Mr Khazzani

In recent news, there has been a string of attacks all over the world; each attack has been related to terrorism. A passenger boarded a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, armed with a box cutter, a pistol and an AK-47 with intent to harm innocent people. Four passengers on the train quickly subdued the terrorist before anyone could be harmed. In November, Paris, France was struck with terror when three armed men set off a string of attacks throughout the city, to include a bomb and active shootings. This attack left nearly 127 people killed and wounded. Most recently, in San Bernadino, California a man and woman left from a holiday party and returned with assault rifles. The officials attributed their act to terrorism, where the

On August 26, 2008, 25-year-old Mohammed Taheri-azar was sentenced to 26-33 years in prison for an act of terrorism on UNC’s campus. He rented a Jeep and drove it through the most popular meeting place on campus, the “pit” (Carlson, 2008). Taheri-azar seriously injured nine people, but intended to kill many more. Some victims spoke out about their experiences. One victim, Larry Allsep, stated “When the jeep got close, I smelled the fumes and the gas.” He also said that he went up onto the hood and was thrown off. Allsep suffered many injuries from the attack, including a broken wrist and tail

The motives for this attack were believed may have been related to workplace violence or terrorism (Meyers, 2015). It was discovered that Farrok and Malik had begun plotting a terrorist attack before becoming engaged and before Malik moved to the U.S. last year. Fried of the Farrok’s named Enrique Marquez was linked to purchases the AR-15s which were sued in the attack, shortly after the assault he enter a mental health facility. Tashleen Malik made the

After the Brussels massacre that took place on March 22nd, a question of faith rose surrounding the sanctity of the Islamic faith. In an article meant to expose answers to this very question John Kasich brings up a point that when people claim France is at war with Islam, they actually should be referring to radical Islam. This point pulled further controversy as those who were not Islamic began to wonder if the faith condoned suicide bombings in the name of expelling infidels and bringing the coming of the Caliphate. Another case mentioned in the same article details the prosecution of the Blind Sheikh, whose terrorist group attempted to bring down the World Trade Center back in 1993. While the U.S. government had attempted to paint

After earning his bachelor of science in animal physiology and neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Ashkan Khabazian matriculated at the University of Michigan to pursue his doctor of pharmacy. He graduated from UCSD in 2003 and subsequently completed a general practice pharmacy residency at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California. Over the course of his career, Ashkan Khabazian has held pharmacy appointments with multiple healthcare centers and medical organizations in the greater San Diego area. He has also instructed students at a number of teaching hospitals and institutions of higher learning.

On Dec. 2, 2015, two violent extremists opened fire at an office holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif., killing 14 and injuring at least 22 others. It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. It has been treated as the emergency situation that it truly is. Hundreds of investigators have been deployed from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. Dozens of people of interest have been interviewed, social networks have been scoured, no stone has been left unturned. On Thursday, a neighbor, Enrique Marquez, was arrested and charged with three federal crimes including providing material support to a terrorist, immigration fraud and making a false statement relative to the purchase of a firearm. The speed of the

On January 6,2017, just before 1pm, reports came in that there has been a shooting inside the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida. This attack last Friday left 5 people dead and eight injured. This comes at a time when the United States is very vulnerable with Donald Trump replacing Obama as president, Russia allegedly hacking, and unsteady affairs with foreign countries. This is the first mass shooting of the year and is a very depressing one. What the police have found out is the killer is Esteban Santiago. Santiago is a 26 year old National Guard veteran living in Anchorage Alaska. In 2010-2011 Santiago was deployed to Iraq and when he returned he was not the same. He reported to the FBI he thought the government was controlling his mind

On Friday at approximately 4:30 p.m., two Muslim women were sitting on a Metropolitan Area Express train in Portland, one of whom was wearing a hijab. A man, identified as Jeremy Joseph Christian, approached the women and began to harass them with what the Portland police described during a press conference as "hate speech." When two men attempted to diffuse the situation and calm Christian down, he stabbed

