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Verdict just in in John Muhammad case: Guilty of Murder.

<p>VIRGINIA BEACH - A jury this morning will start weighing the capital-murder case against John Allen Muhammad, who prosecutors said was the captain of a "killing team" that cut a trail of terror from the Washington suburbs to the Richmond area.</p>

Deliberations Begin in Muhammad Trial .c The Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Jurors began deciding Friday whether sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad shaped his teenage protege into an expert killer or if there isn't enough evidence to prove he directed the Washington area sniper spree last fall. The panel of seven women and five men filed out of the courtroom at 9:05 a.m. to begin deliberations in Muhammad's capital murder trial. ``The case is now in your hands,'' Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette told the jury. With no direct evidence that Muhammad ever fired a shot in last...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - The judge in the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad on Wednesday rejected defense motions that would have stricken the death penalty from the jury's consideration. Muhammad, 42, is on trial for the Oct. 9, 2002, slaying of Dean Harold Meyers outside a Manassas-area gas station. Meyers' death is one of 16 shootings prosecutors say were committed by Muhammad and his alleged accomplice, 18-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo. In Malvo's trial, 15 miles away in Chesapeake, the judge denied a defense request Wednesday to dismiss the pool of 28 people from which each side is...

<p>VIRGINIA BEACH — A former Army buddy of John Allen Muhammad's yesterday testified that Mr. Muhammad introduced Lee Boyd Malvo to him as a sniper early last year.</p> <p>"John introduced him to me ... and he said he was a sniper," auto mechanic Robert Holmes testified in the Muhammad sniper trial. "Lee just smiled."</p>

<p>VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- The rifle found in sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad's car was used in shootings that killed eight people and injured three during last year's sniper spree, and in two earlier slayings, firearms experts testified Thursday.</p>

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Maps of six shooting scenes marked with skull-and-crossbones icons were in a laptop computer found in the car when the two sniper shooting suspects were arrested, an FBI computer expert said. A caption next to the site of the slaying of FBI analyst Linda Franklin -- who was shot in the head outside a Home Depot -- read "Good one," expert John Hair testified Wednesday. Franklin's daughter, Katrina Hannum, was in court and listened to the testimony with her head down and her hand to her forehead. Prosecutors began presenting forensic evidence to connect John...

Sniper Suspect's 'Spiritual' Supporters Couple Has Unique Take on Trial By Natalie Hopkinson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 6, 2003; Page C01 VIRGINIA BEACH -- For weeks they've sat there -- he in plentiful locks tucked inside a black mesh Rasta hat, she in a black scarf covering her hair, ears and neck -- on the back row of the courthouse room where the D.C. sniper trial is being shown to reporters on closed-circuit television. They watch the proceedings intently, scribbling notes and occasionally exchanging discreet whispers, but never mingling with the other journalists chronicling the fate of alleged...

JOSH WHITE; The Washington Post VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Jurors wept Thursday as they listened to a recording of the wails and sobs of sniper victim Linda Franklin's husband making the emergency call reporting his wife's shooting. "I'm at the Home Depot on Route 50," William Franklin screamed into a cell phone. The former Marine testified that he had been sprayed with his wife's blood, turned and saw her lying on the pavement. His words on the tape melted into loud cries. "She's shot in the head. Oh, my God." The three-minute 911 recording hushed Courtroom 10 in one of...

Cryptic notes and calls described; Muhammad possibly caught on video. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Jurors heard firsthand accounts yesterday of the cryptic dialogue between the serial snipers and investigators - rambling phone conversations and letters in which the killers threatened children and demanded $10 million as part of an extortion plot.

At the present time, California authorities believe that at least half of the fires threatening the southern part of that State were deliberately set. In at least one case, witnesses report seeing a man drive a van into the brush, drop something which started a fire, and speeding away. The general conclusion would seem to be, based upon the vast scale of the fires and the large number caused by deliberate arson, that these fires are something more than the usual: that there’s something else at work in this. I’m going to go out on a limb here: I believe...

