During a press conference yesterday morning, amid desperate efforts to placate political pressure to maintain the narrative of a lone-wolf bomber – not terrorist – who may have “had a beef” and just happened to be a muslim, William Sweeney, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York division, stated unequivocally:
“There is no indication that the suspect was on the FBI’s terror radar” adding that there was “no indication that there’s a [terrorist] cell operating” in the New York area and had no information about Ahmad Khan Rahami’s “path to radicalization.”
Phew – so we can rest assured that all the money spent on systems and surveillance was not wasted and this was perhaps just some mentally unstable man (who just happened to be Muslim and taken a trip or two to Afghanistan).
However, as Bloomberg reports, 24 hours later, The FBI has changed its tune…
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 20, 2016.
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