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The New York Times reported on March 27 that Syrian-born Colorado mass shooter Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa had been on the FBI’s radar before he murdered 10 people in a grocery store. “The suspect’s identity was previously known to the F.B.I. because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau, according to law enforcement officials,” the Times says. According to a police affidavit, six days before Alissa shot 10 people to death, he purchased a pistol. That would have required him to pass a federal background check also run by the FBI. It seems the FBI is...

Jasser: Colorado Shooter’s Facebook Posts Look like Islamist Propaganda March 24, 2021 M. Zuhdi Jasser This morning on Newsmax TV’s National Report, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and a Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow, discussed how Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a Colorado man who killed ten people in a supermarket on March 22, appeared to have been radicalized by Islamist propaganda. Jasser said “this guy’s Facebook posts, his father’s Facebook posts, look like right out of the textbook of Islamic propaganda.” Jasser noted that the shooting may be another in a long list...

...on Thursday, his defense attorney asked for a mental health assessment "to address his mental illness." But researchers and advocates say the rush to cast blame on a mental illness is misplaced. "There's no psychotic illness whose symptom is shooting other people," said Dr. Jonathan Metzl, director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University. "People are searching for explanations for behavior they don't understand. It's easy to put a label like mental illness on behavior that frankly seems just beyond the pale," said Angela Kimball, national director for advocacy and public policy at the National Alliance...

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa twitter white misinformation. Twitter has told Newsweek that tweets mis-identifying the suspected gunman in Monday's Colorado supermarket shooting, as a "white Christian terrorist" does not violate the social network's misinformation policies, Twitter told Newsweek.