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'IS-linked' Ohio university attacker lived in Pakistan for 7 years: NYT
 [DAWN] The family of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali student and child of a refugee, who maimed 11 people in a car-ramming and knife attack on an Ohio university campus, lived in Pakistain for seven years before moving to the US with his family in 2014, New York Times...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. I suppose I'm repeating myself, but if something Evil happens in the world Pakistain is involved somewhere. So he's really a Somali-Pakistaini-American... Federal law enforcement officials said that Artan was admitted to the US in 2014 as the child of a refugee ─ his mother ─ and before that he lived for seven years in Pakistain. He was studying at Ohio State University as a third-year transfer student of logistics management. Artan's shocking attack lasted just a few minutes ─ from a car careening into the crowd until the suspect was rubbed out. Artan was a "soldier" of the turban Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, a turban-linked news agency alleged Tuesday. "The executor of the attack in the American state of Ohio is a soldier of the Islamic State," the Amaq agency quoted an insider source as saying, according to a translation by the SITE monitoring group. "He carried out the operation in response to calls to target citizens of international coalition countries," Amaq claimed. A post made by Artan and quoted by ABC television said, "I can't take it any more. America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially the Moslem Ummah. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that." "If you want us Moslems to stop carrying (out) lone wolf attacks, then make peace," the post reads. "We will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Moslems." Ohio is home to the second largest Somali community in the United States, numbering around 38,000 in in the Columbus area alone, according to the state's Somali community association. The country's largest Somali community, in Minnesota, was rocked when one of its members stabbed 10 people at a mall in September. IS later claimed the attacker was a turban "soldier," the same claim as for Artan.
According to Khan, Artan completed an advanced program at a top high school. He prayed five times a day and played cricket. "He was a very, very nice person," Khan said. After seven years in Pakistan, Artan and his mother and his siblings came to the U.S. as refugees. His father lives and works in Dubai, Khan said.
Posted by: Fred 2016-12-01 |
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