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A Somali-born OSU student was shot and killed after ramming a car into pedestrians on campus and attacking them with a butcher knife, in what appears to be a lone wolf terror attack.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- November 28th was 'Cyber Monday' and 'Lone Wolf Monday' in Columbus, Ohio. Saturday, The Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Michigan Wolverines on the football field. Monday morning, a lone OSU campus police officer confronted a far more ominous opponent, stopping an apparently self-radicalized,terrorism inspired 'lone wolf' vehicular and knife attack on pedestrians.

At 9:52 am, Abdul Razak Ali Artan,18, drove a Honda Civic into pedestrians outside Watts Hall on the OSU campus. Artan exited the vehicle and began attacking people with a butcher knife. At 9:53 am, campus police officer Alan Horujko,28, shot and killed Artan.

Horujko was in the area responding to reports of a gas leak. The gas leak report led to a a fire alarm, sending people out of Watts Hall moments before Artan jumped the curb and rammed the car he was driving into them.

Eleven people were reported injured in the attack. Five had been struck by the car. Five had been wounded by the butcher knife Artan wielded. Another individual reportedly suffered orthopedic injuries. The injured included students, faculty and staff members.

Altan was a Somali-born, legal permanent resident, studying logistics management at the university. Altan had moved to Pakistan in 2007 with his family. In 2014, the family moved to Dallas. He transferred to OSU from Columbus State Community College, where he received high academic honors.

Facebook post indicates attack motive.

A Facebook post believed to be authored by Altan, indicates he had been self-radicalized and the attack was terrorism inspired.

The post appearing Monday, just before the attack, reads:" I am sick and tired of seeing (Muslims) killed and tortured EVERYWHERE... I can't take it anymore. America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that."

"If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace," the long Facebook rant continues. "We will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Muslims."

Radical American-born al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki is invoked by the author of the post, who writes that he has reached his boiling point. Al-Awlaki was the piedpiper for terrorist recruiting before he was killed in a U.S. drone attack. But his propaganda videos continue to live on and inspire others to kill.

ISIS called for vehicle and knife attacks. DHS issued warning.

The Department of Homeland Security had issued a warning for 'lone wolf' attacks prior to the Thanksgiving weekend because ISIS had renewed calls for such attacks.

Since the terror attack in Nice,France, when 84 people were killed by a terrorist driving a semi-truck, ISIS has been urging copycat attacks. In September, a Somali-American stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota shopping mall before being shot to death.

The ISIS magazine Rumiyah had published an article calling on sympathizers to carry out knife attacks and aim for a 'reasonable kill accounts.' The article also called for turning vehicles and other available everyday items into weapons.

Two days before the OSU attack, ISIS posted a grisly video demonstrating how to attack non-believers with a knife, using an actual hostage who was ultimately killed with a knife on the video.

Columbus has 2nd largest Somali-refugee population.

Columbus has the second largest Somali-refugee population in the nation next to Minneapolis, Minnesota. In September, 2015, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that "Minnesota leads the nation in would-be ISIL terrorists from the U.S."

The newspaper wrote that according to a report by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, "Minnesota leads the nation in the number of people who have left or sought to leave the country to fight with terrorists aligned with the Islamic State."

Since 2014, The FBI has arrested nine young Somali-born men in Minnesota for plotting to join ISIS and recruit others. Six of the men took plea deals. Three were facing trial. One of the leaders of the group was recently interviewed on "60 minutes"

Altan had previously done an interview with the OSU student newspaper, "The Lantern" in which he expressed his anxiety over practicing his faith on campus in light of Muslim profiling.

"I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I'm a Muslim, it's not what media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they are going to think, what's going to happen. But I don't blame them. It's the media that put that picture in their heads."

The picture people have in their heads of the OSU attack was put there by Altan, not the media. The media didn't drive a car into a crowd and attack them with a butcher knife, Altan did. The media didn't denigrate the Muslim religion and denigrate the majority of non-radical, lawful Somali-Americans, Altan did with his attack.

On a Thanksgiving weekend, we can be thankful Altan didn't choose to drive his car into the crowd attending the OSU-Michigan game. We can be thankful officer Alan Horujko was on the scene Monday morning to exhibit the 'fight' in the 'Run,Hide Fight' call to action.