The Islamic State on Tuesday allegedly claimed responsibility for the shooting outside a Muhammed cartoon contest near Dallas through its official radio station, Agence France-Press reported.
“Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this exhibit was portraying negative pictures of the Prophet Mohammed,” ISIL claimed, according to AFP.
Two gunmen were killed on Sunday after they opened fire outside a cartoon contest held by an anti-Islam group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
According to news reports, law enforcement officials have identified Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi as the two suspects in the attack. The two lived together in Phoenix. Simpson had been previously identified by the FBI as a terror suspect. According to his lawyer for a 2010 case, Simpson may have been on the FBI’s no-fly list, but “seemed pretty normal.”
Do they really want to take credit for a miserable failure and serious ass kicking?
Really?
Two gunmen were killed on Sunday after they opened fire outside a cartoon contest held by an anti-Islam group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative
You guys did a heckuva job, there Icey Guys!
Conveniently, both attackers are dead. So ISIL gets a little new bump, and all the wingnut islamophobes get another excuse for screaming about the muslim threat in the US. Which ultimately helps ISIL as well.
It’s hard to say what success or failure came of this incident. The two gunmen traded their lives for a nonfatal wound, so in terms of loss ratios and mission accomplishment they were 0 for 2. The art exhibit on the other hand fully accomplished their mission of provoking not only the feel good killing of two men, but gave ISIL, al Qaeda, and the less well known terrorist groups a perfect propaganda recruiting event to replenish their forces. Our soldiers now face more enemy combatants than before the art exhibit. U.S. soldiers will die as a direct result. I rather doubt this will be the last attack on our nation’s turf. So a special big Thank You! to everyone who perpetrated this little exercise in fucking insanity.
I hate everyone involved in this incident.