Daniel Greenfield: The Media Completely Blacked Out an Intended Mass-Casualty Muslim Terrorist Attack in Fargo, North Dakota Earlier This month

Did you know about the terrorist attack in Fargo, North Dakota earlier this month?

I follow the news almost every day, but the 100% media blackout of this story kept it completely out of my view.

Believe it or not, there was an Islamic terror attack in Fargo, North Dakota, earlier this month, one that local law enforcement believes could have resulted in countless casualties instead of the one police officer killed.

Like so many people from Syria last decade, Mohamad Barakat was brought to the U.S. as an asylee and became a citizen in 2019. He returned the favor on July 14 by allegedly randomly firing 60 rounds from his car near the site of a car crash on 25th Street. Likely waiting for police and first responders to come to the scene, Barakat allegedly gunned down three police officers in an unprovoked attack, killing Officer Jake Wallin and seriously injuring Officers Tyler Hawes and Andrew Dotas, as well as a female civilian.

There has been a near-complete blackout on information about this attack, especially in the national media. It took over a week for any information about Barakat's immigration history to come to light, as Americans watched the streets of France burn during those days, also a result of suicidal generosity in immigration policy.

This was not your run-of-the-mill street thug or mentally ill mass shooter. Given the lack of criminal record or manifesto left behind, this has the hallmarks of a targeted jihad...

Wrigley further speculated that Barakat "was looking for significant crowd events in the area. We do know he had a clear path, he was going to downtown Fargo." Indeed, if not for Officer Zach Robinson taking out the gunman's rifle from 75 feet (with a 9mm pistol), this could have been a mass casualty event, because Barakat appeared to be on his way to the Downtown Street Fair, according to Wrigley at the official press conference.

The FBI found a computer in Barakat's apartment nearby that contained a search history revealing he looked up "mass casualty events" and how to cause certain injuries, according to the attorney general. Ominously, the last article that appeared in his search history was a local news article titled "Thousands enjoy first day of Downtown Fargo Street Fair."

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Since Biden took office, states like North Dakota have been inundated with unvetted Afghan refugees who were admitted helter-skelter in large numbers when the Biden administration recklessly pulled out of the country without a security plan....

So yes, there is a reason the FBI and the media don't want us focusing on the case of Mohamad Barakat in North Dakota. As we look ominously toward Europe at its struggles with mass Middle East migration, officials don't want us to know we have a sleeper problem here in the U.S. And in case you thought you could move from the coasts to the hinterlands to escape the problem, just know that our federal government, with the help of red-state RINOs, will make the problem follow you there.

posted by Ace at 02:12 PM

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