Randall Smith

From WCTV:

The U.S. Navy says a sailor who was shot in the attack on a military facility in Chattanooga has died, raising the death toll to five people.

The death occurred two days after a gunman killed four Marines during a shooting rampage on two military facilities.

...The Navy statement did not give the sailor's name. He was identified by family as Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith, a reservist serving on active duty in Chattanooga.

Another family is grieving today because of Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez and radical Islam's war against Americans.

My prayers are with Smith's loved ones.

From KTLA:

Looking for a motive

Authorities are trying to figure out why Abdulazeez — an accomplished student, well-liked peer, mixed martial arts fighter and devout Muslim — went on the killing spree.

U.S. Attorney Bill Killian said the shootings are being investigated as an “act of domestic terrorism,” but he noted the incident has not yet been classified as terrorism.

Reinhold said there is nothing to connect the attacker to ISIS or other international terror groups. Abdulazeez was not on any U.S. databases of suspected terrorists.

He was not known to have been in trouble with the law except for a DUI arrest in April. He apparently was not active on social media — one of the common ways police investigate terrorism.

His family

The father of Abdulazeez was investigated — and cleared, twice — as part of an FBI probe into terrorism financing, law enforcement officials said.

Officials stressed that Abdulazeez’s father was one of many people investigated for their funding of overseas charities, especially after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Most of them were never charged with a crime.

The president of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga told WDEF that Abdulazeez’s father called him after the shooting.

“He was in the dark on what his son has done, he’s very devastated,” Bassam Issa said. The father “actually apologized for what his son did to the community at large and to the Muslim community and I told him we all feel distraught, we all feel shocked.”

‘Something happened over there’

While Abdulazeez was a devout Muslim, he didn’t appear to be radical, according to some who knew him. He was born in Kuwait but became a naturalized American citizen.

Jordanian sources said Abdulazeez had been in Jordan as recently as 2014 visiting an uncle. He had also visited Kuwait and Jordan in 2010, Kuwait’s Interior Ministry said.

A longtime friend said Abdulazeez changed after spending time in the Middle East and “distanced himself” for the first few months after returning to Tennessee.

“Something happened over there,” Abdulrazzak Brizada told CNN, saying, “he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas … I’m sure he had something that happened to him overseas.”

Really?

We're looking for a motive?

Are those in charge of looking for a motive blind? Are they stupid?

Good grief.

If Abdulazeez "didn't appear to be radical," then it might be time to change the criteria for identifying a radical.



God be with the family and friends of those gunned down by terrorist Abdulazeez.

Thomas Sullivan, Skip Wells, David Wyatt, and Carson Holmquist

the 4 Marines gunned down pic.twitter.com/WX5wTT3zHA

— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) July 17, 2015

The four Marines killed by Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez have been identified.

Abdulazeez has been described as an "all-American boy."

"All-American boys" aren't radical Islamic terrorists.

Read about real all-Americans: Thomas Sullivan, Skip Wells, David Wyatt, and Carson Holmquist.

It will break your heart.

Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez

Here's the face of the enemy:


Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez

Abdulazeez is dead.

Inexcusably, before he was killed, he took the lives of four Marines.

The Marines were defenseless, unarmed.

That policy has to change.

From the New York Times:

He played whiffle ball in a suburban neighborhood of swim meets and gently sloping lawns. He was a young man who was polite, who sometimes drove too fast, who was arrested on a drunken-driving charge. He was a hardened mixed-martial arts fighter who kept a blog where he mused about submitting to Allah.

And on Thursday, the authorities say that Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, killed four Marines and wounded at least three other people. He himself died in what the United States attorney here called a potential act of “domestic terrorism.”

According to a federal official, Mr. Abdulazeez was a Kuwaiti-born Jordanian who became a naturalized United States citizen. According to The Chattanooga Times Free Press, he graduated from Red Bank High School, whose quotation on his graduation yearbook page was: “My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?”

His neighbors here in Hixson, the suburb of Chattanooga where he grew up, said that he seemed to have been an all-American boy, handsome and polite, normally in a T-shirt and jeans.

...A résumé that Mr. Abdulazeez posted on the Internet shows that he received an engineering degree from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga in 2012 and interned with the Tennessee Valley Authority, learning to manage electrical power systems.

...Mr. Abdulazeez maintained a blog where he posted about Islam, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks international terrorist groups. A July 13 post stated that “life is short and bitter” and that Muslims should not let “the opportunity to submit to Allah ... pass you by.”

Photographs posted on family Facebook pages show the once-clean-cut student recently grew a beard. A Hamilton County jail booking report posted on Chattanoogan.com shows that he was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence, a first offense.

In the last two or three months, Mr. Abdulazeez had begun showing up rather regularly at Friday Prayer at the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, a large mosque and cultural center, said Dr. Azhar S. Sheikh, a founding member of the center’s board.

Dr. Sheikh said that he showed no signs of extremism.

Well. He certainly showed signs of extremism on Thursday.

The Leftists don't know what to do with Abdulazeez. They can't blame the Tea Party. Dare they admit the religion of peace can foster radicals? This is messy.

I fear that we're becoming desensitized to these killings.

"Oh, four Marines were killed by a radicalized Islamic nut. Very sad. Let's move on. Hey, did Caitlyn Jenner say anything interesting today? So glad the war on the Confederate flag is being won."

That's an unacceptable reaction.

We have to allow Marines to be armed. Clearly, they're like sitting ducks.

We can't be afraid to identify our enemies.

I guess giving Iran nukes wasn't enough to convince Abdulazeez to like America.

Neighbors say Abdulazeez seemed like an all-American boy.

"Seemed" is the operative word.

Abdulazeez was a terrorist and he carried out an attack on our military.

An "all-American boy" does NOT target our military and kill four Marines.

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Read the full blog posts of Abdulazeez at The Right Scoop.