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Tennessee Mass Killer Linked To Islamic Terrorism

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While the rest of the world was paying attention to the sad conclusion of the Greek tragedy now in its third bailout season, the US was focused on a another tragedy playing out in the nation's heartland when in the latest mass shooting on US soil, 4 marines were killed when a gunman, since identified at Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, a naturalized citizen born in Kuwait, opened fire first at a military recruiting center and then at a Naval Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee in what officials have called a "brazen, brutal act of domestic terrorism."

Incidentally, the shooting took place hours before a jury found James Holmes, who killed 12 people in a Colorado theater shooting in 2012, guilty of murder.

As reported subsequently, the suspect's mother is originally from Kuwait and his father from Palestine. It is unclear when Abdulazeez came to the United States but for many years he lived with his parents in a two-story home in Hixson, a suburb of Chattanooga. He worked as an intern at Mohawk Industries Inc, a carpet manufacturer, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides power to the area. He most recently worked with Global Trade Express, according to the posted resume.

According to Reuters, the suspect, seen driving an open-top Ford Mustang, is believed to have first gone to a joint military recruiting center in a strip mall and sprayed it with gunfire, riddling the glass facade with bullet holes.

"Everybody was at a standstill and as soon as he pulled away everyone scrambled trying to make sure everyone was OK," said Erica Wright, who works two doors down from the center.

The gunman then drove off to a Naval Reserve Center about 6 miles away, when around 10:45 am local time, he shot four Marines before being shot and killed in a firefight with police about half an hour later. Three others were wounded in the attacks, including a police officer reported in stable condition and a Marine.

At least three people were wounded in the attacks, including a Marine and a Navy sailor who is in critical condition, according to the hospital. One of those hurt was a police officer who was in stable condition.

According to Bill Killian, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the rampage was being treated "as an act of domestic terrorism," adding that no official determination of the nature of the crime had yet been made and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not ruled anything out.

"While it would be premature to speculate on the motives of the shooter at this time, we will conduct a thorough investigation of this tragedy and provide updates as they are available," the agency said in a statement.

According to a resume believed to have been posted online by Abdulazeez, he attended high school in a Chattanooga suburb and graduated from the University of Tennessee with an engineering degree.

"I remember him being very creative. He was a very light minded kind of individual. All his videos were always very unique and entertaining,” said Greg Raymond, 28, who worked with Abdulazeez on a high school television program.

 

“He was a really calm, smart and cool person who joked around. Like me he wasn’t very popular so we always kind of got along. He seemed like a really normal guy,” Raymond said.

The FBI said it was too early to speculate on the motive for the rampage although in a follow up report we learned that the 24 year old had blogged as recently as Monday that "life is short and bitter" and Muslims should not miss an opportunity to "submit to Allah," according to an organization that tracks extremist groups.

The SITE Intelligence Group said a July 13 post written by suspected gunman Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez stressed the sacrifice of the Sahaba (companions of the Prophet) “fought Jihad for the sake of Allah." Reuters could not independently verify the blog postings. Tangentially, Site Intelligence which has been most famous recently for being the first to track down and release most of ISIS' barbaric if Hollywood-style produced YouTube clips, was founded by Rita Katz who prior to her intelligence career served in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Further ties linking the shooting to terrorist Islamist elements emerged when the NYT reported that the father of a suspected gunman who killed four Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Thursday was investigated several years ago for "possible ties to a foreign terrorist organization."

Citing unnamed law enforcement officials, the paper said the gunman's father was at one point on a terrorist watch list and was questioned while on a trip overseas.

The paper quoted an official as cautioning that the investigation was several years old and had not generated any information on the son. The father was eventually removed from the watch list, the paper quoted the official as saying.

According to another, unconfirmed report, an Islamic State affiliated Twitter account tweeted about the Chattanooga military reserve center shootings by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez just as they began.

The account has since been suspended. The time stamp reads 10:34 a.m. in our screenshot of the tweet, which we took in New York, which is in the same time zone as Chattanooga. The shootings were reported between 10 and 11 a.m.

In a statement following the shootings  Obama condemned the "heartbreaking" shooting deaths of four Marines Thursday in Tennessee, and said a full investigation is under way.

"We don't know yet all the details," Obama said. "We know that what appears to be a lone gunman carried out these attacks." The president said he wanted to extend "the deepest sympathies of the American people" to the four Marines and their families, and asked all Americans to pray for them.

And while Obama did not rush to judgment, and had no comment about what the potential next steps could be, it was roughly around this time that America's practically assured next president, Hillary Clinton, made it quite clear what the endgame of all these tragic events will likely be in the very near future:

  • CLINTON: U.S. NEEDS ANTI-PROPAGANDA POLICY TO COMBAT ISIS

What better way to fight propaganda than with even greater propaganda even if it means the deaths of countless innocent people caught in the cross fire.

