struggling in his life and this family was trying to figure out what exactly was wrong with him. so the explanation, the motivation, inspiration by anwar al awlaki is really only part of the story here. clearly, they figured out quickly that they did not believe he was inspired by isis. if you remember, he specifically targeted these two military centers, one was a recruiting center, the second was a depot, a navy depot, and those five people were killed there, he could have killed a lot more people, and chances are, if he was inspired by isis views, acting on behalf of isis, he would have randomly killed a lot more people, a lot more like the paris attackers, so that s one of the things that they were struggling with. not necessarily that they didn t believe it was a terrorist attack, but more trying to figure out, what was the explanation? what was the motivation? that s something they have only recently come to a conclusion on, and, you know, it s part of the very difficulty they ha