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6/21/2017

Stabbing Of Police Officer In Flint, Michigan Being Investigated As An Act Of Terrorism

Filed under: General — Dana @ 3:31 pm



[guest post by Dana]

The FBI is currently investigating the brutal stabbing of a police officer at the airport in Flint, Michigan:

A police officer was stabbed in the back and neck Wednesday at an airport in Flint, Michigan, and the suspect is in custody and being questioned, according to authorities.

The police officer, identified as Lt. Jeff Neville, is in stable condition, said Lt. David Kaiser, a spokesman for the Michigan State Police. He was stabbed on the public side of Bishop International Airport’s main terminal, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

All passengers are safe and were evacuated, the airport said on Facebook. A law enforcement official said the stabbing appears to have targeted law enforcement.

According to witnesses, the attacker, identified as Amor Ftouhi was heard shouting “Allahu akbar” before stabbing Neville. According to reports, Ftouhi is currently being questioned by officials. He is said to be from Quebec and holds a Canadian passport. It is not known why he was in Flint. Reports suggest he may have entered the United States illegally in June. According to the AP, the FBI is saying Ftouhi talked about people being killed in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. At this point, officials are saying the suspect was a lone wolf attacker, and there is no indication of a “wider plan”. Finally, at a news conference, FBI Special Agent in Charge David P. Gelios said that Ftouhi “said something similar to “you have killed people in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we are all going to die” as he was being arrested. Gelios added that the knife used by Ftouhi was 12-inches with an 8-inch serrated blade.

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)

–Dana

76 Responses to “Stabbing Of Police Officer In Flint, Michigan Being Investigated As An Act Of Terrorism”

  1. Another day, another…

    Dana (023079)

  2. They should use Ftouhi’s knife to cut his head off then kick it around the airport parking lot like a soccer ball.

    ropelight (f923af)

  3. Greetings:

    I heard that Imam Ftouhi was just standing in the Mecca flights line, cleaning his favorite chef’s knife, when the Islamaphobic officer ran up and jumped on it 27 times.

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  4. If one recalls ressam the fellow who tried to bomb the la airport but wee stopped at the border was from Montreal.

    narciso (d1f714)

  5. What’s the over/under on how many days it takes the suspect to go from being a lone wolf to a known wolf?

    Too bad CBS ashcanned Scott Pelley or he could explain how the officer’s wounds were “to some degree self-inflicted.”

    harkin (a76a32)

  6. Well, it was important to al Qaeda/ISIS/whatever that the terrorist attack take place in the United states and that it take place at an airport.

    Ressam was part of abigger plot, which was abandoned when he was caught. He was caught when acustoms agent noticed that he was very nervous. Later Bill Clinton tried to take creci for that because an alert he supposedly did, and when Sandy Burglar was caught he was trying to steal the copy of the after action report that was to go to the 9/11 commission. (the report refuted Clinton and Berger’s claim. They already were suspicious of him at the National Archives. He was theer to review things fro Presdent Clinton.)

    The target is supposed to be have been in Seattle.

    Sammy Finkelman (2b1acb)

  7. “Unlawful” and “extreme” is how West Michigan Rep. Justin Amash described President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  8. huge erfcake in SB?

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  9. was heard shouting “Allahu akbar”

    Well shoot, we’re never going to be able to figure out his motives *now*.

    M Scott Eiland (1edade)

  10. This is getting to be like news about mass shootings, swamp monsters and Trump truths– you read, see and hear about it, shrug, and go back to living your life.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  11. What Sandy Berger was caught at was stealing something that contradicted a fairy tale that he and Bill Clinton wanted to say (and in fact, did tell.)

    What we don’t know is what he might have removed that revealed inaction like ignoring an offer from Sudan to arrest bin Laden, or somethig that would shed some light on his cancellation of the approval of the possible killing of Osama bin Laden.

    Of course a lot would have been removed before Clinton left office on January 20, 2001, but you know, he had to check to see if they missed something etc.

    Sammy Finkelman (2b1acb)

  12. nope erfcake was just fake news

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  13. And Montreal is tied to Milan which is tied to the bombing of the UN cooiunf in Baghdad, and an attack on Paul wolfowitz,

    narciso (d1f714)

  14. @13. How’s that wall coming along?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaXsWQAI2j4

    “Blame Canada! Blame Canada!”

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  15. Anyone still a fan of open borders?

