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Al-Qaeda Recruitment Lectures Offered in Google Play Store App

2018-04-19

[PJMedia] An app that has been dowloaded more than a thousand times on Google Play hooks up users with a selection of audio lectures and video addresses from American al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki, the New Mexico native who remains a powerful recruitment force spanning terrorist group loyalties, was killed in an airstrike in Yemen in 2011. ISIS fighters frequently quote the leading al-Qaeda member online. Lone jihadists are often found to have consumed al-Awlaki lectures, including 2016 Chelsea bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi and Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Ohio State student who rammed pedestrians on campus in 2016. In a November anti-extremism crackdown, YouTube pulled tens of thousands of videos of al-Awlaki's myriad sermons and Q&As that had been uploaded to the site. A search on the site now finds al-Awlaki videos that were posted 3 to 4 months ago, after the company's purge. The Google Play app titled "Anwar Al Awlaki Lectures" is filed under "entertainment" and rated E for everyone. Goody.

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Perpetrator Of 2016 Attack At Ohio State Acted Alone: FBI

2017-12-01

[RADIOSHABELLE] A Somali immigrant who maimed 11 people in a car and knife attack at Ohio State University a year ago was influenced by the ideology of Lion of Islam group 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.... but had no outside help in planning the violence, the FBI said on Wednesday. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 20, on Nov. 28, 2016, plowed into pedestrians with a car and then exited the vehicle to stab other victims, before a police officer at the campus shot him. Artan, who was born in Somalia and became a lawful permanent U.S. resident, was pronounced dead at the scene in Columbus, the state capital. Islamic State a day later grabbed credit for Artan’s actions. The Federal Bureau of Investigation initially said Artan appeared to have been inspired by the group, but the agency at the time said it had found no evidence others were involved in planning the attack. After a year-long investigation, the FBI said on Wednesday it had confirmed its initial assessment. "The evidence from the extensive investigation indicates the perpetrator acted alone and was not directed by a terrorist organization," the FBI statement said, adding that the agency’s investigation was complete.

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The forgotten slaughters of the innocents

2017-05-26

By Michelle Malkin For now, everyone knows the sonorous name and cherubic face of 8-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos. She’s the littlest known victim of Monday night’s jihad attack in Manchester, England. Her doe-eyed image spread as rapidly across social media as the #PrayForManchester hashtags and Twitter condolences from celebrities. But I guarantee you that beautiful Saffie Rose will evaporate from the memories of those most loudly proclaiming "Never forget" faster than a dewdrop in the desert. Look no further for proof of the West’s incurable terror attack amnesia than the reaction to the Manchester massacre. Reporters, politicians and pundits expressed shock at the brutality of Moslem murderers targeting children and young people. Labour Party leader Yvette Cooper posited on BBC Live that it was a "first." "The architects of terror have hit a new low," a Liverpool newspaper editorialized. U.K. columnist Rosie Millard described the bloody bombing as an "attack unique in its premeditated targeting of the young." What planet have these people been living on for the past 16 years? How quickly the blind, deaf and dumb virtue signalers forget. Last year, the Orlando, Florida, nightclub jihadist purposely targeted young people simply having a good time. Among the youngest victims cut down in their prime: Jason B. Josaphat, 19, and vacationing high school honors student Akyra Monet Murray, 18. Somali jihadist Abdul Razak Ali Artan plowed his car into Ohio State University students last fall before stabbing several of them. The attack was swept under the rug as the usual, terror-coddling suspects worried more about a nonexistent "backlash" against Moslems than they did about the steady infiltration of refugee jihadis and Islamic holy warriors at colleges and universities across the country. In 2004, Islamic baby-killers attacked a school in Beslan, Russia, during a three-day siege that took the lives of 186 young children. At Fort Hood in 2009, soldier Francheska Velez and her unborn child were murdered by jihadist Nidal Hasan with 13 other victims. Her last words: "My baby! My baby!" Eight children were murdered on airliners that jihadists hijacked and crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Christine Hanson, 3, was on United Airlines Flight 175 with her parents. She was on her first trip to Disneyland. Juliana McCourt, 4, was traveling with her mom -- also on her way to Disneyland. David Brandhorst, 3, was traveling with his adoptive dad and his lover companion. Sisters Zoe Falkenberg, 8, and Dana, 3, were headed to Australia with their parents on American Airlines Flight 77. Bernard Brown Jr., 11; Rodney Dickens, 11; and Asia Cottom, 11, all from Washington, D.C., were also on the Falkenbergs’ flight. They were public schoolchildren traveling with their teachers on an educational trip. An additional 10 pregnant women and their unborn babies died as the Twin Towers toppled. Eight years before, during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, one pregnant woman and her unborn child also perished. The Boston Marathon bombing of 2013 injured 263 and claimed three lives, including 8-year-old Martin Richard. Authorities recounted at trial that Martin suffered "visceral pain" in nearly every part of his body as shrapnel -- metal, wood, nails and pellets -- from the jihadists’ pressure cooker bomb ripped into him. Yes, the same type of sadistic torture bombs suspected of maiming and killing kids and teens in Manchester this week. Newsflash: There is nothing new or unique about the barbaric soldiers of Allah executing premeditated attacks on our young. History teaches us there is no appeasing the unappeasable. They will not be bought by welfare subsidies, sensitivity programs, college educations or diversity-is-our-strength platitudes. The slaughter of the innocents will continue unabated as long as the West’s useless last responders to jihad violence -- addled by short-term memories and child-like comprehension of the Islamic imperialism imperative -- prevail. The real enemy is not Moslems - they're just predators attracted to opportunity - the real enemy are "Western Elites" and their war against our very Humanity. Never believe the enemy's not Moslems. Not all of them, but a pretty significant strain. Katy Perry and similar nitwits are aiders and abettors. They deserve to be sent to the un-air conditioned Tower of Needles, assuming one can be built large enough, there to live out their miserable lives without contact with the civilized world. The Salafist murder crew need to be killed like the human cockroaches they are.

