Yesterday, I addressed Thursday’s jihadist attack in Michigan. Today, I turn to the jihadist attack the same day in Virginia, focusing on the knotty legal issues it raises.
At Old Dominion University in Norfolk, a 36-year-old terrorist named Mohamed Bailor Jalloh killed a former Army officer and wounded two cadets in a premeditated attack on U.S. military trainees. Jalloh, an immigrant from Sierra Leone, a country with an overwhelmingly Muslim population, was a naturalized American citizen who himself had attended ODU and served in the Virginia National Guard. More notably, he was at liberty to carry out the attack despite having previously been convicted of a terrorism felony.
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