The motives behind the rampage at Ohio State University, on Monday, by Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an eighteen-year-old Somali-born student, have yet to be determined, but the event could have come straight out of the Islamic State’s manual—and it appears to have inspired him. On Tuesday, the ISIS news agency, Amaq, claimed Artan was “a soldier of God.” Amaq claimed the Somali youth carried out the operation “in response to appeals to target nationals of the international Coalition,” a reference to the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State.
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