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DHS Knew OSU Attacker Was Terror Recruitment Target, Let Him Into The U.S. Anyway

2016-12-16

[Daily Caller] Department of Homeland Security officials knew Ohio State University attacker Abdul Razak Ali Artan was a possible recruitment target of Islamic terrorists but granted him asylum anyway, along with his mother and six of his siblings, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley revealed in a letter sent Wednesday to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. While seeking asylum as refugees from Mogadishu, Somalia in 2013, ...that there is a term of art. Artan, his mother and siblings moved to Pakistan in 2007, where Artan eventually graduated from an advanced program at a top Islamabad high school. At some point his father got a job in Dubai, where apparently he remains. Artan’s mother told immigration authorities that she feared persecution from al-Qaeda affiliate group al-Shabaab, In Pakistan?! and worried that Abdul and his siblings would be recruited by the terrorist organization if they remained in Somalia. Must've happened in that fancy school in Islamabad. Unless it was in Columbus, Ohio, where there are lots of Somalis, because y'all left Somalia nine years ago, when our dead miscreant was only "nine". That knowledge should have lead USCIS officials to "conduct additional questioning better understand ties to a group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in 2008." But the additional questioning, which the Committee describes as "common practice" in those situations, never happened. Artan’s father, according to the letter, had been kidnapped by the terrorist group. According to the Committee, one of Abdul’s siblings did not travel to America with the rest of the family, for reasons left unclear. Wash Times, same topic story: Chuck Grassley questions Obama’s asylum vetting of Ohio State attacker

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Donald Trump To Meet With Ohio State Victims

2016-12-09

[ABC7NY] President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is taking on a somber task Thursday that became all too familiar to his predecessor - supporting survivors after an outbreak of violence, this time families and victims from last week's attack at Ohio State University. Trump is flying to Columbus, Ohio, to meet with several people who were slashed by Ohio State student Abdul Razak Ali Artan. Artan, 18, first rammed a campus crowd with his car before hopping out with a knife and stabbing students before being fatally shot by police. It could be a politically potent moment for Trump, who made a hard-line immigration stance the center of his campaign. Following the attack, Trump tweeted that Artan, a legal Somali immigrant, should not have been in the country. And last week, in nearby Cincinnati, Trump said lax immigration policies enacted by "stupid politicians" led to the "violent atrocity" at Ohio State. "We will do everything in our power to keep the scourge of terrorism out of our country. People are pouring in from regions of the Middle East. We have no idea who they are, where they are, what they're thinking. And we're going to stop that dead cold flat," Trump told that Ohio crowd. "You just take a good look at what just happened in your state."

