By Debbie Schlussel
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Was this another dry run for a terrorist attack perpetrated by a Muslim in America? Sure sounds like it.

On Saturday, Mehrzad Malekzadeh, an Iranian Muslim, perpetrated a four-hour stand-off at Walmart in Kemah, Texas, which is in the Houston area. He had multiple devices in his boxes and taped to his body, some of them real, others fake. And, of course, the usual “mental problems”–or as I call it, “the halal Twinkie defense”–was cited as an excuse.
Sure looks to me like this guy got to see what would happen if he or some other terrorist made bomb threats (with real explosives, no less) at a Walmart. And he got to see that shoppers were locked in the store for at least four hours, enough time for even the most amateur Islamic terrorist to kill all or most of them in jihad. Malekzadeh was originally seen cruising a Target, but then moved on to Walmart. Hmmm . . . does that sound “mentally disturbed” to you or cold and calculating. I vote the latter as a crazy person doesn’t scope out whether or not to do Target jihad or Walmart jihad. A smart one does. And, as I’ve pointed out before, the Al-Qaeda handbook specifically instructs in the recruitment and use of the mentally ill or defective in terrorist activities for plausible deniability. Some headlines and news stories from the area call this a “bomb hoax,” but it was no hoax as, again, some of the bombs he was wearing were real.
Oh, and for a guy with “mental problems,” he sure looks like he’s got a very deliberate background. Some news reports merely whitewash this by saying that 35-year-old Malekzadeh had “minor run-ins with the law ” in his past or that the “most serious” is “disorderly conduct.” But, in fact, in 2012, Malekzadeh was “arrested and charged with trespassing after he was located near some railroad tracks and told officers he was trying to bury argon.” Argon is a gas used in high-temperature activities and also in lighting, but it can also be used as a colorless, odorless, and difficult to detect asphyxiant in closed areas or close quarters. Remember the 1994 incident in which a man was asphyxiated when argon entered a section of the Alaska Pipeline then under construction? Read the rest of this entry »