ISIS Claims Responsibility for Texas Attack: Radio Station Issues Chilling Warning that US will 'See Soldiers of the Islamic State do Terrible Things'
- 'Two soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack in Garland,' group said
- 'We tell America that what is coming will be even bigger,' it announced
- The terrorist group made the statement through its Al Bayan radio station
Daily Mail UK, 6 May 2015
The Islamic State terrorist group claimed its first attack on US soil, a shooting at an anti-Muslim event in Texas over the weekend showcasing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
'Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this exhibit was portraying negative pictures of the Prophet Mohammed,' the jihadist group said through its Al Bayan radio station.
'We tell America that what is coming will be even bigger and more bitter, and that you will see the soldiers of the Islamic State do terrible things,' the group announced.
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Debris of a car blown up by police as a precaution near the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas following the attack on an anti-Muslim event
Shot dead: Elton Simpson, pictured top, and Nadir Soofi, opened fire outside an anti-Islam event on Sunday evening in Texas
A man carries a broken door away from the Garland shooting suspects' bottom floor apartment at the Autumn Ridge complex in Phoenix, Arizona, after the FBI forcefully entered the apartment to perform a search
Attack: The bodies of Simpson and Soofi are seen next to their vehicle as it is searched for explosives
Investigation: Agents work on the scene near to where the men opened fire before they were shot dead by a traffic officer. Investigators destroyed some of the belongings found inside the back of the suspects' car, pictured, as a precaution
Inside the Arizona Apartment Shared by Texas Terror Gunmen;
It was unclear whether the group was opportunistically claiming the attack as its own.
Police said two men drove up to the conference centre Sunday in Garland, Texas, where the right-wing American Freedom Defense Initiative was organising the controversial cartoon contest, and began shooting at a security guard.
Garland police officers then shot and killed both men.
According to US media reports, the two suspected jihadists were Elton Simpson, 31, and Nadir Soofi, 34, who shared an apartment in Phoenix, Arizona.
Simpson was being investigated by the FBI over alleged plans to travel to Somalia to wage holy war, court records show.
Many Muslims find drawings of the prophet to be disrespectful or outright blasphemous, and such cartoons have been cited by Islamists as motivation in several previous attacks.
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Killed: FBI crime scene investigators look at the bodies of the two killed gunmen outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas on Monday
Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team investigate the crime scene outside of the Curtis Culwell Center
Controversial: On Sunday, two heavily armed police officers can be seen securing art work following the shooting
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