Investigators Seek Rampage Motive

Douglas Debrs prays by a makeshift memorial outside the Armed Forces Career Center on earlier today in Chattanooga, Tenn. Counterterrorism investigators are trying to figure out why a 24-year-old Kuwait-born man, who by accounts lived a typical life in suburban America, attacked the career center and a Navy-Marine training center a few miles away in a shooting rampage that killed four Marines. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

As investigators delved into the life of Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez a day after a shooting rampage in Chattanooga that left four Marines dead, a portrait began to emerge Friday of a young Muslim who appeared to be searching for meaning in his life and embracing jihad, or holy war. Just days before Thursday’s attacks on a pair of military recruitment and support centers in civilian areas — and three months after he was arrested for driving under the influence — Abdulazeez evidently started a blog that lamented existence in what he described as a “prison” of monotony and routine and that praised early followers of Islam’s prophet who “fought Jihad for the sake of Allah,” hailing them as among “the best human beings that ever lived”/ Washington Post . More here .

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