<p>VIRGINIA BEACH, Oct. 29 -- Five witnesses at John Allen Muhammad's murder trial have testified that they told police about a suspicious, dark-colored Chevrolet sedan at sniper shooting scenes -- reports that apparently went overlooked as authorities focused on white vans and box trucks.</p> <p>The testimony about Muhammad's blue Caprice dominated Wednesday's proceedings. Two witnesses from separate sniper attacks in Spotsylvania County told jurors that they saw the car with tinted windows creep slowly by within minutes of the shootings on Oct. 4 and Oct. 11, 2002. Both witnesses said they immediately told police about the car.</p>

<p>VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (CNN) -- A 14-year-old Maryland boy who was shot and nearly killed by a sniper last fall told a packed courtroom Wednesday that the terrifying experience "brought me closer to God."</p> <p>Iran Brown, who was 13 when he was gunned down in front of the Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, testified in the murder trial of John Allen Muhammad, who police and prosecutors say was one of two men responsible for sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area last October.</p>

<p>October 29, 2003 -- VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Ralph Sheldon heard an explosion, then saw a woman slumped over on a bench, blood pouring from her head. He thought she must have committed suicide because there was nobody else around. "A girl just shot herself," he told a 911 operator.</p>

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad on Wednesday fired himself as his own counsel after two days. Standby lawyers Jonathan Shapiro and Peter Greenspun once again took over as his attorneys. Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. informed the jury of Muhammad's decision after a half-hour conference at the judge's bench.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | A year ago, when the self-regarding buffoon Chief Charles Moose was bungling the Washington sniper investigation and the cable-news shows were full of endless psychological profiles of "white male loners," a few of us columnists entertained the notion that the killer was linked to Islamist terrorism. The Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper thought this was so absurd he very kindly apologized to readers on my behalf. "An awful lot of conservatives really, really wanted the snipers to be terrorists," explained Richard. "But they were wrong. I'll say that because they never will." Even at the time, the Roeper position...

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Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad ends his self-representation and will be represented by defense lawyers.

A year ago, when the self-regarding buffoon Chief Charles Moose was bungling the Washington sniper investigation and the cable-news shows were full of endless psychological profiles of "white male loners," a few of us columnists entertained the notion that the killer was linked to Islamist terrorism. The Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper thought this was so absurd he very kindly apologized to readers on my behalf. "An awful lot of conservatives really, really wanted the snipers to be terrorists," explained Richard. "But they were wrong. I'll say that because they never will." Even at the time, the Roeper position required a certain...

<p>Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad's decision to represent himself in his trial came as a courtroom surprise, but could give the former U.S. soldier accused in the killing rampage that claimed 10 lives a chance to plead face to face with jurors to spare his life.</p>

(CBS/AP) Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad won the right to act as his own lawyer Monday in a surprise, last-minute request at his murder trial, then broke a year of stony silence with a rambling opening statement in which he assured the jury: "I had nothing to do with these crimes." It was not clear why Muhammad, who faces the death penalty if convicted, decided to fire his lawyers, who will serve as standby counsel to come out of last year's sniper-shooting spree that killed 10 people in Washington, D.C., and its suburbs in Maryland and Virginia in three weeks...

<p>VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (CNN) -- Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad denied any involvement in the shootings in his opening statements Monday, after the judge granted an unexpected motion allowing him to represent himself.</p> <p>"I had nothing to do with the crime," he told the jury. "I had nothing at all to do with the crime -- and they know this. And please pay attention-- my life and my son's life -- is on the line," Muhammad said, apparently a reference to fellow suspect Lee Boyd Malvo.</p>

breaking news on Fox--DC sniper John Muhammed to represent himself.

