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    AL-QAIDA LEADER CALLED FOR 'LONE WOLF' ATTACK

    AL-QAIDA LEADER CALLED FOR 'LONE WOLF' ATTACK

    Threat came 2 days before shooting killed 13 in Navy Yard violence

    09/16/2013




    Authorities in Washington say their investigation so far gives them no reason to believe Navy Yard shooting suspect Aaron Alexis, 34, with a Fort Worth, Texas, address, is linked to organized terror even though just two days earlier, al-Qaida’s leader had called for a “lone wolf” attack on Washington.

    The attack Monday at the Washington Navy Yard left 13 dead, including Alexis, a military contractor, authorities said. The motive for the gun assault on the base was unclear and authorities even still wondered whether the gunman was alone, or whether there were others involved.

    At the Debkafile intelligence report, a submission Monday said, “Two days ago al-Qaida leader Ayman Zawahiri issued a videotaped call for an adherent to carry out a ‘lone wolf attack’ inside the United States.”

    And at the Washington Free Beacon, a report from Bill Gertz confirmed that several online jihadists were linking Islamists to the violence.
    He reported, “Several jihadists wrote in Arabic on Twitter shortly after the shooting began around 8:20 a.m. ET that it appeared to be motivated by Islamist extremism. Some used the hashtag ‘Al Qaeda’ to report news of the shooting.”

    He continued, “Some jihadists said the shooting was part of global jihad but none indicated inside knowledge of the killings, suggesting the comments are probably speculation or propaganda.”

    He reported one jihadist on Twitter “said the attacks took place close to the 12th anniversary of the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington and thus appeared to be linked to Islamism.”

    District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray said no motive was known, and he affirmed that there is no known reason to link it to Islamist terror, although he did tell the Washington Post he could not exclude that as a possible reason.

    “We don’t know what the motive is at this stage,” Gray explained. “We don’t have any reason at this stage to suspect terrorism, but certainly it has not been ruled out.”

    But while Gertz concurred that there was no immediate claim of responsibility from known terror groups, “A jihadist named Idaat Amniyah (@abdallahsaker) who claimed to be part of the Middle East group Fatah al-Islam stated that the shooting showed ‘we have moved from the defensive to the offensive stage’ of global jihad.”

    And Gertz identified another jihadist, named Abu-Osama al-Muwahhid (@ab_osama1), who Tweeted praise for the attack.

    Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said for a time police were seeking two others as possible suspects, but one was found and ruled out. The third person still remained of interest to authorities.

    She reported “multiple pieces of information” raised the prospect of more than one suspect involved.

    The Debkafile further reported that the participation of more than one gunman would point to a coordinated attack.

    The target was a base where about 3,000 service members are assigned, and it’s only a couple of miles from the Capitol.

    Larry O’Daniel, a member of the 250,000-strong National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition’s Counter Terror Committee, said his group concluded that Zawahiri has great influence on al-Qaida’s tactics.
    Noting that Gertz had reported as early as January that an al-Qaida website was lobbying for attacks on the U.S., his report explained that warning was “strikingly similar” to Zawahiri’s statements.

    “In February, WND reported that CIA asset ‘Reza Kahlili’ alleged Iran was targeting American utilities including cell towers, power utilities, water supplies, high voltage towers, and public transportation,” O’Daniel’s report said.

    “Also in January, Mohammad al Zawahiri, younger brother to Ayman, echoed the jihadist call for action against a number of countries, roughly equivalent to those mentioned later in August 2013, who helped France as outlined in the Gertz article. Zawahiri asked for help from ‘all Muslim brothers’ as part of Quranic duty,” he said.

    The report noted Zawahiri did give specific instructions.

    O’Daniel’s report said while some interpreted Zawahiri’s call for lone wolf attacks as a sign of weakness, his coalition found that al-Qaida’s forte is a decentralized leadership group “providing aid, resources, guidance, and other assets for localized allied groups who carry out reconnaissance and actual attacks.”

    “History shows that 19 well trained men killed almost 3000 persons on 9/11/01. A small well trained group came close to killing many times that number in the first WTC attack in early 1993. Al Qaida uses well trained small groups. They are good in putting in place sleeper cells with no prior law enforcement exposure to slip under security radar,” the report said.

    Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/al-qaida-...DozohWxHZJv.99

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    SUSPECTED NAVY YARD SHOOTER: SOFT-SPOKEN BUDDHIST, RECENTLY TRAVELED TO THAILAND



    by JOHN NOLTE 16 Sep 2013

    A profile is starting to emerge of the man law enforcement says is responsible for the mass-murder of 12 people Monday at Washington's Navy Yard. Aaron Alexis was a full-time Navy reservist between 2007 and 2011. A former roommate also says Alexis was a Buddhist who "liked to meditate" and, as a computer defense contractor, recently visited Japan and Thailand:

    A 34-year-old man named Aaron Alexis who lived in west Fort Worth was described by friends as a person who was polite and liked to meditate. He has not been confirmed as the alleged gunman.

    Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, owner of Happy Bowl Thai in White Settlement, said Alexis was “my best friend.”

    “He lived with me three years,” Suthamtewakul said Monday afternoon. “I don’t think he’d do this. He has a gun but I don’t think he’s that stupid. He didn’t seem aggressive to me.”

    Alexis worked at times as a waiter at Happy Bowl, customers said. They described him as friendly.

    Alexis had recently visited Thailand and had been to Japan with a computer defense contractor, where he worked in information technology, said Sandy Guerrea-Cline, a customer at Happy Bowl and copy editor at the Star-Telegram.

    The Washington Post reports that one worker at the Buddhist temple at which Alexis would meditate found the suspected shooter "very aggressive" on the inside and avoided him:

    But he still seemed so tightly wound that at least one worker there sought to avoid him.

    “He would help people if they came in carrying heavy things,” said J. Sirun, an assistant to the monks at the center. “From the outside, he was a quiet person. But on the inside, I think he was very aggressive. He did not like to be close with anybody, like a soldier who has been at war.”

    Alexis was memorable because he had so many Thai friends and spoke Thai “very well,” Sirun said. “He understood about 75 percent of the language.”

    “I didn’t think he could be this violent,” Sirun said. “I would not have been surprised to hear he had committed suicide. But I didn’t think he could commit murder.”

    The FBI is asking the public for any information on Alexis, no matter how small, and have asked the public to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...dhist-thailand



    Interesting connection.

    Exporting Jihad: Is Thailand the New Front in Southeast Asia’s Terror Fight?

    By webadmin on 2:08 am January 12, 2011.
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    http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/archi...-terror-fight/

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