“Wrigley said a federal ‘guardian report’ was made some years back about him, but it was not about a threat of violence. Schneider described a guardian report as a way for the public to ‘engage local law enforcement.'”
That’s not exactly a full or honest description of what a Guardian report really is. As Twitter user ThunderB, who has been following this case closely and has an abundance of useful information on his or her Twitter page, points out, the Guardian system is officially “The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Terrorist Threat and Suspicious Incident Tracking System.” In this context, a “suspicious incident” is clearly terror-related: “Shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, three FBI field offices began using an application called the Terrorist Activity Reporting System to track and monitor terrorist threats and suspicious incidents.”
What was in the Guardian report about Mohamad Barakat? Why isn’t the report being revealed now? Would it reveal that officials have been lying about his not being on their radar, and demonstrate their failure to stop yet another jihadi as they intensify their hunt for “right-wing extremists,” that is, their efforts to stigmatize and criminalize legitimate political dissent?
“Officials: Fargo gunman searched online for ‘kill fast’ and ‘mass shooting events,'” by Jenny Berg, Star Tribune, July 21, 2023:
FARGO — North Dakota law enforcement officials said Friday that a gunman searched online for area public events along with the terms “kill fast” and “mass shooting events” before he ambushed police with nearly 40 rounds of gunfire, killing one officer and seriously injuring two others and a civilian before he was was fatally shot.
For now they believe 37-year-old Mohamed Barakat acted alone, but the motive for his actions remains unclear.
“We have no reason to believe the public is in further danger,” said Mac Schneider, U.S. attorney for the district of North Dakota, during a Friday news conference. “Even in the early stage of the investigation, if there was clear evidence of motive we would share it.”
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said investigators believe for now that there were no co-conspirators, and that the shooting was not motivated by religious beliefs.
Inside Barakat’s car, they found what Schneider described as an “absolute arsenal” — 1,800 rounds, multiple guns and a homemade hand grenade, along with gasoline containers and two propane tanks filled with explosive materials built in his home. The tanks were detonated by a bomb squad and proved very powerful, Wrigley said.
Analysis of Barakat’s personal devices revealed that as early as 2018, he made online searches that hinted at a plot of a mass shooting, including searches for events that drew crowds in the Fargo-Moorhead area as well as in greater Cass County. His final search at 10:30 the night before the shooting was “thousands enjoy first day of downtown Fargo street fair.”…
Barakat, a Syrian national, came to the United States on an asylum request in 2012, and he became a citizen in 2019. He worked various odd jobs, Wrigley said. His contacts with police were limited to a cooking fire at his apartment.
Wrigley said a federal “guardian report” was made some years back about him, but it was not about a threat of violence. Schneider described a guardian report as a way for the public to “engage local law enforcement.” Barakat had family in the United States but they don’t live in the area, Wrigley said, and he doesn’t believe Barakat was particularly close with them….
The FBI and state Bureau of Criminal Investigation are continuing to investigate the attack….
John says
Bull Manure, pure and simple government lies to protect the guilty !!!!!!
somehistory says
It would be great if someone on the inside could listen and tell the rest of us just what **kind** of investigating they are doing.
What questions are the asking? If they have already determined it “wasn’t religious,” and there are no “co-conspirators” and his family isn’t “close.” what questions are they asking?
what was his favorite ice cream? Whom did he love to hate?
Running interference for terrorists seems to be their current job description as they pretend his motivation is hidden.
The usual “motives” for crime are: money, sex, drugs, wanting to eliminate a rival, wanting to eliminate a spouse, wanting to make a news splash and be **famous** for a little while.
Unless the perp is a devout mozlum. Then the usual is because his book of evil filth demands it, and he believes he will be rewarded for murdering for his false god and fake prophet. and the greater number of his enemies he murders, the greater his reward…he’ll get to sit next to the mass-murderer himself.
Hoi Polloi says
“Running interference for terrorists“……As you note, just another on the list of reasons to abolish the three-letter formerly known as the FBI.
Fitna says
The rot starts at the head or so the saying goes. These are people who work in law enforcement, whose job it is to track down the bad guys and preferable stop them before they do any harm to others.
What’s even more egregious in this case is that they’re throwing their fellow officers (cops) to the wolves in the name of political correctness.
What’s their motive to protect this would be mass murderer? Are they hiding their own incompetence? Are they secretly Muslim? Were they paid off by Muslims? Are they ordered to lie by the corrupt Biden admin?
Over and over in the West we see Muslims get favorable treatment, in the media, by politicians, by the courts and there’s just no reason for it.
I know if I did anything like this, I’d either be shot on site or I’d be locked up for life, probably in isolation as well.
And I’m sure in most of these situations they’re doing it for ‘bigger reasons’ like not to offend their masters in Saudi Arabia or other Arab countries, otherwise why would they go easy on these evil terrorist scum?
They need to be replaced because they are part of the problem. People ‘love’ Trump but what did he actually do to defend freedom? Why didn’t he ‘clean house’ and get rid of all of Obama’s holdovers?
