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2025-01-04 Home Front: WoT
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Killer didn’t fit classic ISIS profile, hadn’t shown signs of radicalization
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[IsraelTimes] Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent who investigated terrorism cases and is on an advisory council to US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, said Shamsud-Din Jabbar did not fit the typical profile of those radicalized by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Jabbar served for 10 years in the US Army and was in his 40s, Soufan noted, explaining that people who fall prey to Islamic State recruitment are typically much younger.
"This is a guy who ... went from being a patriot to being an ISIS terrorist," said Soufan.
The terrorist’s half-brother, Abdur Jabbar, said in an interview that Jabbar had abandoned Islam in his 20s or 30s, but had recently renewed his faith.
Abdur Jabbar told Rooters in Beaumont, Texas, where Jabbar was born and raised, that he had no idea when his half-brother became radicalized.
They’re almost two decades apart in age. The wonder is that he knows anything at all about his older half brother. The 24-year-old said his older brother had increasingly isolated himself from family and friends in the last few years but he hadn’t seen any signs of radicalization when they talked. He said it had been a few months since he had seen his brother in-person and a few weeks since they talked on the phone.
"Nothing about his demeanor seemed to be off. He didn’t seem to be angry or anything like that. He was just his calm, well-mannered, well-tempered self," the younger brother said.
Three-time divorcee had trouble adjusting to civilian life
Army, court and other public records piece together a picture of a man who had been stationed or lived in multiple states including North Carolina, Texas, Georgia and Alaska, had been married multiple times and seemed to be experiencing financial difficulties as he tried to adjust to civilian life.
Jabbar joined the Army in 2007, serving on active duty in human resources and information technology and deploying to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, the service said. He transferred to the Army Reserve in 2015 and left in 2020 with the rank of staff sergeant.
A spokesperson for Georgia State University confirmed Jabbar attended the school from 2015-2017 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems in 2017.
He had been married at least three times over the last two decades and had at least three children who were mentioned in divorce and custody agreements. His two most recent marriages, in Georgia and Texas, each lasted about three years, according to court documents.
Dwayne Marsh, who is married to one of Jabbar’s ex-wives, told The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
that Jabbar had been acting erratically in recent months. Marsh said he and his wife had stopped allowing the two daughters she shared with Jabbar to spend time with him.
Divorce records also show Jabbar faced a deteriorating financial situation in January 2022. Jabbar said he was $27,000 behind on house payments and wanted to quickly finalize the divorce.
His businesses were struggling, too. One business, Blue Meadow Properties LLC, lost about $28,000 in 2021. Two other businesses he started, Jabbar Real Estate Holdings LLC and BDQ L3C, weren’t worth anything. He had also accumulated $16,000 in credit card debt because of expenses like attorneys fees, according to the email.
Court documents show he was making about $10,000 a month doing business development and other work for the consulting firm Deloitte in 2022.
On Wednesday, police blocked access to a Houston
 ...a city in Texas, named after Sam Houston, who would drop deader than he is now if he could see how it turned out...
neighborhood where Jabbar’s last address was listed, a small white mobile home in a gated community where ducks and goats were roaming in the grass. On Thursday, the FBI said it had finished a search of the area but did not release more details.
Despite the tumult indicated by court documents, Abdur Jabbar said his half-brother hadn’t shown any outward signs of distress or anger about his relationships.
"I think he blamed himself more than anything for his divorces," said the younger Jabbar. "And he never was bitter toward his ex-wives."
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