ISIS described the attack in its weekly Al-Naba newsletter as “one of the most prominent attacks targeting Crusaders in America,†and a response to its call to target “citizens of the Crusader countries involved in the alliance against the Islamic State.†The publication also called the alleged assailant, who is in police custody, a “soldier†of the group.
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