First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack

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First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack
Broad implications for the United States from the first accused Islamic terrorist to illegally cross the southern border and shoot an American for jihad
By Todd Bensman on January 6, 2025
Center for Immigration Studies

 (Part 1 of 3; Read Part 2, Part 3.)

CHICAGO, Illinois – Since October 26, 2024, was Saturday, the mandatory Jewish day of rest when the orthodox may not drive, the orthodox Jewish man woke early to walk the mile to his suburban Chicago synagogue.

But his wife and children decided to stay home, a rare exception, while he went alone to weekly morning service at  KINS of West Rogers Park synagogue, the second largest synagogue in Chicago. Their choice may have been divine providence for them all, he and his wife later recounted to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) in late December.

Wearing religious garb – a yarmulke for his head and a clear plastic prayer shawl bag over a shoulder - that readily identified him as a Jew, the 39-year-old man headed out on the 20-minute walk through West Rogers Park, his predominantly Jewish upper-middle class suburban neighborhood where crime of any sort is virtually unknown.

He recalls “just walking, like spacing out,” nodding good morning to other walkers. Suddenly, a noise that sounded like a lightning bolt strike yanked him from the reverie.

“I like felt something hit my shoulder, and I fell,” the man recalled in a December interview at his house in his first and only interview, given to CIS on condition that identities remain undisclosed for fear of future targeting.

“I thought like some lightning crashed and hit a tree branch and that it fell on my shoulder. I wasn’t aware that the sound I heard was a gunshot.”

As he scrambled to his feet, he looked down to see a bloody hole in his suit lapel and realized his arm had gone numb. He turned in time to see a young man wearing a green workman’s safety vest – a clothing item common among pro-Hamas demonstrators worldwide – running away with a pistol in one hand, looking back at him. In that split second, the bleeding Jewish man spoke to his assailant. ...

But that was just the beginning of an unprecedented life-threatening storm of violence that would go on to wrack this peaceful neighborhood for another 20 minutes in what state prosecutors would later deem a full-fledged planned terror attack. Thunderous, echoing gunfire gripped the upper middle-class residential area in white-knuckled fright, leaving shell casings strewn across streets, blood stains on sidewalks, bullet-riddled vehicles, and residents cowering with children and pets inside their homes.

“Allahu Akbar!” Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi screamed the notorious Islamic terrorist war cry as he fired, including yet a third time at his first victim.  ...

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Abdallahi was charged with a terror crime by state prosecutors, making him the first illegal border-crossing terrorist.

But as Bensman tells Brannon Howse, Abdallahi committed suicide in custody, and the FBI have closed their investigation. There won’t be a trial, leaving many questions unanswered.  ...

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From the original article, Part 1:

... Abdallahi did not just fire on police. He went for his original victim a third time as two Chicago Fire Department paramedics were loading him onto Ambulance 13. A video shows the gunman firing at it as it raced past him with sirens blaring. Firefighters at the station where Ambulance 13 is assigned refused a CIS interview request.

The victim, whom neighbors had taken into their home for field treatment, recalled that paramedics who showed up to help had him on a gurney and were loading into the ambulance when gunfire raked them all. Rounds were hitting the ambulance.

“The paramedics were like, ‘did they shoot at the ambulance?’ They [the paramedics] told me to duck but there was nowhere to duck,” the shooting victim said, noting that he couldn’t duck being on a gurney. “They were scared. The paramedics were absolutely scared. They were like, this has never happened. They, like, didn’t know what to do. They’re like, let’s just get out of here! Let’s go!”

Door camera video shows the gunman continued firing at the ambulance as it sped down the street past him. In the moment, he was unaware that rounds had hit the vehicle.

After about four minutes, police finally were finally able to shoot Abdallahi down, although he continued to rise and point his gun until he simply no longer could. ...

From Part 2:

...The 22-year-old Abdallahi, critically wounded then arrested by police, had hanged himself the week before while in the Cook County Jail while awaiting his eventual trial on state terrorism and other charges for conducting an October 26 shooting melee described at length in Part 1 of this series.

The pre-trial jailhouse suicide had made perfunctory news headlines, but any reporter who would have attended the Chicago Mauritanian Community’s publicly advertised “prayers…over the body of the deceased” and presumed burial of Abdallahi on Friday, December 6, could have potentially interviewed the people who knew him most intimately. A Facebook page that matches Abdallahi’s full name, devoid of entries other than a photo of a car, show five followers, among them some who follow the Chicago Mauritanian Community. But no reporters bothered to show up, missing what turned out to be a consequential opportunity to learn about Abdallahi’s violent path from the Mexican border to the West Rogers Park neighborhood, which he shot up during his 20-minute attack. ...

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mountaineer posted above:
"But as Bensman tells Brannon Howse, Abdallahi committed suicide in custody, and the FBI have closed their investigation. There won’t be a trial, leaving many questions unanswered."

He's dead?
Then... good.
One less muslim terrorist in the world.
That's all that really counts.