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Daily Broadside | Another Tip to the FBI and Another Missed Opportunity to Take Down a Terrorist

You might remember that earlier this month I wrote about a terrorist attack in Fargo, North Dakota, that got very little national attention. The attacker, Mohamad Barakat, killed one police officer and wounded two others. He had an AK-47, 1,800 rounds of ammunition, explosives, a grenade and propane tanks in his car and was apparently on his way to a large event in the city center where he planned to kill lots of people.

I bring this back up because, wouldn’t you know it, the FBI had received a tip about this guy long before he went on his murderous rampage.

The FBI received a tip about the cop-killing, Syrian gunman plotting a mass casualty attack in Fargo in 2021, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The gunman, Mohamad Barakat, 37, was shot dead by Fargo police officer Zach Robinson on July 14.

Before finally being brought down, Barakat shot and killed rookie cop and Afghanistan veteran Jake Wallin, 23.

The article goes on to talk about the tip.

In response to inquiries from DailyMail.com about whether or not he was on any form of watch list or was known to police, the FBI today revealed that agents received an anonymous tip in 2021 about how many weapons he owned. 

They however forwarded the matter on to Fargo Police Department, whose officers visited his home three times in 2021.

They had received a tip from a concerned member of the public.

The cops spoke with Barakat once, during which time he insisted he had ‘no ill-intentions’ despite his enormous weapons inventory.  They then decided not to pursue any kind of action against him. 

‘During this visit, FPD detectives observed Barakat had several firearms in the apartment; however, none of them were illegal. Barakat was not prohibited from acquiring or possessing guns. 

This is hard to wrap my head around. The cops get a tip from a concerned member of the public, they visit three times, talk with him once (he’s not home the other two times?) and when he says “nah, all good bro'” they decide not to pursue anything? I mean, not even a short period of surveillance to see what he’s up to?

But the red flags were there. “He was permitted entry to the US in 2012 as a political asylum seeker from Syria.” So we bring in a man from an unstable country with radical beliefs under the rubric of “political asylum.” He stockpiles arms and some citizen raises their hand to say there might be a problem with this guy. The authorities ask some routine questions, decide there’s no issue, and then the killer unleashes hell on a quiet city because … we still don’t know why.

Little is known of Barakat, who had no social media presence and worked odd jobs in Fargo and surrounding areas. 

At one time, he worked at Fleet Farm, a firearms store in Fargo. He also frequented gun ranges and was seen there in the hours before the shooting on July 14.  

It’s unclear if he had a family before or after he moved to the US, and federal immigration officials are yet to share details of his political asylum application. 

Before Tuesday’s incident, his only crime or infraction was a speeding ticket. 

North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said there was a ‘suggestion’ he may have been on an FBI Guardian list. 

Unfortunately, this sounds all too familiar.

The latest FBI transgressions resulted in some of the deadliest terrorist attacks since Islamic jihadists carried out their plots in 2001, killing thousands of innocent Americans. They include the 2009 massacre at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the 2016 mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida nightclub and the 2017 attack at the Fort Lauderdale Airport in south Florida. In 2011 the FBI opened a counterterrorism lead into Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting, but the probe was closed five months later after agents evidently determined that Hasan did not pose a national security threat. Months later he massacred 13 people at a U.S. military post. The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was also under FBI investigation before he carried out his attack for making statements that displayed his radicalized ideology. Less than a year later the probe was closed after agents ruled the information to be unfounded. Mateen killed 46 people.

You want to know why so many Americans don’t trust our national departments of law enforcement like the FBI and the DOJ? Because they’re too busy pursuing the bogeyman of “domestic terrorists” while ignoring true threats to our safety like Mohamad Barakat.

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Daily Broadside | Terrorist Attack in Heartland Gets Virtually No Coverage

In the early 2010s I started warning my Facebook community to pay attention to the occasional attacks by Islamic jihadis in America. Most of them were lone wolf attacks, like the attempted car bombing in Times Square in 2010, or the beheading in Oklahoma in 2014, or the multiple stabbings in Minnesota in 2016, or the one in New York in 2023.

There’s lots more like those, but generally, you don’t hear about jihadi attacks that often. You’d think that if there were one, you’d hear about it.

At a news conference on Wednesday, North Dakota authorities said that the shooter responsible for the death of a Fargo Police Department officer and the injury of two other officers used 1,800 rounds of ammunition, a grenade and other explosives to unleash a “murderous barrage of fire.”

Mohamad Barakat, 37, was fatally shot by Officer Zachary Robinson, 31, authorities said. Officer Jake Wallin, 23, was killed, while officers Andrew Dotas, 28, and Tyler Hawes, 22, were critically injured. A woman was also shot, but authorities have not said who shot her.Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.

Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.

“In the wake of Mohamad Barakat’s murderous, unprovoked attack, Officer Zach Robinson’s use of deadly force was reasonable, it was necessary, it was justified, and in all ways, it was lawful,” North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley told reporters. “Mohamad Barakat engaged in a savage attack. … He unleashed what can only be described fairly as a murderous barrage of fire. But that isn’t to say it wasn’t precise. In fact, it was.”

Did you know that an Islamic jihadist attack had happened? No? You’re not alone.

It’s all been hush-hush.

In the week since the July 14 attack took place, authorities have resisted providing any specifics about the Muslim terrorist or his motive. Flag Family Media, a local radio station, had its request for information about Mohamad because it had already all been turned over to the FBI.

Mohamad’s neighbors in the Fargo housing complex claimed that he was quiet and refused to interact with them. “He didn’t want to be around you and of course that made you not want to be around him.”

Why then was Mohamad in America? As previously revealed by a Front Page Magazine investigation, decades of aggressive refugee resettlement has fundamentally changed the face of this quintessentially American city. 8% of Fargo is foreign born and Somalis, Iraqis and other Muslim refugees outnumber Hispanics in the school system. The nearby mega-mosque, blocks from where Mohamad carried out his attack, and Muslim businesses attracts other arrivals.

Our best boys at the FBI interviewed Mohamad in 2021 but didn’t see any threat.

The heavily armed man who killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two as they were investigating a traffic stop earlier this month had been interviewed about his guns in 2021 after the FBI received a tip, but it was determined he had done nothing illegal and no further action was taken, authorities said Thursday.

In a statement in response to questions from The Associated Press, the FBI and Fargo Police Department said the FBI received an anonymous tip about Mohamad Barakat in July 2021 in which the tipster expressed concern about Barakat’s mental state, saying he had access to a “significant number of firearms” and had used threatening language.

But no worries! He hasn’t done anything illegal — yet. Besides, we’ve got Trump to frame and sidewalk counselors at abortion clinics to harass and they haven’t done anything illegal either!

All I’ll say is that our so-called “leaders” haven’t learned anything about the nature of Islamic jihadists or, if they have, don’t want to face it because it causes tension over their goals of diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).

Pay attention.