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Ahmad Khan Rahami is Arrested in Manhattan and New Jersey Bombings

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" The man believed to be responsible for the explosion in Manhattan on Saturday night and an earlier bombing in New Jersey, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was taken into custody on Monday after he was wounded in a gunfight with the police, law enforcement officials said."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/nyc-nj-explosions-ahmad-khan-rahami.html?_r=0

Is it Islamic terrorism? Is it nonreligious violence?

I'm glad he's caught, but I'm afraid this trend is just going to continue.

Thoughts?
 
Yep, saw this in another thread, and fast excellent work by the police and citizenry.

My gut feeling right now is this is likely a lone-wolf of sorts.

Hiding-out in a bar doorway?

That doesn't sound very well group-organized or group-planned!
 
Chomsky said:
Yep, saw this in another thread, and fast excellent work by the police and citizenry.

My gut feeling right now is this is likely a lone-wolf of sorts.

Hiding-out in a bar doorway?

That doesn't sound very well group-organized or group-planned!
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The bombings were pretty poorly planned too. Isis asked Muslims living in the west to commit random acts of terror to further their cause, and those heeding that call are not the sharpest pencils in the box.
 
There's going to be a ton of this.
 
truthatallcost said:
" The man believed to be responsible for the explosion in Manhattan on Saturday night and an earlier bombing in New Jersey, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was taken into custody on Monday after he was wounded in a gunfight with the police, law enforcement officials said."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/nyc-nj-explosions-ahmad-khan-rahami.html?_r=0

Is it Islamic terrorism? Is it nonreligious violence?

I'm glad he's caught, but I'm afraid this trend is just going to continue.

Thoughts?
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A man? Did they say a man? How dare they make such assumptions. We do not know where he likes to pee.
 
Erod said:
A man? Did they say a man? How dare they make such assumptions. We do not know where he likes to pee.
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You think where one "likes to pee" is the determining factor? I think you have cause and effect backwards.
 
Chomsky said:
Yep, saw this in another thread, and fast excellent work by the police and citizenry.

My gut feeling right now is this is likely a lone-wolf of sorts.

Hiding-out in a bar doorway?

That doesn't sound very well group-organized or group-planned!
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Did you think that Custer's Last Stand was well organized and well planned? Because a few powerful bombs did not go off as planned, is not a comforting assurance that we are secure.

Why is there a contingency here which feels the desperate need to downplay, indeed dismiss the serious and eminent danger associated with these terrorist attacks? Why such a need to make excuses? Are you (collectively) trying to assuage the genuine anxiety of a populace that is abundantly aware that our immigration policies are a pathetic, feckless, wretched failure and that the administration behind those failed policies is at best duplicitous, and at worst, involved? What is wrong with you people?
 
truthatallcost said:


Is it Islamic terrorism? Is it nonreligious violence?
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No idea. Americans have certainly joined terrorist organizations like ISIS and participated in their evil; meanwhile, muslims have perpetrated plenty of violence having nothing to do with terrorism.

If there's specific information about his motives, I haven't heard it yet (though I did just spend the last 10 hours feverishly drafting, so I have no idea about this guy other than that specific headline I saw a few moments ago).
 
Chomsky said:
Yep, saw this in another thread, and fast excellent work by the police and citizenry.

My gut feeling right now is this is likely a lone-wolf of sorts.

Hiding-out in a bar doorway?

That doesn't sound very well group-organized or group-planned!
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Quazimodo said:
Did you think that Custer's Last Stand was well organized and well planned? Because a few powerful bombs did not go off as planned, is not a comforting assurance that we are secure.

Why is there a contingency here which feels the desperate need to downplay, indeed dismiss the serious and eminent danger associated with these terrorist attacks? Why such a need to make excuses? Are you (collectively) trying to assuage the genuine anxiety of a populace that is abundantly aware that our immigration policies are a pathetic, feckless, wretched failure and that the administration behind those failed policies is at best duplicitous, and at worst, involved? What is wrong with you people?
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What the hey are you ranting about, and more importantly: What has it got to do with my post?
 
Chomsky said:
What the hey are you ranting about, and more importantly: What has it got to do with my post?
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Sorry, a thousand pardons! I was hoping you would answer several of my rhetorical questions. :cool:
 
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I just hope the Volkswagen was OK. They're getting rare these days, whereas Rahamis are a dime a dozen.
 
Quazimodo said:
Sorry, a thousand pardons! I was hoping you would answer several of my rhetorical questions. :cool:
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Ah, alright then.

For the record though, I'm not downplaying, but rather doing what I think is a factual analysis based upon what we currently know.

The danger with groups like Al Queda & ISIS, is their ideologies.

Those committing crimes in their names will range from legit imported groups, all they way down to people who will claim these groups in order to cover-up other unrelated crimes.

Right now I've seen nothing indicating more than one or two idealistic home-brewed lone wolves. Of course that could change as the investigation continues, and more info surfaces.
 
Mr Person said:
No idea. Americans have certainly joined terrorist organizations like ISIS and participated in their evil; meanwhile, muslims have perpetrated plenty of violence having nothing to do with terrorism.

