Approximately 1 hour after an IED explosion rocked New York City, a knife-wielding man, dressed in a private security uniform, went on a stabbing rampage at the Crossroads Center Mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. 8 people were injured in the stabbings and all but 1 have been treated for their injuries and subsequently released from a local hospital.
The attacker’s name has not yet been released by St. Cloud police though the St. Cloud Times reported that the attacker asked at least one victim whether they were Muslim and referenced Allah during the assault. That said, Police Chief William Blair Anderson declined to call the attacks an act of terrorism.
The attacker was killed by an off-duty police officer from another jurisdiction though his identity has not been revealed. According to the St. Cloud Times, local police had three previous encounters with the suspect, most for minor traffic violations.
St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson said they “have no reason to believe” anyone else was involved in the attacks.
“We
will be diligent and get to the bottom of this, Starting tomorrow, things won’t be the same here.”
The mall remained on lock down for a long period following the incident, but authorities subsequently released those remaining inside early this morning.
Local news states the slasher was in a “private security uniform” when he tried to play sushi chef. A year-and-a-half ago, when I moved down to this crazy-whack-funky-land I call Communisota (and some are calling Minnesotastan) I worked for a couple months for American Security LLC. Of the 18 people training-in with me, there were 4 Somali muzzies (and 4 white guys, thanks to the diversity present in a $12/hr job).
Local news has also done features on similar jobs like MSP baggage handlers and such, where the majority are “recent immigrants helping to create a vibrant, growing economy” in this state.
What doesn’t make the news are stories like those of the trainer of my security gig, who told us he was told by the Red Cross that he gives, nationwide, the most certified First Aid training of all certified instructors. When pressed, he stated he does that much instruction due to the 50% turnover rate for the 1500-employee company.
Guess what I’m getting at is that it’s extremely easy for someone to get in a “position of trust,” uniform and all, and slice a bunch of whitebread cake-eaters, all while gaining valuable “jobs training.”
Keep in mind that all that “Allahu Akbar” stuff he was spouting doesn’t mean there is any connection to Islam.
Or so I’ve been told.
ISIS Supporters Rush To Celebrate NYC Explosion
“We cause you pain inside your house,” one ISIS supporter bragged online
By Gilad Shiloach
Sep 18, 2016 at 6:05 AM ET
Supporters of the Islamic State rushed to celebrate Saturday night’s powerful explosion in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood that injured at least 29 people, even as no group or individual has been arrested or claimed responsibility.
“The lions of the Caliphate roar in New York, we cause you pain inside your house, the carrier of the Cross,” wrote one Twitter user who went by the name “I am ISIS, come and block me.” The account was soon suspended. Another, called “The Lone Wolves,” tweeted with the Arabic hashtag #ExplosionManhattanNewYork “Oh God burn America, take revenge in the name of your oppressed slaves and believers’ blood.”
Others tweeted about “good tidings that keep coming” from New York, and one user affiliated with al-Qaeda in Syria tweeted: “Oh God go against America, the head of infidels. Oh God, count them and kill them one by one, and do not spare anyone of them.”
The hashtag #ExplosionManhattanNewYork was popular among other Arab users, mostly from Saudi Arabia, who don’t seem to be affiliated with terror groups but still criticized America, Vocativ found. One user said “ISIS is an American product, their goods come back to them.” Another wrote: “This is all your doing Mister Obama, you are the reason for the spread of ISIS in the region. I wish you would listen to the words of King Abdallah and his warning for the Arabs from ISIS.”
Others raised concerns, tweeted that the explosion was “another pretext for America to intervene in another country” and that ‘the dog Trump will blame the Muslims in order to win the elections, an expected scenario”.
Ah yes, the “Crossroads Center.” At the crossroads of Western civilization and medieval third world desert barbarism filth.
Report: Identity of St. Cloud, Minnesota Mall Attacker Revealed as Dahir Adan, Say ‘Leaders of Somali-American Community’
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.
Mayor Dave Kleis of St. Cloud said that three of the victims were hospitalized, while six had not been hospitalized.
Police Chief William Blair Anderson said that police had executed search warrants at two apartments in St. Cloud and had secured the suspect’s vehicle, which was found in the mall parking lot.
Anderson also said the SCPD had had three “contacts” with the suspect, all of which were minor. At least one was a traffic incident.
Anderson added that he did not know how long the suspect had been living in the St. Cloud community.
The FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge from Minneapolis said the FBI and the Joint-Terrorism Task Force were investigating the attack as a “potential” terrorism incident and was seeking the suspect’s immigration records.
Mayor Kleis said the situation was “fluid.”
On Sunday, ISIS released a statement calling the attacker a “soldier of the Islamic state.”
According to the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migrants interactive reporting website, 1,061 Somali refugees have been resettled in St. Cloud in the six years since 2011, a pace that has accelerated over the past three years.
