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originally posted by: ipsedixit
The perp in this case was a troubled individual with a police record and a history of psychiatric treatment. His doctor in Tunisia, who treated him when he was much younger said that he was slightly psychotic but at the time the condition did not appear to be dangerous. A neighbor said she saw him drinking and carousing with some girl during Ramadan and therefore he is not considered to have been an observant Muslim, but more like a "nominal" Muslim. His family have said that he wasn't "religious".
He didn't have much going for him, which is why it is not surprising to read that days before the attack he sent a large sum of money home to his family. It could be that he was approached by ISIS connected militants in France and basically paid to be a suicide attacker. This is part of the jihadi modus operandi, convincing someone to do a suicide attack as a way of endowing their family with money they could otherwise never provide. This has been a feature of some suicide bombings.
www.dailymail.co.uk... sia-DAYS-murdering-84-Nice.html
'Mohamed sent the family 240,000 Tunisian Dinars (£84,000) in the last few days,' Jaber Bouhlel told MailOnline.
'He used to send us small sums of money regularly like most Tunisians working abroad. But then he sent us all that money, it was fortune.
'He sent the money illegally. He gave cash to people he knew who were returning to our village and asked them to give it to the family.'
He'd get angry and shout and broke everything in front of him. He was violent and very ill.
Jaber Bouhlel
He added: 'My brother is not a terrorist.'
His father also insisted that Bouhlel was mentally ill and not a radicalised soldier as claimed today by ISIS.
Note: The French Ministry of the Interior should probably considering offering to double the amount offered to anyone for a suicide attack, conditional upon identifying those who make the offer and giving proof of the offer. If it worked it would be a cheap way of preventing this type of incident.
www.dailymail.co.uk... pressed-marriage-breakdown-deadly-attack.html
Yesterday, he was stopped by police just hours before he crushed scored of people ...
He told officers that he was delivering ice-cream to the area and was allowed to park on the waterfront for several hours.
www.dailymail.co.uk...
...eyewitnesses revealed that police vans which were parked to block off the promenade in Nice were moved just hours before the lorry driven by Bouhlel carried out his attack. ... French authorities withdrew four police vans which blocked off the Promenade des Anglais, reports the Sunday Telegraph.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: yuppa
Just curious, how would we deport the homegrown fundamentalists that commit terrorist acts or are involved with ISIS?
Seems they are a problem for our own judicial system to take care of.
As to the rest of the people who meet the criteria for deportation, how are we going to stop them from returning given the problems we already face regarding the influx of refuges from numerous different nations?
Seems to me any such scheme would be fraught with difficulty to begin with, both politically and financially.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: yuppa
Just curious, how would we deport the homegrown fundamentalists that commit terrorist acts or are involved with ISIS?
Seems they are a problem for our own judicial system to take care of.
As to the rest of the people who meet the criteria for deportation, how are we going to stop them from returning given the problems we already face regarding the influx of refuges from numerous different nations?
Seems to me any such scheme would be fraught with difficulty to begin with, both politically and financially.
originally posted by: Flanker86
I guess it's about time that politician like Manuel Valls learn to accept the "new normal" of resignation for being a total moronic FAIL!!!
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: yuppa
I dont agree with censorship of the internet, although the motives are just it would extend to other areas. Plus simple use of a VPN could circumvent any such measures
As to killing or or implanting people with explosives devices???
Now you are entering the realms of science fiction. Morally, ethically and technologically.
Sorry but the suggestions you propose are laughable. The world you would create would be worse off than the one we have now.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: yuppa
Well maybe if Trump gets to be POTUS he will propose something similar.
On a more serious note what you are suggesting would be political suicide for any party that proposed such an idea.
While the motive for the attack is still under investigation, it is worth examining why the Islamic State is so eager to claim such incidents as its own. On the surface, ramming a truck into a crowd of people gathered to watch Bastille Day fireworks seems like an act of pure nihilism. No military target was hit. Initial reports suggest that the killings may lead to French attacks on ISIS’s already-diminishing territories in Iraq and Syria. And French Muslims, many of whom were reportedly killed in the attack, will likely face security crackdowns and popular backlash from a public angry and fearful in the wake of another incomprehensible act of mass murder.
But the Islamic State’s statements and history show that such an outcome is exactly what it seeks. In the February 2015 issue of its online magazine Dabiq, the group called for acts of violence in the West that would “[eliminate] the grayzone” by sowing division and creating an insoluble conflict in Western societies between Muslims and non-Muslims. Such a conflict would force Muslims living in the West to “either apostatize … or [migrate] to the Islamic State, and thereby escape persecution from the crusader governments and citizens.”
Yesterday it was revealed that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel sent $110,000 to his family in Tunisia days before attack. Now we learn that the Nice Jihadi was sending texts about his increased arsenal of weapons just before the attack. Not the actions of a lone wolf or a lunatic. It was Islam. It was jihad.
“‘Bring more weapons… It’s good. I have the equipment’: Terrifying final text messages of Bastille Day killer sent MINUTES before he murdered 84 people,” by Fidelma Cook and Abe Hawken, Mailonline, July 17, 2016:
originally posted by: UnifiedSerenity
Not sure if this has been posted, but earlier it was reported that there were conflicting accounts of lone gunman verses organized attack. According to this story, the driver sent out a text asking for more weapons, thus he was not a lone gunman.
No lone wolf: Nice jihad murderer sent text message “BRING MORE WEAPONS” just before massacre
Yesterday it was revealed that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel sent $110,000 to his family in Tunisia days before attack. Now we learn that the Nice Jihadi was sending texts about his increased arsenal of weapons just before the attack. Not the actions of a lone wolf or a lunatic. It was Islam. It was jihad.
“‘Bring more weapons… It’s good. I have the equipment’: Terrifying final text messages of Bastille Day killer sent MINUTES before he murdered 84 people,” by Fidelma Cook and Abe Hawken, Mailonline, July 17, 2016:
The question now is what will France's response be in light of this information. Just more hand wringing?
originally posted by: misfit312
a reply to: UKTruth
Do you think his plan involved the truck the whole time? Or that he and others were going to do a group thing with guns?
I'm just curious why more weapons if he planned on the truck..
They might have arrested 7 but we know there are more out there waiting..
originally posted by: UKTruth
Also now confirmed that the terrorists computer showed that he was searching for ISIS material prior to the attack.
He also texted someone during the attack asking them to bring more guns.
Radical Islamic Terrorist attack.