If there's specific information about his motives, I haven't heard it yet (though I did just spend the last 10 hours feverishly drafting, so I have no idea about this guy other than that specific headline I saw a few moments ago).
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Here's a few facts;

The 28-year-old was born in Afghanistan and is a naturalized US citizen, according to the FBI.
The Rahami family alleged discrimination and harassment in a lawsuit filed against the city and its police department in 2011.

This article suggests he was radicalized after visiting Afghanistan;
Rahami Called 'Friendly,' but Changed After Afghan Visit - ABC News
 
Quazimodo said:
Did you think that Custer's Last Stand was well organized and well planned? Because a few powerful bombs did not go off as planned, is not a comforting assurance that we are secure.

Why is there a contingency here which feels the desperate need to downplay, indeed dismiss the serious and eminent danger associated with these terrorist attacks? Why such a need to make excuses? Are you (collectively) trying to assuage the genuine anxiety of a populace that is abundantly aware that our immigration policies are a pathetic, feckless, wretched failure and that the administration behind those failed policies is at best duplicitous, and at worst, involved? What is wrong with you people?
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Right, BE AFRAID YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!!! TERRORISTS ARE SCARY!! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!! GET A GUN!!

That's not how I want to live my life, when the fact is the risk of me dying from a terrorist attack is several orders of magnitude less than the risk I'll die going to the drug store in a few minutes to pick up a prescription for my dog. I'm aware that there is a real risk associated with terrorist attacks, but all you've done above is use this attack as a platform to attack Obama and liberals. The guy in fact wasn't admitted to the country during the Obama years - the article in the OP says his father was running a business as early as 2002.
 
Erod said:
There's going to be a ton of this.
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More right wing fear mongering. Everybody crap your pants and start crying about the sky falling.
 
Quazimodo said:
Did you think that Custer's Last Stand was well organized and well planned? Because a few powerful bombs did not go off as planned, is not a comforting assurance that we are secure.

Why is there a contingency here which feels the desperate need to downplay, indeed dismiss the serious and eminent danger associated with these terrorist attacks? Why such a need to make excuses? Are you (collectively) trying to assuage the genuine anxiety of a populace that is abundantly aware that our immigration policies are a pathetic, feckless, wretched failure and that the administration behind those failed policies is at best duplicitous, and at worst, involved? What is wrong with you people?
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Many will not be happy until all Muslims are registered, their homes and businesses subject to searches without warrant, at any time of day or night. Till any Muslims who hold the slightest dissent with well Apple Pie are rounded up and placed in internment camps.

But as trump tells us, he has a PLAN to fight ISIS. But that is a secret

2015- more than 12000 homicides
Let the scaremongering begin, oops, it already has.
 
poweRob said:
More right wing fear mongering. Everybody crap your pants and start crying about the sky falling.
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You're right, let's pretend like it's 1995 and Timothy McVeigh types are still the biggest threat to the US.

That's the Democrat party's wet dream.
 
truthatallcost said:
You're right, let's pretend like it's 1995 and Timothy McVeigh types are still the biggest threat to the US.

That's the Democrat party's wet dream.
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2 wars, over 4 trillion in costs for the military alone, hundreds of thousands killed in these wars, hundreds of billions in added security costs, yet many still live in fear of a terror attack.
The reality is you cannot prevent all of them.
But we still have the mantra of fear mongering and hate all Muslims.
 
JANFU said:
2 wars, over 4 trillion in costs for the military alone, hundreds of thousands killed in these wars, hundreds of billions in added security costs, yet many still live in fear of a terror attack.
The reality is you cannot prevent all of them.
But we still have the mantra of fear mongering and hate all Muslims.
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"He who tries to defend everything, defends nothing."
 
JANFU said:
2 wars, over 4 trillion in costs for the military alone, hundreds of thousands killed in these wars, hundreds of billions in added security costs, yet many still live in fear of a terror attack.
The reality is you cannot prevent all of them.
But we still have the mantra of fear mongering and hate all Muslims.
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Germany is paying to support 1,000,000 new Muslim migrants this year. The total expenditure is costing German taxpayers $22,000,000,000 this year.

Terrorism is hardly the only detriment involved with current migration trends.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
"He who tries to defend everything, defends nothing."
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Had to look that up.
Very true, the terrorists are winning, each time the fear increases, the hatred rises, people single out a group for punitive measures, well we have seen what the results are.
 
truthatallcost said:
Germany is paying to support 1,000,000 new Muslim migrants this year. The total expenditure is costing German taxpayers $22,000,000,000 this year.

Terrorism is hardly the only detriment involved with current migration trends.
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Off topic- Merkel screwed up.
Now back to what i posted, care to refute it?
 
JANFU said:
Many will not be happy until all Muslims are registered, their homes and businesses subject to searches without warrant, at any time of day or night. Till any Muslims who hold the slightest dissent with well Apple Pie are rounded up and placed in internment camps.

But as trump tells us, he has a PLAN to fight ISIS. But that is a secret

2015- more than 12000 homicides
Let the scaremongering begin, oops, it already has.
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Hillary's plan: Import more jihadists from Somalia and Afghanistan while disarming law-abiding Americans. Yeah, that's a winner. :roll:
 
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