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NEWS JUL 17 2015, 12:31 AM ET
Chattanooga Gunman Was Not On Terrorism Radar, Officials Say
by PETE WILLIAMS, TRACY CONNOR and PHIL HELSEL
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Who Is Alleged Chattanooga Shooter Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez? 1:54

The gunman who opened fire on two military centers in Chattanooga Thursday, killing four Marines and critically wounding a Navy sailor, was not in any federal terrorism database and was not under investigation before he carried out the rampage, several officials told NBC News.

Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, was killed after a shootout with police during the assault which began at 10:45 a.m. at a Marine recruiting station and ended at a Marine and Naval reserve center seven miles away, where the soldiers were slain, authorities said.

It is unclear if Abdulazeez was killed by police or if he killed himself. Investigators believe he acted alone. Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher told reporters late Thursday, "I can tell you that the officers of the Chattanooga police department saved many lives today."

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Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez WRCB

A motive in the attack is also unclear, but officials suspect it may have been ISIS-inspired because of the target of the attack and the timing — the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends Thursday — but investigators have not confirmed that the attack was inspired by the Islamist terror organization.

Law enforcement officials say there are "other indications" it may have been ISIS-inspired, but they declined to be specific.

"We will explore that option, but at this point, we don't have anything that directly ties him to an international terrorist organization," FBI Special Agent in Charge Edward W. Reinhold told reporters late Thursday.

Thursday evening, law enforcement surrounded a home believed to be connected to Abdulazeez, and two females were seen being placed in handcuffs, The Associated Press reported. Reinhold said they were not arrested, and it is common practice to secure bystanders when conducting searches.

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In this frame from video, law enforcement officers detain a woman as they surround a house in Hixson, Tenn., Thursday, July 16, 2015. A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at two sites a few miles apart in Chattanooga, killing several, officials said. The attacker was also killed. Alex Sanz / AP
Abdulazeez was born in 1990 in Kuwait, and he was a naturalized U.S. citizen. He lived with his parents, and his father is a Chattanooga city employee.

While Abdulazeez was not under FBI surveillance and was not on any watch list, officials said, his father, who is from Palestine, was briefly investigated several years ago for possible connections to a terror organization. But that investigation was closed, and the father was removed from government watch lists, the officials said.

Abdulazeez was a 2012 graduate of the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, where he earned a degree in electrical engineering, the university said. He was a student intern at the Tennessee Valley Authority about five years ago, the agency said.

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Abdulazeez briefly signed up with a mixed-martial arts gym after high school, where the gym owner recalled that "Seemed like a normal kid back then."

"I haven't seen him in years, but I'm very shocked that it's him," Jesse Grun, who used to run the Chattanooga Fight Factory, told NBC news Thursday. He spent about six months at the gym, before his parents pulled him out.

Grun described him as a typical teenager. He wasn't especially loud, but wasn't shy, either. "I believe he was still an opened-minded young happy teenager, so something must have changed as he grew into an adult," Grun said.

In his Red Bank High School yearbook, Abdulazeez's senior entry contained this quote: "My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?"

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It remains to be seen if Abdulazeez was especially religious, but on April 20 of this year he was arrested by Chattanooga police on a DUI charge.

Officers said they smelled marijuana on him, and he appeared intoxicated, NBC station WRBC reported, and he was scheduled to appear in court at the end of July.

Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday condemned the deadly rampage.

"Such inexcusable acts of violence must be repudiated by Americans of all faiths and backgrounds," CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said. "The American Muslim community stands shoulder to shoulder with our fellow citizens in offering condolences to the loved ones of those killed and injured and in rejecting anyone who would harm our nation's safety and security.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chattanooga-gunman-was-not-terrorism-radar-officials-say-n393536?cid=sm_tw&hootPostID=c40028a16ebd7911dd5305e4627dad2b

tartar9:
that answers it.

In your opinion. The idea of the general religion section is to cater mostly for everyone else. Stop littering it with your crap.

The muslims have been given a section barred to every other person to discuss their topics. Why do they still come to the general religion section and litter it with their archaic occultic messages? !

Ban sharia now.

richidinho:
Who be diz 0tondo?

More of it!

Might be temporary. Mostly surulere.

richidinho:
cos I know u lack job

Inferiority complex.

Welcome.
We aren't too complexion conscious. Imo.

MzJackBaueress:
nne gi filthy

And an uncultured nitwit!

MzJackBaueress:
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Onye ara!

