“We don’t have any nexus of terrorism at this point,” Ragan said.
That means they didn’t find an ISIS membership card in his wallet, or lots of phone calls to Iraq or Syria, or a note from Kazi reading, “I did this for Allah and Islam. Allahu akbar.”
Of course, even if they had found those things, given their track record of denial and deception, they may still be searching for Kazi’s motive. In any case, a larger point is being lost here. And that is that there is a war going on. We know that the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other groups have called upon Muslims in the U.S. to try to kill military personnel and police, as well as civilians. We know that Kazi, with all the propane and gas tanks in his car, was clearly trying to set off a major fire that would kill more people than just himself. Even if he wasn’t on the phone to Baghdadi, the likelihood is that when a Muslim drives into a U.S. Air Force Base with a car full of incendiaries, probably this has something to do with the global jihad.
The FBI’s bafflement here is part of its deep, deep corruption. The FBI doesn’t acknowledge that there is a global jihad, or that Islam has anything to do with terrorism. It doesn’t admit that there is a war going on, and treats each act of Islamic terror as if it were a separate and discrete criminal event, unrelated to all the others. So each time something like this happens, they’re back at Square One, trying to figure out motive. It’s as if the U.S. Army stopped to interrogate every German soldier who crashed through the Ardennes Forest at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, to see if each one’s actions had anything to do with the German Army and Adolf Hitler’s war aims.
This willful ignorance leads to a diversion and waste of resources that is astronomical and catastrophic.
“Motive a mystery in car explosion at Travis Air Force Base,” by Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2018:
Federal investigators on Friday said that the person who drove a burning minivan filled with propane and gas tanks into the front gate of Travis Air Force Base in Northern California was a 51-year-old Bay Area man originally from India.
Hafiz Kazi was a legal permanent resident and had lived in the United States since 1993, said Sean Ragan, FBI special agent in charge of the Sacramento field office. Kazi had lived in the Bay Area, including Sausalito, Ragan said, but his most recent place of residence was not known.
Investigators have yet to determine a motive for the Wednesday night attack or evidence that anyone else was involved.
“We don’t have any nexus of terrorism at this point,” Ragan said, adding that aspect of the case was still being investigated. “Now the question is, why. Why was he there? What led him there? And we don’t know answers to that, quite frankly.”
Kazi drove the Kia minivan through the front gate of the military base, which is near Fairfield, around 7 p.m. Wednesday. Security personnel saw flames inside the van, which crashed shortly after going through the gate, Ragan said.
Emergency responders initially did not know if it was an attack or some sort of mishap. But when they opened the doors to the minivan they found five propane tanks, three plastic one-gallon gas cans, several lighters, three phones and a gym bag with personal items, Ragan said….
The dead man’s religious beliefs and affiliation are not known at this point, said Ragan, who debunked a rumor that some sort of “jihad” video was found on Kazi’s phone….
lalluprasad says
common link is MUSLIM RELIGION
Andy says
Terrorist attack update………….REALLY FBI???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96CvHSvBGcQ
underbed cat says
The FBI is working under the guidelines of the CVE, Countering Violent Extremism…it is possible since the words were purged long ago, the words of vehicular “jihad’ is not included since it is related to Islam however the FBI does recognize sharia law also from Islam as they are taught it is their duty to not offend muslims since they do not want to risk loosing the cover of a peaceful religion that may have just struck the gate of a military base completely on fire. Mental illness, KKK, white supremacist, racist, mental illness or an Islamophobe. or an accidental drive thru..Our military has been working risking their lives abroad …..must be mystified here at home.
J D S says
Yes….ialluprasad I agree the common link is Islam but the igniter of the atrocities of today was and Is ISIS and the common thread is Muslims. And it continues as the world stands still.
Roland says
You can’t fix stupid, I believe is the answer – and that’s what happens when your politics helps put you in denial!
jihad3tracker says
AT THE END OF THAT ARTICLE IS A RED BAR FOR COMMENTS. ON MY ANCIENT MESSED UP BROWSER, IT DID NOT FUNCTION — NO COMMENT FORM APPEARED.
But, please, all the rest of you chime in with the TRUTH ABOUT KAZI’S OBVIOUS JIHAD. Include a few relevant citations from the Qur’an, and a link to Robert’s post & remarks, above.
mike9a says
Harvesting the fruits of 8 years buma’s presidency
Jaladhi says
Under Obama FBI was dumbed down and that is why FBI can’t find any motive for this Muslim to attack the Air Force Base. Ask FBI to read Quran to find motive of this terror attack!! Quran is full of terror instructions to Muslims which they follow faithfully!!
bert says
If the FBI read the Koran, that would be Islamophobic.