 

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Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:58 | 6322793 headhunt
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Fucking idiot  Jihadis=muslim morons

Fixed it

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:04 | 6322713 orangegeek
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Yes, so the Russians and Chinese can run the world.

 

Good idea asshole.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:56 | 6322791 headhunt
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fuck you

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 14:08 | 6324440 Max Steel
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go crawl back in your basement hasbara troll . Better excavate palestininan mosques to justify your fake culture

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 01:26 | 6331476 onmail
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I have used NSA-phile words : Hijack , Bomb , Nuclear

So, so  much attention , thanks NSA folks

btw , personally I am pro-Non-violence , a Gandhi fan

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 01:20 | 6322455 TheRicker
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"Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?" Wait I have heard this before and now and it is getting old. How many must die before these cowardly narcissists and their Progressive Alinsky agenda are brought to a halt?

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 01:20 | 6322456 TheRicker
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"Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?" Wait I have heard this before and now and it is getting old. How many must die before these cowardly narcissists and their Progressive Alinsky agenda are brought to a halt?

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 01:49 | 6322505 Oswald did it
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U.S. Army analysts believe Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, is "ruthless and cunning," "a wildcard" that "has [the] capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."

--Printed in the Washingotn times September 10,2001

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 03:38 | 6322601 q99x2
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I don't believe much of anything these days since I started seeing things that aren't there. I used to get along with so many other people but came to find out they were never there--anywhere.The more tired I become the more of them tthere are. I think I'll go to sleep before it gets too crowded in here. Later Ya all.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 03:47 | 6322615 laomei
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gunning down soldiers is not terrorism, sorry MSM.  it's elimination of legitimate targets in a war which the us started

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 05:01 | 6322669 DutchBoy2015
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Bingo

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 05:01 | 6322670 DutchBoy2015
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Bingo

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:54 | 6322787 headhunt
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fuck you and your butt buddy dutch

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:38 | 6323064 DutchBoy2015
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Headhunt  =shit for brains Americunt trailer park trash.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 14:20 | 6324491 Max Steel
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what a retort hahahha stupid

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 07:03 | 6322802 Wahooo
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Exactly. I won't become concerned as long as they target the MIC.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 05:01 | 6322668 DutchBoy2015
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Perhaps this will keep kids from going near recruiting stations.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:11 | 6322720 henry chucho
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WTF?.They just don't hate Amerikans outside of America anymore,Amerikans hate other Americans inside of America now,too..

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:26 | 6322741 DutchBoy2015
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Decent intelligent Americans (there are very few), know that its the ZioNazi Jews and Christians that are behind using false flags to demonize all Muslims.

 


Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:09 | 6322954 dsty
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gay muslim terrorist denier

Doootch Boy

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:37 | 6323062 DutchBoy2015
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Dsty= shit for brains Americunt MORON.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:58 | 6323153 joego1
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Mohammad demonized all Muslims with his sadistic cult.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:19 | 6323254 DutchBoy2015
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You should get your one goddam brain cell checked out, RETARD!!

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:12 | 6322721 DutchBoy2015
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''USA/Israel are the largest purveyours of STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM, in history''. - Noam Chomsky

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:52 | 6322780 headhunt
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Noam Chomsky the communist - just like muslim DutchBoy2015

 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 07:22 | 6322837 DutchBoy2015
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Hey fuckhead.  I am atheist and my family tree goes back to late 1400's HERE.

Meanwhile you are a fucking half breed or 57 varieties Americunt mongrel.

and I am also a capitalist.

Nice try, dipshit but YOU FAIL.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 07:38 | 6322888 Benjamin123
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The dutch are pumped full of spanish blood. The spanish pumped of moorish blood. The moors pumped of negro blood.

Theres a negro drop of blood swimming inside you. Might be a blood clot.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:36 | 6323057 DutchBoy2015
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You are another fucking idiot..  My bloodline goes back to before the Spanish were here.  Pure Teutonic/Viking.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:40 | 6323073 Oldwood
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There it is! Pure Teutonic!

Nah, there no Nazi in him at all!

 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:49 | 6323107 DutchBoy2015
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Keep showing how goddam STUPID you are, Asswipe.  LOL

Nazis came about in the 30's . Teutonic people have been around for centuries.

