Islamic terror never sleeps, it never stops and it can’t be ignored. At least not for very long.
This attack plot was the second major Islamic terror plot targeting the D.C. area in several months.
According to the detention memo, for two years, (Rondell) Henry has harbored “hatred” for those who do not practice the Muslim faith. Allegedly inspired by videos he watched of foreign terrorists, Henry decided to conduct a vehicular attack, similar to the 2016 truck attack in Nice, France, for which ISIS claimed responsibility. After stealing the van, Henry drove around, arriving at Dulles International Airport in Virginia at approximately 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. The government’s motion for detention alleges that Henry exited his U-Haul and entered the terminal, trying to find a way through security, allegedly to harm “disbelievers” in a way designed for maximum publicity. After more than two hours of failing to breach Dulles’s security perimeter, Henry allegedly returned to the U-Haul.
According to the motion for detention, Henry then drove the U-Haul from Virginia to the National Harbor in Maryland, arriving around 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 27. The motion for detention alleges that Henry parked the U-Haul and walked around a popular part of National Harbor. According to the motion for detention, Henry finally broke into a boat to hide overnight.
By the following morning, Thursday, March 28, police officers had discovered the location of the stolen U-Haul. When Henry leapt over the security fence from the boat dock, observant Prince George’s County Police officers arrested him.
The release here is surprisingly direct about the religious Islamic supremacist motivation for the attack. It’s a world away from the Montana release which did everything possible to confuse what was going on.
The defendant, inspired by the ISIS terrorist organization and prepared to die for his cause, stole a vehicle with the intent of “plowing it through a crowd full of people” at the National Harbor.
“I was just going to keep driving and driving and driving. I wasn’t going to stop,”
Once again, we dodged a horrifying atrocity.
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