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Tennessee shooter was ‘upset’ by wars in Gaza, Syria
[IsraelTimes] Muhammad Abdulazeez came back from Jordan trip 'concerned' by lack of US intervention in regionMuhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, the Kuwaiti-born US citizen who shot and killed five marines at two military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee before being killed by police last week, was "upset" by Israel's Operation Protective Edge, according to a friend of his who was anonymously interviewed by Rooters on Saturday. The friend showed the news agency a text message sent to him by Abdulazeez with a link to a long Islamic verse containing the words: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him." The friend said at the time, only hours before the shooting, he thought nothing special of the SMS, but in retrospect wonders whether the killer was hinting at his future actions. "Abdulazeez's friends, who asked not to be identified for fear of a backlash, said he was upset about the 2014 Israeli bombing campaign in Gazoo and the civil war in Syria," the Rooters report said. Israel and Gazoo-based terror groups fought a 50-day conflict last summer. Abdulazeez visited Jordan in 2014, and expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the US's lack of involvement in the region. "He expressed that he was upset about (the Middle East). But I can't imagine it drove him to this," said his friend. Other friends of Abdulazeez said that he felt "Jordan, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... were not doing enough to help, and that they were heavily influenced by the United States" regarding the civil war in Syria. "He had always talked about it, but I'd say his level of understanding and awareness really rose after he came back" from his trip to Jordan said one of his friends. The killer was struggling also with substance abuse, both on a personal health level and on how to reconcile these habits with his Moslem faith. His friends recalled that two or three years ago, he went to rehabilitation therapy. "He used [alcohol and marijuana] to de-stress, when things were difficult at home, or whatever," his friend who received the text message told Rooters, adding that Abdulazeez was also upset by tensions with his Paleostinian parents, who nearly got divorced in 2009, according to court records. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-07-19 |
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