mohamadist goes jihad at Chapel Hill

WRAL.com - News - Students To Protest UNC's Reluctance To Label Pit Incident Terrorism:

"The College Republicans, Americans for an Informed Democracy and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies are sponsoring the event, scheduled for 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Monday in 'The Pit,' a central area of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge.

Police said Mohammad Taheri-azar, a 2005 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, admits he acted to 'avenge the death of Muslims around the world.' UNC police and local authorities, however, say they have not taken a stance on that interpretation, but are simply repeating what the suspect has told them.

UNC-Chapel Hill student leaders said that Monday's protest is aimed at the reluctance of the university to label Friday's incident as an act of terrorism.

'This is innocent people being attacked by an SUV, driven by a man who was doing it for retaliation for treatment of Muslims around the world,' said Jillian Bandes, with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. 'To me, that spells terrorism.'

Taheri-azar, who is currently in Raleigh's Central Prison under a $5.5 million bond, is charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder and nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill.
Because of what Taheri-azar admitted to local authorities, the FBI is also participating in the investigation. FBI spokesman Ken Lucas said Sunday, however, that a federal investigation is still ongoing."