Chattanooga Shooter Researched Religious Justification For Violence: Official

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3. no, it was murder

i am willing to expose myself to criticism by saying that abdulazeez is not the victim here.

there is a little wordplay going on. we can't know his motive to the extent that we know the motive of, say, john dillinger whose motive was to rob a bank for the money. but it seems pretty clear his motive was somewhere in the range of killing u.s. military personnel for the islamist cause. it also seems pretty clear he received terrorist training. just because we don't know whether this act was at the direction of someone at isis, or his own idea from reading islamist terrorist material online is unclear, and exactly why he chose to serve the islamist terrorist cause in this way may be unclear, but it's not like his motive was he hated the color of the marine uniforms, or he wanted to test that his trigger worked.