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Home Front: WoT
Philly Cop Shooter had visited Egypt, Saudi-controlled Arabia
2016-01-10
The travel history, computers and finances of the man suspected of shooting a Philadelphia police officer on Thursday have been swept into an FBI investigation into the attack, though officials have downplayed the suspect’s alleged oath to terrorists.

Police said Edward Archer, 33, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, though there is no proof he has any affiliation with members of the terrorist group.

Archer travelled to Saudi Arabia for a pilgrimage to Mecca in 2011, and went to Egypt for several months in 2012, FBI spokesman Eric Ruona told the Guardian on Saturday. Ruona said that the federal agency was looking into those trips as well as Archer’s finances and electronic computer records to create “the fullest picture”.

There is no indication that Archer had any affiliation to known terrorists, according to officials. “We don’t have anything about that now but that’s something we’re looking at and trying to figure out,” Ruona said.
So he's at least a lone-wolf, and may well be a known-wolf...
Archer told investigators that police-enforced laws counter the teachings of the Qur’an, officials said on Friday.

Officials and Archer’s family have disputed claims that the attack was religiously motivated, and investigators have so far declined to ascribe a specific motive to the shooting.
Investigators have to keep an open mind, but I think I can connect the dots pretty well...
Archer’s mother, Valerie Holliday, told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Friday that her son had been hearing voices and their family had been encouraging him to seek medical help.
So schizophrenic and a true believer...
FBI terrorism taskforce agents searched Holliday’s home on Friday and left with a cardboard box and evidence bags.

Archer pleaded guilty to firearms and assault charges in March 2014. He was scheduled to be sentenced in a traffic and forgery case on Monday.

Halliday said her son had been a practicing Muslim for some time and that she did not know where he got the gun. “I’m still hoping they have the wrong child,” she told the Inquirer.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Not shooter's first run-in with the police or weapons violation:

Archer was arrested in 2012 after a domestic dispute and later pleaded guilty to assault and carrying a gun without a license, court records show. He was out on probation Thursday and was scheduled to be sentenced Monday after he was found guilty on charges of careless driving, forgery and driving with a suspended or revoked license in a 2014 case.

In the 2012 domestic dispute, Archer "pulled a small black and silver semiautomatic handgun from his waist and pointed it towards the complainant's stomach while grabbing the complainant's shirt," according to the affidavit for probable cause.

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Posted by: Besoeker   2016-01-10 04:47  

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