Carolyne says
The FBI is the most corrupt of all the corrupt government agencies. Their goal is to depose our legally elected president and to take over the country so that they can continue their coup d’ tat unhindered.
revereridesagain says
Robert, the FBI will do anything it can to avoid associating religious dogma with criminal acts. Decades ago I did a lot of cult investigation work including ritualized abuse of children. (Yes, it did happen. No, it was not a “panic’, “satanic” or otherwise.) One Supervisory Special Agent of their vaunted Behavioral Science Unit told me that there was no way to characterize a crime as “ritual” because anything can be a “ritual”.
“Thanksgiving dinner is a ritual!” he declared triumphantly, as if this settled the argument.
Well, I guess that means, to the FBI at least, that blowing up a jeep full of propane tanks on a U.S. Air Force Base when you’re a Muslim is just — Thanksgiving dinner!
CogitoErgoSum says
But the turkey was burnt.
LeftisruiningCanada says
he sure was
Karen says
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JM says
“We are not weasels.”
– former FBI Director James Comey lying under oath at a House Judiciary Committee hearing in September 2016, in an attempt to provide cover for Hillary Clinton’s multiple felonious actions
And Comey was in bed with the Clintons for years.
Comey’s predecessor Robert Mueller expunged all references to Islam in the FBI’s training materials, at the request of one Barack Hussein Obama.
Clearly there are many good agents, but the fish rots starting at the top.
Comey and Mueller were both unfit to hold their important position as FBI Director.
The FBI is part of the the problem in D.C. Keep draining the swamp.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“And Comey was in bed with the Clintons for years”
About this i have no doubt.
But i refuse to think of it any more than that.
Carolyne says
And they most certainly are weasels.
duh swami says
They can ‘maybe’ get rid of guns but they can’t get rid of the desire to kill…If no gun is available a van and propane tanks will do,,,Is it time to ban vans and propane tanks?
Robin Banks says
“Hafiz Kazi …, religious beliefs and affiliation are not known.”
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Such an absolute mystery destined remain unsolved. What possible motive could someone named Hafiz Kazi have to attack an American military installation? I’m stumped.
Declan Hickey says
Looks like strategic denial. The FBI knows that it’s jihad. They’re using the same tactic that’s used with ordinary suicides. Long ago it was discovered that reporting suicides actually increased the suicide rate. Here in Vancouver BC, very few suicides are reported yet many of our bridges have anti-climb railings.
Play it out……If you were planning to “smite the infidels”, might you have second thoughts if it seemed like nobody would understand the motive or even hear about your “martyrdom”?
mortimer says
HINT FOR DETECTIVES AT FBI:
The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO AGAIN TO MY FRIEND MORTIMER, AKA “Nail-Muslims-To-The-Wall-Of-Jihad-Truth”.
Just a FYI — I emailed the reporter of that article (Phil Willon), and emphatically urged him to contact Robert for comments on the FBI’s cluelessness, and fundamental Islamic directives which led Kazi to his toasted marshmallow demise.
Yes, you and I both know how often MSM reporters will ask questions of Pam Geller or Robert, and then use only the responses that never touch on REALITY. But, let’s see if this LA Times guy has a few ethical professional journalism molecules lurking under his hat.
mortimer says
J3T, the EDITORS will ‘spike’ articles that do not fit the GLOBALIST ‘NARRATIVE’ that Islam is benign.
Even if the article is perfectly written and exceeds professional standards the EDITORS will refuse articles that make ISLAM look bad. Their globalist boss don’t want it!
They want articles where a Muslim helps someone, not where jihadists hurt people and lie about it.
jihad3tracker says
I agree — Goodnight from my Northern Virginiastan secret hideaway. Have a pleasant Sunday, Sir.
Japetto Danatelli says
We know that the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other groups have called upon Muslims in the U.S. to try to kill military personnel and police, as well as civilians. R. Spencer
So true, their soldiers live among us. Imagine if Putin had people in our nation who were mass-raping our people, committing multiple acts of terror, and building huge communist enclaves. Of course the left would probably welcome them in, but that’s not my point. The point is, such actions would be deemed war-like and treated as such. But since islam is a “religion” we all gotta tolerate the rape of our people, the loss freedom, and the destruction of our nation and culture. It’s like the rug of sound morality has been pulled out from under us only to be replaced by the demented aims of a filthy demon. It’s as if a handful of satanic globalists have taken control of the world with occult magic and turned us all into a bunch of chicken-croaking hypnotized fools.
