wouldn’t be honorable, it would be general or administrative or OTH (other-than-honorable) or something like that.

And from the story in the Daily Mail, it’s a lot more believable that he did this because he was pissed-off over an argument with people on his flight than he was being “forced” to fight for ISIS. There’s plenty of egghead volunteers, they don’t need to force people to do it.


55 posted on 01/06/2017 3:03:43 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: dragnet2

56 posted on 01/06/2017 3:08:10 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: M. Thatcher

And the hand sign.


57 posted on 01/06/2017 3:13:36 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: M. Thatcher

Jihad


58 posted on 01/06/2017 3:14:02 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Strac6

Gotnews is digging up a lot on the guy.


59 posted on 01/06/2017 3:14:48 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: dragnet2

ISIS could be abducting people’s family members and forcing them to fight....

Less risk for ISIS cells, and after the attack they just kill the hostages for no witnesses....


60 posted on 01/06/2017 3:15:03 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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