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The Moore High School terrorist who wasn’t actually a terrorist spoke to Channel 25…

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During our state's most recent bout of Islamaphobia, Moore Police held a much-hyped press conference to warn the public that an Arab man with a thick accent was probably scouting out Moore High School for an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack.

Here's KOKH Fox 25's coverage of the event:

Police are searching for a man who they say walked into a Moore school and started asking "suspicious" questions.

Moore Police say security at Moore High School needs to be discussed because the door the man entered was left open and the incident wasn't reported till two days later.

In a press conference on Wednesday, police said a man with a thick Arabic accent walked into Moore High School last Monday and asked a teacher and two students questions, though no word on what those questions were.

Police say the man got in through the performing arts door, went straight to cafeteria and spoke to the students.

He was in building only few minutes, police say.

Witnesses describe the suspect as an Arab man in his 40's, about 5'7 to 5'8 with salt and pepper hair.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact police.

Not too long after the press conference and immediate red alert local media hysteria, the man in question was tipped off by a friend that "Hey, you're a terrorist and the police are looking for you." Surprisingly, he then contacted and met with police, and was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing.

Apparently, he wasn't an Arab or terrorist at all. He's just your everyday US citizen from India who shows up for TV interviews wearing knockoff Beats, Oakley sunglasses and an Heisenberg-inspired fedora. The only missing was a bluetooth earpiece:

McKesh Dadwal moore

Yep, that's the guy. His name is McKesh Dadwal. In his interview with Channel 25, he explains why he was casually hanging out a high school in the middle of the afternoon asking students "suspicious" questions:

See, everything's fine. He simply wanted to get some "information" from a police officer, so when he saw a cop car parked in front of what he thought was a performing arts center, he walked in to ask some questions. Once he realized he was in a school, he felt kind of stupid, played it off like he meant to be there, and asked a few casual questions to students and a teacher before going about his day.

I can totally see how that can happen. I did something similar last year when I accidentally walked into the Thunder Girls locker room while looking for a restroom. You see, I smelled some cleaner (which turned out to be hairspray), and then walked in a room to see all these Thunder Girls changing clothes and tickling each other. To cover up my mistake, then told them I had a daughter, which was a lie, and that she was thinking of becoming a Thunder Girl someday and wanted to know what it was like. After chatting for a few minutes, I turned around, left, and found a restroom to wipe all the pepper spray off my face. It was just a simple misunderstanding.

Anyway, the one thing left out of the interview is what "information" McKesh was trying to obtain from the police. Fortunately, he hopped on Facebook to explain to Derplahomans that he was wanting to see if he could, uhm, give his pitbull to the Moore PD canine unit before he returns to India:

McKesh Dadwal fb

After some Derplahomans continued to express doubts over his actions, he left this note:

McKesh Dadwal fb 2

That's a shame. I was really hoping he'd explain why he wasn't wearing a bluetooth earpiece during that interview.

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