| So it really was Sudden Jihad Syndrome. |
The man who stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall had become interested in Islam in the last several months, withdrew from his friends and encouraged female relatives to be more religious, the FBI said Thursday.
"We were told (he) had not previously shown an interest in religion," but after 20-year-old Dahir Ahmed Adan did, he went from being a high academic performer to failing out of college "almost overnight," Minneapolis FBI Special Agent in Charge Rick Thornton said at a news conference in which authorities gave the public its first look at surveillance video of some of the Sept. 17 attacks.
"The totality of Dahir Adan’s behavior and the actions suggest he may have been radicalized either with the influence of others or on his own," Thornton said.
The attorney for Adan’s family, Abdulwahid Osman, said his parents and close family members did not see the behavioral changes that Sherlocks described. "They believed he was doing as good as he used to do," Osman said. "That is not the son they knew."
| The local Somali-American community condemned their lad's activities here. |
In arguing that it appeared the attack was premeditated, Thornton said compelling evidence included Adan not changing out of his security guard uniform between shifts as he usually did, telling his family he had "work to do tonight." He then texted his boss to say he was not coming to work.
Less than a half-hour before the attack, he went to a convenience store. When the clerk said he would see Adan later, Adan replied: "You won’t be seeing me again," Thornton said.
Minnesota has the nation’s largest Somali community, with census numbers placing the population at about 57,000. Young Somalis have been a target for terror recruiters. Since 2007, more than 20 young men from the community have joined the Lion of Islam group al-Shabaab
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the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...in Somalia. In addition, roughly a dozen people have left to join Lions of Islam in Syria, and nine Minnesota men face sentencing on terror charges for plotting to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group.