A report that was released by the United States Justice Department on February 12, 2016, showed that a “Florida man pleads guilty to a hate crime for threatening to firebomb two mosques and shoot worshippers.” The 43-year-old man by the name Martin Alan Schnitzler was arrested by the FBI on November 17, 2015, after he made numerous threats to shoot children in the head and firebomb a mosque in Petersburg, Florida. In his two recorded messages, Schnitzler said that he is watching the news report that covered the terrorist attacks in Paris. In these attacks, 130 lives were lost while more than 300 were seriously injured. Those responsible for these series of attacks were members of a terrorist group known as the Islamic States of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Since ISIL members claim to be practicing Muslims and also fighting for the cause of Islam (Jihad), Schnitzler showed the same enmity he has for the ISIL terrorists to his non-violence Muslim neighbors. For this reason, he wanted to avenge the death of the victims of the Paris attacks by firebombing and shooting his Muslim neighbors’ two-year-old children in the head.

Arcan Cetin, a United States resident who is originally from Turkey, is suspected of killing four women and one man at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington. It is presumed based on video evidence that he originally entered the mall unarmed, and then within minutes he walked back into the mall, into Macy’s, carrying a rifle when he then proceeded to shoot five victims. In an article by CNN, the police mentioned that when he was finally found, he seemed “kind of zombie-like” (2016) and did not say anything nor did he put up a fight when he was arrested. The police are currently unaware of his reasoning and motives behind the shooting and whether or not he even knew the victims that he fatally shot. He was a troubled teenager and had been in and out of the court system due to acts of assault and physical harassment of girls at his high school. There are no significant signs pointing to a terrorist threat but the police said that they were not going to rule anything out since it is so early in the investigation.

The three Americans who recently stopped a terrorist attack on a passenger train in Europe have finally talked about the ordeal. Spencer Stone, one of the people who helped stop the attack, stated that he saw Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani holding an assault rifle. That was when Stone and his two friends stopped the attacker by choking him unconscious.

Los Avispones, a soccer team of high schoolers from the city of Chilpancingo, had played a match that night against a local team in Iguala. At 11:15 p.m., the players were on their bus and heading home. Their route took them through a state police roadblock where they were rerouted. About 7 miles out of the city, gunmen fired on the bus, killing a player and the driver and wounding seven others. The soccer players, including one who had been shot in the eye and was bleeding profusely, managed to drive to a nearby army battalion where they weren't given help. The gunmen also fired on a taxi and killed a 40 year old

Mr Marquez, aged twenty four (24) years, is the first person who has been arrested for his role in one of the deadliest terror attacks that took place in United States since 9/11. Enrique Marquez has primarily been charged for plotting the attack that was supposed to be carried out in the university in the year 2011 and 2012. Further; he has been charged for illegally possessing, as many as, two rifles, which were primarily been used by Tashfeen Malik and Farook.

Eyewitnesses have reported that they have seen the man carrying a weapon outside a busy central London station shouting "Allahu Akbar".

Early friday afternoon, on January 9th, Lassana Bathily was simply a Muslim man working in a Kosher supermarket, an immigrant trying to stay in France. Within a few hours, he proved himself a hero; within a few weeks, a citizen. Every major news outlet honoring his actions, coverage of Bathily and the Charlie Hebdo attacks seemed unavoidable as the new year began. A Muslim man from a small town in Mali, he emmgrated to France at age fifteen to pursue better education opportunities. He obtained a working licence, but longed to become a citizen of the country that he loved. Bathily is a hero because he was able to maintain composure in an extraordinary situation, his actions benefited humanity regardless of race or religion, and he was willing to risk himself to save others. In early January, the world screeched to a halt, anxiously awaiting news on the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The three day sequence of events resulted in seventeen deaths, a number that would have been close to doubled if not for Bathily.