A year ago, when the self-regarding buffoon Chief Moose was bungling the Washington sniper investigation and the cable-news shows were full of endless psychological profiles of "white male loners," a few of us columnists entertained the notion that the killer was linked to Islamist terrorism. My colleague Richard Roeper thought this was so absurd that he very kindly apologized to Sun-Times readers on my behalf. "An awful lot of conservatives really, really wanted the snipers to be terrorists," explained Richard. "But they were wrong. I'll say that because they never will." Even at the time, the Roeper position required a...

<p>The murder trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad continued yesterday with a long and tedious jury-selection process.</p> <p>The attorneys say they expect to finish interviewing potential jurors today and argue motions tomorrow.</p> <p>Attorneys questioned 15 potential jurors over seven hours yesterday. Prince William Circuit Court Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. dismissed two.</p>

In Virginia Beach they're into jury selection in the capital murder trial of John Muhammad, one of two implicated in the sniper shootings that terrorized the D.C. area south to Richmond a year ago. The trial may last two months. The trial of his alleged young accomplice, Lee Malvo, is set to begin later in nearby Chesapeake. Muhammad, who has pleaded not guilty, may be found innocent. But circumstantial evidence of his involvement abounds. In the realm of motive — if Muhammad participated in or helped plan the sniper shootings, why? — the principal piece of evidence, apparently carrying telltale...

A Junior al-Qaeda . . .: . . . right here at home There are a lot of Baptist churches along rural Virginia's Route 615, just south of Appomattox-"where America reunited," as the county welcome sign puts it-but there's only one Sheikh Gilani Lane. A gate and a guardhouse prevent the public from driving very far down it. What lies beyond, however, isn't a closed-off community of rich retirees. Instead, it's a trailer-park compound of black Muslims, or "The Muslims of America," according to a green billboard by the entrance, where an armed guard keeps a wary eye on the ...

 DefenseWatch  "The Voice of the Grunt"  Special Report: Protect Home Base First  ARTICLE 02 October 30, 2002Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to al FurqaBy Christian M. WeberIn the Middle East today, we see a young generation of Muslims being trained to hate Israel and the West while cherishing the thought of martyrdom. It is easy to see the brutal path that has been chosen for these children. However, for those not schooled in this path of destruction, the road to terrorism usually takes on one of two forms.The first form includes Islamic extremists, such as Osama Bin Laden, who rose...

Sniper suspect John Muhammad fits the profile of a disaffected outcast who becomes increasingly radicalized under the influence of Islamism, say terrorism analysts and investigators, who suspect he is connected with the radical Islamist group, al-Fuqra. According to Christian M. Weber, contributing editor for Soldiers for the Truth, an organization headed by Col. David Hackworth, Muhammad seems to follow the model of John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid and Jose Padilla, men exposed to Islamism who become disenchanted with the movement's pace and progress and who take the road to jihad. "As one traces John Muhammad's life from his conversion to...

Al-Fuqra Holy Warriors of Terrorism Introduction For over ten years, a secretive Black Muslim sect in the United States and Canada has sought to carry out a self-declared policy of "jihad," or holy war, by taking violent action against its perceived enemies, generally other minorities or other Muslims with whom they disagree. The sect, known as Al-Fuqra, has been linked by law enforcement officials to terrorist violence in Colorado, Arizona, Pennsylvania, the Pacific-northwest and Canada. Most recently, attention has been focused on the group in connection with a plot to bomb public sites in New York, including the United Nations,...

Al-Fuqra tied to Colorado crimes Leader owned land in Buena Vista; followers convicted in bombing of Krishna temple By Charlie Brennan, News Staff Writer The radical Islamic leader linked to the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has been tied to a wide range of illegal activity throughout Colorado. Through a broad-based investigation launched in 1989, Colorado authorities convicted four members of the al-Fuqra movement on a series of felonies including racketeering, forgery, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and the 1984 firebombing of a Hare Krishna temple in Denver. Those who helped lead those investigations said the Pakistani-based ...