 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 07:25 | 6322845 DutchBoy2015
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Headhunter the 100 percent Americunt retard speaks again.  His brain is MUSH and he knows NOTHING but keeps trying.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 06:20 | 6322732 johnlocke445
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Why does Zero Hedge automatically assume that this is a real killing? Our government has been caught red handed executing false flage operations too many times. The default position on any of these killings should be classified as a "false flag" until further evidence arises showing the killing was real. Terrible article.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 07:40 | 6322891 Raul44
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So he did not attacked civilians but military. For all they did to the ME its not a surprise. What worries me much more is that Clinton`s statement.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 07:43 | 6322899 Turdy Brown
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Good day mates

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:06 | 6322946 d edwards
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US needs anti bs policy to combat Clinton propaganda.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:03 | 6322941 Time for Titus
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I live in Chattanooga. 

Some of my closest friends own a restaurant downtown that the alleged gunman frequented, along with his sister and mother. 

They said he was a great guy, funny, smart, soft-spoken. Last person you would suspect. My friend was on the wrestling team with him in high school. 

I am going with innocent until proven guilty. 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:10 | 6322959 d edwards
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a good actor-the perfect mole.

btw, does it trouble anyone that he worked at TVA that supplies electricity to the region?

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:13 | 6322974 dsty
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guilty by brainwashing of ISLAM

did ya'll figure out it is a terrorist religion yet?

no, it is a Jewish US ploy you say.

ya, going back about 1200 years before the US existed

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:35 | 6323054 DutchBoy2015
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Christers are bigger terrorists  They kill by the millions in Vietnam, Iraq etc.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:09 | 6322956 Time for Titus
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I see two mainstream media themes emerging that could possibly be the rationale for this shooting, if indeed it is a false flag:

- Connecting him to ISIS to once again empower U.S. military involvement in Middle East

- I am hearing from various places a call to allow U.S. Military to carry arms. (I am not sure about this one, but doesn't the Constitution take a strong stand against standing armies? Wouldn't armed soldiers on our own soil be a step in that direction? Carrying weapons when they are citizens is another matter.)

 

These items are suspicious:

- The suspect is immediately proclaimed a "lone gunman." How about giving it more time?

- The suspect is conveniently dead.

- The only dead victims are marines. This allows the matter to elude our local D.A., coroner, etc., and just have it all "handled" in D.C. Will we get to interview their family? Will anyone identify the bodies? 

 

This may be an isolated incident commited by a radical Muslim who appeared gentle. But so many other "incidents" have proven over time, documented with facts, to be something else. 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:33 | 6323046 DutchBoy2015
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Plenty of evidence that USA/Israel/Saudi are funding and training ISIS.   Its all about chaos . Create chaos so the ZioNazi KIKES of Israel can take over the region.

Israel didn't mind killing 3000 on 911 to furthur their agenda.  You goyim are all expendable.

Jews were warned off from coming to work in the Towers on 911.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:55 | 6323143 joego1
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Blame it on the Jews Mohammad did.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:17 | 6323241 DutchBoy2015
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Which Mohammed?  There are millions of them.  

Jews are fucking exploiters and scammers, thieves, and liars. 

That is why they have been hated by EVERYONE throughout history.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:34 | 6323325 joego1
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Plenty of hate to go around isn't there dutch BOY.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:49 | 6324127 DutchBoy2015
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Go fuck yourself you goddam AmeriCUNT nazi son of a bitch.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:17 | 6323242 DutchBoy2015
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Which Mohammed?  There are millions of them.  

Jews are fucking exploiters and scammers, thieves, and liars. 

That is why they have been hated by EVERYONE throughout history.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:25 | 6323018 HandyCrapper
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Just deport all these assholes back to the middle east.  

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:31 | 6323039 DutchBoy2015
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Anyone with a beard is an Islamic terrorists.  Shoot them on site.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:45 | 6323088 Oldwood
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Hitler's aryans had great love of the Persians. Part of that pure Teutonic bloodline? Its just a down right shame those Jews were ever allowed to mix blood with them.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:24 | 6323277 cookeee57
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Oh no, then too many of our baseball players would be shot!

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 08:49 | 6323101 SMC
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If an open-source (information posted by individuals to their Facebook, twitter, web blogs etc… accounts), monitoring system was able to provide a reliable, high probability warning hours or days before an event such as this, would it be worth it?  (I think yes)

The EPIC FAIL here is that with all the alleged (open and closed source) information collection - no actionable warning was allegedly generated. 

Personally, I believe that collection and processing of ALL open-source information is prudent with closed-source collection requiring probable cause with initial and periodic judicial review.

I realize that is not a palatable opinion about government surveillance considering the potential for misuse.  However, forewarned is forearmed even if not politically convenient.

Perhaps our country should separate justice from “Just Us”.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:01 | 6323179 joego1
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"We don't know yet all the details," Obama said. "We know that what appears to be a lone gunman carried out these attacks."

