Can you get a screen capture of that friends list? It seems that someone is trying to scrub the internet of any info regarding this guy.
Best to put this in a safe place.
[ONE-TIME PING to the old OU Bombing list as there may be some similarities here in regards to the shooter & those he associated with. Also seeing pages disappearing off the web - just like with the OU Bombing as well. I’ve taken some screenshots of Bedell’s FB page, and friends pages as well, that’s what I begin this post talking about with Deo.]
DONE & Grabs of associated pages as well... Let’s just say this guy had some interesting friends I’m sure those investigating this will want to look at very closely...
Pakistan, Afghanistan, a lot of San Jose State Alumni, etc...
IMHO - This looks like the same kind of people hanging out with the OU Bomber at and around his apartment building — except a little more “Western”. Very educated folks, too — Engineer, Doctor, etc... It would seem from a brief overview that his friends met through San Jose State are almost all Muslim as well.
He might have been anti-government, but striking the Pentagon during war-time should be taken more as an anti-military - or perhaps more precisely and anti-Military Policy type action. Think Ayers & the Pentagon attack he waged... Why did Ayers hit the Pentagon? To protest the war against Communism in Vietnam, and to stand in alliance with his Comrades the North Vietnamese, and to attempt to disrupt military communications.
Viewing what little bit is on FB about this guy — if it is indeed the same guy (a little old to graduate in ‘08, but not unheard of - might not have gone to the school either - may have met them somewhere he hung out near the campus). Anyway reading through what friends profiles are public viewing, it is clear this guy was definitely sympathetic to the jihadists - or hung out with those who were.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that he was probably a person who had a libertarian streak in him years ago, but after 9/11 he got caught up in the anti-gov’t truther movement, and the anti-Iraq/Afghanistan War movement as well. If he started believing the propaganda (as I have seen some former libertarians do) they seem to move farther to the “left” and fall right into the communist/socialist/jihadist/fascist melee that defines liberalism nowadays.
I will have to do a little more investigating regarding some names of Imams and such that have come up as “fan pages” of his friends, too. There may be something interesting there.
You know what I wish? That we could trust our government to get to the truth of this matter - whether he is connected to terrorists, or terrorist sympathizers/advocates/activists. Back during the OU Bombing investigation, just like the OKC investigation clear ties with Islamic radicals was uncovered (in fact many of the SAME PEOPLE all “around” Norman, OK - the OKC Bombing, the OU Bombing, and the same mosque visited by some of the 9/11 terrorists when they were receiving flying lessons).
These were all ignored by our government of course - OKC blamed squarely on the shoulders of McVeigh and McNichols (who WERE guilty, but did NOT act alone, and acted WITH Islamic Radicals), OU blamed on a “suicidal depressed college student” (who just happens to live in an apartment building whose residents attended the same mosque as mentioned above - and IMHO he also tried to get busted beforehand at the feed/garden store).
All JMHO and based on really cursory overview at this point. I don’t know what others have written throughout the thread as I didn’t know this happened till a short while ago (don’t watch TV, and didn’t get over here yesterday).