Posted on 09/17/2003 7:25:16 PM PDT by joesnuffy
'Al-Qaida' member holding college students Armed man claiming ties to terrorist group took over classroom
Posted: September 17, 2003 7:20 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
An armed man claiming to be a member of the al-Qaida terrorist network took over a college classroom this afternoon in Tennessee.
Authorities identified the man as Harold Kilpatrick Jr., a 26-year-old Memphis man who was staying with his sister in the town of Dyersburg.
Kilpatrick, who had a 9 mm pistol and a knife, released four people several hours after the standoff began about 1 p.m. Central time at Dyersburg State Community College, about 75 miles northeast of Memphis, the Jackson Sun of Jackson, Tenn., reported.
About 12 to 16 people initially were in the classroom, Police Chief Bobby Williamson said, according to the paper.
The al-Qaida claim brought in the FBI, but Williamson said authorities have no reason to believe he is connected to the group.
The gunman, who refused to talk directly with authorities, has made no demands but says he will kill himself, according to student hostages communicating by their cell phones.
A dozen-member SWAT team is on the scene with about five hostage negotiators, Williamson said.
The man released four hostages since the standoff began – a move unusual for an al-Qaida operative, a terrorism expert told WND. The gunman also wrote a suicide note, another action not in keeping with terrorism.
The standoff was first reported by school president Karen Bowyer, who told Nashville officials one faculty member was among the hostages.
Athletic Director Alan Barnett contacted the Sun to dispel rumors the hostage-taker was a student-athlete from Jackson.
Students on the scene told the paper they were evacuated about 1:15 p.m. and held in the school's library. School officials released the students about 2: 30 p.m. and some were seen crying outside of the building.
Hmmmmm...
I thought any kidnapping was a federal crime.
Don't any of the hostages have a real bad attitude, and boots? Or a knife?
9mm. shouldn't stop you before you have the chance to carve his eyeballs out and fornicate with the sockets....
'course that's pretty easy to type from the safety of my keyboard...but then again- from here on out, anybody who even dreams about being/self identifying as an islamic terrorist needs to know that we don't care. We will die before putting up with your shiite. Rush 'em, and get the thumbs in the eyball housing group. Rip and tear. You may die, but the guys behind you will take over.
Tear them a new donkey hole. Several of them.
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