And you folks don't go blaming Muslims for all this.....

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:15 | 6323234 DutchBoy2015
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Only shit for brains Americunts believe anyone from the Middle east is a Muslim.

Dumbest cocksuckers on the planet.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:32 | 6323318 joego1
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Come over here and say that to my face and your dentist will make his next car payment. How are your tullips growing?

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:48 | 6324118 DutchBoy2015
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Fuck you asswipe.  you are nothing more than a punkass coward

You come here asswipe and I will make sure you will be munching on your own testicles when I finish with you.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:55 | 6324156 DutchBoy2015
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MY Dentists pays cash for his car like most of us.  Driving a MB  E-class

You are ONE STUPID IGNORANT motherfucker

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/21...

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:59 | 6324175 DutchBoy2015
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Here are my coordinates you maricon son of a puta.  Bring it

Coordinates: 52°2?21?N 5°29?49?E

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:23 | 6323271 cookeee57
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Time for us to get the heck out of the middle east and creating more "terrorists" who are probably thinking that they are patriots. Let the middle east take care of their own problems. We are just inviting them to come here. 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:31 | 6323313 Jack Daniels Esq
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This bitch looks like bath-house Barry when he was a Paki

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:47 | 6323387 dogismycopilot
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If you read any history of Islam and its expansion – even the Koran itself – you will very quickly realize that Islam spreads through violence and forcing the ‘kafir’ or nonbeliever to submit. Islam is violence and in the mind of every Muslim there is a killer. Yes, even your peaceful loving Muslim neighbor who always says 'these things are terrible,..it's just politics' yes, even that Muslim will kill you dead if they receive the right message.

The seed of Jihad lays like the seeds in your grandmothers shed, just waiting for someone to drop them in the dirt and to give them water. Some seeds just need a different season than others.

What are these seeds? Submission to God. Submission to the fact that Islam is the one true religion and its God is the one True God and Mohamed is his prophet. Submission to the Sharia law as dictated by the Koran. And if you do not take these seeds and plant them then you are an apostate and deserve death or an infidel and deserve death.

 

The counter message to Islam is very simple: all people and especially 'moderate' Muslims need to examine the roots of the religion which continue to produce these seeds of hate and death. Only by admitting that the religion has problems, addressing these root issues and accepting that Islam needs a reformation or 'upgrade' will ISIS be stopped.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 11:46 | 6323899 Prince Eugene o...
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So-called “tolerant” Muslims use exactly the same supremacist Qur'an as Islamic State and the Muslim Brotherhood. EXACTLY!

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 13:43 | 6324353 DutchBoy2015
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A former ISIL member in Syria says the terror group has “nothing to do” with the holy religion of Islam.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 14:34 | 6324530 The Delicate Genius
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this is batshit crazy Zionist propaganda.

you'd think you'd have learned to be more subtle and persuasive.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 09:57 | 6323437 Eahudimac
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Just another CIA flase flag. Got to keep the boogeyman alive so the USA can train, oops, I mean fight, terrorists.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 10:13 | 6323508 Jameson18
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So shooting Marines in Tenn. is domestic terrorism as long as your a faux muslim BUT killing children in Sandyhook or Aurora Co or shooting a congresswomen in Arizona is okay if your jewish.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 10:55 | 6323671 dogismycopilot
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No such thing as a "faux Muslim". Once you are a Muslim you are always a Muslim. Even as a convert, once you join their death cult there is no way out.

If you switch religions the Koran is very clean on that - you are an apostotate and should be killed (which they still do in Saudi, Iran and a few other garden spots).

You want to blame sandyhook and aurora on someone, look to big pharma or the fathers (who worked for GE and DARPA). 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:24 | 6324029 Jameson18
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I blame most of these attacks on jewish domestic terrorist. Because they were jewish. The Talmud is worst then the Koran.

 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:45 | 6324105 DutchBoy2015
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You are so full of shit.   I know Iranians who are atheists. but still support Iran.

Numbnut shit for brains assholes like you are a dime a dozen in the Useless Snakes/.

Brainwashed fucktards!!!

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:46 | 6324108 DutchBoy2015
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Hey Numbnuts.  When I was in Iran on business in 2004 I met Iranian Jews who despise the ZioNazis.

Iranian Jews were offered big money to move to Israel and declined.

Get back in your 8x40 you goddam retard.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 13:42 | 6324344 DutchBoy2015
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A former ISIL member in Syria says the terror group has “nothing to do” with the holy religion of Islam.

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 13:41 | 6324341 DutchBoy2015
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A former ISIL member in Syria says the terror group has “nothing to do” with the holy religion of Islam.

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