ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR OHIO STATE ATTACK
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the OSU attack on November 28, 2016 where a man plowed through a crowd with a car, and attacked people with a knife. The Islamic State news agency AMAQ posted a photo of Abdul Razak Ali Artan wearing a blue shirt and sitting with greenery in the background. It described him as a soldier of the group and carried a caption that read "Brother Abdul Razak Ali Artan, God accept him, implementer of the Ohio attack, a student in his third year in university," Artan, the attacker, a Somali immigrant student at the university, injured 11 people in Monday's attack before he was shot dead by a police officer. Artan, born in Somalia, was a U.S. permanent resident who arrived in the country in 2014, said a federal official, who asked not to be identified.Investigators believe Artan may have lived for as long as seven years in Pakistan, said the federal official also declined to be named because of the investigation. Somali refugees often spend some time in Pakistan before coming to the United States, another official said.