Es cierto que los investigadores estadounidenses no han identificado oficialmente los motivos de Abdulazeez, nacido en Kuwait y sin pertenencia aparente a redes terroristas.
But there is plenty of precedent for an alienated and disenchanted young man, brought up in the West (Abdulazeez attended high school and college in Chattanooga), to seek a cause worth fighting for – and to find it in the perceived humiliation of Islam by America and the West.