"Shortly after that, we heard the (shots). It was very loud and very fast," she said. "I could not believe how many bullet holes were in that door. It was insane."
Another eyewitness at a nearby restaurant said she saw a man in a silver convertible Mustang fire a "high-powered rifle" at the recruiting office's entrance at about 10:50 am. "He never got out of the car," she said. "He had a big, huge, high-powered rifle, and he was unloading shots right into the recruiters."
The gunman then fled and a high-speed chase with police ensued down Amnicola Highway. Upon reaching a second military installation, a naval reserve center about eight miles away, the gunman again opened fire, killing at least four marines before he himself was shot and killed by police. The circumstances of his death are not yet known.
There were also reports that another shooting took place at a mall in nearby Bradley County, but that "turned out to be false."
The alleged 'lone gunman' has been identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti-born U.S. citizen. His friends were baffled by the incident, saying that it's something they would never have imagined him doing.
Abdulazeez wrestled in high school and became an MMA fighter afterwards. However, those who knew him did not associate him with violence.Abdulazeez's fighting coach Scott Schrader shared these sentiments.
"I never saw a violent bone in his body, outside of the sport he was doing," Ryan Smith, who was a year behind Abdulazeez, told the Times Free Press.
"He was friendly, funny, kind," Karen Wagner, another classmate said. "I never would have thought it would be him."
"There were tears in my eyes," Schraeder told CNN of the moment he heard the news. "He was one of the nicest kids we trained."The attack is already being tied to ISIS. 'Islamic state' Twitter accounts were quick to take credit for the shootings, referring to Abdulazeez as "a soldier of the Islamic State" and "an individual lion." So both US authorities and 'the arch enemy ISIS', are in agreement that this attack was carried out by a 'lone wolf jihadi.' Rita Katz's SITE Intelligence chimed in on the 'Islamic terrorist' narrative:
The SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks extremist groups, said that Abdulazeez had blogged on Monday that "life is short and bitter" and Muslims should not miss an opportunity to "submit to Allah". The Guardian could not independently verify the blogposts.
Comment: The psychopathic playbook in action again. Agents provocateur are a standard tactic for destabilizing an already volatile situation. The Empire of Chaos has no scruples about playing on the anger and despair they were responsible for creating. Indeed, it appears to be an integral part of an overall program we have seen before. How else would such a varied group suddenly appear in a Greek city? As in Ukraine, is the way possibly being paved for the rise of another neo-Nazi group, Golden Dawn?
- Far right fascists 'infiltrated Greek police', used as agents provocateurs
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