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FBI: We Have Not Found Jihadi Content on Ft. Lauderdale Shooter’s Social Media
2017-01-10
[BREITBART] Law enforcement officials have yet to confirm that Esteban Santiago Ruiz, the shooter allegedly responsible for killing five people and injuring another six at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last week, posted any content linked to radical Islam or jihad on his social media platforms.

Officials have not dismissed radical Islamic terrorism as a potential motive for the mass murder, however, as Santiago had previously reached out to the FBI, insisting that the CIA was forcing him to join the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) and watch propaganda videos.

"It’s way too early in the investigation. We’re looking over all of his social media, things like that. It’s giving us a picture of the individual, but it’s way too early for us to rule out anything," George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami field office, told news hounds on Saturday. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named notes that Piro’s illustrious FBI career includes interrogating late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein following his capture.
Say George old boy, did your FBI colleagues have a look at his 'social media' accounts when he presented himself to the bureau as an armed, ISIS dream troubled, nut case walk-in? Evidently his social media account has been removed or taken down. If there was nothing there, you surely won't mind if we have a look as well ?
Santiago was deployed to Iraq in 2010, reportedly working to diffuse improvised bombs. He received a Meritorious Unit Commendation award following his deployment, though he was subsequently discharged from the Alaska National Guard for "unsatisfactory performance."
Perhaps they should consult the clever people at Jihad Watch, who found the gentleman's electronic Muslim alter ego a few days ago.
Posted by:Fred

#9  The FBI added "LALALALA, I can't HEEAAR YOUUU!"
Posted by: charger   2017-01-10 19:29  

#8  Maybe the FBI needs to find out Ruiz' relationship with THIS ALASKA MOSQUE, just for fun. He went there.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-01-10 19:28  

#7  Connection with Putin to be announced in ???
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-01-10 10:10  

#6  Fox this AM said he had a previous flight ticket to NYC for New Years' Eve but changed plans to Ft. Lauderdale.
Posted by: Frank G   2017-01-10 09:18  

#5  I'm not surprised, I don't think that guy was actually Islamic just mentally ill (as distinct from the shared mental illness of Islamism).

His attack had none of the hallmarks of a jihadi attack most importantly when he ran out of ammo he lay down and surrendered. That's not a jihadi.

He also tried to tell the FBI that voices in his head were telling him to fight for Islamic State - that is a plea for help.

He didn't get enough help, although they did send him to a mental health facility they wrongly declared him sane and let him out.

This is clearly a guy with psychosis. Hearing voices telling you to kill people is not healthy
Posted by: anon1   2017-01-10 08:39  

#4   It's a lot less dramatic to defuse a bomb rather than allow it to diffuse, which to me means explode. Layers and layers of fact checkers.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2017-01-10 06:50  

#3  Esteban Santiago Ruis aka “Aashiq Hammad.” Thank you Jihad Watch, Bob Flimbers, and TW.

Fort Lauderdale Airport terrorist Esteban Santiago registered on MySpace under the name “Aashiq Hammad” and recorded Islamic religious music on the site, 3 years before he ever deployed to Iraq as a U.S. soldier, destroying the lying mainstream media’s narrative that he was just a mentally disturbed veteran and that “Islam had nothing to do with it.”
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-01-10 06:05  

#2  and IIRR they didn't actually look through Illary's server themselves.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-01-10 04:11  

#1  FBI: We Have Not Found Jihadi Content on Ft. Lauderdale Shooter’s Social Media

Aaaaand of course we are still supposed to trust the intelligence report they put together on Russian hacking and influencing of the US election, right?
Posted by: gorb   2017-01-10 01:22  

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