“The FBI…treats each act of Islamic terror as if it were a separate and discrete criminal event, unrelated to all the others.” R. Spencer
Again, spot on. Hundreds of documents were deemed “innapropriate” material for training purposes in the FBI, decimating their intel of its most substantive information. It’s like trying to combat organized crime while ignoring the obvious clues as to the shared motives and aims of the criminals. The shared motives of mainstream muslims and terrorists are the same, which is the forced conversion of all non-muslims to islam and enacting sharia, this is their shared goal even if most muslims aren’t violent themselves. So those two factions within islam are working together, one provides the moral and religious justification while the other provides the actual terror–or muscle–to back it up. If our crime fighters can’t even connect the obvious dots in all this then they will miss the obvious conclusions. And the obvious conclusion is that islamic doctrine is a violent ideology of hate and war against all non-muslims, and that the terrorists and muslim majority are making a concerted real-world effort to execute the evil aims of that doctrine in obeisance to their god.
“We cannot combat and defeat radical Islamic terrorism without acknowledging it exists and directing our resources to stopping it…” Ted Cruz at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Islamic terrorism
Radical islam does exist, and it exists in muslims’ most sacred writings as a religious doctrine to be followed and enforced by any means necessary. It also exists in the minds of millions of muslims who embrace those doctrines as divine truth. These teachings are their highest morality and, as they say, superior to any other government or law on the planet. They may not be violent themselves but their aims are, and so are their fellow muslims who commit terror to bring those aims to fruition. If our FBI and other law enforcement can’t even admit what muslims admit themselves then they’ll be more like well-intentioned but idiotic firemen, always stamping out fires but too dumb to use water and hose.
Indiana Tom says
“Motive a mystery in car explosion at Travis Air Force Base,”
Radical Quakers, no doubt.
gravenimage says
FBI can’t figure out motive of Muslim who drove burning minivan full of propane tanks onto Travis Air Force Base
………………
Could it be…Islam?
Debi Brand says
I don’t know, g.i.
I’m thinking, ‘ guessing, this was, more than likely, nothing more than an honest mistake, perhaps more than just one.
As in, very likely, Hafiz was going camping.
And, regretfully, he took a wrong turn, hence, the mentioned “Kia minivan through the front gate of the military base.”
Then, pouring fuel to that error, he had over-packed. Hence the noted, “five propane tanks, three plastic one-gallon gas cans, several lighters, three phones and a gym bag.”
Then, even making matters worse, add to those unfortunate errors, so excited was Hafiz for this camping trip, in his excitement, long before reaching his intended camp site, he, erroneously, right there in the mini-van, he pre-maturely started his camp fire. Hence the mentioned “Security personnel” who stated, they “saw flames inside the van. ”
Hence, this unfortunate mishap.
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Debi Brand says
+ indeed.
USA Ret. says
I must chime in again, when I was an Equal Opportunity Rep for the commander in the U.S. Army, it was my job to accommodate Muslims during Ramadan, so much time and effort was required, that I asked the command if I should have the mess hall prepare special meals, give them a room facing Mecca complete with prayer mats…
The response was shocking to me: they said Sergeant, if anything goes wrong here at the Fort concerning the Muslims, we will have you court martialed !!! I had almost twenty years in, with a good record.
To my relief, the Battalion Master Sergeant (who happened to be black) went to bat for me!
A few months later, Ft. Hood had its tragedy from Major Hasan, a psychologist no less, (and I have heard rumors his promotion was pushed through)…
Anyway, it seems to me that today’s officers are more concerned with their careers, than with the welfare of the majority of their troops, and it hasn’t gotten any better, only worse!
It used to be the military was able to legally discriminate, based on the good of the force, but a LT Col I still know said, apparently this is no longer the case!
Thanks allot “Obummer”, you went unchecked by the laws of the land, even after 9-11 and have helped to tear down the force, in my estimation!
