{"id":328669,"date":"2017-10-02T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-isis-responsible-for-las-vegas-shooting\/"},"modified":"2017-10-02T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:34:40","slug":"is-isis-responsible-for-las-vegas-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-isis-responsible-for-las-vegas-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ISIS Responsible for Las Vegas Shooting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Islamic State claimed responsibility for the\u00a0mass shooting\u00a0at a country music festival in Las Vegas, and said the shooter converted to Islam several months ago, according to a group that monitors online terrorist networks.<\/p>\n<p>SITE Intel Group said the terror organization claimed responsibility through its Amaq news agency, although ISIS has yet to offer proof of its claim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;#BREAKING: #ISIS claimed #LasVegas attack, reporting through \u2018Amaq that executor is one of its &#8220;soldiers&#8221; &amp; he converted to Islam months ago,&#8221; SITE Intel Group tweeted Monday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ISIS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ISIS<\/a> claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LasVegas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LasVegas<\/a> attack, reporting through &#8216;Amaq that executor is one of its &#8220;soldiers&#8221; &amp; he converted to Islam months ago <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4E85vEIUzH\">pic.twitter.com\/4E85vEIUzH<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siteintelgroup\/status\/914854178798874624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The shooter, identified as\u00a064-year-old Stephen Paddock, fired down on the crowd of concert-goers at the Route 91 music festival\u00a0from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.<\/p>\n<p>Police said\u00a0he committed suicide\u00a0before law enforcement broke into his hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>At least 50 people were killed and more than 400 injured.<\/p>\n<p>SITE noted earlier on Monday that ISIS featured the Las Vegas Strip in a May video, and that an al Qaeda affiliate in 2014 suggested Las Vegas as a target.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/isis-claims-responsibility-for-las-vegas-shooting-calls-gunman-one-of-its-soldiers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State claimed responsibility for the\u00a0mass shooting\u00a0at a country music festival in Las Vegas, and said the shooter converted to Islam several months ago, according to a group that monitors online terrorist networks. SITE Intel Group said the terror organization claimed responsibility through its Amaq news agency, although ISIS has yet to offer proof of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}