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“Las Vegas attacker converted to Islam a few months ago”:
Jihad Watch ^ | October 2, 2017 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 10/02/2017 8:17:00 AM PDT by Lera

Full tittle : “Las Vegas attacker converted to Islam a few months ago”: Islamic State claims responsibility for attack

"The Las Vegas attack was carried out by a soldier of the Islamic State and he carried it out in response to calls to target states of the coalition. The Las Vegas attacker converted to Islam a few months ago.”

“Las Vegas Shootout Live: 50 Killed, ISIS Claims Responsibility,” The Quint, October 2, 2017 (thanks to Yaakov):

An active shooter fired at an outdoor concert crowd in Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Casino area. At least 50 people died and 400 were injured in the shooting, that was later claimed by ISIS. The roads leading to the Vegas strip were shut by the police. The gunman was shot down at the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. The Nevada sheriff identified Stephen Paddock as the suspected gunman in Las Vegas shootout.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a shooting that killed at least 50 people and wounded over 400 in Las Vegas early on Monday, and said the attacker had converted to Islam a few months ago.

“The Las Vegas attack was carried out by a soldier of the Islamic State and he carried it out in response to calls to target states of the coalition,” the group’s news agency Amaq said in reference to the US-led coalition fighting the group in the Middle East.

(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: isis; islamicterrorism; losvegas; lvmassacre; mandalaymassacre; muslimconvert; muslimkiller; paddock; paddockisis; searchworks; shooting; stephenpaddock; terrorism
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To: txrefugee

Indonesian

Most of that country is mussie. Do we have a Mata Hari?


41 posted on 10/02/2017 8:30:54 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

My 14 year old son mentioned the possibility of a 3D printed weapon this morning, is this really a possibility?


42 posted on 10/02/2017 8:31:10 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Beowulf9

[[I’m new to this story. I just woke up. What happened to the shooter? Is he in custody, dead? Did he jump out the window? What is the broken window with the curtains waving in the wind in the skyscraper? The news says nothing about what is going on with the shooter?]]

Shooter shot out the window to fire on the concert .
Shooter killed himself/or died as law enforcement came into the room . He is dead . They were looking for an Asian woman last night but I don’t know what she has to do with it .


43 posted on 10/02/2017 8:31:46 AM PDT by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: longfellowsmuse

you dont have to print the entire weapon, only the part that converts a semi to auto.


44 posted on 10/02/2017 8:32:31 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Not surprised.

ANTIFA and Islam are cohoots.


45 posted on 10/02/2017 8:32:39 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Not buying it, this was a radial ANTIFA leftist hit on Trump voters. Mark my words.
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That is increasingly becoming synonymous.It was a leftist muslim who radicalized Kaepernick. Both groups hate America and use each other for their own purposes. They will turn on each other at the proper time


46 posted on 10/02/2017 8:32:54 AM PDT by photodawg
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To: ilovesarah2012
And who told them this? Oh yeah - ISIS. SMH

ISIS has been claiming "credit" for just about every mass murder on American and European soil. By doing so, they trick people into believing that they are much larger, more powerful, and influential organization than they really are. Whether or not Paddock really was a convert to Islam and a believer in the jihad cause, I doubt that ISIS had anything to do with this (just as ISIS didn't mastermind the Orlando shooting).

47 posted on 10/02/2017 8:34:24 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

yep, agree.


48 posted on 10/02/2017 8:35:29 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

not to be a pain in the fanny, but this likely was meticulously planned.

The concert, I believe, had been sold out for months. This is why the victim list will include a wide geographic area. Moreover, this would have necessitated blocks of hotel rooms dedicated to these concertgoers very close to the venue.

I’m wondering how someone could have secured a room so close to the venue, under these circumstances, without a lot of planning ahead of time. Some stories suggest this scumbag was using two rooms, but we don’t know this yet.

A young lady I work with attends a bunch of these weekend long concerts that are common in LV. And I sure am worried about her right now.


49 posted on 10/02/2017 8:35:42 AM PDT by Dana1960
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To: jalisco555
All reports within the first 24 hours of incidents like this should be greeted with great skepticism.

At least 24 hours... most likely a lot longer.

50 posted on 10/02/2017 8:36:16 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Lera

Last night on a blog, i read elsewhere that somebody found on girlfriends facebook page she had recently traveled to Dubai. I just assumed fake news, but can anybody confirm. ?


51 posted on 10/02/2017 8:36:18 AM PDT by seastay
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To: Drew68

Jason Aldean’s average fan is a 28 year old dental hygienist named Denise.

He’s not exactly Hank Williams, Jr.


52 posted on 10/02/2017 8:36:24 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: txrefugee

Possible. She is Filipino. They have a lot of problems with Moslems there


53 posted on 10/02/2017 8:36:34 AM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Lera

Not buying it... ISIS looking for propaganda


54 posted on 10/02/2017 8:36:34 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: photodawg

Wow....you mentioned to tie our entire current enemies list into this.

That was impressive to say the least.


55 posted on 10/02/2017 8:37:49 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“Not buying it, this was a radial ANTIFA leftist hit on Trump voters. Mark my words.”

I think you may be right. What about the woman who said another woman told her ‘you’re all going to die tonight’ about 45 minutes before the shooting? The ‘authorities’ and the media are going to have to work overtime to sweep all the inconvenient facts under the rug.


56 posted on 10/02/2017 8:38:53 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Antifa and ISIS are bro's Compatriots The struggle is real
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57 posted on 10/02/2017 8:38:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Lera

Thank you. Nightmare in Vegas.


58 posted on 10/02/2017 8:39:30 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Dana1960

Not only that, but he built platforms to fire off of to get a better angle. This has been planned for a long, long time.


59 posted on 10/02/2017 8:41:04 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The few reliable facts about Paddock that I’ve seen point to disgruntled nutjob that finally snapped (there’s another thread about Paddock recently filing what looks like a trumped-up law suit against a Vegas Casino) rather than a jihadi true believer.


60 posted on 10/02/2017 8:41:34 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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