Thread: Terrorist attack at Home Depot

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=56094

Crash into store was a personal statement
By Kristina Davis and Katie McDevitt
Tribune
December 29, 2005
TO OUR READERS:
The following story is based on witness accounts and a police report released Wednesday.
He placed both hands on the steering wheel, stared straight ahead and barrelled toward the front entrance of Home Depot.

Ali R. Warrayat hadn’t slept in days, planning this moment down to the last detail. Now, his face was void of any expression. A store employee jumped out of the car’s path. To drown out the man’s yells, Warrayat reached over to his car radio and blasted Arabic music before crashing through the front doors.

The scene was only the beginning of a violent rampage through the Chandler store on Dec. 18. For the 24-year-old Arizona State University student, the motives behind the attack were personal.

He told Chandler police he was angry at Home Depot, where he worked as a paint stocker, about not getting a proper raise. He was mad at the United States for proposing a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border.

He wanted to make America "more free."

So the Jordanian-turned-U.S. citizen devised a plan to make a grand statement by crashing into the store at Alma School Road and Chandler Boulevard and setting it on fire.

At first, he wanted to wear a Palestinian flag, but later decided to place it in the trunk of his car, along with a copy of the Quran and a necklace.

He then grabbed his cat and his uncle’s pit bull and brought them along for the ride with the intent of killing them in the fire.

After crashing through the doors at 6 a.m. that Sunday, he expertly navigated the aisles and headed straight for the paint department, slamming his car into the flammable goods.

He jumped to the roof of the car, looked around for a second and then hopped to the ground.

He used a lighter to ignite the blaze, and loud explosions followed as store employees ran for safety.

Many employees recognized Warrayat, who worked in the store six months ago but transferred to a Queen Creek location after having difficulties with a supervisor.

Inside the car, the dog, named Tyson, crouched against the floorboards trying to escape the flames, eventually dying from the toxic smoke.

The cat was never found.

As Warrayat headed for the exit, he swept merchandise from the shelves and then sat on the curb outside waiting for police to come and arrest him.

But his cooperation ended there as he kicked and struggled with officers when asked to get in the patrol car.

When an officer asked if he understood his Miranda rights, Warrayat shot back in a foreign language. The officer asked if he understood English, and Warrayat replied in English, "Do you speak Arabic?"

He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and arson, causing about $1 million in damage. He is being held without bond at Maricopa County’s Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix.

The day after the incident, Warrayat staged a bizarre news conference, asking the media to come to Towers Jail in Phoenix to receive a statement.

But when seated before the hungry reporters and television cameras, he only looked at them. He gazed at the ceiling and the floor, his lips pursed, and refused to answer any of their questions. Then he pulled his jail inmate badge out of his shirt pocket and laid it on the table in front of him.

Bewildered jail officials ushered him in the hall, where he said he wasn’t going to talk.

Co-worker and friend Joaquin Bustamante said Warrayat was "gentleman-like and respectable with everyone."

"When I saw him on TV, he did not look like the Ali that I know," Bustamante said. "He was a hard worker and worked circles around everybody, and he was a very private person."

Bustamante said Warrayat was deeply religious and had a Quran hanging from his rearview mirror.

In police statements, Warrayat referred to his religion often. He said a swastika was once painted on the mosque where he prays, so he had the mark tattooed in red and black on the bottom of his foot. In his religion, stepping on things is considered disrespectful.

He also described trying to put the dog in his trunk to show it the Quran. He said dogs are "filthy" and that was why the dog didn’t want to be in the trunk with the holy book.

Police served a search warrant on the Gilbert house where he lives with his parents, seizing a computer and other items.

Initial images on his computer depicted men lighting Molotov cocktails and a cartoon of two bloodied and dead children with a Middle Eastern flag in the background.

A Home Depot official told police that if Warrayat is released from jail, management is considering placing armed guards at all of its East Valley stores.

Just good people........

Things like this probably make GWB think, "Hey, I better listen to them, or they're going to cause more trouble."

Then to the law abiding citizen, he says...."Get used to it."

A Home Depot official told police that if Warrayat is released from jail, management is considering placing armed guards at all of its East Valley stores.

