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Islamic State hacker linked to Garland jihad attack killed in airstrike

Aug 30, 2015 3:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Junaid Hussain74

This is the kind of person that the U.S. intelligentsia was applauding and abetting when it condemned us for standing up for the freedom of speech in Garland.

“U.S. confirms Islamic State computer expert killed in air strike,” Reuters, August 29, 2015:

The U.S. military confirmed on Friday that a British hacker who was one of the Islamic State movement’s top computer experts and active in encouraging people abroad to carry out “lone wolf” attacks was killed in Syria by a U.S. air strike.

Junaid Hussain of Birmingham, England, was killed on Aug. 24 by a U.S. military air strike on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqah, said Air Force Colonel Pat Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command.

Hussain had been involved in “actively recruiting ISIL sympathizers in the west to carry out ‘lone wolf’ style attacks,” Ryder said, using an acronym for the militant group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq.

Hussain was responsible for releasing personal information of around 1,300 U.S. military and government employees in recent weeks, and “sought to encourage” attacks against them, U.S. officials said.

One official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Hussain had also been linked to the release of the names, addresses and photos of 100 U.S. service members on an Islamic State website in March.

Another official said that Washington had evidence that Hussain was in contact with two men who were shot dead when they tried to attack a “Draw Mohammed” cartoon contest in Garland, Texas in early May.

Islamic State claimed in a radio message after the shooting that the two men were “brothers” connected to the group….

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  1. KrazyKafir says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    Seems the POS was out-hacked.

  2. mortimer says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    The Obama administration still hasn’t understood that freedom of expression is the way to stop Islam.

    • Anne Tyler says

      Aug 31, 2015 at 4:21 am

      Probably Obama doesn’t realize because he doesn’t want to stop Islam, after all, he stated unequivocally that in the final analysis he would stand with Islam. How did we end up with a president who would say that? LYING PROPAGANDIZING MEDIA who covered up who he was is how. The time is past I think where the news media see’s itself in an investigative watchdog role, sadly, they are now just the opposite it seems. Somewhere along the line I must have missed something – there seem to be more than a few people who are ready to switch sides and betray this country. It’s a crazy world.

      • Karen says

        Aug 31, 2015 at 1:26 pm

        Yes, the old school media are in the post-journalism era. Granted, it was a short era. But for about 20-30 years it had great ideals, although those have now all been flushed. Thank heavens for the new, alternative media, such as Jihad Watch.

        Your first point is also excellent; never before have so many people conspired to hide information and cover the tracks of a presidential candidate; no publication of transcripts, medical records, student theses, and I won’t even mention that other document…..(hint: it states date of birth and location.). Tends to put a damper on free and open discussion of a candidates merits, doesn’t it?

        • Anne Tyler says

          Aug 31, 2015 at 2:19 pm

          And of course the ultimate slap-in-the-face the media oddly has never questioned and/or reminded Hussein the Horrible about – “My administration will be the MOST TRANSPARENT” – made to much applause and ballyhoo. What a total con job. I’m offended – I’m sure a lot of people who aren’t brain-dead idiots are offended. The rest of the apathetic American world snoozes on so that in addition to being offended I am really pissed the hell off because I remember an America populated with patriots proud to declare their love for her – now the majority appear to be spineless lizards.

    • Julie says

      Aug 31, 2015 at 10:38 am

      Obama loves Islam and deems it to be beautiful with many charming attributes. His Valerie Jarret is his brain and he doesn’t mind being her puppet. She probably tells him when to use the bathroom and blow his nose.

  3. Wellington says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    As I’ve written before, the only good Islamic terrorist is a dead Islamic terrorist——-like this no longer alive bastard.

  4. y.m says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    Freedom of speech is the death of Islam. Western countries no need to fight with Muslims with sword just protect the freedom of speech in your countries and terrorism will fanish.

  5. Jack Diamond says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 4:48 pm

    Been expected, number three on the Pentagon “kill list” and maybe careless (remembering he and Mrs. Terror personally trying to recruit fictional wanna be British jihadis, invented by a freelance journalist)
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/only-a-matter-of-time-islamic-state-jihadis-in-uk-ready-to-attack

    In other news, Sally Jones is now available again (and rumored to have snuck back into England, terrific security blokes).

  6. Mirren10 says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    Woo hoo !

    I do like a feel good story !

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    Lured like a moth to the flame. I expect his wife is still at large terrorising ‘ordinary’ women.

  8. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    So the aborted Jihad mass murder attempt in Garland TX involved an ISIS Mujahidin pulling the strings remotely, and the guy is from the Sultantate of Birmingham, no less. Let it stand then that the stated goal of fully internationalizing the Global Jihad has been done.

    Let it also be known that the bleatings of Ivy League morons Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham were correct, the only non-stupid non-self-serving course of action is self-censorship when it comes to Moslems.

    Caliph Ibrahim is playing the piano and hitting all his notes. Allahu Akbar.

  9. Henry Page says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 4:10 am

    The only thing that is sad about this is that the drone can’t be re-used …

  10. Scott in PA says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 10:07 am

    More evidence that the good guys at DoD will protect us no matter what Obama thinks. Especially when protecting their own. I’ll bet the Colonel is facing an angry Obama right now.

  11. Frederick king says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 10:44 am

    May he serve as a virgin in gay heaven for all eternity.

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