Teenaged perps dead, apparently suicides.
Guard dead, two others dead, no children hurt.
I just heard there were two shooters and they're both dead. Who were these guys?
Two down, too many to go.
Sounds like they stole some guns from the mom of one of them, along with her car and she started piecing it all together while she was on the phone with the cops saying he'd run away.
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Sounds like they stole some guns from the mom of one of them, along with her car and she started piecing it all together while she was on the phone with the cops saying he'd run away.
A parent's worst nightmare. She had better had them reasonably well secured. Otherwise they might come after her.
I don't think that's true. The mosque they were tied to in San Diego was the one al-Awlaki preached at, which was way on the other side of town. I'm not even sure why this is supposed to be relevant. A couple of teenagers wanted to get revenge for 9/11? That sounds ridiculous on its face. I feel like this is just a bullshit X post that was launched for the sole purpose of reminding the Online Faithful that the Muslims are the real enemy.
Correct, and I also didn't get the relevance of the X post.I don't think that's true. The mosque they were tied to in San Diego was the one al-Awlaki preached at, which was way on the other side of town. I'm not even sure why this is supposed to be relevant. A couple of teenagers wanted to get revenge for 9/11? That sounds ridiculous on its face. I feel like this is just a bullshit X post that was launched for the sole purpose of reminding the Online Faithful that the Muslims are the real enemy.
I don't think that's true. The mosque they were tied to in San Diego was the one al-Awlaki preached at, which was way on the other side of town. I'm not even sure why this is supposed to be relevant. A couple of teenagers wanted to get revenge for 9/11? That sounds ridiculous on its face. I feel like this is just a bullshit X post that was launched for the sole purpose of reminding the Online Faithful that the Muslims are the real enemy.
Per Grok:
Yes, the post is correct.
The shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego (the city's largest mosque, located in the Clairemont neighborhood) did happen today, May 18, 2026. Two teenage suspects opened fire outside the center around 11:43 a.m. PDT, killing three adult men (including a security guard who heroically stopped them from entering the attached school with children inside). The suspects, found dead nearby from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, are under investigation as a possible hate crime.
The historical connection to 9/11 is also accurate and well-documented:
- Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar were two of the five al-Qaeda hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77, which they crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (killing all 64 people on board and 125 inside the building).
- In early 2000, after arriving in the U.S., they lived in San Diego (initially at the Parkwood Apartments in Clairemont Mesa, just blocks from the mosque). They prayed regularly at the Islamic Center of San Diego, played on its soccer team, and spent significant time there.
- Associates connected to the mosque (including an administrator) provided them practical help: finding an apartment, obtaining Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses, buying a car, and even facilitating a $5,000 money transfer tied to one of the hijackers via the administrator’s bank account.
This is corroborated by the 9/11 Commission materials, FBI investigations, court documents, and contemporary reporting (e.g., KPBS, San Diego Union-Tribune, and the Investigative Project on Terrorism). The image attached to the post is a KPBS screenshot showing the hijackers’ photos alongside a quote highlighting exactly these ties.
The post is simply pointing out a factual historical link between today’s location and the 9/11 hijackers — nothing in the text is inaccurate or exaggerated.
I don't think that's true. The mosque they were tied to in San Diego was the one al-Awlaki preached at, which was way on the other side of town. I'm not even sure why this is supposed to be relevant. A couple of teenagers wanted to get revenge for 9/11? That sounds ridiculous on its face. I feel like this is just a bullshit X post that was launched for the sole purpose of reminding the Online Faithful that the Muslims are the real enemy.
Per Grok:
Yes, the post is correct.
The shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego (the city's largest mosque, located in the Clairemont neighborhood) did happen today, May 18, 2026. Two teenage suspects opened fire outside the center around 11:43 a.m. PDT, killing three adult men (including a security guard who heroically stopped them from entering the attached school with children inside). The suspects, found dead nearby from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, are under investigation as a possible hate crime.
The historical connection to 9/11 is also accurate and well-documented:
- Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar were two of the five al-Qaeda hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77, which they crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (killing all 64 people on board and 125 inside the building).
- In early 2000, after arriving in the U.S., they lived in San Diego (initially at the Parkwood Apartments in Clairemont Mesa, just blocks from the mosque). They prayed regularly at the Islamic Center of San Diego, played on its soccer team, and spent significant time there.
- Associates connected to the mosque (including an administrator) provided them practical help: finding an apartment, obtaining Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses, buying a car, and even facilitating a $5,000 money transfer tied to one of the hijackers via the administrator’s bank account.
This is corroborated by the 9/11 Commission materials, FBI investigations, court documents, and contemporary reporting (e.g., KPBS, San Diego Union-Tribune, and the Investigative Project on Terrorism). The image attached to the post is a KPBS screenshot showing the hijackers’ photos alongside a quote highlighting exactly these ties.
The post is simply pointing out a factual historical link between today’s location and the 9/11 hijackers — nothing in the text is inaccurate or exaggerated.
Yeah, there's a lot of conflicting information out there. I think the accurate version is probably that Grok/NYP are conflating two different mosques.
https://www.npr.org/2011/09/11/140370379/san-diego-muslims-open-doors-amid-scrutiny
Again, I'm not sure why this matters for this thread. What is the point, other than to try to get people to feel less sympathy for the victims who happened to be Muslim? Can you honestly tell me there is any other reason for this than that?
I just heard there were two shooters and they're both dead. Who were these guys?
Just 2 more radicalized American yutes celebrating the Decade of Hate - as instructed.
Again, I'm not sure why this matters for this thread. What is the point, other than to try to get people to feel less sympathy for the victims who happened to be Muslim? Can you honestly tell me there is any other reason for this than that?
They had it coming. Duh.
Again, I'm not sure why this matters for this thread. What is the point, other than to try to get people to feel less sympathy for the victims who happened to be Muslim? Can you honestly tell me there is any other reason for this than that?
They had it coming. Duh.
That seems to be the message. I don't know why anyone would amplify it.