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Albertoo

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15. One bird doesn't a spring make. 10, 100 birds?

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #14)

Sat Jul 16, 2016, 11:39 PM

Jul 2016

- In phone contact with radical Islamists
- Following one modus operandum recommended by Daesh
- Manages to know where to rent a big truck without the required driving licence
- Beat up individual suddenly finds free cash to send to his family back home*
- Daesh claims attack as that of one of its soldiers

Do you think he could have been an attacker sent by the Dalai Lama?

* He had also sent £82,000 to his family in Tunisia, suggesting a well planned suicide mission.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/16/nice-terror-attack-truck-driver-who-killed-84-named-as-loner-fre/

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Police and academics search Nice attacker�s history for a motive [View all] struggle4progress Jul 2016 OP

Attacker 'not linked' to any militant group struggle4progress Jul 2016 #1

After Nice carnage, motive remains sketchy struggle4progress Jul 2016 #2

Everything we know so far on Saturday struggle4progress Jul 2016 #3

A Surly Misfit With No Terror Links struggle4progress Jul 2016 #4

There is evidence of contacts with islamic handlers Albertoo Jul 2016 #6

Ya gotta link? I've been posting links struggle4progress Jul 2016 #8

WP: "Attacker in Nice is said to have radicalized �very rapidly�" Albertoo Jul 2016 #9

.. He "had not been known to the intelligence services because he did not stand out ... struggle4progress Jul 2016 #12

Sudden radicalization = not known to the intelligence services. But there is evidence now Albertoo Jul 2016 #13

... Investigators examining Bouhlel�s phone records found evidence that he was in contact with known struggle4progress Jul 2016 #14

One bird doesn't a spring make. 10, 100 birds? Albertoo Jul 2016 #15

Where did he get all the money he sent his family? There is evidence of other influence Yo_Mama Jul 2016 #17

Dunno. Stole it? Extorted it? Sold drugs successfully? There are many possibilities. struggle4progress Jul 2016 #18

lol melman Jul 2016 #19

Petty criminal with history of drug use and anger/violence issues. struggle4progress Jul 2016 #20

Maybe the money was compensation for garment industry work. Dreamer Tatum Jul 2016 #23

He seems most recently to have been a delivery-driver struggle4progress Jul 2016 #24

A deradicalization psychiatrist working in that region say there is a surge in radicalization Albertoo Jul 2016 #5

Investigators look for motive in Nice truck attack struggle4progress Jul 2016 #7

Non Muslims do these things and they are considered crazy treestar Jul 2016 #10

Absolutely... StraightRazor Jul 2016 #11

Attacker followed the Daesh playbook. If a non Muslim follows a X attack book, then Albertoo Jul 2016 #16

If this guy was named Billy Bob and had attended a baptist church in the last 30 years Dreamer Tatum Jul 2016 #22

Amen Albertoo Jul 2016 #26

how come in France it's largely been Muslims in the recent major attacks ? JI7 Jul 2016 #25

Can someone just point them to DU? Dreamer Tatum Jul 2016 #21

Violent angry man, maybe suicidal, finds religion Bradical79 Jul 2016 #27

"Death to Western infidels" would seem to be as good a guess as any (nt) Nye Bevan Jul 2016 #28

Bradical, Nye Bevan, your solutions are too clear and simple Albertoo Jul 2016 #29