FBI: Michigan Airport Stabbing Suspect Appears to be Lone Wolf
Authorities have not found evidence the suspect was involved in a “wider plot.”
On Wednesday, Amor Ftouhi, a Canadian originally from Tunisia, screamed Allahu Akbar after he stabbed Lt. Jeff Neville at Bishop International Airport in Flint, MI.
The FBI have started investigating the attack as a terrorist act, but have not found Ftouhi involved in a wider plot.
ABC News reported:
[FBI employee David] Gelios said the attacker, armed with a roughly 12-inch knife with an 8-inch serrated blade, “continued to exclaim ‘Allah’ and he made a statement to the effect of ‘you killed people in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan,’ and, ‘We’re all going to die.'”
Officials said Neville got the suspect to stop the attack, and that “Neville never stopped fighting” until the suspect was in handcuffs, which happened within about one minute.
The suspect was interviewed about his motivations and was cooperative, officials said. No one else appears to have been involved and there is no information to suggest a wider plot, officials said.
Officials searched Fthoui’s apartment in Montreal, but could not find evidence at this time that he “spoke to anyone before the attack.” They have started to question anyone who has stayed with Fthoui at the apartment.
Fthoui’s landlord Luciano Piazza stated that he never had a problem with his tenant and that he has a wife and children.
Authorities explained that “Fthoui legally entered the U.S. at Champlain, New York, on June 16 and made his way to the Flint airport on Wednesday morning.”
From WRCB:
Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Montreal, was immediately taken into custody. A criminal complaint charging him with committing violence at an airport says Ftouhi asked an officer who subdued him why the officer didn’t kill him.
The attack Wednesday at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, is being investigated as an act of terrorism, but authorities have no indication at this time that the suspect was involved in a “wider plot,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge David Gelios.
“At this time we view him as a lone-wolf attacker,” Gelios said. “We have no information to suggest any training.”
Officials may file more charges against him. Thankfully, Neville survived and resting at a local hospital.
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A “wider plot”? Like, say, ISIS calling on Muslims to commit violence during Ramadan?
It’s bigoted to say terrorists are all the same. They are a very diverse bunch. Some prefer killing with trucks, others guns, knives and still others with bombs.
Some are recent converts to Islam, while others have been Muslim all their life. Also very few of them can be proven to have attended the same mosque.
Must be something in the Democrat Party water in Michigan.
Or he’s just really upset with Michelle and Barry Obama “being” “coaches” up there……..
“and there is no information to suggest a wider plot, [FBI] officials said”
I think they might consider expanding their Summer Reading List. The plot is just a teensy-weensy little bigger than they imagine,
Quran (8:38-39) – “Say to those who have disbelieved (that’s us), if they cease (from disbelief, meaning become Muslims) their past will be forgiven… And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.”
Dear FBI, did you read the part that says, “And fight them until there is not more Fitnah?”
Anyone can read the fully laid out “wider plot” in a book called The Koran. It contains thousands of mass murder plot details.
For instance, why is this terrorist frustrated and upset that the arresting officer did not kill him? Because in The Koran, the only way go to heaven is to die trying to murder “non-Muslims.”
The followers of The Koran call themselves “Muslims” and they are supposed to kill non-Muslims. You can read The Koran if you want, but please do not read it if you are stupid and/or a moral pervert.
Stupid people who read the Koran sometimes become Muslims themselves. Ditto for the criminally minded. The Koran takes every kind of criminal behavior — rape, murder, theft, etcetera — and makes a religion out of it. They call it Islam. Surprising that the police have never heard of it.
Anyway, since the arresting officer did not kill the murderous Muslim attacker the attacker will continue his efforts to kill non-Muslims until he finally is killed while attempting to kill non-Muslims. We know this because his first attack shows that he actually follows the religion.
Some people who are born into Islam don’t want to follow it but they have to keep calling themselves Muslims or else those Muslims who do follow the religion will murder them. So as you can see, this wider plot really is very large and very explicit. Really really surprised the police have not heard of it.
Oh. This is kinda like “Mein Kampf” then?
Reading is Islamophobic and racist.
Why reading the Quran could lead to reading the Ahadith, and possibly the Sirah literature.
And only a bigot would do that.
I doubt they’re really looking for a wider plot, that wouldn’t conform to the narrative. Also
How many lone wolves does it take to comprise a pack?
A pack of pissed-off lone wolves Mohammad’s disciples picked. If this pack of lone wolves pissed off enough other lone wolves to join the pack, how many pissed-off pack packers did Mohammad pick?
Now if we could only do something about those lone-wolf, octogenarian, blue-haired Lutheran grandmothers who run about shouting, “This is for Martin Luther!” before assaulting innocent passersby with their handbags we might actually be onto something.
Ya think?