Sixty-one Somali refugees arrived in the Minnesota city located seventy miles from Minneapolis in FY 2011, and more than 200 per year have arrived in the four fiscal years since 2013.
Only one other refugee from a different country of origin–that one was from Burma, arrived during these six years.
Across the state of Minnesota, 4,995 Somali refugees arrived over this six year period.
As the St. Cloud Times reported in 2015, tensions between the Somali refugees and local residents of St. Cloud have been high:
Ethnic tension inside Technical High School became public spectacle Wednesday on its south lawn as more than 100 students and parents, most of them Somali, protested what they described as a pattern of bullying and discrimination to which school officials have not adequately responded.
The protest started shortly before noon. Protesters, including students and parents, chanted slogans and waved posters.
Inside the school, normal activity ground to a halt as the bulk of students not involved in the protest were contained to their classrooms.
One of the protesters, Tech junior Hafsa Abdi, said students organized the event because administrators haven’t addressed conflicts between Somali and non-Somali students.
Other protesters alleged unfair school disciplinary practices in which Somali students are disciplined more harshly than non-Somalis.
“They are not taking any calls right now,” a person who answered the phone at the St. Cloud Police Department tells Breitbart News about the department’s media representatives.
Breitbart News also sent these questions by e-mail to the St. Cloud Police Department, but has not received a response:
Chief Anderson said at a Sunday press conference the department had three previous contacts with the attacker, so you obviously know his name.
If you are not releasing his name now, when do you plan to release his name?
Was the deceased attacker a resettled refugee?
Was the deceased attacker a resettled refugee from Somalia?
Was the deceased attacker a resettled refugee from Somalia residing in the St. Cloud community?
Can you comment on the statement released by ISIS that the attacker was “a soldier of the Islamic state?”
Local grassroots activists have been critical of the lack of information concerning the suspect’s identity, as well as local media reporting.
“The reporting is so biased; this morning a TV reporter on WCCO in Minneapolis interviewed an eyewitness who got close enough to identify the perpetrator without question. However, the description was edited down to a tall, thin male with a goatee!” a local grassroots activist tells Breitbart News.
“A month ago, Governor Dayton was quick to visit St Cloud to tell critics of refugee resettlement that they should move to another state. Yet, the morning after mass stabbing a by what appears to be a Somali Muslim yelling ‘Allah’, the governor is nowhere to be found,” the activist adds.
Back in 2015, Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch wrote, “Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota is responsible for the Somali chaos in St. Cloud.”
That supposedly ‘Christian’ charitable organization is directly responsible for the high Somali numbers in St. Cloud, and they are jointly responsible for bringing over ten thousand Somalis from around the world to colonize Minnesota towns in the last ten years alone—Catholic Charities and World Relief MN (now Arrive Ministries) helped also.
Corcoran added:
A few years ago Saint Cloud, MN was targeted as a new Somali resettlement site by the US State Department and its contractor there— Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota.
Originally the Somalis there were what the refugee industry calls “secondary migrants” who move in from other areas of the state or from another state—usually because they hear that an enclave of their kind of people is growing, sometimes for jobs, and sometimes for better welfare.
St. Cloud’s Somali population is now growing as Somalis are arriving directly from hot spots around the world. (The direct resettlement by the Lutherans to St. Cloud began in around 2010.)
Buy a pistol. Carry it at all times. It’s awkward sometimes and uncomfortable, but do it anyway.
Don’t worry about being a high speed death merchant. You are not a Navy Seal or a commando, but you don’t have to be. Paying for training would be advantageous, but most of you won’t do it. That’s okay, just have your pistol on you.
When the time comes that the musloids are attacking where you are, you’ll know what to do. It could be a gas station in a city or a restaurant in the country. I know that this sucks that you have to be armed, but this is the world we live in. If you want to save yourself and others from these animals, you have to be ready.
This, this, and this. But I would definitely recommend some professional training.
Get a quality pistol – it doesn’t have to be expensive. Something small and light so you will actually carry it. The Ruger LCP and LC9 are both good options at the lower price end, as are all the compact Glocks, the S&W Shield, and various others. You only need one pistol, you can afford $300-600 for a good one.
Get a pistol, learn to use it, carry it at all times.
Well as if 9/11 was not a wake up call sorry to all you good people from the Middle East but it’s time to seperate yourselves from the evil among you and crush these Islamic shit bags for good ! You are with us as Americans or you are against us ! You no longer have the luxury to sit on the fence and point fingers to the left or right . Choose your side ! I have meet many Muslim people and have a great deal of respect for people of honor and integrity who face the east to pray for the state of the world and great contempt for those who hi jack the faith as an excuse to do harm . As for you coexist crowd , you cannot coexist with people dedicated to kill you ! Time to wise up !