{"id":1102,"date":"2016-08-23T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2020-03-15T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T21:28:53","slug":"fbi-probing-an-islamist-terrorist-knife-attack-wounding-two-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/2016\/08\/23\/fbi-probing-an-islamist-terrorist-knife-attack-wounding-two-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI is\u00a0probing an Islamist terrorist knife attack that wounded two in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/iframe><\/p>\nThe following is a summary of this <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/fbi-investigating-isis-inspired-knife-attack-virginia\/story?id=41581213\">ABC News article<\/a>:\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\nThe FBI has launched a federal terrorism investigation into a weekend stabbing in Roanoke, VA., as it has become apparent that the attacker was trying to behead one of his victims while yelling \u201cAllah Akbar.\u201d<\/p>\nThe attacker is a 20 year old man named Wasil Farooqui who has lived in the area.\u00a0 The authorities claim to have been aware of him for some time.<\/p>\nSources say that he traveled to Turkey and tried to sneak into Syria as an ISIS supporter.<\/p>\nHe was arrested on Saturday and is being held on charges of assault with malicious wounding after attacking a man and a woman at an apartment complex with a knife.\u00a0 Authorities believe that he likely picked his victims at random.<\/p>\nFarooqui and his two victims are hospitalized after the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following is a summary of this ABC News article:\u00a0 The FBI has launched a federal terrorism investigation into a weekend stabbing in Roanoke, VA., as it has become apparent that the attacker was trying to behead one of his victims while yelling \u201cAllah Akbar.\u201d The attacker is a 20 year old man named Wasil … <a href=\"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/2016\/08\/23\/fbi-probing-an-islamist-terrorist-knife-attack-wounding-two-in-virginia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading “The FBI is\u00a0probing an Islamist terrorist knife attack that wounded two in Virginia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}