Muhammad Youseef Abdulazeez, the gunman in last week’s murder of five American service members, was 24-years-old, which means that he was an infant when his parents, reputed to be Palestinians working in Kuwait at the time that Saddam Hussein invaded that country, left Kuwait to live in the United States while the service members of the United States liberated his country from the thugs that Hussein sent to Kuwait. Yeah, thugs.
The place where we ended up at the end of the Gulf War, along the so-called Highway of Death, was a small appropriated Kuwaiti Military depot. The Iraqis had filled the base with their loot – we found scores of Mercedes Benz cars, china settings, clothing, kitchen utensils, jewelry and home furnishings that the Iraqis had looted from the Kuwaitis during the few months that they had occupied the country. I guess under the Air Force and Navy airstrikes it didn’t seem so important to bring that stuff back to Iraq and they abandoned it all there.
So, the thanks we get for stopping that international crime spree is 5 dead brothers. Yeah, I’ve read the reports that Abdulazeez was a drug addict with deep psychological problems. Friends also tell reporters that he had a lot of problems with the way that the Syrian government was treating it’s people;
Abdulazeez…also spoke out against the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza and the civil war in Syria to his friends after a trip to Jordan in 2014.
“That trip was eye-opening for him. He learned a lot about the traditions and culture of the Middle East,” one friend told Reuters. “He felt Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia were not doing enough to help, and that they were heavily influenced by the United States.”
Another friend said: “He had always talked about it, but I’d say his level of understanding and awareness really rose after he came back.”
I hear that ISIS feels the same way about Assad.
The Washington Post writes about the difficulty of trying to intercept messages between ISIS and it’s fans here in the US;
One possibility is that Abdulazeez was just a troubled young man who responded to the torrent of hate-filled Internet messages from groups such as the Islamic State that are designed to inspire a single, troubled, lone gunman.
Such attacks are incredibly difficult to detect and stop, officials said. The growing signs that Abdulazeez had self-radicalized and acted alone were of little solace to many in Chattanooga who were convinced the government was not doing enough to protect them.
Like I wrote the other day, the LaBelle Disco Bombing in Berlin happened on April 5, 1986, the retaliatory airstrike on Qaddafi in Libya happened on April 15, 1986. We pretty much heard nothing from Qaddafi after that. It took the FBI ten days to pin the bombing on Qaddafi and the Reagan Administration to coordinate an airstrike (including passing through the airspace of other countries) for Qaddafi to get his answer. The bombing happened in another country, this murder of Americans happened here, so the FBI doesn’t have to waste time coordinating with a foreign government. We already have aircraft in the vicinity of ISIS, again, no coordination required. So it should be easy to bring pain to ISIS, that wouldn’t stop the attacks here, but it would make ISIS think again about encouraging people here to participate in them.
Since the Feds have admitted that these attacks are difficult to detect and interdict, then we need to take measures to protect potential targets. Making the Marines wear civilian clothes on their way to work, isn’t really a measure – that one took some O-8 about two minutes to think up. No one in Chattanooga was on their way to work in uniform when they were murdered the other day – they were at work where they wear their uniforms all day in a gun-free zone.
So the slime made one trip back to the old familial homeland, and came back hating the country he was raised in?
Yeah, I call bullshit.
Word!!
Nothing to see here, there is no Islamic Extremist problem here… and I am a racist for speaking of the evil being spread in the name of Allah by very organized and determined Islamic Extremist, there I said it again.
You what amazes me about how STUPID muslims are….they actually think the God of Creation is going to reward them for killing his innocent children!! I guess since they kill their own children they think its acceptable to Almighty God!
There is only one thing that occurs in a mosque: Sedition.
The braindead stupidity of ‘difficult to intercept messages between ISIS and its fans here’ just slays me. They can’t hire some of those Chinese hackers. Is that it?
PN made a good point yesterday, that the storefront position of the recruiting office makes it an easy target. The recruiting office that I went to twice in my home town in the 1960s was down a hallway which connected to the other uniformed service recruiters, not right out in front.
That’s the simplest way to protect these people, along with bullet-proof glass. That, and take down those ‘gun-free zone’ signs, for Pete’s sake!
All of the deaths and injuries were at the Navy Reserve Center, not the recruiting office. A frequent error by media and pundits.
However, the Reserve Center had 2 UNMANNED gates with the only security being the cement barriers that forced vehicles to slow down. Fat lot of good that did our Marines. I’ve yet to see that discussed anywhere, the talk is all about the gun-free zone sign and recruiting office where no one was killed or injured, luckily.
Under the current alert level, no military facility should be without security, period.
All of the deaths occurred at one place but how did all of those holes get in the recruiting station doors? In other words, for whatever reason–luck or shooter planning or shooter’s sudden change in plans–no one was killed at the recruiting office. Actually, on the day it happened, I wondered why the terrorist bastard drove from one site to the other. More targets? Diversion, knowing that the police would swarm the recruiting office, leaving him free to kill others elsewhere? I don’t know and the terrorist bastard isn’t saying.
