Posted on 10/02/2017 4:34:07 PM PDT by SkyPilot
The shooter in Sunday nights mass slaughter of 59 concert goers in Las Vegas, identified as 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, a man with no criminal history, is now being investigated for possible ties to Islamic terrorists.
At least 527 people were injured in what was described by Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as a well-coordinated attack.
ISIS claimed credit in an Arabic-language website, but authorities immediately tried to debunk the claim saying they had no evidence to support it.
We will investigate that down to the end, but thus far nothing has been found to connect Paddock to international terrorism, Lombardo said at one of four news conferences held Monday on the shooting.
We have determined, to this point, no connection to an international terrorist group, said an unidentified spokesman for the FBI in a brief statement at a news conference at 11:40 a.m. Monday in Las Vegas.
The questions stemmed from a Twitter posting by the group Site Intel Group that ISIS spokesman Amaq has claimed Paddock was one of its soldiers who converted to Islam months ago.
BREAKING: #ISIS claimed #LasVegas attack, reporting through Amaq that executor is one of its soldiers & he converted to Islam months ago pic.twitter.com/4E85vEIUzH
SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) October 2, 2017
The statement, in Arabic, read, Attacker of the #Las_Vegas shooting is a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to targeting coalition countries, Jihadoscope, a cybermonitoring company that monitors jihadi activity, confirmed in a translation sent to Newsweek.
Michael S. Smith II, co-founder of terror analysis company Kronos Advisory, who regularly tracks ISIS activity, also confirmed to Newsweek the claim of responsibility and the claim about Paddocks conversion.
After media continued to discredit the ISIS claims, the terrorist organization doubled down by sending out...
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When the Ft. Lauderdale shooter hit the front pages almost a year ago, the first reports were that he was a National Guard Vet and that it was "the war" that was responsible. We found out that the scumbag was attending a mosque in Alaska and that he was a convert to the peaceful religion that likes to kill infidels.
The FBI, local law enforcement, the presstitutes ALL have a goal of hiding Islamic connections to terrorism. Amereica's FIRST Muslim President worked hard to make it that way.
Orlando and Las Vegas were very successful with 50 murders being about the best a lone Muslim has achieved so far. I am sure ISIS and their followers are working hard to kill more westerners with the goal of hundreds of innocent people killed with each terror attack.
Do not be surprised when the peacceful Muslims attack a school and kill hundreds of innocent children. The Koran directs the Muslims to bring terror to the infidels. This they will do until all Muslims are removed from the west.
I want to know who turned all the lights on so the shooter could see, at beginning they were all off. Probably some stagehand thought it would help
I suppose its the deep state pulling levers. The Saudis have plenty of petro dollars to throw around to US officials to keep their mouths shut.
Did ISIS ever repeat a false claim with persistence?
If they keep insisting that this was their man, I’d be curious.
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