Terrorist Who Attacked 'Draw Mohammed' Contest in Garland, Texas Had Gun From 'Fast and Furious'

Jeffdunetz | August 2, 2015
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Three months after the Garland, Texas terror attack, Americans are learning that one of the terrorists, Nadir Soofi  owned a handgun associated with the Fast and Furious gun-walking debacle, and might have had the gun with him at the attempted terrorist attack in May.

On May 3rd Nadir Soofi and his roommate Elton Simpson wearing body armor and equipped with three assault rifles, three handguns, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition drove up to a police car that was parked next to a barricade erected in front of the Curtis Culwell center in Garland Texas which was hosting a Draw Mohammed contest run by Pamela Geller. As the pair approached the police car they got out of their vehicle and fired dozens of rounds at the police car, hitting a Garland school district security guard. The other occupant of the car an off-duty traffic cop and a police SWAT team returned fire and killed the two ISIS-associated terrorists.

Nadir Soofi bought a 9-mm pistol at a Phoenix gun shop in 2010 that sold illegal firearms via the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firework's (ATF) Operation Fast and Furious program.

Fast and Furious Was a project of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fireworks (ATF). In late 2009, the ATF was alerted to suspicious buys at seven gun shops in the Phoenix area. Suspicious because the buyers paid cash, sometimes brought in paper bags. And they purchased classic "weapons of choice" used by Mexican drug traffickers - semi-automatic versions of military type rifles and pistols. According to news reports several gun shops wanted to stop the questionable sales, but Bureau encouraged them to continue.  ATF managers decided to allow most of the weapons on the streets. The idea, they said, was to gather intelligence and see where the guns ended up. Insiders say it's a dangerous tactic called letting the guns, "walk." Yes, that's right, the US government decided--in order to fight the Mexican Drug Cartels, we should arm them and let them keep their weapons once they were used in committing crimes. Those weapons ceded to the drug cartels have been used for crimes in Mexico, and here in the United States. One was used to kill a U.S. Border Agent named Brian Terry, turned up at the scenes of violent crimes in Phoenix, and other crimes across the country.  Now there is evidence it may have been present at the Garland Texas attack.

According to the L.A. Times, "When Soofi's tried to buy the pistol in Phoenix, it caught the attention of authorities, who slapped a seven-day hold on the transaction, according to his Feb. 24, 2010, firearms transaction record ...Then, for reasons that remain unclear, the hold was lifted after 24 hours, and Soofi got the 9-millimeter."

The day after the Garland attack, the DOJ sent an "urgent firearms disposition request" to Lone Wolf (the Gun Show that sold the Fast and Furious connected weapon to Soofi) seeking more information about the pistol he bought in 2010, according a June 1 letter from the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), to U.S. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch.

Though the request did not specify whether the gun was used in the Garland attack, Justice Department officials said the information was needed "to assist in a criminal investigation," according to Johnson's letter, also reviewed by The Times.

The FBI so far has refused to release any details, including serial numbers, about the weapons used in Garland by Soofi and Simpson. Senate investigators are now pressing law enforcement agencies for answers, raising the chilling possibility that a gun sold during the botched Fast and Furious operation ended up being used in a terrorist attack against Americans.

Among other things, Johnson is demanding to know whether federal authorities have recovered the gun Soofi bought in 2010, where it was recovered and whether it had been discharged, according to the letter. He also demanded an explanation about why the initial seven-day hold was placed on the 2010 pistol purchase and why it was lifted after 24 hours.

Asked recently for an update on the Garland shooting, FBI Director James B. Comey earlier this month declined to comment. "We're still sorting that out," he said.

Officials at the Justice Department and the FBI declined to answer questions about whether the 9-millimeter pistol was one of the guns used in the Garland attack or seized at Soofi's apartment.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to turn over documents in the Fast and Furious case led to the House of Representatives voting to hold Holder in criminal contempt.

The video below give more information about the terrorist Soofi:

 

 

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