We heard a pretty loud bang when Pan Am 103 blew up over Scotland in 1988.
Which to me illustrates the point that playing “tit for tat” against people who have no regard for human life is a fool’s errand.
My old Armory had 2 doors unlocked at all times. When someone walked in, I had to get up from my desk, walk into the hallway, and greet whoever came in by the front door.
Take a look at the average National Guard Armory, they are as secure as a wet paper bag in front of a sandblaster.
Newer ones have bollards out front, and the doors are locked and require buzzing in. The doors are double, and there’s no office in line of fire from the entrance.
Indeed, nothing says fuck you like napalm dropped on magnesium bombs….at some point we might actually consider that the best way to illustrate the great satan is to bring them the hell fire they so fervently seek…tens of thousands of ash outlines where people used to be in every ISIS control area can quickly end much of this stupidity…
They already fucking hate us, they are never going to find a way to love us so let them hate us but make them fear us at the same time or kill them all.
Genocide isn’t a dirty word when it’s a choice between the survival of two different sub species of the same animal it’s called evolution and the survivor’s bloodline continues while the loser’s bloodline no longer dirties the earth.
Genocide is not necessary, nor would I advocate same. Many living under ISIS rule are not doing so of their own free will.
A Dresden-esque reprisal action targeting the ISIS/ISIL/whatever the hell they’re calling themselves today capital city would likely be more than enough. If not, it could be repeated as required.
Lots of Japs and Nazis weren’t whole hearted supporters of their overlords either…nor were those poor french and eastern europeans forced to work for their fascist masters…we still killed them…
Dresden, the Tokyo firestorm those weren’t genocide to be honest, but they didn’t leave a lot of survivors either…my point is that level of death works fine for me…better them than any of us. That’s how they want to play it and that’s how we ought to return it.
You guys are so harsh. You mustn’t believe they hate the US/the West inevitably and forever. Hope and Change. You have to Hope that they will Change with the right incentives. It works. Chamberlain Hoped for Change in the 30s. Obama Hoped for Change with Iran in 2015. They got agreements. You have to Hope for Change with ISIS/whomever. See how that works?
I “hope” they are “changed” from “live terrorist” to “assumed room temperature”
Yep. Strategic bombing ended the war a lot quicker than tactical bombing…
I’m hoping we change our ROEs to actually kill the fucking enemy regardless of his surroundings…
A firestorm of death sends a very positive message, simply stated that firestorm says, “fuck with us and burn shit heads, burn to dust and disappear”
VOV: Dresden wasn’t an act of genocide. Neither was the entire Allied Strategic Bombing Campaign in World War II, or the Soviet and Chinese exterminations of millions under Communist rule. Even the Japanese mistreatment of China,Korea, and other locations in World War II didn’t attempt extermination (though it resulted in tens of thousands of deaths due to depraved indifference to the consequences of Japanese policy). The only possible exception might be Korea – where Japan did try to suppress Korean culture and history.
Genocide, by definition, refers to an attempt to exterminate an entire people/culture/ethnic group. There haven’t been terribly many true attempts at genocide in the last 100 years or so. The only ones I that come to mind are the Armenian Genocide during and after World War II; the Holocost (Jews/Roma); the Hutu massacres in Rwanda in the late 1990s; and the ongoing Christian/Yasidi massacres in ISIS-dominated lands today – along with, possibly, Japan in Korea between 1890 and 1945.
A wartime reprisal raid that burns a city killing thousands is bad, but it’s hardly an attempt to exterminate a whole people/race/culture. And it can be justified – albeit shakily – on grounds of necessity and breaking the enemy will to continue.
Genocide cannot be justified.
This is an excellent time to employ a GBU-43B.
We have at least 15 on hand that are just gathering dust.
At the same time that many of us are clamoring for our people to be armed, we know that the last thing the oBaMa regime wants to allow is one more gun anywhere in the USA. He and his are slithering and snaking their way around this whole matter and will spare no tacit threat of punishment in order to hold the line. Among all of the Bigs in all branches, how many have said aloud, “Enough! These are our people and it is our duty to do whatever we can to protect them now, now tomorrow!” How many? Instead, it’s whispers and confidences and “Don’t let THEM hear you say that unless you’re ready to retire.” There are times when you disagree with the Boss and you keep your mouth shut. And then there are times when know that an issue is so important, one where lives of good people are at stake, where you just have to say what needs to be said, and to hell with the personal consequences. So, how many?
You’ve nailed it. We no longer have leaders who are leading. They are kowtowing, bending to protect their careers and they are saying inside themselves: “The hell with the troops and the hell with the country, I need my retirement.”
Sad, but true, state of the Pentagon.
Will the Commander-In-Chief of our Armed Forces attend the funerals of our fallen comrades and condemn the individual and ideology behind their murders?
Probably not. It would only stir up animosities. But he will say a few heart-felt words from the WH lawn before heading off to relieve his stress and sorrow with a quick nine holes of golf.
