dotnetrockz Posted July 29, 2015 Report Posted July 29, 2015 According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the FBI is "not yet" calling Abdulazeez a terrorist. Special Agent Ed Reinhold stated that "[h]e is being treated as a homegrown violent extremist" and that the FBI is exploring the idea that Abdulazeez was self-radicalized.[51] Abdulazeez did not attract the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the period leading up to the shootings.[52] Starting in 2003, he traveled to Jordan a total of five times. The latest was a visit to a maternal uncle between April and November 2014, which was arranged by his family, who wanted him to get away from friends they believed were bad influences on him. He also traveled to Kuwait in 2008.[21][53][54][1] His sole previous contact with law enforcement was an April 2015 arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol.[53][55] Following his 2014 visit to Jordan, Abdulazeez told friends that Jordan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia ought to have sent more help to Hamas during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. They also noted a change in his behavior and that he made critical statements against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).[47][56][57][58] In recent months, he had been regularly attending Friday prayers at a mosque.[37] It was reported that in the days preceding the shooting, Abdulazeez is thought to have written a blog post in which he urges study of the Quran as a meaning to life.[43][59] According to his family, he searched online for martyrdom, and had been wondering whether becoming a martyr would absolve him of his sins.[60][61] On July 20, several writings belonging to Abdulazeez, dating as far back as 2013, were discovered. In them, he wrote about having suicidal thoughts after losing his job due to his drug use and his desire to "becom[e] a martyr".[6][46][6][61] Authorities searching his computer found that he owned CDs and had downloaded videos by al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki.[62][63] An FBI spokesman stated that "[t]here are some pretty radicalized thoughts" in the writings.[64] None of the writings laid out plans for an attack or spelled out a motive, however.[46][63] Motivation is surmised from the fact that on July 11, Abdulazeez bought a supply of ammunition at Walmart. On July 13, he wrote long diary entries, describing life as a kind of prison and warning, "Don't be fooled by your desires, this life is short and bitter and the opportunity to submit to Allah may pass you by." He also wrote that people mistakenly thought that the Sahaba (Companions of the Prophet) were priests "living in monasteries." This, he wrote, is untrue, and that "[e]veryone one of them fought Jihad for the sake of Allah. Everyone one of them had to make sacrifices in their lives. [sic]"[60] Hours before the shooting, he texted an Islamic verse to a friend that read, "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of mine, then I have declared war against him."[43][59][63] An official participating in the investigation told The New York Times there was no sign that Abdulazeez was in contact with any social media recruiters working ISIS, explaining, "This case appears to be much more like the old model, where he was interested in radical Islam and sought to learn more about it online by looking at videos and readings."[65] According to professor Charles Kurzman, "We are seeing a shift away from large-scale elaborate attempts to use weapons of mass destruction or other high profile plots — the hallmark of al-Qaida and its affiliates — toward a lower tech do-it-yourself strategy that is being propagated by the self declared Islamic State."[51]
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