‘I Didn’t Think About It’: Hero Reveals Why He Tackled Bondi Beach Terrorist
The man who tackled one of two terrorists carrying out an ISIS-inspired attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach told CBS News he never thought to shoot the attacker in an interview that aired Monday. Two…
The man who tackled one of two terrorists carrying out an ISIS-inspired attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach told CBS News he never thought to shoot the attacker in an interview that aired Monday.
Two Pakistani migrants opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 14 in an attack inspired by the radical Islamic terrorist group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, with one gunman being slain on the scene by police. Ahmed al-Ahmed, who was captured on video wrestling the gun away from one of the terrorists, told CBS News he “didn’t think” when he acted.
“My soul and all my everything in my organ, in my body, in my brain, asked me to go, and to defend and to save innocent life,” al-Ahmed, who owns a convenience store, said. “I didn’t think about it.”
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Video posted on YouTube from 7 News showed Ahmed taking down one of the gunmen suspected of involvement in a mass shooting targeting the Jewish community, and later showed him setting the disarmed gunman’s weapon down and throwing an object at the disarmed terrorist while the second terrorist involved in the attack apparently fired at al-Ahmed, who was shot twice.