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NYC jihad bomber “told investigators that he carried out the attack because of recent Israeli actions in Gaza”

Dec 11, 2017 2:16 pm By Robert Spencer

He also said he did it because “they’ve been bombing in my country and I wanted to do damage here.” Apparently he is retailing a whole laundry list of jihadi grievances. The pretexts always shift — jihadis are always taking revenge for this or that — but underneath them all, the jihad imperative remains the same.

“New York explosion: Man detonates pipe bomb in ‘attempted terrorist attack,’ officials say,” by Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, December 11, 2017:

(CNN)A man wearing a homemade pipe bomb detonated his explosive in a walkway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square on Monday, injuring three people and causing chaos in one of the busiest commuter hubs in the city, officials said.

Authorities called the explosion in the terminal at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue an “attempted terrorist attack” and police identified the suspect in custody as Akayed Ullah, 27. They said the attack appears to be isolated.

Motive: Ullah told investigators that he carried out the attack because of recent Israeli actions in Gaza, a law enforcement source said.

More on suspect: He is of Bangladeshi descent and lives in Brooklyn, two law enforcement sources told CNN. Ullah held a Taxi & Limousine Commission license from March 2012 to March 2015, after which the license was not renewed, TLC spokesman Allan Fromberg said. It’s unclear “whether he drove for any particular base, or whether he simply got the license but didn’t drive at all,” Fromberg said.

What his neighbor says: Alan Butrico owns a Brooklyn building next to the home where he says Ullah lives with his family. He told CNN that Ullah lives in the basement, while his sister and brother live above him. “He wasn’t friendly at all. The family was very quiet themselves. They don’t talk to nobody. They just stay there,” he said, adding that his tenants reported hearing “screaming and yelling” coming from Ullah’s home the last two nights. The tenants did not call police, he said.

Type of device: Ullah wore an “improvised low-tech explosive device attached to his body,” which he intentionally detonated, Police Commissioner James O’Neill said. The device, a pipe bomb, was attached to Ullah with Velcro and zip ties, said John Miller, NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism.

How bomb was made: According to a senior New York law enforcement official and a city official being briefed on the investigation, Ullah told police he made the device at his workplace. It’s unclear where he’s employed. Added Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a news conference, “Anyone can go on the Internet and download garbage and vileness on how to put together an amateur-level explosive device, and that is the reality that we live with.”

Being treated: Ullah is now at Bellevue Hospital, where he is being treated for lacerations and burns to his hands and abdomen, New York City Fire Department Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.
Other injuries minor: Two victims at Mount Sinai West and one at Mount Sinai Queens are being treated for headaches and ringing in the ears, Nigro said.

Suspect affiliations: It’s unclear if Ullah is linked to any terror organization, but when asked if Ullah was connected to ISIS, O’Neill responded only that Ullah “did make statements, but we will not talk about that.”…

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  1. PRCS says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 2:17 pm

    That’s what happens when they’ve been “radicalized”.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Dec 11, 2017 at 2:29 pm

      YES, A “LAUNDRY LIST OF JIHADI GRIEVANCES” — as Robert writes above.

      That reminds me of something Pam Geller said several years ago (paraphrasing here) — Muslims always find reasons to be perpetually enraged.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 11, 2017 at 4:34 pm

        THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MUSLIMS BELIEVE THEIR DOCTRINE OF RETRIBUTION!

        Retribution is a COMPULSOR Islamic teaching! Even though Muslims live in the West benefiting from the blessings of freedom, the rule of law and prosperity, they still bring the Honor-Shame Paradigm with them. Honor is restored to a Muslim through the shedding of blood. No kafir is ‘innocent’. All kafirs deserve to be killed only because they reject Mohammed.

        This jihadist also wished to take revenge for the defeat of ISIS.

        -K.11.173 “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”

        -K.2.178 “O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.”

        -“The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land.” (K.5:33) Waging war against Allah is rejecting Him.”–Tafsir of Imam al-Bukhari

        -Imam AbdulLatif ibn AbdurRahman rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed and act upon it, and yet not be hostile against the mushrikeen. So anyone who isn’t hostile against the mushrikeen, then it can’t be said that he acts upon Tawheed, nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]

        -(The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land.) `Wage war’ mentioned here means: oppose and contradict, and it includes (opposing) disbelief.”–Tafsir Ibn Kathir “Surat al-Ma’idah [Q 5]”

        -K. 2.191 And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.

        -K.9:11-12 But if they violate their oaths after their covenant, and taunt you for your Faith, – fight ye the chiefs of Unfaith: for their oaths are nothing to them: that thus they may be restrained.

      • Greyhound Fancier says

        Dec 11, 2017 at 6:13 pm

        The mohammedans are the perpetually pissed off.

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 2:30 pm

    “Recent Israeli actions in Gaza” were RETALIATIONS to rocket-men activity carried from that enclave. Obviously, Mohammedan “thinks” that Jews should just submit and never retaliate to their (Mohammedan) evil actions. How in hell one can dream to make “peace” with that sort of brutes?

    • Frank Anderson says

      Dec 11, 2017 at 2:47 pm

      I think it should be clear to anyone who can read and understand any language to which the Koran has been translated that peace with infidels is a pure delusion born out of gross deliberate ignorance of islam. “Deliberate ignorance constitutes knowledge of the truth.” Wyle v. R.J. Reynolds. All infidels are given 3 choices, “Convert, submit or die.” Any form of resistance is punishable by death.

