ISIS Takes Responsibility For Nice Attack, Warns "Crusader States" Not Safe
By Tyler Durden
Despite claims that the Nice truck attacker was a radicalized Islamist, close friends of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel say it “just doesn't add up” noting “he ate pork, he drank alcohol, he hit his wife,” the mainstream media narrative that he was an ISIS jihadi were 'confirmed' today. As WSJ reports, Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, saying the assault was a response to calls by the extremist group to target those nations allied against it, adding that so-called “Crusader states” weren’t safe from its fighters in a news bulletin broadcast over its Al Bayan radio station.
On Thursday night, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel maneuvered a 19-ton truck white truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing at least 84 people and injuring many more. Mainstream media instantly ascribed the atrocity as an act of terrorism… and now we get the first quasi-confirmation of that narrative, as AP reports,
The Islamic State on Saturday claimed the Tunisian man who barreled his truck into a crowd in the French resort city of Nice was a “soldier” of the group. It's the first claim of responsibility for an attack that claimed 84 lives at a July 14 fireworks display.
The claim — circulated on social media by a news outlet affiliated with the group — didn't name Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old Tunisian who authorities say was behind the wheel as a truck crashed into a crowd of revelers at a fireworks display on Thursday. But the statement quoting a security member of the group said the man was following calls from IS to target nationals of countries fighting it.
The veracity of the group's claim couldn't immediately be determined, but what is known so far about Bouhlel thus far suggests a troubled, angry man with little interest in the group's ultra-puritanical brand of Islam.
It's also unclear whether or not he was acting alone. The Paris prosecutor's office said Saturday that five people are in custody following the attack.
The Amaq news agency, which is linked to the Islamic State, cited an “insider source” in declaring that Bouhlel “was a soldier of the Islamic State.”
“He executed the operation in response to calls to target citizens of coalition nations that fight the Islamic State,” the news agency wrote.
Separately, the Islamic State's al-Bayan radio station said Bouhlel used “a new tactic” to wreak havoc.
“The crusader countries know that no matter how much they enforce their security measures and procedures, it will not stop the mujahideen from striking,” the station said.
However, as The Washington Post reports, it remains unclear whether the militant group directed the attack, was taking responsibility for an assault it inspired or was simply seeking publicity from an event in which it had no direct hand.
“It seems” that the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, “radicalized his views very rapidly. These are the first elements that our investigation has come up with through interviews with his acquaintances,” Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday, without offering details.Five people have been …read more
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