Recently, when the Somalia-based terrorist organization al-Shabab released a video calling for attacks on shopping malls located around the world, including Minnesota’s Mall of America, the U.S. government responded by assuring the public that “no credible or specific evidence” exists that any such attack is in the works.
But former Rep. Michele Bachmann is not buying it, telling Newsmax host Steve Malzberg today that the call for an attack itself constitutes a credible threat, claiming that the shooting of two New York City police officers back in December was carried out in response to a similar call put forth by ISIS.
The government’s reaction to the latest threat, Bachmann said, “is an absolutely apathetic, clueless response.”
“The video from al-Shabab,” she said, “that’s the credible threat because that message is being sent to sympathizers to light a match and take action and actually have something happen at Mall of America. Don’t forget, last fall, there was a call from terrorists for those who couldn’t come to the Islamic State in Syria to join the jihad to take jihadist actions locally and that’s when we saw that attacks in Canada, at the Parliament and also against government figures, and we also saw two police officers innocently killed in Brooklyn. That was in direct response to a call to take action”:
There is no evidence that Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the man who murdered the two NYPD officers, was inspired by ISIS. Not surprisingly, the theory that he was inspired by ISIS seems to have originated from Alex Jones’ InfoWars website.