  3. Chris LA says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    Akayed Ullah, roughly translated from Urdu, means “Allah is One.” It’s nice how Muslims leave their trademark wherever they carry out their evil acts.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Dec 11, 2017 at 6:14 pm

      Allah is one evil bastard!

  4. Westman says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 3:00 pm

    “Attempted Terrorist Act” ???

    Does that mean the two victims have “attempted” concussions and “attempted” hearing loss?

    What drivel…

  5. Paul N Silas says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    As radio host Mark Levin calls them, “An Islamo-Nazi”.

    If Obama, Pelosi, Sanders, The Clintons, Lizzy Warren, or Big Mo himself had a son, they would do the same thing as this sub-human POS did.

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 3:11 pm

    “It’s unclear if Ullah is linked to any terror organization…..”

    Ullah was linked to an organisation whose rulebook says “Strike terror in their hearts”.

    Will that not qualify?

  7. DFD says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 4:02 pm

    Slightly off Topic
    ============

    Here’s an election poster from the CDU (before Merkel came and turned it into the SED, commie party of East Germany): https://zensurfrei.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/cdu-wahlpakat1991.jpg?w=422&h=600

    The slogans read:

    Headline: The misuse/abuse of Asylum has to end

    Followed by the points:

    40,000 asylum files have to be dealt with
    Expulsion of phoney asylum seekers
    Change of Constitution (if need be)

    That was the CDU in 1991 – nowadays ***everybody and everyone/thing*** demanding the same is immediately branded by the “Free Media” (free to do what?) as far-right, Nazi, neo-Nazi, bigot, racist etc. From the AfD on downward.

    NOTE AGAIN:
    That was an election
    ================
    poster of the CDU 1991 !!!!
    ====================

  8. No Fear says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 4:04 pm

    “Here I lay brokenhearted, won’t get my virgins cus I didn’t get martyred…”

    – courtesy Tundra Tabloids website.

  9. Georg says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 4:44 pm

    The Muslim aversion to logic is something for the ages.

  10. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 5:12 pm

    Muslim terrorists are only doing what the Quran prescribes for infidels.
    If this is the new normal I don’t want it and neither would any sane person.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Dec 11, 2017 at 6:16 pm

      Yet, because you don’t care to put up with it, you’re the bad one, you Islamophobe! Shame on you!

  11. Dawn says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 5:16 pm

    Always got to blame it on something or someone. Its your religion of hate . I may not always agree with the issues of the world but I’m not going to kill someone.

  12. WorkingClassPost says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 5:19 pm

    ‘He also said he did it because “they’ve been bombing in my country and I wanted to do damage here.”‘

    Oh my goodness, another cover up … USA bombing Bangladesh!!!

    I wonder how long that’s been going on?

    • Norger says

      Dec 12, 2017 at 1:03 am

      Sam Harris has a great quote on this same point, in his essay entitled “No Ordinary Violence,” with respect to Michael Adebolajo, one of the men who savagely murdered Lee Rigby:

      “[O]ne of the murderers spoke of British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq invading ‘our lands’ and abusing ‘our women.’ Few seemed to wonder how a Londoner of Nigerian descent could feel possessive about Afghan and Iraqi lands and women. There is only one path through the wilderness of bad ideas that reaches such ‘political’ concerns: Islam.”

      • WorkingClassPost says

        Dec 12, 2017 at 5:45 am

        Yes, Norger, and the “wilderness of bad ideas” is a pretty good description of islam and it’s environs.

        And I’d suggest it’s less of a path through but more like a maze constructed entirely within the confines of those very bad ideas.

  13. dumbledoresarmy says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 5:28 pm

    **Does he have US citizenship*??

    If he doesn’t, then after he has served his sentence – and during his term of imprisonment he ought to be segregated from non-Muslim prisoners, to remove any opportunities for ‘prison dawa’ – he must be sent back to Islamic Bangladesh, with his entire family.

    If he does… then US jihadwatchers must contact their elected representatives, citing this case (and any number of others that could be pulled by by a little quiet googling) as reason 1001 why it *should* be possible to *revoke* someone’s US citizenship if that person engages in what can only be described as an *act of war* on American soil, thereby exposing themselves as, in essence, an Enemy Agent, the Enemy being the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob that is hell-bent on achieving Total World Domination.

    Also, tell your elected rep that you desire the immigration ban to be *extended* to cover Muslim Bangladesh.

    Anyone from Bangladesh who *cannot* be firmly and positively identified as a member of the persecuted and oppressed non-Muslim indigenous minorities – Christian, HIndu and Buddhist – should be kept out, period. (Many of Bangladesh’s surviving non-Muslims reside in the Chittagong Hill Tracts where they are being swamped by Bengali Muslims, driven from their homes, even killed). The identity of such people *as* members of those minorities could be confirmed via their local religious leaders – e.g. Catholic priests, in the case of the Christians – who would have contacts amongst the emigre *non-Muslim* Bangladeshi presence already in the US.

  14. underbed cat says

    Dec 12, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    I hope this is not the catch and release program. His attempted operation was in a sanctuary city

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