You're filthy!

Hope this brings positive results in the fight against boko haram.

Just passing.

Trying to deny their kin.

Ode op!

Islam is a sin!

madridguy:
You got in WRONG. There is no where in our QURAN that condone everything act of the Boko Haram. I am a Muslim and am not a terrorist.

Its all a matter of time!

Islam is a sin!

Yayi.

..

Op well so?!
Greece is still classed as a developed country!
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Wonder what happened to the recent offensive the Jonathan administration had against boko haram in the last days of his presidency. Did buhari order them to stop? Is this a war against his "kinsmen"?!

Boko Haram may resume talks with FG


on july 09, 2015 at 6:38 am in news
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By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North with agency reports
ABUJA — Sources close to the leadership of the Boko Haram insurgents have told Vanguard that the group might have agreed to hold talks with the new leadership in Nigeria with the aim of ending the six-year-old insurgency in the country.
One of the sources which had been involved in previous attempts to broker peace between the Federal Government and the terrorists group confirmed to Vanguard last night that there were some level of discussions between the group and the government but that the “government does not want to be seen to be negotiating with the terrorists.”
The source, who works with an international agency with some presence in Nigeria, said: “I can tell you that there is some behind-the-scene informal discussion with certain segments of the Buhari administration, going on in Nigeria.

Boko Haram
“But the truth is that the government does not want to be seen to be talking with the group apparently because of the failure of all previous efforts to dialogue with the Boko Haram men in and outside Nigeria under the previous administration.
“The aim of the renewed effort is to resuscitate the discussions from where we ended abruptly under the Jonathan administration and take it forward from there since there is a new government in place in Nigeria.
“The true position is that some of those with contacts with the leadership of the Boko Haram have gone back to assure them that there is a new government in place and that things can be done differently from what it was in the past when they were dribbled over and over again by top government officials who wanted to make quick gains under the guise of negotiating with the militants.”
The source said the militant leaders had been assured that the Buhari government was more open and ready to negotiate with them.
“Indeed, we have begun the peace process from the Boko Haram side and that may signal a new hope for the release of the missing Chibok girls,” the source said.
It will be recalled that the Presidency had hinted last week that it might negotiate with the dreaded Boko Haram leadership in order to end the cycle of violence that has wreaked havoc in Nigeria in the last six years.
Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, who gave the hint, did not, however, give a timeline when the negotiation would start and who the government intended to deal with in carrying out the assignment.
Boko Haram is said to be offering to free more than 200 young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in the town of Chibok in exchange for the release of militant leaders held by the government.
An Associated Press quoted an unnamed activist as saying that Boko Haram’s current offer is limited to the Chibok girls who were taken in April 2014.
“The new initiative reopens an offer made last year to the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan to release the 219 students in exchange for 16 Boko Haram detainees,” the activist said.
He said the five-week-old administration of President Muhammadu Buhari offers “a clean slate” to bring the militants back to negotiations that had become poisoned by the different security agencies and their advice to Jonathan.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/boko-haram-may-resume-talks-with-fg/

Olofintoto:
Na im family title?

Abeg hep me ask am!

#Inthefullnessoftime things...

#Inthefullnessoftime

Buhari to appoint Ministers at fullness of time – Presidency

on july 07, 2015 at 6:05 pm in news
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By Levinus Nwabughiogu

ABUJA – President Mohammadu Buhari will appointment Ministers only when it is feasible, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina said Tuesday.
Speaking exclusively to Vanguard in reaction to massive public concern on why the president has not formed his cabinet, Adesina said that the president is preparing the grounds for the Ministers, saying that they would be appointed at the fullness of time.
He said: “The appointment of Ministers is constitutional because the constitution prescribes that there must be a Minister from at least one state of the federation and President Mohammdu Buhari will do what is constitutional. So, he will constitute a cabinet.
“But then when he does it is his prerogative. He is the one who will determine when he needs that cabinet. But for now, he has said that he wants to lay a proper foundation for the administration and that’s why he has been working with bureaucrats; the various Permanent Secretaries.
“For the past two week and still going forward, the Permanent Secretaries have been briefing him on the state of their ministries and then, I am sure at the fullness of time, the Ministers will be appointed.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/buhari-to-appoint-ministers-at-fullness-of-time-presidency/

Tithing is an agreement between God and man. What the money is used for is between the church leaders and God.
Do your part and let God handle the rest!
Wonderful write up.