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| FBI: 'Too soon' to know if Ohio State attack was terrorism |
| 2016-12-01 |
| [The Hill] It is "too soon" to determine if the attack at Ohio State University Monday was terrorism, the FBI said Wednesday. At a press conference, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Cincinnati Division said that 18-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan "may have been inspired by ISIS" when he injured 11 people using his car and a butcher knife. "It's too soon to draw any type of conclusions whether or not this is terrorism," Special Agent Angel Byers said. Byers said it appears that Artan was inspired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and the late al Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. While ISIS's Amaq news agency claimed Artan was a "soldier" of the terrorist group, Byer said it is too early to confirm that. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Blossom Unains5562 I will wait. Do due diligence. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-12-01 22:38 |
| #12 Ref #11: I seem to recall the Commander of Fort Hood saying shortly after MAJ Nidal Hasan's deadly attack that... paraphrasing here, 'there is no terrorist connection assoicated with this deadly attack.' I believe he was not alone in his declaration. We seem to be moving from 'definately not terrorist related' to.... undecided and needing more evaluation. Or am I missing something. In the hopper for tomorrow is an article about OSU attacker Abdul Razak Ali Artan recent trip to D.C. Do not miss the graphic contained in the article depicting US Citizen Anwar Al Awlaki connections to terrorist attacks. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-12-01 18:57 |
| #11 In defense of the FBI, I am peripherally associated with a govt. agency that performs post-mortems. Even though common sense (not all that common, I've found) points without debate to the cause of the "issue," it must still be analyzed, sliced/diced and sent through numerous layers of bureaucracy before a report is issued. No stone unturned and all that. Justifiable derision aside, it's just how the system works (sadly). |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-01 18:44 |
| #10 Need another 7 weeks or so? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-12-01 15:24 |
| #9 Hey! Chill! It could be workplace violence! [/sarc] |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-12-01 13:20 |
| #8 Between Comey's actions with the HBeast and this announcement is there a wonder why the FBI has lost credibility and is bleeding personnel? |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2016-12-01 12:32 |
| #7 So no enlistment papers, pay stubs, uniform with shoulder patch and decoder ring? Nah, no terrorism here. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-12-01 10:39 |
| #6 The FBI just wants to be clear since the OSU scumbag sent his monthly dues to ISIS, but the credit card number didn't work. |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2016-12-01 10:08 |
| #5 #3 Bureaucratic rectal cranial inversion. Needs a strong enema. Spend thousands of dollars on investigating what common sense tells us for free. Posted by Alaska Paul Perfect comment - could not agree more. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2016-12-01 10:05 |
| #4 Like saying it was "too soon" to know if 9/11 was Terrorism after the second plane hit. |
| Posted by: Charles 2016-12-01 09:43 |
| #3 Bureaucratic rectal cranial inversion. Needs a strong enema. Spend thousands of dollars on investigating what common sense tells us for free. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-12-01 09:07 |
| #2 FBI needs a clearing of PC Bureaucrats |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-12-01 08:57 |
| #1 'Link to Anwar al-Awlaki' BINGO! Anything connected to this fellow or Nidal Hasan... hands off! Installation of alternate narrative required as quickly as possible. Anything from Director Comey? No, I thought not. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-12-01 07:56 |