Posted on 10/26/2002 1:21:31 PM PDT by Sabertooth
Antiguan neighbor says sniper suspect touted aim
By MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (October 26, 6:37 a.m. PDT) - When John Allen Muhammad's life started unraveling, he sought refuge in Antigua - living in a sparsely furnished room while boasting of being a CIA agent and sharpshooter who could "take out a man" from a quarter of a mile. To get a passport in the former British colony, Muhammad, one of two people charged in the Washington-area sniper attacks, apparently presented a falsified Louisiana birth certificate, claiming his mother was Antiguan. On the Caribbean island, Muhammad was known for taking neighborhood kids for early morning runs. To former neighbor Randy Nelson, the 41-year-old Army veteran was a miracle worker who got his aging pickup truck back on the road and gave him blank CDs and batteries. "He was a very nice guy around me," Nelson said. Still, Nelson said he was "shocked but not that surprised" when he heard Muhammad was a suspect in the sniper attacks. "The very first time I met him, right here on this porch, he pointed his hand like a gun at a man standing in the windows of the hospital over there and said he could take out a man, could hit anybody, from that range," Nelson said, indicating a building nearly a quarter-mile away. He said they discussed guns after Muhammad told him he was in the Army and claimed to have worked with the FBI and CIA. Nelson said Muhammad's ambition was to become a modern Robin Hood, "He said he wanted to take from the rich and give to the poor because the way people were living was unfair." But he never saw Muhammad angry or violent. "He was a very calm man," Nelson said. Muhammad was born John Allen Williams in Baton Rouge, La. His mother died and his father was not around, so his grandmother and an aunt raised him, said his cousin, Edward Holiday. He enlisted in the Army in 1985, the year he converted to Islam and changed his name. After serving in the Gulf War, Muhammad was honorably discharged as a sergeant in 1994. Then his life started unraveling: He and his wife divorced and his attempt to run a karate school failed. Muhammad came to Antigua on May 20, 2001, with three children from his failed second marriage, according to Col. Clyde Walker, Antigua's chief immigration officer. John Lee Malvo, the 17-year-old who also was charged in the sniper attacks, was living in Antigua at the time with his mother, Una James. Muhammad seemed to have a warm relationship with the three young children from his marriage to Mildred Muhammad, said Nelson, the former neighbor. "Those kids loved him," he said. "When he came to pick them up from school, they would run to meet him and all three would hug him." The principal of the local elementary school, Janet Harris, agreed. He was "a loving father, very compassionate and genuine," she said. Muhammad rented a room in a wooden home with an unkempt yard on the outskirts of St. John's. Nelson said that when he saw how sparsely the room was furnished, he asked Muhammad where he slept. "He said he usually slept sitting in this plastic chair, and the children shared the little bed." Nelson, who runs a barber shop and helps manage a supermarket, said he worried about Muhammad's income. Muhammad had told him he was getting a job training security guards, and Antiguan officials confirmed he had applied to teach sports at schools. Instead, Nelson said, Muhammad was an itinerant salesman, buying CDs and batteries on frequent trips to the United States, which he would resell. Antigua's immigration office had no record of Muhammad's departure. Nelson said he saw him last in March.
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Here is a link to another one of your finds about this man of peace, John Allen Muhammad, Nation of Islam, member and bodyguard.
Another link to another potential slaying by the Peaceful Member/Body Guard of the Nation of Islam, John Mohammed. (Suspect had ties to Tacoma victim (Sniper MUHAMMAD)link)
I've got it! We can have a freeper multijurisditional task force. I'd like a beachfront villa. Thanx.
Typical liberal mantra.
Ugh -- this is not beyond the realm of possibility. Muhammad's neighbors in California report the FBI was investigating him in 1992; he was reported to the Bellingham FBI office by local residents in October 2001 and again in July 2002. No action (that we know of) was taken. He continued in the Army until 1994, then joined the Oregon National Guard. And we all know what he did in 2002.....
Consider Ali Mohammed, a sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Ops at Fort Bragg, and listed as a potential unindicted co-conspirator in the '93 WTC bombing. He was an FBI informant, and so remained free until 1998, when he was finally arrested for his involvement with both al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Ali Mohammed was one of bin Laden's top lieutenants in 1997 and 1998.
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Huh!!??
What's going on here? The writer mentions this and then drops it.
Yup. Fits the profile of a pederast.
I'm not sure if the journalist was correct in saying he claimed to be a 'CIA agent' verses claiming to be just some informant. There are three kinds of informants: 1. 'rats' or 'narcs' or 'traitors' who generally work for the highest bidder; 2. 'rats,' 'narcs' and 'traitors' who work for the enemy because they had a dispute with their friends or lovers and want revenge, and the rarer sort called 'true defectors' who are persons of conscience. Since being an informant- for whatever the reason- isn't glamorous, it is doubtful he bragged just about being a narc.
Clearly, the guy has an ego a mile wide. This is obvious from the letters. People with a need for social recognition often claim to be what they are not; popular claims are 'fighter pilot,' 'navy seal,' 'doctor,' 'CIA agent,' 'Vietnam Vet,' etc. The nifty thing about claiming to be a CIA agent or a SEAl is that you have a ready-made excuse to say you can't talk about your past- at least not in detail. That's pretty useful if your real occupation is 'smuggler' or 'terrorist' and you don't want to answer questions about what you do.
But as a rule, neither CIA agents nor SEALs tend to advertise. They don't have disciplinary problems like this guy did in his service record. His service record is also 'open'- another clue he isn't 'secret agent man.' If there was any truth to his claims there wouldn't have been a return on that court martial thing as his records would have been sealed.
Besides, the guy is as dumb as a box of rocks and is not cautious enough to be a successful informant, much less an employee and agent.
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