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FBI Confirms Minnesota Mall Terrorist Was Radical Islamist

John Bickley

The FBI have now confirmed that Dahir Ahmed Adan, the 20-year-old Somali refugee who went on a steak knife-wielding rampage at a St. Cloud, Minnesota mall on Sept. 17, was indeed motivated by radical Islam.

At a press conference on Thursday, the FBI revealed that they had talked with “numerous credible witnesses” that heard Adan yelling “Allahu akbar!” and “Islam! Islam!” and asking potential victims if they were Muslims before inflicting wounds in the head, neck, and chest of a total of 9 shoppers before being shot dead by off-duty officer Jason Falconer, who was thankfully armed. On his way to the mall, Adan injured another person: a cyclist, whom he hit with his car at an intersection.

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