St. Cloud terror attack at mall, 8 injured, but
what’s taking so long to identify dead jihadi? by Ann Corcoran 9/18/16
Update: ISIS says he is one of theirs. So they
know who he is and we don’t (and it is nearly noon eastern). See ISIS taking
credit here.
Sheesh, they
know who this guy is, the one who went on a stabbing attack at a St. Cloud,
Minnesota mall and was subsequently shot to death. So what takes them so long
to announce to the public who the “man” is—a refugee or an American convert to
Islam? Did he act alone?
I’ve been
searching and searching so at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning this is about all there
is on what obviously was a terror attack (whatever else they want to call
it). By the way, we have written extensively on St. Cloud over the years
and have visited the troubled city twice, most recently on my roadtrip to see
towns and cities overloaded and troubled with large numbers of refugees.
Waiting for
news on loved ones. People stand near the entrance on the north side of
Crossroads Center mall between Macy’s and Target as officials investigate a
reported multiple stabbing incident, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, in St. Cloud,
Minn. (Dave Schwarz/St. Cloud Times via AP)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — At least eight people
were taken to a hospital with injuries after a stabbing attack at a Minnesota
shopping mall that ended with the suspected attacker, who reportedly made
references to Allah, shot dead by an off-duty police officer, authorities said.
St. Cloud
Police Chief Blair Anderson said during a news conference shortly after
midnight that eight people were taken to St. Cloud Hospital with non-life-threatening
injuries following the attack first reported about 8:15 p.m. Saturday. One
person was admitted. No further details were released.
Anderson said
an off-duty police officer from another jurisdiction shot and killed the
unidentified suspect. He did not say where that officer serves.
During the news conference, Anderson said the
attacker who was armed with a knife reportedly made references to Allah during
the attack and asked at least one person whether they were Muslim.
But Anderson
declined to call the attacks an act of terrorism, saying the motive for the
attacks isn’t known yet. “We will be diligent and get to the bottom of this,”
Anderson said.
More when the
attacker is identified.
I wonder did
ISIS send out instructions and three of their followers were activated
yesterday—in New Jersey, New York City and St. Cloud, MN.
See our St.
Cloud archive here where Lutheran Social Services has
been pouring in the Somali refugees for several years now.
Knife-wielding attacker (who injured 9) in St.
Cloud mall was a Somali by Ann Corcoran 9/1816
I guess as time goes on we will hear if
he came to the US as a refugee youngster and benefited from the generosity of
US and state taxpayers or whether he is a relatively new refugee (the vast
majority of the Somalis in the US came in through the Refugee Admissions Program).
Only a small
fraction of the nearly 200,000 Somalis in the US now came in through other
legal means (some came illegally across our southern border).
St. Cloud Mayor
Dave Kleis, a staunch defender of the burgeoning Somali community in St. Cloud,
looked a bit distraught at the press conference today. Said stuff like this
kept him up at night. Really? Or was it just last night?
It is simply
pathetic that a couple of hours ago all of the officials arrayed in a lengthy
St. Cloud press conference—the mayor (who has been a vocal advocate for the
expanding Somali enclave there), the police, even the FBI couldn’t bring
themselves to identify the dead perpetrator, but waited (did they wait on
purpose?) to give the ‘Somali community’ time to spin the story.
He was a good
boy, no violent past, a good student, a college student in St. Cloud. (Maybe
even a security guard!) So what! He was first and foremost a Jihadist. And,
Obama and his Lefty friends who chalk up ‘violent extremism’ to poverty and
lack of opportunity can just shut up! This guy had prospects for a good future
and he chose jihad for Allah instead.
Here is Michael Leahy at Breibart: The
Saint
Cloud Times is reporting Dahir Adan, a member of
the local Somali Community, was the man who attacked nine people at a local
mall Saturday while shouting about “Allah.”
A short time earlier, St. Cloud Somali-American community members
identified the deceased suspect as Dahir Adan.
Leaders of the Somali-American community in St. Cloud gathered Sunday
with his family and issued a statement of sympathy for the family and the nine
victims of the attack.
Community leader Abdul Kulane said as far as the family and community
know, the suspect did not have any history of violence. He was known as a
smart, accomplished student at Apollo High School. He was a junior at St. Cloud
State University, Kulane said. Adan was also working part-time as a private
security officer, leaders said.
At a press conference on Sunday, St. Cloud, Minnesota city
officials refused to release the identity of the man who attacked nine people
with a knife in a local mall Saturday night while shouting “Allah.” The
attacker was killed by an off-duty police officer from a nearby city who
happened to be in the mall at the time. Continue
here.
And then here Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has more where we learn
that he was originally from Fargo, ND (another major resettlement city not far from St.
Cloud) from the Jihadists facebook page. Thank the Lutherans of Minnesota and
North Dakota for changing America by changing its people. (Lutheran
Immigration and Refugee Service is the major federal contractor with
subcontractors in both those locations.)
By the way, I
have been to St. Cloud twice and on my first visit in 2015, the St.
Cloud Times thought it was a good idea to attempt
to discredit what I say.
Don’t forget, Obama
goes to the United Nations and holds his super-duper refugee summit on Tuesday
to persuade America to take in even more Muslim refugees!
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