Dreamer.
If it was Bergdahl, he’d offer the use of the Whitehouse rose graden for the services.
kindly replace “graden” with “garden”. Thank you for your support.
We all knew what you meant, although this POTUS would gladly change the spelling to “graden” if he could.
Remember his words, “I will fundamentally change America.”
This whole thing (making our stateside military sitting ducks) makes me so angry I can’t put my thoughts into words. Just anger.
As a LE officer, I have been an active reservist for the last 17 years. For 17 years I have carried concealed at the base I drill at….If there is an active shooter, I will take my chances with NJP or a courts martial rather than go quietly as a victim.
What is the citizenship status of the family. Can it be revoked?
Send them packing and bulldoze their house to the ground.
I remember some nice things we said about the King of Jordan recently. ISIS burned on of their pilots to death in a cage and he went hunting. I wonder what King Abdullah thinks about this shooting?
Seems to me that those Palestinian camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria were built after the 48 war. Didn’t the Jordanians attack ISIS recently? Aren’t the US and Jordan on the same side in that fight?
It is possible that this young man thought of himself as a Palestinian and not a Jordanian. In that case, his fight should have been with the Israelis and not the US?
The shooter is dead and there were no accomplices so there is no reason to delay the release of the report on how he was killed. If he was doing suicide by cop then that supports the argument that he was radicalized and was fighting for ISIS.
Seems to me that might be a reason for the DOJ to suppress the public release of the report.
I think that it will be structurally difficult to figure out a way to identify people who are likely to do this while still having our Constitution. If that is true, then don’t we need a better plan than just hoping that assholes won’t shoot up our troops at home? If this guy was a radicalized muslim terrorist and ISIS and the Iranians and other radicalized muslim terrors have called for killing US troops at home and if we cannot find or control the bad guys before they attack, seems like we should think about a plan to protect the good guys. Why would anyone have a different idea?
“… If that is true, then don’t we need a better plan than just hoping that assholes won’t shoot up our troops at home? If this guy was a radicalized muslim terrorist and ISIS and the Iranians and other radicalized muslim terrors have called for killing US troops at home and if we cannot find or control the bad guys before they attack, seems like we should think about a plan to protect the good guys…”
As big as this nation is, and as many muslims we have living here, and we’ve only had a handful of attacks here in 15 years, I would surely hope you realize that it’s the law enforcement community, as well as intelligence, that has worked tirelessly to prevent attacks here. We don’t hear about those efforts, because the feds don’t want to cause reactionary attacks on the Muslim communities by people who would get fired up over those kind of reports. But to say that all we’re doing is “hoping” there won’t be any attacks here…that demeans the very real work our law enforcement community, from top to bottom, is engaging in to help keep us safe.
Taking marines (or any Armed Forces personnel) out of uniform- at recruiting stations no less, is the textbook definition of moral cowardice. The progressives/statists/maniacs running our executive branch, to include the top civilian and uniformed fools at DoD, will not do what is needed to protect these “soft” targets until the American people make them.
Go over to Commander Salamander’s blog, and read his thoughts on the matter. Well worth the time.
Well, you can live in paranoia and fear, and hide under your desk, or you can be alert and aware at all times, just as you would if you were walking home from the bus stop late at night.
There are people in this world who hate us because we exist, because we are free and they are not, and they cannot stand the idea that anyone is free when they aren’t. We represent everything that they do not have, and they hate us and want to kill us for it. So we either pay attention and take nothing for granted, or we see more of these and/or incidents like the Nairobi shopping mall. There has already been something like that on the south side of Chicago and at mall I used to go to all the time. All it took was one person with a noisemaker and a flash mob of obnoxious friends backing him up, and the shopkeepers shut down their stores and called the cops. Gangbangers engage in driveby shootings every confounded day in Chicago. They kill small children as well as adults.
It is not only the military that is targeted. How hard is that to understand?
Target and bomb their mosques, OVER THERE, randomly, great and small. With the implication that Mecca and Medina are on the list and can also similarly be bombed at any random time.
One of the reporters on FOX kept bringing up the killer’s drug use, claiming over and over that this did not seem to be consistent with being a devout Muslim.
However, it is well known that Islamist Perverts teach that all sins are instantly forgiven, and activities such as drinking and prostitution pre-attack are all part of the activity. Indeed, some of the 9/11 hijackers spent the night before that attack drinking at a strip club.
This is nothing new. The word “assassin” comes from the name of a Muslim terrorist group from the Middle Ages, and is derived from their drug of choice, hashish.
And in Iraq, Al-Qaeda used mentally impaired people as mules to carry bombs, killing them in the process.
So, this poor fool’s psychological problems and drug use point to him being cannon fodder for the Islamist Perverts, and not away from it.
This psychological problem excuse the media and people lawyers attribute to these pieces of shit has got to go. Roth they used that excuse, this fucking guy, the guy that shot up the theater, if you are a fucking scumbag that is not a psychological problem you just are a scumbag