Clues on Twitter Show Ties Between Texas Gunman and ISIS Network

by Rukmnini Callimachi • May 13, 2015 at 8:10 am
Cross-posted from New York Times

Hours before he drove into a Texas parking lot last week and opened fire with an assault rifle outside a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest, Elton Simpson, 30, logged onto Twitter.

"Follow @_AbuHu55ain," Mr. Simpson posted, promoting a Twitter account believed to belong to Junaid Hussain, a young computer expert from Birmingham, England, who moved to Syria two years ago to join the Islamic State and has become one of the extremist group's celebrity hackers.