Officer Shot In Texas Isis Attack Sues FBI
Contends bureau allowed assault on ‘Draw Muhammad’ event
By Art Moore
Claiming an FBI undercover agent bears responsibility for the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack at the “Draw Muhammad” free-speech event in Garland, Texas, in 2015, the security guard wounded in the incident is suing the bureau for damages.
Bruce Joiner charges the FBI is liable because one of its agents “solicited, encouraged, directed and aided members of ISIS in planning and carrying out the May 3 attack,” according to court documents filed Monday, reported the Washington Examiner.
As WND reported from the scene, two Muslims wearing body armor and armed with assault rifles who had traveled 1,000 miles to the Dallas suburb tried to penetrate the massive security set up by event organizers, estimated to have cost them up to $30,000. ISIS later claimed as their own the two men, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix, who were shot and killed by police after they jumped out of their vehicle at a parking-lot barrier and began firing.
One of the jihadists shot Joiner in the ankle.
The assailants, clearly planning a massive slaughter, were found to have had three rifles, three handguns, about 1,500 rounds of ammunition and a photocopied ISIS flag.
Joiner, claiming the FBI essentially allowed the attack to happen, seeks more than $8 million in damages.
“The FBI helped the terrorists obtain a weapon that was used in the attack by lifting a hold during a background check, incited the terrorist to attack the Garland event, and even sent an agent to accompany the terrorists as they carried out the attack,” the complaint states.
An FBI informant was revealed to have been at the scene of the attack through testimony in a separate court case and a “60 Minutes” report in March.
The FBI agent was in a car directly behind Simpson and Soofi when they began firing. According to the court case, the agent had texted Simpson just weeks before with the message, “Tear up Texas.”
Joiner’s lawsuit alleges that former FBI Director Jim Comey lied to the American people in a “post-attack cover-up.”
Comey, the complaint says, claimed Simpson was a “needle in a haystack” that was “invisible to us.”
“Even after it had come to light that an undercover FBI agent had been communicating extensively with the terrorists during the week prior to the event and had accompanied them as they carried out the attack, the FBI continued to assert that there ‘was no advance knowledge of a plot to attack the cartoon drawing contest,’” the complaint states.
Islam expert Robert Spencer, who helped organize the Garland event with blogger, author and activist Pamela Geller, wrote on his website Jihad Watch that he and Geller twice asked the FBI for an investigation into the role of the FBI agent but were ignored.
Geller, who hired a SWAT team and paid an additional $10,000 to local police for protection, was named by ISIS as the main target for “slaughter.” Later, ISIS follower Usaamah Rahim, who was fatally shot by Boston police officers after trying to attack them, was found by the FBI to have plotted to behead Geller.
‘Present at the event’
Joiner’s attorney, Trenton Roberts, told the Washington Examiner in April that he now believes the FBI might have been willing to let the attack unfold to even greater lengths.
Joiner’s complaint also points to evidence suggesting Simpson and Soofi may have been connected to the failed “Fast and Furious” operation by President Obama’s Department of Justice.
A third suspect in the Garland case, 43-year-old Muslim convert Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for helping plan the attack and providing the other two suspects with weapons.
It was Kareem’s attorney, Dan Maynard, who uncovered the FBI agent’s proximity to the attack.
Maynard, interviewed in the March 26 “60 Minutes” segment, said he discovered after Kareem’s trial an affidavit filed in another case in which the government disclosed that the FBI undercover agent had “traveled to Garland, Texas, and was present … at the event.”
In November 2016, Maynard was given another batch of documents that revealed the undercover agent was in a car directly behind Simpson and Soofi when they started shooting.
Maynard said he wants to ask the FBI if the agent had other communications with Simpson and why he was in Garland, but the bureau would not agree to an interview.
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So…..the third suspect, so and so Kareem, gets 30 years for conspiring the attack and supplying weapons, an attack that was actually carried out…..In Vegas, Greg Burleson gets 60 years for being a drunken loudmouth.