Now we’re dealing with the consequences of his weakness when he was in power. There was a great deal he could do to fight Islam but he was too worried about his image and his family’s…we need a real politician in there not a prima donna.
Our leaders in the West are clueless, rudderless and have busted moral compasses…they don’t know what the right way of dealing with Islam is, but they don’t want the center-right to take power either.
Meanwhile Muslims continue to enjoy the freedom to act with relative impunity against the rest of us. In a sane world, all intelligence agencies would have their eyes on the Muslim community and if they stepped out of line, they’d face severe repercussions. Heck we’d probably already official declare WW3 against Islam by now…that’s certainly a lot better than letting them get away with 40k terrorist attacks since 911.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“People ‘love’ Trump but what did he actually do to defend freedom? Why didn’t he ‘clean house’ and get rid of all of Obama’s holdovers?
Now we’re dealing with the consequences of his weakness when he was in power. There was a great deal he could do to fight Islam but he was too worried about his image and his family’s…we need a real politician in there not a prima donna.”
Pres. Trump was certainly not “perfect”, but our country was much safer under his watch – particularly in regards to the now open southern border / Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco.
the dreadful Hillary Clinton would have only made things much worse.
Hoi Polloi says
I agree. We were safer. He didn’t do it all, but we as citizens now need to take these evils on as well and the avalanche of criminality we’ve seen since they stole the election clearly demonstrates just how rotten is the whole. Nothing short of a complete dismantling will work.
Pray Hard says
All together now, “It had nothing to do with islam”! … again.
Walter Sieruk says
Those officials in power in North Dakota who had said that “That Muslim shooter was not motivated by his religion.” Those officials must be either blatantly dishonest or otherwise very ignorant about the violent and deadly essence of Islam.
Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with calling a dangerous jihadist a “Muslim terrorist.” This is because that term is keeping within the bounds of reality with the instructions found in the Quran for jihad -minded devolt Muslims. For the Quran instructs “”Strike terror [into the heart ‘of ] the enemies of Allah and your enemies.” Surah 8:60.
Wellington says
“We have no reason to believe the public is in further danger.” This said by Mac Schneider, US attorney for the federal district of North Dakota.
Well, perhaps not in an immediate sense but as long as Islam is accorded “ordinary status,” nothing more than another major religion, then all of America and every other Western nation which is foolish and willfully ignorant enough to buy the garbage that Islam is just another religion will be, guaranteed, in constant danger from the deluded followers of the travesty which was created in the 7th century AD.
No getting around this verity even though fools aplenty now in positions of power in the West will continue to try to do so, so massively stupid are these deficient people, these despicable rubes, now most everywhere in Western nations. We do indeed live in a post-Winston Churchill, post-John Quincy Adams era.
Perhaps “error” would be a fitting description for the very silly age we inhabit because of the coddling of three massive mistakes by the world at large—and in no particular order: 1) Islam, 2) standard authoritarianism as evidenced by scum like Xi and Putin, and 3) Western Leftism, which is just the idiocy of Marxism and neo-Marxism warmed over and presented in a different, up-dated package.
Man, collectively speaking, is ordinarily an idiot. Never more so than now.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
To your point, it could be argued that political “leaders” – in a global sense – acting “honestly and for the good of their people” – is actually an anomaly.
gravenimage says
North Dakota officials: Muslim shooter was not motivated by religion, but feds had report about him
……………………………….
More willful ignorance.
Huapakechi says
I expect that the ultimate finding of the “investigators” will be insanity, which is a catchall diagnosis applied to murderously violent moslems to avoid identifying membership in that death cult as the primary motivation.
somehistory says
I expect the same.
Pray Hard says
All together now, “It had nothing to do with islam”! … again.
Pray Hard says
The authorities can lie about individual atrocities much more easily than they can about larger atrocities. This will be buried and forgotten soon and people will look at you askance if you mention it and will groan aloud if you mention islam. Apparently, we’ve not felt enough pain yet. It’s coming, however.
Chandana Chjowdhury says
Americans! Wait for the next ‘9/11″ for your govt to wake up!!
John Galt III says
The governor of North Dakota, one Doug Burgam, is running for the GOP nomination to be POTUS. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. The Journal says about him:
“North Dakota’s governor on his presidential bid, the politics of energy, and why he prefers to stay out of the culture wars.”
In other words if Muslims want to kill us that just doesn’t interest him at all. In fact, let’s just cover up the fact that this murder occurred in your state, Doug and you could care less if Muslims shoot your police and want to commit mass murder.
Here is what he said verbatim:
“Finally, we must recognize the real threat to America and strengthen national security. Our enemies aren’t our neighbors down the street.”
Doug, you are scum – migrate to Saudi Arabia or Iran,
Hoi Polloi says
You’re right that he made an absurd statement in a country with an open border. My enemy is the one who wants to kill me and mine, without regard to his or her current address.
Sounds like a WEF surveil the masses canned statement.