https://archive.is/XAWN6I was there the day that the original thread was posted yet I don't see my post in that archived thread at all and I'm pretty sure there weren't that many posts in the original thread I saw on 8ch.
Also, if I remember correctly that OP image wasn't the one BT used, it was some guy with a firearm in front of a vehicle, maybe a van.
This is really fucking weird too, like immediately after I posted in the thread it was deleted, or gone from my view as if there were several ghost threads the feds put up to bait people like me into posting in them so they could get our IPs and see that we condone such an event.
That's probably what the entire operation was about, faking a mosque shooting so they could rally all the channers who want such a thing into posting in their bait threads, revealing their identities.
Also, I see it as a psychological operation to get the angry masses riled up and focusing their energy on this one particular figure, who the feds control and can then use to guide the opinions and minds of the ignorant people who identify with him.
They already have the means to pull such an event off and fake the threads, I mean I go to 4chan everyday and I constantly see the same threads pop up and immediately they have 10 of the same exact replies in the same sequence because they're using bots to make the posts.