Brother of San Bernardino shooter is a decorated Navy veteran honored for good conduct

[MohRokTah]

So it's pretty certain the guy didn;t pick up this radical shit at home:

Brother of San Bernardino shooter is a decorated Navy veteran honored for good conduct

The brother of the San Bernardino shooter is a decorated Navy veteran who was given a good conduct award, military records show.

Syed Raheel Farook joined the Navy in August 2003 and left the military four years later with accolades, a Navy spokesman told the Daily News Thursday.

He served with distinction while working as an Information System Technician, Third Class.

“He was a computer technician,” the Navy spokesman confirmed

...

I'm sure a few right wing heads will explode over this revelation.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/brother-calif-shooting-decorated-navy-vet-article-1.2454568?cid=bitly

[safeinOhio]

1. Trump new policy

Off with the heads of all family

[leftynyc]

2. I saw that reported last night

on Erin Burnett's show (I like her show - she asks great questions and seems to play it straight down the line) when someone was trying to use the asshole's abusive household and upbringing as an excuse. This hero of an American grew up in the same household.

[exboyfil]

3. I have wondered why CAIR

or some other organization does not hire a PR firm to advertise the contributions that Muslims make to this country. I am convinced wide swaths of the country have never gone to school with, worked with, or lived near a Muslim.

[Brother Buzz]

8. I heard the CAIR spokesperson on NPR yesterday

Unfortunately his message, unless the MSM picks up on it, will not play in Peoria.

[exboyfil]

11. Actually it might play better in Peoria

than in places like the Gulf Coast (where I went to High School). Peoria has many Cat engineers, and, where there are engineers, there are Muslims. Also I have to think Bradley University employs more than a few Muslims as well.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Think of Peoria as a metaphor for everywhere, USA, and has been for over 100 years

And fuck Caterpillar®! Caterpillar headquarters belongs in Stockton, California, where Holt invented it.

[exboyfil]

13. I get the joke

Didn't know that. Probably should have since I was once a Coop for Caterpillar (never got a work session in as the company folded the program in 1982 before I had a chance to work for them).

[Brother Buzz]

14. Benjamin Holt designed it to work the tule peat bogs in California's Central Valley

"In a tract where a man could not walk without sinking to his knees and where tule-shod horses could not be used ... the new traction engine was operated without a perceptible impression in the ground. This tract of land has been useless for crop raising for several years becaue no way was found to plow it, but the platform wheel engine has brought the land into use again." - Farm Implement News - Spring 1905

I grew up with unsubstantiated stories of a conventional traction steam engine of the period sinking and disappearing into a bog field overnight. Stated to me for a fact. I only tell it as I got it. I am willing to believe it. I can believe anything. - Mark Twain

[951-Riverside]

4. No, it'll just play into their wild conspiracy theories about this being a "false flag attack"

The FBI sure didn't do itself any favors when it let reporters rifle through the attacker's stuff 48 hours later.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. David Bowditch said it clearly

they turned the property back to the owner last night. What the owner does with that property after returned, it is not their business.

[LittleBlue]

5. I think it's pretty clear now that his wife and the internet were the main contributors

After seeing the interview with his sister, the family doesn't seem radical at all.

Influences from abroad seem to be the major causes of his radicalization

[KittyWampus]

6. is this the same brother whom some DU'ers thought was suspicious during a presser?

[GusBob]

7. That was brother in law

I think

[mwrguy]

10. Wow, such decorated, so conduct.