If this guy is released from jail, we may as well shut down the entire Homeland Security Department.

What would be the point of keeping it?

Yes, you are right, CountFloyd. Homeland security might as well be shut down. We could use the money to provide more and better health care to those who are "visiting" our country. Any leftover money could be put towards SHOES for the wife of the president of the country to our south.
I'm referrring to our southern "neighbor", I believe you are familiar with whom I am speaking about, Count.

My!! I wish I knew what was in that glass the president is drinking from!! He seems to be enjoying it so!! I love to see our president enjoying himself.

from William on the other threadIf you look at their reaction, the other side is starting to lose their "cool" after the border bill passed.

If we keep making progress, they will go into a meltdown and start acting super freaky and hostile soon.

That will be good. It will mean they know we have the advantage. and from the Jordianian immigrant terroist:"He was mad at the United States for proposing a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border.

He wanted to make America "more free."

So the Jordanian-turned-U.S. citizen devised a plan to make a grand statement by crashing into the store at Alma School Road and Chandler Boulevard and setting it on fire.

You got it Thelma!

The cracks are starting to show!

W


What shall we use
To fill the empty spaces
Where we used to talk?
How shall I fill
The final places?
How should I complete the wall?

I don't need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.


Another brick in the wall.

Oh and I just have to say.

Home Depot.

Home Depot builds day labor centers for illegals in CA.

W

haahaha !

WHAT IRONY! Of all of the businesses this person could have chosen to target, he picks HOME DEPOT--the ONE BUSINESS who ACTIVELY SUPPORTS ILLEGALS!!! I'm SURE the Home Depot will be at the FOREFRONT of businesses FIGHTING THE WALL PROPOSAL!! Wonder if they will WAKE UP NOW?? I would say that their activism has BACKFIRED!

Holy crap! that Home Depot is about 4 miles from my house. I know a woman who lives accross the street from the back field of that store.

This happened Sunday? This is the first I've heard about it. I don't watch local news or read the Arizona Repugnant, but you would think they would have been talking about it on the radio some. A big lotto jackpot rollover gets two days of radio coverage.

This story stinks in so many ways.

Is it a hoax?



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Crash into store was a personal statement
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What a pathetic P.C. title, these ladies must have been crapping their pants, wondering how they could report on this story but not be fired for racism.


The headline should have read: " Islamic fundamentalist lunatic attempts suicide bombing."


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For the 24-year-old Arizona State University student, the motives behind the attack were personal.
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This sets the stage for the unrelated causes he claims to champion.

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He told Chandler police he was angry at Home Depot, where he worked as a paint stocker, about not getting a proper raise. He was mad at the United States for proposing a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border.
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He didn't get a raise, so he's mad about a border fence. What a stupid poser, he sounds like a good drone, programmed in the propaganda of the left.


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So the Jordanian-turned-U.S. citizen devised a plan to make a grand statement by crashing into the store at Alma School Road and Chandler Boulevard and setting it on fire.
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What did I say before about arsonists in my town? Shoot the S.O.B.s He is lucky I wasn't a witness, I would have shot that MoFo before he light up that blaze.

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At first, he wanted to wear a Palestinian flag, but later decided to place it in the trunk of his car, along with a copy of the Quran and a necklace.
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What a stupid poser, he probably has never been oppressed in his life, but he adopts every lunatic cause.


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He then grabbed his cat and his uncle’s pit bull and brought them along for the ride with the intent of killing them in the fire.
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Inside the car, the dog, named Tyson, crouched against the floorboards trying to escape the flames, eventually dying from the toxic smoke.
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The cat was never found.

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This is great, I'll use this especially for some people I know who are total Islamic apologists.


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When an officer asked if he understood his Miranda rights, Warrayat shot back in a foreign language. The officer asked if he understood English, and Warrayat replied in English, "Do you speak Arabic?"
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What a smug little bitch.


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when seated before the hungry reporters and television cameras,(....)
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Reporters are total prostitutes, especially the local ones.



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A Home Depot official told police that if Warrayat is released from jail, management is considering placing armed guards at all of its East Valley stores.
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If he is released, that would be outrageous. However, that would let me and some friends pay him a visit. Maybe Home Depot can pay us to conduct the "visit"


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