<p>THERE are a lot of Baptist churches along rural Virginia's Route 615, just south of Appomattox - "where America reunited," as the county welcome signs put it - but there's only one Sheikh Gilani Lane. A gate and a guardhouse prevent the public from driving down it. What lies beyond is a trailer-park compound of black Muslims.</p>

One of the two accused Washington snipers, John Allen Muhammad, pleaded not guilty at the start of his first trial over the 10 random killings last year that terrorised the US capital. Muhammad, 42, could face the death penalty if found guilty. The trial has drawn enormous attention in the United States and some relatives of the victims of the shootings were in court. Wearing a white shirt and black tie, Muhammad denied the four murder, terrorism and weapons charges against him and told Judge Leroy Millette he understood the accusations. He watched silently as the start of the selection...

US sniper 'linked to terror cult' By James Langton in New York, Evening Standard 14 October 2003 Evidence has emerged linking Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad with an Islamic terror group. Muhammad has been connected to Al Fuqra, a cult devoted to spiritual purification through violence. The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year. Muhammad today stands trial for murder after bringing terror to America's suburbs along with a 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Malvo. Until now many believed that the killing spree, which left 10 dead,...

<p>Rupinder "Benny" Oberoi carries a reminder of last year's D.C.-area sniper shootings with him every day - scattered throughout his abdomen.</p> <p>The 23-year-old was shot outside a Silver Spring liquor store where he worked on Sept. 14 last year. The sniper's .223-caliber bullet entered Oberoi's lower back and exploded inside.</p>

<p>September 29, 2003 -- THE news last week that two Muslim military personnel, James Yee and Ahmad al-Halabi, had been arrested on suspicion of aiding Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantnamo Bay (with another three Muslim servicemen under watch) seemed to prompt much surprise. It should not have.</p>

What's the U.S. military doing about radical Muslim soldiers? Not enough. The most disturbing story of the war so far is the fragging at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. According to news reports, on March 23, Sgt. Asan Akbar rolled a grenade into each of three tents of sleeping officers and senior NCOs of the 101st Airborne Division. Then he allegedly shot the soldiers with an automatic weapon as they fled from their tents. Two of them, a major and a captain, died, and 14 others were injured. The episode is unsettling for a number of reasons, most of all because...

Can Moslems Serve? Sergeant Assan Akhbar. Sergeant John Allen Muhammad. Sergeant Ali Mohamed. Captain James Yee. What do all of these men have in common? They all served in the US Army, they are all Moslems, and they are all traitors. Akhbar killed several of his fellow soldiers in a grenade attack during the Iraq War. Muhammad was an unreliable solider who, after leaving the Army, killed ten people in a series of sniper attacks. Mohamed set up the terrorist cell which eventually bombed the US Embassy in Nairobi. The latest man on the list, Captain Yee, is a Chinese-American...

International laws and treaties do not prohibit Virginia from executing juveniles, a judge ruled Wednesday in the case against teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo. Defense lawyers had argued that an overwhelming consensus of foreign nations and certain international treaties combined to bar the execution of people under 18 at the time of their crime. "The world has spoken. This isn't a close call. This is the world against us," said defense lawyer Craig Cooley. "Some things are so absolutely abhorrent to humanity that it is simply unacceptable. We are at that point when we talk about the execution of...

In Danny Pearl Book, Lévy Says Next 9/11 Brewing in Pakistanby Ron Rosenbaum "I had the feeling," Bernard-Henri Lévy says, "that the 21st century really began with the collapse of the Twin Towers and the murder of this single man, Daniel Pearl." Both are deeply symbolic killings. What’s more, he contends, the same forces behind both crimes are now planning something far worse."It will make 9/11 look prehistoric," Mr. Lévy says. What he learned in investigating the death of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl, he contends, brought him face to face with the specter of the next 9/11. From the...

Sniper trial jury screening debated By JON FRANK, The Virginian-Pilot © August 19, 2003 Last updated: 11:48 PM John Allen Muhammad Related: Judge won't let Muhammad's defense hire jury consultantMore news on the sniper trials MANASSAS -- Potential jurors will not be asked about their religious practices on a written questionnaire when the sniper trial of John Allen Muhammad begins in Virginia Beach on Oct. 14. At a hearing Monday in Manassas, Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette began narrowing down the questions that possible jurors will be asked in writing before attorneys start choosing who will decide Muhammad's fate. The...

