ISIS wing claims responsibility for Minnesota mall attack in U.S.

September 2016 – MINNESOTA – The man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall Saturday before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer was a ‘soldier of the Islamic state,’ according to an ISIS-linked news agency. The statement posted online Sunday by the Amaq agency follows a pattern of ISIS-related media claiming responsibility for what appear to be the acts of individuals across Europe in the past few months. CNN cannot independently confirm this latest claim.
‘We still don’t have anything substantive that would suggest anything more than what we know already, which is this was a lone attacker,’ St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday. ‘And right now, we’re trying to get to the bottom of his motivations.’ The FBI is calling the attack ‘a potential act of terrorism.’ Police and witnesses said the man, wearing a private security company uniform, entered Crossroads Mall on Saturday night around 8 p.m. ET, made a reference to Allah and asked at least one person if they were Muslim before he attacked.

This post was published at UtopiatheCollapse on September 18, 2016.