The man who killed two, including a relative of my cousin, was a US born Yemeni Terrorist

I posted an article previously on this.

 

Is this the late Fuaedo Abdo Ahmed  holding an AK-47?

A US Born Yemeni Terrorist in Louisiana Kills Two in Bank Hostage Standoff

20-Year old Fuaedo Abdo Ahmed, a US born son of Yemeni immigrants killed a bank manager and  mortally wounded a second employee  who subsequently died in hospital after a 12 hour standoff on Tuesday August 13, 2013 in the small northeastern Louisiana community of St. Joseph. A female hostage was released after Ahmed spoke with a friend in Alaska.   Ahmed was employed at the Trak convenience store owned by an  uncle directly across from the branch of the Tensas Bank in St. Joseph, with a population of 1,200. More than 200 Louisiana law officers  including snipers converged on the Tensas Bank branch in St. Joseph.

Officials had endeavored to negotiate the release the two bank employees but grew increasingly dire about the prospects of Ahmed concluding the hostages release as robbery appeared not to be behind the hostage taking. Among the effects police found in Ahmed’s apartment was a manual on hostage negotiations confirming that this was a planned assault. The standoff ended with the execution of the bank manager and mortally wounded  a second bank employee with a .380 automatic handgun. Ahmed was also equipped with an assault rifle and had a duffel bag in which police found instruments for possible torture of the victims.

Ahmed was killed by  snipers in the flash bang attack. on the Tansas bank branch.

Ahmed was born in Fresno, California and came to Northeast Louisiana to attend a private academy in the vicinity of St. Joseph. He was allegedly a captain of the academy’s football team and had been a star running back. According to his Face Book page Ahmed had attended Louisiana State University  (LSU)) in Baton Rouge and possibly Louisiana State University in Monroe (ULM).

However, there appears to be no confirmation  of his attending the latter. At the time of the hostage taking he had been working in his uncle’s convenience store.

There are suspicions that Ahmed may have been an emerging paranoid schizophrenic as there were reports of his acting weirdly and requesting that the device in his head be removed. However there are suspicions that Ahmed might have traveled to Yemen and upon his return had arguments with airport police officers. There is a picture of what appears to be Ahmed holding an AK-47 assault rifle in his Facebook Page which is still up on-line.  While there appear to be mountains in the background, the locale according to Christopher Holton Vice President of the Washington, DC-based Center for Security Policy who spoke to a former Marine who served in Yemen  who told him that the terrain, the Eucaliptus tree in the left foreground and power lines  in the background, look more like a desert area in Ahmed’s native California.

Further investigation of Ahmed’s Facebook page reveals connections to several brothers, including one attending LSU in Baton Rouge..   The Louisiana Hayride blog noted several entries on an Ahmed  brother Face Book page espousing support for Yemeni Jihadists, ousted President Morsi and Al Qaeda:

Another member of that family, who we think is a cousin, is Yasser Ahmed. On April 12, our friend found this at Yasar Ahmed’s Facebook…

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