Garland shooting: Twitter suspends account that warned about a ‘Texas attack’ 15 minutes before incident at anti-Muslim event
ADAM WITHNALL
IndependentUK
Monday 04 May 2015
Twitter appears to have suspended an account that tweeted about an attack in Texas 15 minutes before shots were fired at an anti-Muslim event in the city of Garland.
Two gunmen were killed by police officers at the event which encouraged participants to submit cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed, offering a $10,000 prize for the “best”.
The suspended account had an avatar picture depicting the US-born radical Islamist cleric and senior al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike in September 2011.
Under the profile name “Shariah is Light”, the tweet read: “The bro with me and myself have given bay’ah to Amirul Mu’mineen. May Allah accept us as mujahideen [jihadists]. Make dua. #texasattack.”
The tweet was posted at 6.35pm local time in Texas – 15 minutes before Garland Police Department received its first reports of gunfire at the anti-Muslim event. In a tweet sent three hours before its last, the profile recommended people follow another account – @AbuHu55ain – which has also now been suspended.
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