Chattanooga Shooter Mohammod Abdulazeez Followed Al Qaeda Cleric Online in 2013
http://abcnews.go.com/US/chattanoog...zeez-al-qaeda-cleric-online/story?id=32585636
Video tapes of Anwar al-Awlaki, the high-profile American al Qaeda cleric and recruiter, have circulated on the internet and have been popular in jihadist circles long after al-Awlaki's death by American drone strike in September 2011.
But there is
no evidence so far that Mohammod Abdulazeez, 24 -- whose family insists he was deeply troubled and mentally ill --
was inspired by or directed by ISIS to carry out a bloody attack on U.S. military targets of the sort the Syria and Iraq-based terror group has publicly called for over the past year, the officials said. Al-Awlaki was a high-profile member of al Qaeda, from which ISIS -- once an al Qaeda affiliate in Iraq -- publicly split in recent years.
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bbm Does one have to be a follower of isis to be a terrorist?
<Date/Year BBM> Note; the following incident below by a hoodie clad suspicious person on 04/22/2013; a Sunday; one week before Easter Sunday, was near the route of the two joyrides/recons by Abdulazeez and his friends in the 3 days prior to the 07/16/2015 attacks. Abdulazeez, relocated to Ohio on or before 05/20/2013 less than 30 days later and was employed by the Nuclear Facility, yet fired in 10 days due to a positive drug test. The FBI Task Force sent 30 more Special Agents to assist in the Chattanooga massacre investigation within hours of learning of this information..
FBI investigating armed attack at Tennessee nuclear plant 22 Apr, 2013
http://www.rt.com/usa/tennessee-nuclear-plant-shooting-276/
Authorities are still searching for answers following a bizarre firefight Sunday between a suspicious person and a security guard patrolling a Tennessee nuclear power plant.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken the reigns of the probe, but so far authorities say they have yet to identify the mysterious man who fired at least two shots at a security guard early Sunday morning next to a facility on the property of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar nuclear power plant, about 60 miles southwest of Knoxville.
The FBI is being joined in the investigation by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
According to investigators, a Tennessee Valley Authority security officer was routinely patrolling the nuclear plant at around 2 a.m. Sunday when he located a suspicious person in a restricted area, only a few hundred yards from the protected area that houses the nuclear reactor and power production facilities.
“They spoke for a few seconds. The officer didn't believe there was any danger," TVA spokesman Jim Hopson tells reporters.
In a manner of only seconds, though, things quickly changed. The suspect successfully fled the scene seconds later, says Hopson, but not before exchanging gunfire with the security guard.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is located in Spring City, TN - 54.3 miles from Chattanooga, TN..
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Cha...72b76037ec!2m2!1d-84.7889399!2d35.6019916!3e0
<BBM for Focus> Note: Dayton, TN < famous for the Scopes Evolution Trial (also known as "The Monkey Trial - 07/1925") in Dayton, Tennessee> is only 20 miles from the TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Facility in Spring City, TN..
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0PS0H120150718
Abdulazeez also liked driving fast in the hills surrounding Chattanooga.
Two nights before the attack, he and some friends went joyriding in Abdulazeez's rented gray convertible Ford Mustang, passing through the towns of Whitwell, Dayton and Jasper, TN.
"Fast car on a rainy night. We were flying, doing tight turns and drifting," said the friend, adding that they returned home at about 3 o'clock in the morning.
"He seemed totally normal. We made plans to hang out on the weekend," he said.
