By Chuck Hustmyre
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A witness told a television news crew that moments after police took Popal into custody, he referred to himself as a terrorist. The next day, Popal told police: "I planned to kill those people I ran over last night. They needed to be killed."
In July 2006, Naveed Afzal Haq, a 30-year-old Muslim man burst into the two-story Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle carrying a pair of pistols. He shot six women and killed one. During the attack he said, "I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel."
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| Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar |
In March 2006, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old student from Iran, intentionally plowed his rented 2006 Jeep Cherokee through a crowded pedestrian mall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, injuring nine.
After the attack, Taheri-azar told reporters he intended to kill everyone he hit.
In a series of letters from jail, Taheri-azar explained his motives and claimed the Quran gives Muslims the right to murder those responsible for Muslim deaths. In one letter, Taheri-azar wrote, "Due to my religious motivation for the attack, I feel no remorse and am proud to have carried it out in service of and in obedience of Allah."
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