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John Bolton: Normal People Don't Become ‘Lone Wolf' Terrorists Overnight by ‘Spontaneous Combustion'

2016-12-02

[Breitbart] On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam asked former U.N. Ambassador and AEI Senior Fellow John Bolton if he thought investigators were likely to find a radical mosque lurking in the past of Ohio State University attacker Abdul Razak Ali Artan. "I presume that’s what the police should be doing," Bolton said. "It’s important to discuss this idea of ’lone wolf’ terrorist activities ‐ somebody’s perfectly normal one day, and then overnight, by spontaneous combustion or something, they become a terrorist." "It’s a subject of grave concern that ISIS has perfected the use of social media, through very aggressive propaganda efforts, that it can recruit people, convert them, mobilize them, and train them, and then deploy them," he continued. "This is something that we’ve never seen before. So the fact that ISIS operates without a corporate organization chart shouldn’t make us relax; it should make us much more concerned. I think it is more likely that there are networks of people who help reinforce what somebody may be reading over the Internet, and it shows why the terrorist threat remains pervasive." "But why don’t people want to talk about it? Because then you’d have to admit there’s a terrorist threat, and if you’re Barack Obama, you don’t think a terrorist threat exists. That’s just fundamentally wrong, but that’s the attitude that’s driving it," Bolton said. As during his conversation the previous day with Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Kassam asked Bolton about the enduring influence of the late jihadi cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been cited as an inspiration by nearly all "lone wolf" terrorists. "You can say it’s analogous ‐ it’s certainly not a perfect analogy, but analogous to Che Guevara, whom almost nobody had heard of until he was killed in the Bolivian jungle, trying to foment a revolution there," Bolton observed. "This is, I think, evidence of ISIS’ success in propagandizing their particular view. It’s a way of dramatizing the struggle, and it’s a way of conveying the revolutionary radical terrorist fervor that they want to convey. I think that until you can have a discussion about how ISIS, al-Qaeda, hell, other terrorist groups recruit converts, you can’t have a strategy to combat it seriously." "And the notion that somehow there’s not a fundamental radical ideology here, I think is self-defeating for the West," he warned. "I think this is something that King Abdullah of Jordan has said repeatedly. He’s talked about a civil war within Islam. And let’s remember, he’s not just the Muslim king of a Muslim country; he’s the descendants of the sharifs of the Hijaz, the keepers of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. So if he talks about this civil war ‐ it’s good enough for him ‐ then it ought to be good enough for us."

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OSU attack suspect visited Washington DC area days earlier, source says

2016-12-02

[Fox] An Ohio State University student who injured 11 people when he attacked pedestrians on campus with a car and a knife traveled to the Washington D.C. area days before Monday's assault, a law enforcement source told Fox News. The source said Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, arrived late on Nov. 24 and left the following day. The short duration of the trip suggested his visit was "purposeful," the source added. FBI agents are now seeking court approval to get records from Artan's phone and Internet service provider, which can help determine where he travelled in the D.C. area and whether he contacted anyone. Good lord, that wasn't the first thing they did once they knew who he was? Why in earth not? Artan was shot and killed by a university police officer shortly after he began his attack Monday. Because of Artan's death and the lack of evidence that he was connected to a larger group, the FBI's requests are being processed through regular channels. Investigators confirmed earlier Wednesday that Artan "may have been inspired" by the ISIS terror group, though they aren't aware of any direct contact between ISIS and the attacker. Angela Byers, the FBI special agent in charge of the Cincinnati division, said investigators have not found evidence that anyone else was involved in the attack or the planning of it. Authorities are trying to piece together a gap of several hours between the time Artan bought a knife at a Wal-Mart near his home and the attack. Police don't know if that was the same weapon he used on campus, investigators said. Special attention to the Anwar al-Awlaki graphic contained in this article.

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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.

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'IS-linked' Ohio university attacker lived in Pakistan for 7 years: NYT

2016-12-01

[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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 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. This NBC News article gives a bit more about our miscreant's history: He grew up in Somalia but left with his family in 2007, settling in Islamabad, Pakistan, according to law enforcement officials. 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. Why on earth were these people given refugee status and brought to America? They were doing very well indeed where they were.

