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US authorities were warned a year ago that the ex-soldier suspected of carrying out 13 sniper attacks near the US capital may be a potential Islamic terrorist.A priest who runs a homeless shelter in this Pacific Northwest town where John Allen Muhammad lived for several months in 2001 and early 2002, raised the alarm last October, the Bellingham Herald newspaper said Friday."I felt like he was part of an organization," said Reverend Al Archer who runs the hostel where the Gulf War veteran stayed along with John Lee Malvo, 17, who was Friday charged along with Muhammad with six...

THE D.C. SNIPER'S JIHAD By MICHELLE MALKIN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email Archives Print Reprint December 10, 2003 -- FROM the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism: * CNN downplayed Muhammad's religious conversion - calling him by his old name, John Allen Williams, when his identity was first revealed. Malvo was cast as a clueless dupe with no true convictions. * Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued: "There...

<p>TACOMA, Wash. — Authorities in the Beltway Sniper investigation are looking for two "people of interest," law enforcement sources told Fox News.</p> <p>The two individuals they seek are John Mohammed, also known as John Allen Williams, formerly connected to Fort Lewis, an Army base south of Tacoma, Wash., and Lee Malvo.</p>