07-17-2015, 08:08 AM
Published July 17, 2015
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The man authorities say killed four U.S. Marines when he attacked two military sites in Chattanooga, Tenn. was a practicing Muslim who reportedly showed signs of becoming increasingly devout in recent weeks.
Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24, was
shot and killed by police after he allegedly
attacked the Marines at the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center around 11 a.m. Thursday. Before attacking the military center, police say Abdulazeez sprayed an Armed Forces recruiting center seven miles away with bullets, leaving a police officer with a non-life threatening ankle wound.
“While it would be premature to speculate on the motives of the shooter at this time, we will conduct a thorough investigation of this tragedy and provide updates as they are available," an FBI official told Fox News,
hours after the deadly attack.
A law enforcement source told Fox News that
Abdulazeez was not on the FBI’s radar. The Daily Beast reported that Abdulazeez kept a blog that contained just two posts, both published on Monday.
The first refers to a hypothetical test, designed to, as the writer puts it, "separate the inhabitants of Paradise from the inhabitants of Hellfire."
In the the second post Abdulazeez says his
fellow Muslims have a "certain understanding of Islam and keep a tunnel vision of what we think Islam is."
"We ask Allah ... to give us a complete
understanding of the message of Islam, and
the strength the [sic]live by this knowledge,
and to know what role we need to play to
establish Islam in the world," he writes.
The posts do not make any specific reference to current world events, such as the civil war in Syria or U.S.-led airstrikes against the Islamic State terror group (ISIS).
The New York Times reported that recent family photographs posted on Facebook
showed Abdulazeez with a newly grown
beard.
Dr. Azhar Sheikh, a founding member of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, told the paper that Abdulazeez had also begun attending Friday prayers regularly over the past two to three months.
Sheikh said the Abdulazeez family had attended services in Abdulazeez's younger days, but he had stopped doing so, and Sheikh assumed that he had moved away.
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The man authorities say killed four U.S. Marines when he attacked two military sites in Chattanooga, Tenn. was a practicing Muslim who reportedly showed signs of becoming increasingly devout in recent weeks.
Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24, was
shot and killed by police after he allegedly
attacked the Marines at the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center around 11 a.m. Thursday. Before attacking the military center, police say Abdulazeez sprayed an Armed Forces recruiting center seven miles away with bullets, leaving a police officer with a non-life threatening ankle wound.
“While it would be premature to speculate on the motives of the shooter at this time, we will conduct a thorough investigation of this tragedy and provide updates as they are available," an FBI official told Fox News,
hours after the deadly attack.
A law enforcement source told Fox News that
Abdulazeez was not on the FBI’s radar. The Daily Beast reported that Abdulazeez kept a blog that contained just two posts, both published on Monday.
The first refers to a hypothetical test, designed to, as the writer puts it, "separate the inhabitants of Paradise from the inhabitants of Hellfire."
In the the second post Abdulazeez says his
fellow Muslims have a "certain understanding of Islam and keep a tunnel vision of what we think Islam is."
"We ask Allah ... to give us a complete
understanding of the message of Islam, and
the strength the [sic]live by this knowledge,
and to know what role we need to play to
establish Islam in the world," he writes.
The posts do not make any specific reference to current world events, such as the civil war in Syria or U.S.-led airstrikes against the Islamic State terror group (ISIS).
The New York Times reported that recent family photographs posted on Facebook
showed Abdulazeez with a newly grown
beard.
Dr. Azhar Sheikh, a founding member of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, told the paper that Abdulazeez had also begun attending Friday prayers regularly over the past two to three months.
Sheikh said the Abdulazeez family had attended services in Abdulazeez's younger days, but he had stopped doing so, and Sheikh assumed that he had moved away.
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