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Ohio State Attack: Friend says Abdul Razak Ali Artan 'Loved America'

2016-12-01

[NBCNEWS] Minutes before his car-and-knife attack on the Ohio State University campus, Abdul Razak Ali Artan posted a message to his Facebook page -- a rant full of anger at the United States with vague references to ISIS and "lone wolf attacks." But friends of the Somali refugee said Tuesday that the screed and the violence that followed it did not square with the mild-mannered Somali refugee they knew. "He actually loved America," Ameer Kadar, who last saw Artan two weeks ago, told NBC News. "He loved the fact of the opportunity he had here to go to school... He loved the fact that he was able to get a college degree." Haroon Khan, who met Artan and his family when they lived in Pakistain, said he could not believe the young man plowed his car into a crowd and stabbed people with a butcher knife before being rubbed out by a police officer. "He was a very sweet and humble person," Khan said. "He can never do such an act, honestly." Investigators have not yet pinpointed a motive for Monday's ambush, which sent 11 people to the hospital, but none with life-threatening injuries. But the Facebook post is a valuable clue to Artan's state of mind as they try to determine if the ambush was rooted in terrorism or if he had a personal problem or grudge that pushed him over the edge. Two U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News there are no known contacts between Artan and ISIS or any other foreign terrorist organization, disputing an unsubstantiated claim from ISIS' media arm -- which has become routine with attacks -- that he was working in service of 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..... This Daily Mail article reports a neighbour claimed Mr. Artan lived in squalor in a two bedroom apartment with his mother and six siblings not far from the OSU campus. Squalor is a relative term for a Somali, and especially for a college student... His mother is in her fifties, apparently, so student standards won't apply. On the other hand, this Daily Mail article suggests our dead miscreant may actually have somewhat more than the 18 years the FBI keeps quoting. Also that he harmed two more than the eleven previously stated -- though not seriously -- and that he ran over to Washington, DC the previous week and bought a knife there, possibly intending to create there the kind of excitement he ended up doing with a new knife bought at a local Wal-Mart at home.

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The Folly of Importing Muslims Into America

2016-11-30

[PJ] You'd think we'd learned our lesson by now, but no. At the Observer, John Schindler writes: It’s happened again. Yesterday, on the campus of Ohio State University, an angry young man used his car as a weapon, plowing through a group of bystanders, whom he then attacked with a butcher knife. Eleven innocent people were injured, though mercifully all are expected to make a full recovery. This time, we got lucky. A campus cop was on-scene within a minute and, when the madman running amok refused to follow orders to drop his knife, the policeman opened fire, killing him before he struck lethally. Which was clearly his intent, as described by a student who witnessed the event unfold: "He seemed like a crazed animal. He seemed like he was determined. He seemed like he was there for one reason--to do as much damage as he could." Before any facts were established, the left-wing online outrage machine went into overdrive, like clockwork, with Democratic politicians and activists denouncing their usual suspects. One was Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, recently the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who tweeted, "Deeply saddened by the senseless act of gun violence at Ohio State this morning." Countless fervent Social Justice Warriors took to social media to express their deep hope that the shooter was a white racist--presumably inspired by President-elect Donald Trump and his message of "hate." Embarrassingly for the Left, the failed spree killer in Columbus turned out to have no gun at all. Worse for the liberal smart-set, he was a Somali refugee--hardly a redneck domestic terrorist. The disappointment felt online was palpable as it turned out the perpetrator was a Muslim of color, plus an immigrant to boot. He seemed to be practically a caricature drawn from Trump’s repeated warnings about the dangers posed by importing Muslims to America. Virtually every liberal cliché was on display here. The dead man, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old (some sources say 20), was a recent refugee arrival from Somalia, via Pakistan. His family moved to the United States in 2014 and Artan got an associate’s degree in 2016, then transferred to Ohio State to continue his studies. Although Columbus has a considerable Somali community, Artan clearly did not feel at home there, as he told a campus newspaper back in late August, upon his arrival, complaining about how inadequate Ohio State was for a Muslim like himself. Artan was miffed about the lack of prayer rooms: "I wanted to pray in the open, but I was scared with everything going on in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen." What did happen is exactly what any reasonable person might expect was going to happen -- another holy warrior masquerading as a "refugee" (a Somali who spent years in Pakistan, no less) -- exploded in Sudden Jihad Syndrome and began attacking innocent real Americans in the heart of the Midwest. When do we say, enough?

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OSU Diversity Officer Urges Compassion for Somali Terrorist Who Attacked Students

2016-11-30

[PJ] The Ohio State University assistant director of residence life allegedly expressed sympathy for Somali stabber Abdul Razak Ali Artan in a bizarre Facebook post Monday that has since gone viral. Stephanie Clemons Thompson urged her followers to have compassion for Artan after he expressed a desire "to kill a billion infidels" and then tried to kill as many as he could at OSU. She also urged people to "think of the pain he must have been in," and used the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHisName (which BLM uses to denote victims of police brutality). Of course you knew, without opening the link or asking.

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