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The brother, who withheld his name and conducted the interview in shadow, described walking through downtown Victoria with Mr. Nuttall when he suddenly dropped to his knees in apparent prayer,
pointing in all directions, screaming and smacking his head into the sidewalk.
“It weirded me out … all of the sudden he’s just flailing on the ground in the middle of downtown,” he said.
Online, Mr. Nuttall interspersed his messages to a punk rocker web forum with Arabic, adopted the name Masjid (Arabic for “prostration in prayer”
as his username for a paintballing web forum and even began picking fights with random YouTube commenters.
The brother, who withheld his name and conducted the interview in shadow, described walking through downtown Victoria with Mr. Nuttall when he suddenly dropped to his knees in apparent prayer, pointing in all directions, screaming and smacking his head into the sidewalk.
“It weirded me out … all of the sudden he’s just flailing on the ground in the middle of downtown,” he said.
Online, Mr. Nuttall interspersed his messages to a punk rocker web forum with Arabic, adopted the name Masjid (Arabic for “prostration in prayer”
as his username for a paintballing web forum and even began picking fights with random YouTube commenters.
“Personally I think he was hanging out with the wrong people and they screwed with his head a little bit,” Mr. Nelson told the
Vancouver Sun. “He was always a few screws loose from drug abuse and everything else he went through, so he was very easily swayed.”
Other paintballers reacted similarly that their unremarkable former teammates had orchestrated a Boston Marathon-style bomb plot.
“Me vs suspected terrorist John Stewart Nuttall,” reads the revised title of a July, 2012 video showing Mr. Tetzlaff doing battle with Mr. Nuttall in the Surrey woods with paintball pistols.
“Yeah, he was a messed up guy that’s for sure … I only played with him for a few months before leaving because but he was undoubtedly different from the rest of us and we broke ties with him after only a few games he showed up to because we noticed he was a bit off his rocker,” wrote another paintballer in an email to the Post.