    NJRob (7f4bec)

  16. That a boy DISCO, Make America Great Again. You da man!

    Rev.Hoagie® (630eca)

  17. So we are STILL WINNING!! Hahahaha. They lost in Atlanta. F’em!

    Rev.Hoagie® (630eca)

  18. OT for this thread, but re the always topical Donald J. Trump:

    I love history, and there is rarely anything really new under the sun:

    The “Zinoviev letter” was a controversial document published by the British Daily Mail newspaper four days before the general election in 1924. It purported to be a directive from Grigory Zinoviev, the head of the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain, ordering it to engage in all sorts of seditious activities. It said the resumption of diplomatic relations (by a Labour government) would hasten the radicalisation of the British working class. If true, it was a deeply offensive interference in British politics to the detriment of the Labour Party. The letter seemed authentic at the time, but historians now agree it was a forgery. Historians also agree that the letter had little impact on the Labour vote, which held up in 1924. However, it aided the Conservative Party, by hastening the collapse of the Liberal Party vote that produced a Conservative landslide. A. J. P. Taylor argues that the most important impact was on the psychology of Labourites, who for years afterward blamed their defeat on foul play, thereby misunderstanding the political forces at work and postponing necessary reforms in the Labour Party.

    I’m reading a great book about the history of British intelligence and counterintelligence which tipped me to this just now. It’s got a great deal more about the origins of the forgery, but this Wikipedia quote is plenty adequate to make the general historical point.

    Beldar (fa637a)

  19. “But, but, but… and some of them are really big!” – President Donald Trump, Iowa rally, 6/21/17

    Priceless.

    What a show.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  20. The target is supposed to be have been in Seattle.

    No, it was a bomb at LAX as part of a plot to hijack airliners over the Pacific and fly them into things.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  21. Yes I regetrenced this in at least a number of threads over previous months, allegedly it was cooked up by Sidney really, the bond figure of the
    Prevolutionary era, he had dealt with zaharoff and lenin

    narciso (d1f714)

  22. Canadian, eh? Damn Tories. Some still haven’t gotten over Yorktown.

    nk (dbc370)

  23. Actually it more resembles this operation

    http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diary/rocca.htm

    narciso (d1f714)

  24. There’s a little more background here

    http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a00mahdjoub

    narciso (d1f714)

  25. Oh! Breaking news from Iowa from the Captain: now he says it’s going to be a solar wall!– So Mexico can pay less. And according to Fearless Leader, those corn huskers are the first to be told about it!

    Just priceless.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  26. That sounds like a great idea, DISCO. A solar wall. Why not? Are you against green energy now?

    Rev.Hoagie® (630eca)

  27. Now slahi told his sob story to his atty who then sold it the journals gitmo reportee

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381033/WikiLeaks-Montreal-mosque-Al-Qaeda-recruiting-zone.html

    slahi along with quahtani, are mentioned in Catherine levy book about ubls exile as one of the leads to abbotabad

    narciso (d1f714)

  28. Thanks for those links, narciso!

    Beldar (fa637a)

  29. Your wekcome, you see the ties to hamburg and milan in other places

    Strikingly very little of this was either in the December 1998 pub or the one 2 1/2 years later, this is why I take these intelligence blockbusters with a grain of salt

    narciso (d1f714)

  30. This is the author, they do reference slahis complaint in passing more as a warning

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/osama-bin-laden-family-on-the-run-after-9-11

    narciso (d1f714)

  31. That open border policy was a killer for the American Indian.

    mg (31009b)

  32. “Unlawful” and “extreme” is how West Michigan Rep. Justin Amash described President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.

    Canada was not one of the countries specified under the travel ban. Nor was Tunisia, his birthplace.

    Merely another illustration of the fact that the travel ban is just security theater.

    kishnevi (d99923)

  33. We pick the most obvious feeders kish, but neither Manchester or London bridge or Brighton seem to raise the concern if the 9th circus, which is much Luke the Florida supreme court:
    http://canadafreepress.com/2006/cover071006.htm

    narciso (d1f714)

  34. Canada was not one of the countries specified under the travel ban. Nor was Tunisia, his birthplace.

    Merely another illustration of the fact that the travel ban is just security theater.
    kishnevi

    Of course it’s “security theatre”. Neither Canadians, Tunisians, Iraqis, nor French are security threats. Moslems are. If you’re afraid to say it please allow me.

    https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BEwZcEmoOPk/WUnknacW8UI/AAAAAAABKNs/OUnuHhjqNI4GPKY-oXUst_W8nIsAf_9mACLcBGAs/s640/1ninetymiles2qIt71uhol2ro1_500.jpg

    Rev.Hoagie® (630eca)

  35. Rev. – Brutal. This should be mandatory viewing for public schools.

    mg (31009b)

