Apparently, he went to the authorities in Anchorage telling them he heard voices and that the CIA wanted him to fight for ISIS.
The question is why he was still allowed to own and carry weapons when he clearly had/has a severe mental illness that was known to authorities.
That's the crux of the matter. I'm a great supporter of gun ownership, just not when it comes to established nutters and/or criminals. Santiago also had a history of domestic violence and suspected child pornography. This appears to be a 'PC' policing fail.
"A 'PC' policing fail" 
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This is another US gun law policy failure. The police took his weapon away initially but after a month with no laws broken gave it back thanks to the "it's a right to carry a gun" mentality and laws over there. Of course, the NRA and the gun lobby in the States still think guns should be allowed in Florida airports 
. The guy was allowed to carry a semi-automatic handgun in his luggage. Geez, who would've thought something could go wrong with that!
Orrrrrr........... he may have feigned mental illness in order to establish an insanity defence once he commited his well planned Jihad related crime.???.......Just putting it out there.
No one is disputing the guy had a severe mental illness. This isn't a conspiracy theory.
Agree with this being another US gun law failure but Ru-whatever could be onto something. Maybe not in this case but would not be surprising if people have started/will start feigning mental illness prior to a crime to have something to refer back to to add substance to mental illness claims
Criminals have always attempted to fake mental illness to try and con the justice system. It's not something new.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23063124
The idea that it's something recent created by Islamic terrorists trying to hide their motives is just another far/alt-right conspiracy theory.
Speaking of far/alt-right conspiracy theories, it's being reported that a One Nation candidate for the Mulgrave electorate in far-north Queensland has claimed the Port Arthur massacre was fabricated 
. It seems you only win One Nation preselection is you're a complete fruitloop .
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/one-nation-candidate-peter-rogers-claims-port-arthur-massacre-faked/news-story/1e57fe766a8c9c7a3ba27a8d71193e6a
It is extremely frustrating for someone who is well read on the topic of Islam to see some of imbecilic comments made on forums by infantiles such as you. 'Taqiya' is the deceitful method used by Mohammed to infiltrate Medina after his expulsion from Mecca. It was the main pillar, along with guerilla criminal activities, of his time in that city prior to gaining control. Taqiya is universally practised by Muslims still today. Educate yourself and stop bringing metaphoric knives to an academic gun fight!
Also that 'drop kick' was trawling jihadi websites in 2004 well before he, in true taqiya fashion, joined the US military. Looks like I have been proven right yet again....this 'winning' is becoming a habit.
On a side note if you look at the West today you can see reflected the ignorance and comp!acency of Medina's reaction to Mohammed's arrival. They should have turned him straight over to the Meccans and countless millions of lives would have been saved.
You resort to insults yet call other people infantiles
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Esteban Santiago didn't hide from authorities what he was in his crazed mind. He told them in advance that he was believing that the CIA was telling him to fight for ISIS. So much for him using 'Taqiyya'
. Rather it's evidence that he was/is severely mentally ill and America's soft gun laws are to blame once again for another massacre after stupidly allowing such a disturbed individual to not only still hold a gun licence but to also recklessly still allow him to carry a weapon in his luggage and in a crowded airport. In Australia, this would not have occurred.
Also that 'drop kick' was trawling jihadi websites in 2004 well before he, in true taqiya fashion, joined the US military. Looks like I have been proven right yet again....this 'winning' is becoming a habit.
No surprise you got this 'he was a jihadi in 2004' from some alt-right conspiracy website
. Except that the claim is based on unverified and hacked Myspace user:password database from the dark web which can be easily manipulated by those that want to believe in conspiracies and "alternate facts"
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Add to this, most of these conspiracy websites claiming Esteban Santiago was a secret jihadist, also ran with the claim that CNN had "whitened" a mug shot of Santiago to make him look 'white' rather than hispanic. Problem is CNN didn't post this mugshot and this same mugshot was the wrong Esteban Santiago
. Got to love conspiracy theory nutjobs
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What's sicker, is these alt-right conspiracy nutjobs from the USA and UK flooded Australian twitter feeds about the Bourke St massacre last week trying to also claim the killer Dimitrious Gargasoulas was also a jihadist when he wasn't. They also spent last night flooding twitter claiming the Quebec Mosque shooter(s) were Muslims targetting their own when the mass murderer has turned out to be one of their own far right nationalists. They once again show they are no different to Islamic extremists and terrorists!
