National Security Expert on New Orleans Suspect: ‘There’s No Profile for This’

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ALI: "And based on what’s come out about this individual, he seems to fit the very randomized pattern of other individuals we’ve seen for more than 20 years, in the aftermath of 9/11, of people who fall down these sort of rabbit holes of radicalization as Americans and there’s no profile for this. I actually looked at this for a long time in my different government positions and we were searching to see if there was some kind of set of common factors or patterns of behavior or things that would help law enforcement and intelligence to sort of get more upstream of this kind of activity to stop threats. And despite all of that analysis, we couldn't really, at the end of the day, come up with any grand insights on this. So we’re going to find out that with this person, it probably took a combination of factors that drove him, over a several year period, to committing this type of attack."