  36. 35.
    Which is why the most appropriate policy is to require any applicants to prove they have no affiliation to jihadi, formally or on social media, or other terrorist groups, and apply this to everyone, no matter which country they come from. Add in FARC, Tamil Tigers, Basque separatists, IRA, and anyone else that fits, thereby making it invulnerable to the 9 Circuit.

    kishnevi (d99923)

  37. Meanwhile drspire having visited Durbin and duckworth, and cased the ball field the bureau dies its best chief quimby

    narciso (d1f714)

  38. Surprised at how nice the Flint airport looks, to be honest, but too bad America’s most famous long pig wasn’t waiting for that C-130 he needs to haul his Larry butt around in.

    urbanleftbehind (847a06)

  39. Curiously he is at least one Kevin bacon degree closer:

    http://circa.com/politics/accountability/the-russia-influence-controversy-that-john-mccain-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about

    He was also connected to one of akmetchins source, as of three years agi milai

    narciso (d1f714)

  40. Re: Zinoviev letter

    There was a real thing some years later. It was a copy of the minutes of the Politburo dated May 23, 1924 (it had been passed as a joke) and referred to Ramsay Macdonald and was brought over by a
    defector, Boris Bajanov, a one time secretary of the Politburo, some years later (1928) It was wrotten by Bukharin and signed by Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev.

    They had talked about the government on England and decided that MacDonald was paving the way for a Communist takeover. Then Bukharin said that while they already their Prime Minister in London MacDonald was not bright enough for the job because “he did not understand what he was doing himself.” He deserved some reward – aa petty Communist official in some remote Russian province. He should be replaced bya worthy figure, like Comrade Tomsky.

    Then they wrote it all out very formally in the form of a Politburo resolution appointing seretary of the Ukom in Kyshtym, passage on the same tocket with Comrade Urquhart and Tomsky toio be appointed Premoer in London and given two starched collars.

    This was not published. It was shown to MacDonald wtha cover letter.. And it may been responsible for his awakening to the dangers of extreme left wing views.

    It’s written about in the 1981 book “The storm Petrels” by Gordon Brook-Shepherd (Harcourt Brace
    Jovanovich ‎1981) pages 43-44.

    Sammy Finkelman (2b1acb)

  41. Yes. It it was fake sammeh, I’ve given you a host of squirrels to chase from. Ressam to slahi to Hammoud. The zinoviev telegram was fake bellegarde might have been the author, Sydney reilly, played by Sam Neill in the series, probably commissioned it

    narciso (d1f714)

  42. Reilly as well. As savinkov thev former head of the social revolutionaries who ended up in parliament were nabbed by the trust, this phony czarist tesistence group conjured up by dzerzinsky. Yakushev was the pawn much like Roland cubela, the fellow who was handed a poison pen in paris, by desmind fitzgerald

    narciso (d1f714)

  43. About two years later the Cuban regime had rolled up cubelas whole network. The one in charge Fabian escalante font. Had trained in minsks at the same time oswald was there, as well as Jose abrahantes who twenty years thereabout, was nabbed in the ochoa spy ring and executed.

    narciso (d1f714)

  44. Like Jim forrestal and frank wiener it didnt end well

    http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKfitzgeraldD.htm

    narciso (d1f714)

  45. A slightly less dodge link

    http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/castro.htm

    narciso (d1f714)

  46. Isn’t the blog owner huge on Amash?

    Blah (44eaa0)

  47. Meanwhile, the Senate Obamacare bill has leaked, and it does almost NOTHING about Obamacare except increase subsidies for the poor and remove some from the middle class.

    The real goal (perhaps the only goal) is to remove Medicaid as a federal entitlement and give each state a fixed amount to deal with it.

    Now, that may be a good thing for Medicaid, but calling this an Obamacare repeal is laughable. The House version actually changed things and had a path to repeal; this just juggles some numbers while cementing Obamacare for life.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  48. Let me be the first to assure. No possible clue can be found. 9:29

    Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.

    Yup, nope, nada.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  49. Stabbing of a police officer in Flint Michigan is terrorism, but shooting at US Congressman and Congressional police is not?

    Davod (f3a711)

  50. https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/06/22/spare-me-the-principles-lecture-n2343749
    This is how a Patriot writes.
    Love your views, Mr. Schlichter.

    mg (31009b)

  51. in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we are all going to die” as he was being arrested. Gelios added that the knife used by Ftouhi was 12-inches with an 8-inch serrated blade.

