FLASHBACK: FBI Agent Told Islamist Terrorist To ‘Tear Up Texas’
The article discusses a recent terrorist attack in New Orleans, where radical islamist Shamsud-Din jabbar drove his truck into a crowd, resulting in 15 deaths and many injuries. The FBI is investigating this incident. This event recalls a previous situation from 2015, when an FBI agent allegedly encouraged a radical Islamist, Elton Simpson, to “tear up Texas” in response to a blasphemous Muhammad cartoon contest planned in Garland, Texas. The connection between Simpson and the agent, who was undercover, later led to a foiled attack where Simpson and another assailant opened fire but were killed by police. The piece highlights ongoing concerns about radicalization and the role of law enforcement in preventing such attacks.
Radical Islamist terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed his truck through a crowd in New Orleans in the wee hours of the New Year, murdering 15 and injuring dozens. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is now leading the investigation — the same agency in which an agent once encouraged a radical Islamist terrorist to “tear up Texas.”
In 2015, local Texas police thwarted what would have been a massive terrorist attack in Garland, Texas. The saga began when the Islamic State recruited Erick Jamal Hendricks, a North Carolina man, who later befriended an undercover FBI agent. Hendricks connected the FBI agent to radical Islamist terrorist Elton Simpson.
During initial discussions between Simpson and the undercover FBI agent — who has never been named in government documents — the agent told Simpson to “tear up Texas” after Simpson made the agent aware of an alleged blasphemous Muhammad cartoon contest to be held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, according to The Dallas Morning News.
On May 3, 2015, just before the cartoon contest was to end, Simpson and Madir Hamid Soofi jumped out of a vehicle equipped with multiple rifles and handguns. Simpson and Soofi immediately fired dozens of rounds at the building but were shot and killed by local police and SWAT officers. The local police “prevented a massacre,” according to CBS News.
The FBI agent was present at the attack and later told Hendricks — who was not present at the attack — that he was Hendricks’ “eyes” that day, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Trenton Roberts, a lawyer for security guard Bruce Joiner (who was injured in the attack), reportedly said he was “convinced that there is much more to this story than the FBI has admitted.”
The same agency is now “taking the lead in the investigation and is investigating [the New Orleans terrorist attack] as an act of terrorism,” according to President Joe Biden.
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