PBS高端访谈:FBI开始着手调查穆罕默德漫画大赛的攻击者
时间:2015-07-15 02:39:32
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GWEN IFILL: The FBI looked for terrorist tie-ins today after two men attacked an exhibit of Muhammad cartoons outside Dallas.
The Sunday evening shooting in garland, Texas sent
investigators1 across the southwest.
Federal agents searched this apartment in
Phoenix2, Arizona — within hours of the shooting — along with a white van and a second vehicle.
DOUGLAS HAYES, Neighbor of gunmen: They were out here just
wailing3 on the back door over here trying to get it open. There were several different guys that came over and were trying to cut into the door.
GWEN IFILL: The FBI said the apartment belonged to Elton Simpson. He was identified as an American Muslim convicted in 2011 of lying to the FBI in a terror
investigation4.
Investigators say he sent out several tweets before Sunday's shooting, using the hashtag “Texas attack.”
Various news accounts identified the second man as
Nadir5 Soofi, Simpson's roommate.
Clad in body armor, the two gunmen fired assault-style rifles and wounded a security guard at the garland event center.
An off-duty traffic officer, also working security, returned fire,
killing6 both attackers.
JOE HARN, Garland Police Department Spokesman: He did what he was trained to do and, under the fire that he was put under, he did a very good job and probably saved lives. We think their strategy was to get to the event center, into the event center, and they weren't able to get passed that outer
perimeter7 that we had set up.
GWEN IFILL: The bodies were still there this morning, covered by a tarp, while a bomb
squad8 searched the gunmen's car, and blew up several suspicious objects but found no bombs.
Police said they're still working on the
motive9, but the event center was hosting a contest for cartoons
depicting10 the prophet Muhammad. That's considered
blasphemous11 under Islamic tradition.
It was organized by a group led by New York
activist12 Pamela Geller, who campaigns against what she calls “Islamic supremacism”.
Because of that, garland police had created a security plan months in advance.
They drew on what happened in Paris last January when Islamism gunmen killed a dozen people at the office of a French magazine after it published Muhammad cartoons.
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