On Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Anderson Cooper moderated a segment about the difficulties of monitoring potential domestic ISIS sympathizers by law enforcement. At the end of the segment, Dan Maynard, an attorney for Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an
The only known, living terrorist connected to the May 3, 2015, attack at the Muhammad Art contest in Texas, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, is set to be sentenced on September 15. Kareem is a former Baptist who converted to Islam. His given name is Decarus Thomas.
The Daily Beast recently reported that “days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. ‘Tear up Texas,’ the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday.”
The federal government filed a second superseding indictment against Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, a.k.a. Decarus Thomas, the Arizona “third man” connected with May’s foiled Garland, Texas, terrorist attack, alleging a direct link between Kareem and the Islamic State.
One of the terrorists involved in the attack on the Mohammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas, was allegedly allowed to purchase a 9mm handgun from a gun store that is connected to the infamous Fast and Furious gun program run by the Obama Administration in 2010. The pistol was said to have been purchased at Lone Wolf Trading Co. located in Phoenix.
Some further details have been revealed about the “third man” in the foiled jihadi plot to attack the Mohammed Art Exhibit in Garland, Texas, Decarus Thomas, aka Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem. At his court hearing, the FBI related the claims of a confidential informant that Kareem was planning to attack the Super Bowl.
On May 29, bikers in Pheonix, Arizona, are holding a “Draw Muhammad” contest outside the mosque at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, which is where the two gunmen who opened fire in Garland, Texas, allegedly attended.
Phoenix police officers have been tasked with providing extra patrols around the area of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, the mosque attended by two now-deceased radical jihadists who attempted to commit mass murder last week at a “Draw Muhammad” free speech event in Garland, Texas.
Nadir Soofi was, by all accounts, the junior partner in the Texas Terror jihad attack. His roommate Elton Simpson was a “known wolf” who was very much on law enforcement’s radar screen, which is giving rise to some awkward questions about why counter-terrorist agencies could manage little more than a last-minute heads-up to the Garland police.
FBI and intelligence community officials are openly admitting how difficult it has become to track the thousands of potential American jihadists on social media.
A Kansas City mosque that once petitioned the White House to ban criticism of Islam will host the funeral of deceased terrorist Nadir Soofi, who was one of the two jihadis who attempted an attack on a “Draw Muhammad” free-speech event in Garland, Texas on Sunday.
Multiple law enforcement sources tell The Los Angeles Times that it is unlikely that the Islamic State had a direct hand in organizing the attack on a Draw Muhammad Contest in Garland, Texas, on May 2, instead playing a more “inspirational” role on Twitter.
On Wednesday, CNN reported that the guns Garland attackers Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi used were “bought legally,” which means they were acquired through background checks.
Counter-terrorism authorities are naturally interested in whatever connections Garland shooters Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi might have had with international terrorist organizations – such as ISIS, which has claimed responsibility for the attack on Pamela Geller’s Mohammed Art Exhibit. Social-media activity by the slain terrorists is being carefully examined.
Nadir Soofi – who along with roommate Elton Simpson attempted to carry out mass slaughter in the name of Islam on Sunday in Garland, Texas – had a long history of run-ins with the law.
On May 5 CNN reported that the two gunmen who attacked Garland’s Curtis Culwell Center acquired their guns “legally.”
Nadir Soofi, who, along with accomplice Elton Simpson, attempted to commit mass murder at a “Draw Muhammad” free speech event in Garland, Texas on Sunday, showed no signs of having the potential to carry out such heinous acts, his grandmother said Monday.
A law enforcement source speaking to the Investigative Project on Terrorism claims evidence indicates the gunmen who attempted to attack a Draw Muhammad Contest in Garland, Texas on Sunday were reacting to social media posts specifically demanding a terror attack against the event.
The second shooter in the Garland, Texas terrorist attack has been identified as Nadir Soofi, 34. According to law enforcement officials quoted by the Washington Post, he was indeed Elton Simpson’s roommate, as some earlier reports indicated.
