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ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 11:36 AM Dec 2015

Jim Sciutto on CNN just reported that Malek (Malik?), the female terrorist, posted on Facebook

her allegiance to Al Baghdadi, the ISIS commander, this according to investigators.

So, it was ISIS, apparently and they can now start calling it "terrorism".

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marmar

(77,080 posts)
1. It would be terrorism whether she pledged allegiance to ISIS or Bozo the Clown....
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 11:38 AM
Dec 2015

..... or didn't pledge allegiance to anyone at all.


 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
3. True, now it is the right kind of terrorism that fits the M$Ms narrative.
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 11:40 AM
Dec 2015

So they can talk about it now, 24/7.

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
6. Honestly, it's a lot scarier than the random crazy people with guns
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 11:48 AM
Dec 2015

kind of terrorism. The arsenal, the bomb factory, the ability to hide in plain site- the connections with Middle East terrorists. The harsh reality is that they are on a mission to kill as many of us as they can. It's a different deal. It's more than gun safety issues.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
8. I agree in that this could have been so much worse. I read they had bombs on cars that could
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 11:52 AM
Dec 2015

be controlled remotely. Which raises the question, just how many people are involved and where are the rest at? Surely it was not just these two.

 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
7. Possibly. But there was also a plan and his wife was waiting outside the Christmas party while...
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 11:49 AM
Dec 2015

...he went inside. Once inside, a confrontation of some sort led to him leaving, going outside to don his tactical gear and his wife. They both then went inside and started blasting the room.

Whether or not the Christmas party was the intended target or became a target as the plot unfolded, or there was more to the plan we don't know yet.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
5. that does not prove they were involved
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 11:44 AM
Dec 2015

lone terrorists. If they aren't part of the organization and got no funding from it. I'm just dreading the now likely sentiment to want to go back to war again.

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