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Home Front: WoT
Faisal Mohammad’s plans detailed in manifesto
2015-11-07
The self-important, seriously disturbed ones always have a manifesto...
A handwritten manifesto carried by a California college student whose stabbing spree Wednesday left four wounded bore names of his targets, a vow “to cut someone’s head off” and as many as five reminders to “praise Allah,” law enforcement authorities told FoxNews.com, while insisting that neither terrorism nor religion appear to be motives in the attack.

In the two-page document found in Faisal Mohammad’s pocket by the county coroner, the 18-year-old freshman wrote a numeric list outlining his plans of who he wanted to kill, and how, including beheading and shooting his victims, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told FoxNews.com

“No. 27 was to ‘make sure people are tied down,’ No. 28 was “sit down and praise Allah,'” Warnke said. “I remember seeing four or five times, scribbled on the side of the two-page manifesto, where he wrote something like ‘praise Allah.’”

The manifesto has not been released, but Warnke expects it to be within the next few days.
And it should be. Let everyone see what this evil fellow was about...
Mohammad’s intended bloodbath began around 8 a.m.,when he burst into his classroom with an 8-inch hunting knife. Police said it would have continued - and possibly claimed lives - if he hadn’t been interrupted by a construction team, and then shot dead by police.

His plan went haywire because people fought back,” Warnke said. “He got so befuddled at the activities that happened; it took the script away from him.”
“There was a gruesome statement he made about wanting to cut someone’s head off and kill two people with one bullet, and he planned to shoot the police,” Warnke said. “He did not have a firearm with him and didn’t seem to have a lot of experience with firearms because he thought he could kill two people with one bullet. He reminded himself in the list to raise the gun slowly. He scripted everything out in chronological order.”

But all law enforcement involved in the investigation, including Warnke, continued to maintain that there is no evidence Mohammed is tied to a terrorist group or was inspired by terrorists.
A lone wolf can still be a terrorist, and he can be inspired by the same things that inspire the terrorists...
“There was nothing to indicate he was doing this because of Allah, or because he was going to be rewarded with 72 virgins, or because of ties to a terror group,” Warnke said. “He appeared to be a devout Muslim, on the demented strong side of the belief.”

The FBI is thoroughly investigating this angle, Warnke said.

“There was nothing on his computer or in his dorm room or in the manifesto to suggest any ties to terrorism or terrorists groups,” Warnke said.

“He was banking on the fear factor. …His plan went haywire because people fought back,” Warnke said. “He got so befuddled at the activities that happened; it took the script away from him.”

Mohammed claimed in his manifesto he was angry over being kicked out of a study group.

“I think the first kid he targeted had something to do with the study group he was in but that is an issue I don’t want to speculate on because the campus police are looking into it,” Warnke said.

Byron Price, who was slashed in the abdomen and was hospitalized, is back at work today. His father, John Price, told FoxNews.com he is proud of his son and hopes more people will be inspired to intervene should they be confronted with situations like this.

While the victims’ names won’t be disclosed, law enforcement is investigating whether he had ties to the two students and aide he attacked.
Posted by:Steve White

#12  SteveS, not really into much sci fi. As for Feynmann, been there done that, liked them all....QED still turns my brain to mush after the 4th reading, loved it anyway.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-11-07 20:16  

#11  Starting to feel the urge to jihad a mosque.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-11-07 18:59  

#10  Waiting for the pop sound as the FBI pulls it head out of its ass....
Posted by: regular joe   2015-11-07 17:59  

#9  Nick Harkaway. "Gone-away World" if you are in to sci-fi. "Tigerman" for something more contemporary.

If you want physics, anything by or about Richard Feynman.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-11-07 16:11  

#8  May I recommend ERB or Doc Smith?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-11-07 15:43  

#7  Ship, I've read Faulkner and Nabokov, but didn't care for either, as well as many others. Mostly for fiction I read mysteries of the Sayers, Stout, Elkins types or Patrick O'brien. In the mists of a misspent youth I also read Asimov. For non-fiction it's more likely to be physics type books, Planck's lectures at the moment.

Dune is interesting in that it combines so many types of tyranny together. Of course all the Mo stuff is obvious but there is much that contradicts it too, plus there are no really good guys.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-11-07 15:25  

#6  I've read the Dune series several times. What really struck me was the similarities between Paul and Mohammad and the Fremen and the Jihadists.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2015-11-07 15:09  

#5  Alan, look, I am here to help, start reading Faulkner and or Nabakov, let the doon crap go.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-11-07 14:09  

#4  Why are the police/DoJ doing this? Because that's what bureaucrats do.

I'm currently rereading the entire Dune series by Frank Herbert. Read most of them for the first time when they were published back in the '70s but I had never read the last of his, Chapterhouse (as opposed to his son's).

Reading them straight through it is amazing how much of the Progressive Mindset is revealed. Lots of cliched philosophy, some banal commentary of a psychological nature etc. but there is also more than a smattering of real insight into the corruption of bureaucracy, the evil of the mundane and the lure of power. Power doesn't corrupt so much as it lures the corruptible.

Vile, violent, never happy people congregate at all levels seeking to cast the world in the concrete of their own rotten cores.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-11-07 08:39  

#3  Why is the police doing this?

Cowed by the DOJ.
Posted by: Raj   2015-11-07 01:46  

#2  If this were labelled terrorism, most people would understand that this guy was of a type already known, like the Tsernaevs.
To say he was merely a typical devout Moslem, seems to support the case that such people are dangerous.
Why is the police doing this?
Posted by: Grins Snese4215   2015-11-07 01:40  

#1  “There was nothing on his computer or in his dorm room or in the manifesto to suggest any ties to terrorism or terrorists groups,”

No pay stubs? No W-2s? OK, then. No connection. Just that Allah stuff.

And here I was just thinking that Pakistain was the most delusional country on Earth.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-11-07 00:19  

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