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Las Vegas gunman may have planned earlier attack
CBS News ^ | October 3, 2017

Posted on 10/03/2017 2:10:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Law enforcement officials are investigating whether Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock had been planning an earlier attack in the city, a law enforcement source confirmed to CBS News.

According to a law enforcement source, investigators are looking at whether he may have first had his sights on the "Life is Beautiful" festival on Sept. 22 to Sept. 24.

The source, who was briefed on the police investigation, said Paddock had apparently tried to get a room at The Ogden and another hotel in downtown Las Vegas, but apparently the specific suites he requested were booked. The source speculated that Paddock may have been seeking rooms that were strategically located to the festival to launch an attack.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 201709; domesticterrorism; lasvegas; lifeisbeautiful; paddock; paddockisis; paddockmotive; paddockplot; paddockplots; rapconcert; stephenpaddock
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To: Vision Thing
I know....

At least you got it.........

81 posted on 10/03/2017 3:33:31 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: dfwgator

82 posted on 10/03/2017 3:33:36 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

.... I jut heard that the weapons and gear in Paddocks suite had an estimated value of around $100,000. ........... A few days before the shooting Paddock wired $100,000 to his beloved girlfriend in the Philippines ..... Coincidence?


83 posted on 10/03/2017 3:37:35 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Any Vegas festivals around 9/11?


84 posted on 10/03/2017 3:38:41 PM PDT by maggief (vddv)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why would a Democrat attack other Democrats?


85 posted on 10/03/2017 3:39:14 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; WildHighlander57; SE Mom

“According to a law enforcement source, investigators are looking at whether he may have first had his sights on the “Life is Beautiful” festival on Sept. 22 to Sept. 24.”

https://lifeisbeautiful.com


86 posted on 10/03/2017 3:42:17 PM PDT by maggief (vddv)
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To: Nifster
So far, in my view, this is the "evidence" that the shooter was involved with Islam or ISIS:

1. ISIS said he was.

2. He targeted entertainment/tourist events, as ISIS has done.

3. He had no known involvement with any American political faction or movement, either left or right.

4. He alternately (allegedly) targeted events with both liberal and conservative attendees, indicating no particular preference.

5. No other motive has emerged.

That's not much, but it's about all we have, other than rumors he'd been "off the grid" for an extended time, and seemed to know a lot more about guns and explosives than his brother expected.
87 posted on 10/03/2017 3:47:30 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: digger48

88 posted on 10/03/2017 3:53:20 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Has anyone connected this loser to muh Russia?


89 posted on 10/03/2017 4:01:49 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Nifster

Where is your comment coming from? All I’m doing is adding my thoughts to various topics. Does that bother you?


90 posted on 10/03/2017 4:02:20 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Steven Tyler

LOL

Good luck with that. Muller is pretty busy.


91 posted on 10/03/2017 4:04:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: dirtboy
If that is the case, the perp was not attacking a particular audience, as Life Is Beautiful is nearly a complete opposite.

Muslims could care less as long as they are Americans
92 posted on 10/03/2017 4:04:41 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m beginning to wonder if Paddock’s motive was gun control. Severe gun control was prompted by the Port Arthur shooting in Australia and the Dunblane shooting in Scotland. Seem very odd that someone who not a “gun guy” (according to his brother) would have that many firearms. Also seems odd that he would cart that many up to his hotel room.


93 posted on 10/03/2017 4:08:11 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: dfwgator

>>He hates music? or hotel windows?
>>Or these cans.

Haha. Well played. He may have been born a poor black child. I never considered that angle.


94 posted on 10/03/2017 4:30:19 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: gaijin

That’s the first thing I thought of when I read “Philippines” in connection with the Mandalay Bay shooter.

Did Mandalay guy have ‘connections’ & not a lone wolf?

Why did he wire 100,000 to his gf in the Philippines?

Why wasn’t it traced/held up/investigated?


95 posted on 10/03/2017 4:34:09 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Hugin

“One of the performers who talked to Fox the night of the attack, also a Vegas resident, said the rooms at Mandalay Bay had been sold out for those dates months ago. Clearly planned long in advance.”

Even when rooms are sold out suites may still be available.


96 posted on 10/03/2017 4:38:25 PM PDT by willk (everyone)
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To: proust

“The FBI has ruled out Islam, and the LV police have been working hard to not find a motive.”

I no longer trust the FBI, but I doubt the LV police would be in on any cover-up.


97 posted on 10/03/2017 4:41:14 PM PDT by willk (everyone)
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To: hotsteppa
Until otherwise, I am beginning to feel this is ISIS inspired.

People who kill for Islam make it very clear that's exactly what they are doing.

Plus, who gets radicalized at age 64?

Sure, at this point anything is possible, I suppose. I'm holding out for more concrete evidence.

98 posted on 10/03/2017 4:51:32 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: maggief

Head spins...


99 posted on 10/03/2017 4:57:04 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Works for me


100 posted on 10/03/2017 5:21:14 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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