Crash into store was a personal statement
THe East Valley Tribune in Scottsdale, AZ starts this story with a disclaimer, apparently believing that otherwise many readers would think that it was like a Scrappleface report:
December 29, 2005 – TO OUR READERS:
The following story is based on witness accounts and a police report released Wednesday. He placed both hands on the steering wheel, stared straight ahead and barrelled toward the front entrance of Home Depot.
Then they go on into the substance of the improbable story:
Ali R. Warrayat hadn’t slept in days, planning this moment down to the last detail. Now, his face was void of any expression. A store employee jumped out of the car’s path. To drown out the man’s yells, Warrayat reached over to his car radio and blasted Arabic music before crashing through the front doors. The scene was only the beginning of a violent rampage through the Chandler (AZ) store on Dec. 18. For the 24-year-old Arizona State University student, the motives behind the attack were personal.
Well, maybe sort of…
The Jordanian-turned-U.S. citizen devised a plan to make a grand statement by crashing into the store at Alma School Road and Chandler Boulevard and setting it on fire. At first, he wanted to wear a Palestinian flag, but later decided to place it in the trunk of his car, along with a copy of the Quran and a necklace. He then grabbed his cat and his uncle’s pit bull and brought them along for the ride with the intent of killing them in the fire.
This guy has successfully redefined the limits of what it means to be a moonbat.
After crashing through the doors at 6 a.m. that Sunday, he expertly navigated the aisles and headed straight for the paint department, slamming his car into the flammable goods. He jumped to the roof of the car, looked around for a second and then hopped to the ground. He used a lighter to ignite the blaze, and loud explosions followed as store employees ran for safety.
Inside the car, the dog, named Tyson, crouched against the floorboards trying to escape the flames, eventually dying from the toxic smoke. The cat was never found.
When an officer asked if he understood his Miranda rights, Warrayat shot back in a foreign language. The officer asked if he understood English, and Warrayat replied in English, “Do you speak Arabic?” He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and arson, causing about $1 million in damage. He is being held without bond at Maricopa County’s Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix.
Motivation for this? Consider…
Co-worker and friend Joaquin Bustamante said Warrayat was “gentleman-like and respectable with everyone. When I saw him on TV, he did not look like the Ali that I know,” Bustamante said. “He was a hard worker and worked circles around everybody, and he was a very private person.” Bustamante said Warrayat was deeply religious and had a Quran hanging from his rearview mirror.
The Chief didn’t know it was acceptable to the Religion of Piss Peace to treat the Quran like a set of “fuzzy dice”, but then, what do I know?
Police served a search warrant on the Gilbert house where he lives with his parents, seizing a computer and other items. Initial images on his computer depicted men lighting Molotov cocktails and a cartoon of two bloodied and dead children with a Middle Eastern flag in the background.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Apparently diversity only goes so far:
A Home Depot official told police that if Warrayat is released from jail, management is considering placing armed guards at all of its East Valley stores.
The newspaper was right in printing the initial disclaimer notice! If someone put this in a movie, it would be too far out to make the final cut…well…maybe not considering some of the H-wood crapola that comes out.