NOTHING TO SEE, NOTHING TO SEE – AT 12:58 P.M. ET:   There has been a terror incident in Australia.  From the New York Post: 

The man who plowed an SUV into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Australia told cops he carried out the attack as retaliation for the “mistreatment of Muslims,” officials said Friday.

Saeed Noori, 32, injured 19 people — three critically — when he sped his vehicle into a busy intersection in downtown Melbourne outside the city’s main train station just before 5 p.m. Thursday.

Noori, an Afghan who was granted entry into Australia in 2004 as a refugee and became a citizen two years later, made the comments to police after he was arrested.

“He has said that he attributes his actions to the perceived mistreatment of Muslims,” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.

Despite the comments, officials say Noori — who has a history of mental illness — has no known links to any extremist groups and he was not on intelligence agencies’ list of potential terror suspects.

“At this stage . . . apart from that statement there are no known links to any political issues or any links to extremist groups,” Turnbull said.

Noori, according to officials, also made references to God and Australia’s domestic security service following his arrest.

COMMENT:  Ah yes, no known "links."  A lone wolf.  Just a guy out for a ride.  That is total garbage.  As we have said here before, there's no such thing as a lone wolf.  The people who plow cars into crowds for the sake of Allah didn't get that idea while daydreaming.  They were radicalized by some source.  And they all spout the same line.

This is a new kind of asymmetrical warfare.  The soldier, seemingly alone but influenced carefully by others, carrying out a deadly attack.  Let's stop with the "no links" argument.  You don't have to have a membership card and a lapel pin to be a murderer.

December 22, 2017