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   In  Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:   
   >   
   > https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/02/flashback-10-years-before-new-   
   > orleans-terror-attack-fbi-agent-told-another-islamist-to-tear-up-texas/   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Joe and the 'ho say there is nothing wrong with the mess they've made of the   
   USA.  It's all Trump's fault.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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