Japetto Dnatelli says
Your story just goes to show how deeply the islamic mindset has infiltrated our society. The fact that you were threatened is totally consistent with how our muslim appeasers treat good citizens. They are completely on board with the islamic agenda, they are fully dedicated to facilitating the destruction of our freedoms and culture for islam. People wonder how the holocaust could happen, the evil of it was so monumental. But we know how, everyone did their own little part to make it happen. No one person had to bear the full brunt of the crime, they were all tiny cogs in the Nazi murder machine. I see islam in the same way, muslims and their leftists allies all give their own little kicks and pokes to achieve islamic supremacy. In the end the consequence will be a monumental humanitarian crime as big as the holocaust. The brutality, the oppression, the murder, the loss of freedom, will come because the supremacists all did their own little part to make it happen. There’s nothing untrue or exaggerating about what I just said. It’s already happening in Europe as those nations turn into theocratic dictatorships for islam. Soon most of Europe will be back to the middle ages for religious supremacy and all the evils it spawns. And we’ll all be lamenting, “remember when Europe used to be free?”
USA Ret. says
Thank you Japetto Dnatelli, I can hardly conceive just how fast our once great western nations, have been sold out by politicians, to such extremes to the likes which you have mentioned.
Even more demoralizing to me, is just how quickly a nation’s people will be discarded to accommodate such perversity! I must say, that I feel much better in just knowing that some people do register this great injustice to our freedom.
gravenimage says
Thanks for this information, USA Ret.. I wish I were surprised.
Arthur says
Was he delivering fuel for an upcoming pig roast?
Was he going to return extra tanks and mistook the Air Force base for the Home Depot?
Was it one of those quirky GPS mixups?
Was he trying to rig up his SUV to run on propane, like the utility company trucks do, to reduce emissions?
Was the Bay Area having a cold snap and he thought he might just warm up the car more quickly this way?
Were the LP tanks confused for fire extinguishers?
Did he think they were helium tanks, perhaps thinking he could practice talking like a duck?
Did he think the Air Force might be able to make a rush delivery of these LP tanks to some friend’s BBQ party?
Was there a sudden, unexplained bolt of lightning that unfortunately ignited one of the tanks?
Was he making a delivery for the AFB to provide a breathing support for a secret Area 51 outer space alien being held at the AFB who is from a planet with a propane atmosphere?
Was he trying to pass an Organic Chemistry practical exam with the question, “Given unlimited propane, a cigarette lighter, and some smelly aftershave, synthesize Vitamin A”?
Man, it’s a good thing we’ve got the best and the brightest at the FBI to figure this out because I’m just clean out of ideas.
CogitoErgoSum says
Unofficial list of those suspected by the FBI of being behind this incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2JcpolIQU
LeftisruiningCanada says
😀
jihad3tracker says
HELLO TO ARTHUR AND COGITO —- Thanks to both of you for my first hearty horselaugh on an early Sunday morning.
Chand says
True Believer wanted to go to Paradise himself and wanted to send others to Hellfire but Allah had other plans. Need brains to make a workable bomb. Just the desire for revenge won’t do.
Eric jones says
When a flaming vehicle is approaching a military installation it should be fired on. It should never have gotten through the gate. When my Dad was on active duty every guard at a gate had a side arm. This should never have happened
At SAC bases everyone has to get out of the car before going any further. Is our armed forces currently disarmed in fact and in training?
Eric
Hogdude says
I didn’t know a radical Muslim had to have a nexus other than his religion.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO HOGDUDE — I have previously mentioned this jolt of truth by Dr. Bill Warner, but it is relevant again: “There are no lone wolves in Islam. Every Muslim travels with two companions — Muhammad and Allah.”
Many more excellent items about The Religion Of Shredded Pieces, are in his website: www [dot] politicalislam [dot] com.
For new discoverers of Jihad Watch, here are superb videos by another of our absolute best counter-jihad experts (Dr. David Wood): “The Jihad Triangle” / “Three Questions For Moderate Muslims” / “What Is Taqiyya?” / “Three Stages Of Jihad” / “The Psychology Of Islam”.
They range from short (under 5 minutes) to long (about an hour). Begin with “The Jihad Triangle” if you have only a small slice of time. But PLEASE WATCH IT WHEN NOT MULTI-TASKING WITH OTHER STUFF.
Other places that deepen our understanding of Islam: www [dot] citizenwarrior [dot] com / http://www.barenakedislam [dot] com / www [dot] inquiryintoislam [dot] com / www [dot] therelgionofpeace [dot] com.
