Was the Oregon mass shooting an Islamist attempt to assassinate Alek Skarlatos?

by
Steve MacDonald

Alek Skarlatos

There are more than a few coincidences that suggest this attack could have had a specific target.

American Thinker  | Was the Oregon mass shooting an Islamist attempt to assassinate Alek Skarlatos?

In August the very high-profile [Alek] Skarlatos, a devout Christian, helped to disarm Ayoub El-Khazzani, a Moroccan with ties to radical Islam, on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. …

Skarlatos has publicly acknowledged that he is currently a student at Umpqua, near Roseburg, Ore., and that he was supposed to be attending classes there on Thursday when Harper-Mercer went on a bloody rampage.

More specifically, Skarlatos said he was supposed to be present that day in Snyder Hall, the same building where Harper-Mercer carried out his massacre.

Read the entire article. It is an intriguing idea. That this was not random. That it was a planned act of terror as retribution for the Train incident in France.

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  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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