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Albanian couple have been arrested in investigation into Nice, France terrorism. CNN (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2016 OP
yet another lone wolf attack that turned out to be well planned and supported MariaThinks Jul 2016 #1
Funny how that happens... Joe the Revelator Jul 2016 #2
But he ate pork! generalwoody Jul 2016 #4
Impossible. We were told he acted alone. Nt Dreamer Tatum Jul 2016 #3
we were lied to and attempts made to imtimidate us into believing falsehoods MariaThinks Jul 2016 #5
if they are behind the attacks good riddance! TroyJackson Jul 2016 #6
They might have been the ones to radicalize him Warpy Jul 2016 #8
They've been arrested for selling him weapons, as have been several others. underahedgerow Jul 2016 #7
 

generalwoody

(6 posts)
4. But he ate pork!
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 10:50 PM
Jul 2016

And chased women!

And drank alcohol!

(So did Mohammed Atta and his compatriots, so I guess he was a lone wolf as well)

Warpy

(111,254 posts)
8. They might have been the ones to radicalize him
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 12:49 AM
Jul 2016

The guy had thrown his life and his family into the toilet and had little left. He got canned from his job, which means even less left.

It probably wasn't hard to convince him to go out in a Jihadi blaze of glory so he could go to heaven and collect his virgins.

However, if they sold him weapons, why were they fakes?

underahedgerow

(1,232 posts)
7. They've been arrested for selling him weapons, as have been several others.
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 12:14 AM
Jul 2016

He also had a penchant for Salsa bars (for dancing) and appeared to be targeting children during his killing spree. In 2004 his father had him assessed psychologically because the hatred he exhibited towards his family.

A psychiatrist who saw him in 2004 said that Bouhlel had come to him because of behavioral problems and that he diagnosed him as suffering from"the beginnings of psychosis."

Still not an islamist, muslim terrorist jihadi guy, but a spree killer / mass murderer.

Others who sold him weapons (which apparently didn't work, according to initial reports) have been taken into custody as well. Technically, not part of the planning and effort, but still part of the scene and equally responsible.

Have the people who sold weapons to the Orlando murderer, the Church murder, the cops murders, etc, been arrested or convicted of any crimes relating to those blood baths? I guess not, if the weapons were obtained legally. What a shame....

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