And the current Islamic terrorist attack is...

[acctingman]

Yes, was a bit dopey this morning, I meant Washington State. That big county north of Oregon. ;)

The "shit" gets real when it's in your backyard  :-[

[Staggerwing]

Yes, was a bit dopey this morning, I meant Washington State. That big county north of Oregon. ;)

The "shit" gets real when it's in your backyard  :-[

Pretty much the way I feel about Sandy Hook.

[steve58]

Shooter in the mall incident in Washington has been ID'd and captured. 

"20-year-old Arcan Cetin had immigrated to the U.S. from Turkey and was a "legal permanent resident." It was not immediately clear when Cetin came to the U.S."

I wasn't sure this attack was a terrorist-type attack, but maybe it was...

[bayonetbrant]

Shooter in the mall incident in Washington has been ID'd and captured. 

"20-year-old Arcan Cetin had immigrated to the U.S. from Turkey and was a "legal permanent resident." It was not immediately clear when Cetin came to the U.S."

I wasn't sure this attack was a terrorist-type attack, but maybe it was...

The little bit I saw on the news was leaning more toward "rejected misogynist anti-social loner" type - had struck out w/ the ladies so he decided to strike out at the ladies.

[Gusington]

Anti-fem terror?

[Sir Slash]

I don't think this will enhance his chances of getting a date. A female date I mean.

[acctingman]

I don't think this will enhance his chances of getting a date. A female date I mean.

Is it bad that I want this guy to get repeatedly butt dated on a daily basis in prison?  O0

[Sir Slash]

Well, he IS Turkish so......

[JasonPratt]

The official ATF HQ page seems the most up to date at the moment, https://www.facebook.com/HQATF/posts/1802658556612679

Although I've also read from the Guardian (the one in the UK ??) that Cetin's ex-girlfriend worked at that Macy's before being fired (or quitting) several months ago.

I expect we're going to learn over the next week as his stuff is examined, that he radicalized pretty recently, in the sense that he was looking for an excuse to be justified and praised for doing something violent he otherwise wanted to do anyway, and found it.

[Gusington]

[JasonPratt]

In sort-of relevant news, Congress passed the JASTA bill recently ("Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act"); Obama vetoed it (pretty understandably, I have to admit); and the Senate has just overwhelmingly voted to overturn his veto. Sanders and Kaine abstained; Reid (the Senate Democratic minority leader) was the only vote in favor of upholding the veto.

If the House also passes, and assuming the Supreme Court doesn't strike it down as unconstitutional later, US citizens will be allowed to sue Saudi Arabia if they or their loved ones were victims of the 9/11 attacks.

I'm... I'm not entirely sure what to think or even feel about this. The level of bipartisan agreement is amazing, but it's also a giant f-bomb to Obama by Congress (on all sides?!?) before hitting the final campaign trail for the Nov 8 election.

[Boggit]

I came across this link - Shari'a for Dummies, which is instructive for getting inside the head of the Islamist jihadi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_2PMeRdIyo

The problem is that this then encourages hate as a "righteous" thing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mWX8VB18nI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRF_yPQy-Qo

And yet some Muslims (not all - to be fair) are shocked when they are criticised and call it Islamophobia. Should they be surprised?

[Nefaro]

Another terrorist bomber was caught while finalizing plan to bomb a mall on Black Friday.

Honduran Living in Miami Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Support ISIS--by Bombing Shopping Mall
By CNSNews.com Staff | March 15, 2018

A Honduran national living in Miami—Vicente Adolfo Solano--has pleaded guilty to "attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)" after the Federal Bureau of Investigation surveilled him as he tried to carry out what he thought was a plot to bomb a Florida shopping mall.

"According to the stipulated factual basis filed with the Court, in early 2017, Solano told an individual, who later became a Confidential Human Source ('CHS') for the government, that he was upset with the United States and wanted to conduct an attack in Miami," the Department of Justice said in a statement released today.

"Later, Solano told this CHS that he wanted to join ISIS," said DOJ.

"Solano planned to place and detonate an explosive device in a crowded area of a popular Miami mall," DOJ said. "Solano discussed his plot with the CHS and two undercover FBI employees."

In an affidavit submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, FBI Special Agent David Clancy described Solano's actions leading to his arrest and guilty plea.

"In late September 2017, FBI agents began an investigation of Solano," Clancy said in the affidavit. "The investigation was initiated based on information provided by a Confidential Human Source ('CHS'), who had been working with the Drug Enforcement Administration."

"The CHS indicated that Solano had become increasingly upset with the policies of the United States Government and its activities throughout the world," said Clancy. "Solano cited these grievances as motivation for his desire to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States. Solano explained to the CHS that his intended target would be a specified mall in Miami (the Specified Mall) and that he planned to strike on 'Black Friday,' believed to refer to the Friday after Thanksgiving."

Later, Solano sent this source videos expressing his views and intentions.

"On September 13, 2017," Clancy said in his affidavit, "the CHS received a series of text messages that contained three videos from telephone number 786-560-xxxx. The telephone number 786-560-xxxx was known to the CHS as the telephone number used by Solano.

"The three videos sent by Solano featured a man wearing a black mask and shirt standing in front of a black flag identical to the one used by ISIS," said the affidavit. "The CHS identified the voice of the individual in the video as that of Solano."

Solano spoke in Spanish on the videos, but the FBI affidavit published English translations of what he said.

"I am here because I like the way ISIS confronts the United States and the countries of the coalition," Solano said, according to the FBI affidavit. "They're strong."

"[T]he United States is the most terrorist country of them all," said this Honduran. "It invades when it wants to and when it's convenient for them. That is why I am joining the Islamic group, the holy war, in the name of Allah, of our leader Abu."

"I am going to plant a bomb like in—like in Boston, in the name of Allah, in the name of Allah," Solano said. "That's how its' going to be done."

In the second video, Solano reiterated his admiration for ISIS and his desire to attack the United States.

"I am here because I am a sympathizer of the Islamic group, ISIS," he said.

"We must join the ISIS cause," he said.

"They are indeed murderers, genocidists, invaders of this country who came to this country to kill all of the Indians," he said of Americans.

"They abolished them, and now they're telling us to get out of here," he said. "They are the ones who have to leave. F--- that. In the name of Allah and our leader, Abu, we are going to defeat you."

In the third video, Solano issued a similar message. "I am making this video because I am joining the cause of the Islamic group, ISIS," it started.

After receiving the videos, the confidential source met with Solano at a coffee shop in a meeting monitored by the FBI. "Solano reiterated his desire to attack the Specified Mall on Black Friday," says the FBI affidavit. "Solano emphasized his attack desires by stating that he want to 'set off a bomb and [has] the balls to do it.'"

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https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/honduran-living-miami-pleads-guilty-attempt-support-isis-bombing