    Those are notoriously hard to resharpen, sorry to tell.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  52. Sounds like a dollar store kitchen knife to me.

    nk (dbc370)

  53. I added extra tags, so an obvious terrorist isn’t one, a spurious hacker syndicate becaones a real gru intrusion

    narciso (d1f714)

  54. In cuba they called it the little tail, it was one way to dismiss samizdat publications like El diario De la marina

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fec-dem-eyes-widening-russia-probe-to-facebook-drudge-foreign-companies/article/2626674#!

    narciso (d1f714)

  55. Thanks to the Joooz. Who taught me Krav Maga. And the filpinonos who taught me escrima.

    And the Nepalese, who taught me the Khukri.

    Thank you. For teaching me I need a gun.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  56. It’s not a kitchen knife. It’s like the knife Rambo used in ‘First Blood.’ T

    ropelight (f923af)

  57. The greatest calamity to befall the human gene pool is the invention of gunpowder.

    nk (dbc370)

  58. Is there a picture of it somewhere, ropelight?

    nk (dbc370)

  59. 65.The greatest calamity to befall the human gene pool is the invention of gunpowder.

    That’s just silly.

    Rev.Hoagie® (630eca)

  60. Oh? I’ll grant you that guns are now improving the gene pool on Chicago’s South Side, but by and large they put a 90-pound weasel with an IQ lower than his weight on the same level as an astronaut. That’s not beneficial to the overall physical and intellectual development of mankind. Compare it to when our ancestors built civilization with nothing more than variants of the pointed sticks and clubs that their ancestors used to fight sabertooth tigers, and people needed to be both strong and smart to breed and raise their children to breeding age.

    nk (dbc370)

  61. 44. narciso (d1f714) — 6/21/2017 @ 8:46 pm

    Yes. It it was fake sammeh, I’ve given you a host of squirrels to chase from.

    What was fake? The Zinoviev telegram was fake, of course, but the Politburo resolution “appointing” Tomsky as Premier in London and sending Ramsey MacDonald to Kyshtym to be secretary of Ukom there was not fake, although it wasn’t serious either. It was handed to Bajanov for filing, but since it wasn’t real, he didn’t file it with the other records, but he kept it and took it out of the Sovet Union with himself in 1928 and took it through Persia, hidden in his clothes, to British India.

    Here is aWikipedia article about Boris Bajanov:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Bazhanov

    It doesn’t have anything aboutn the details of his defection, even that he was in British custody in India for awhile, or about the documents he carried with him.

    The book The Storm Petrels: The Flight of the First Soviet Defectors came out in 1977, but the first American edition was in 1978. Bajanov wrote and published lots of material, some of it untrue, like at one point claiming to have been anti-Communist from the start.

    1978 book

    Sammy Finkelman (f61675)

  62. 50. Kevin M (752a26) — 6/21/2017 @ 9:43 pm

    Meanwhile, the Senate Obamacare bill has leaked, and it does almost NOTHING about Obamacare except increase subsidies for the poor and remove some from the middle class.

    It gets rid of the individual mandate. And the employer mandate. That’s the key element of Obamacare.

    It changes Medicaid into more of block grant, but only in 2021. Subsidies are now in the form of tax credits which may be geared to income, age or average medical costs in the location someone lives (the last item especially needed for Alaska) It doesn’t make too many other changes. So it doesn’t do anything about medical inflation.

    Sammy Finkelman (f61675)

  63. no indication of a “wider plan”

    They must have let their subscriptions to Dabiq and Rumiyah lapse and unfollowed Mr. alBaghdadi on twitter.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  64. Never mind, ropelight, I found it.

    Sondgeroth’s affidavit says the knife Ftouhi used had a green handle and a black serrated blade and was marked Amazon Jungle Survival Knife.

    http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/06/flint_bishop_airport_slasher_i.html

    The Amazon Jungle Survival Knife Google found for me. You’re right. It is similar to Gil Hibben’s First Blood knife.

    nk (dbc370)

  65. How hard is it to learn krav mega, steve…

    narciso (d1f714) — 6/22/2017 @ 6:54 am

    It’s a lot harder to not learn it.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  66. I was going to try to make a game out of it. But no.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_PClBc8vE

    Vought-Sikorsky OS2U Kingfisher

    Some of you, more than you you know, are alive today because of this plane and the men who flew them.

    http://spitfiresite.com/2010/04/spitfires-of-the-us-navy.html

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  67. I’m reading a great book about the history of British intelligence …

    Beldar (fa637a) — 6/21/2017 @ 5:26 pm

    The United States Naval Institute.

    https://www.usni.org/store/books/battle-midway/joe-rochefort

    You might consider joining.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  68. The fundamental difference between a kitchen knife and a fighting knife is the guard. Your hand will not slide forward across the blade with a fighting knife.

    Which is why I said, it’s a lot harder to not learn Krav Maga than to learn it.

    A fool learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from other fool’s mistakes.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)


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