Report: No Direct Link Yet Found Between ISIL And Garland Shooting

Personnel remove the bodies of two gunmen, Monday, May 4, 2015, in Garland, Texas. Police shot and killed the men after they opened fire on a security officer outside the suburban Dallas venue, which was hosting prov... Personnel remove the bodies of two gunmen, Monday, May 4, 2015, in Garland, Texas. Police shot and killed the men after they opened fire on a security officer outside the suburban Dallas venue, which was hosting provocative contest for Prophet Muhammad cartoons Sunday night, authorities said. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade) MORE LESS
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Investigators have not yet found a direct link between the Islamic State and the gunmen who opened fire on officers outside a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, on Sunday, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Law enforcement officials told the LA Times that although it appears that the suspects, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were influenced by foreign terrorist groups, investigators do “not at this point” believe that the Islamic State or another group directed the gunmen to carry out the attack.

Simpson communicated with Somalian and Syrian jihadi fighters over social media, but law enforcement officials have not found any link between those interactions and the attack in Garland. Simpson reportedly communicated with an individual who goes by the name Mujahid Miski through Twitter.

Earlier this week, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on the Muhammad cartoon contest.

On Tuesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest called the shooting an “act of terror,” but said it was “too early to say” whether ISIL was involved in the attack.

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  1. Well, if’n y’all jes wahtch that there Fox News, y’all’d know that it was Eye Sill, and that there Kenyan Muslin socialist uslurper a’livin’ in our Wyatt Hows put 'em up to it.

  2. I don’t think ISIL really had anything to do with it. What it DID have something to do with was a 15-year-old with a computer in this mom’s basement and trying to sound really important for the first time in his life.

  3. Dead enders; you know, just a couple of bad apples with guns. Nothing to see here, move along.

  4. do “not at this point” believe

    Everybody’s got to clap their hands or Tink er, the link will die…

  5. Avatar for vwjan vwjan says:

    And they never will…

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