And, finally, a blog by THE MOST COURAGEOUS CIVILIAN IN OUR UNITED STATES — PAMELA GELLER: www [dot] gellerreport [dot] com. She is a partner with Robert Spencer at AFDI (American Freedom Defense Initiative).
GET AWARENESS INTO ACTION. Copy and paste this comment in emails, for your clueless relatives, friends, pastors, rabbis, priests, city administrator, state representative, TV station CEO. Remind them that we are in a long-lasting war for survival.
ISLAM’S INTENDED VICTORY IS DEATH FOR ALL OF US. What side are we on ???
I
finallyhope4us says
Just saw an unbelievable and eye opening documentary on newsmax the other night. It’s called, Jihad in America: Deception. I strongly recommend everyone watch it. It uses intelligence gathering sources and hard evidence to clearly explain and expose the undeniable truth.
R Russell says
We have the same problem in the UK.
Earlier this month a Muslim man drove a Suzuki Vitara into a crowd of people leaving a nightclub. 13 were hospitalised. Thankfully none died.
In spite of ISIS having told its followers that vehicle jihad was a good way to kill the unbelievers, the police have told us this incident is not terror related.
Denial eventually turns into delusion. I think we are already there.
jewdog says
Was the base holding a barbecue?
CogitoErgoSum says
Propane. Can’t have a good party without it.
———————————————-
If you want to hang out, you’ve gotta take her out,
Propane
If you want to get down, down on the ground,
Propane
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie,
Propane
If you got bad news, you want to kick them blues,
Propane
When your day is done, and you want to run
Propane
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie,
Propane
If your day is gone, and you want to ride on,
Propane
Don’t forget this fact, you can’t get it back,
Propane
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie,
Propane
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie,
Propane
(Ripped off from J.J. Cale’s “Cocaine”)
CogitoErgoSum says
BTW, I want to add that there is another connection between propane and cocaine. One will burn you up; the other will burn you out. I don’t want to be misunderstood here. There’s nothing funny about that.
Debi Brand says
Like, totally, jewdog and Cognito.
Nobody wants to think of other possibilities– like jewdog said, perhaps Hafiz had been invited to “the” barbeque the base was holding; and like cognito pointed out, the irreparableness, the therefore, invaluableness, the multi-usefulness of propane…
So many, so often, all too ready to think the worst of those guided by Qur’an memorization…
CogitoErgoSum says
We may have stumbled onto something. The man’s failure to stop at the military base’s gates might be explained by his becoming disoriented from leaking propane fumes. Maybe what’s left of the man’s corpse could provide more clues. But why did the man have so much propane in his car? A better explanation of ALL the possibilities would have helped instead of leading people to believe the FBI doesn’t have a clue. I’m sure they DO have some clues. They just made themselves look silly.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Was the base holding a barbecue?”
Kind of.
gravenimage says
OK–now *that* is funny.
Politicianophobia says
Now, now, children, we all know the Devil made him do it.
CogitoErgoSum says
The Devil and propane ……… the perfect match.
ByGeorge says
The FBI just took a big hit after they were exposed organizing a Coup d’tete against the President of the United States. Now, someone wants to further demonstrate their incomoetence by revealing they can’t figure out the motives of an Islamic terrorist, It’s all in a single book, the Koran. Consult it and get educated and cease this BS excuses for Muslim crimes. They don’t need to be here, at all. Islam is incompatible with the Western democracies and culture. Stop importing theirs.
Seagoat says
You need to remember you have to have a college education in or to be an agent but when they Don’t teach or engage in critical thinking this is what you get, or learn to think outside the box you get mediocre agents, they are afraid to go against the superiors. The left leaning instructors teach only what is necessary.
ronyvo says
I thought that president Trump educated the ignorant FBI about the true Islam.
I thought that would have been the top in his agenda!!!
wm1 says
So did I. We, both, were deceived.
Scott nTexas says
This military industrial complex is the enemy within.
Eric jones says
Getting back to the dereliction of duty of the FBI. I urge Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller to use all means necessary to force the FBI to bring to justice all of the Islamist involved in the plot to kill those attending the Lets Draw Muhammad activity in Texas.
The FBI has become a rogue agency since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, because everyone in Washington was afraid to hold the FBI accountable. Hoover had something on everyone even the press. Its time that come to an end.
Since this attack occurred in Texas maybe the Texas Rangers can get to the bottom of this.
Eric