The Virginian-Pilot © July 16, 2003 VIRGINIA BEACH -- The sniper trial of John Allen Muhammad was officially moved to Virginia Beach Circuit Court this morning by the trial judge in Northern Virginia. Circuit Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. of Prince William County formally announced around 8 a.m. that he was moving the trial to Virginia Beach, with approval from both prosecutors and defense attorneys. ``Good cause has been clearly shown that such change of venue is necessary to ensure a fair and impartial trial,'' Millette ruled. This is the second sniper trial moved to Hampton Roads. Earlier this month,...

Prosecutor Denies That Teenage Sniper Suspect Exclusively Responsible for Shootings A prosecutor Monday denied as "dead wrong" a newspaper report that said 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo was responsible for most, if not all, of the shootings that left 10 people dead in October. An article in Sunday's New York Times cited an anonymous source who said that little if any evidence pointed to fellow suspect John Allen Muhammad, 41, as the triggerman in any of the sniper shootings. The article said that could make it difficult to obtain the death penalty against Muhammad. "I don't think that anybody...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The mother of teenage sniper suspect John Lee Malvo has been ordered deported to Jamaica, a federal government official said Wednesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Una James, 38, dropped battered spouse claims that were part of a petition she withdrew seeking special protection in the United States. An immigration judge then signed an order deporting her to Jamaica. The order was issued Tuesday during a closed hearing. The official said James also dropped any plans to appeal, meaning she will be sent back to Jamaica soon by the Immigration and Naturalization Service....

Filed at 7:25 p.m. ET ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Following through on a campaign promise, Gov.-elect Robert Ehrlich said he will lift Maryland's moratorium on the death penalty immediately after taking office in January. Lifting the ban Gov. Parris Glendening declared in May could mean as many as seven inmates would be executed in Ehrlich's first year in office. Ehrlich, who made the announcement Friday, said the governor should review the case of each person on death row individually, rather than issuing a blanket moratorium. Death penalty opponents said they will try to persuade Ehrlich to wait to lift the...

Federal authorities are investigating whether accused snipers John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo had ties to a growing sect of militant American Muslims committed to waging holy war against the United States. Law-enforcement authorities yesterday said investigators want to know whether the suspects — now awaiting separate murder trials in Virginia — were involved with Jamaat al-Fuqra, a militant Muslim group with documented ties to international terrorism that has been linked to 13 slayings and 17 firebombings in the United States and Canada. The al-Fuqra network, through an offshoot group known as the Muslims of America, has established a...

<p>Federal authorities are investigating whether accused snipers John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo had ties to a growing sect of militant American Muslims committed to waging holy war against the United States.</p> <p>Law-enforcement authorities yesterday said investigators want to know whether the suspects — now awaiting separate murder trials in Virginia — were involved with Jamaat al-Fuqra, a militant Muslim group with documented ties to international terrorism that has been linked to 13 slayings and 17 firebombings in the United States and Canada.</p>

<p>For three weeks, as a series of deadly sniper shootings terrorized the Washington area and police shut down highways, frantically searching for a phantom white van, suspects John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, apparently did not bolt from the scenes of the attacks.</p>

On September 11th, 2002, suspected Sniper John Allen Muhammad walked into the Camden, New Jersey State Motor Vehicles office, to register the now-notorious "blue Caprice" he'd just purchased. Though the car had not yet converted been into a rolling sniper's nest, what happened in the next several minutes leaves little doubt that Muhammad had something sinister in mind. The registration transaction began at 8:52 am. At 8:58 am., while Muhammad was still standing at the counter, someone (now believed to be fellow suspect, Lee Malvo) phoned a bomb threat at the Motor Vehicles office on the 1st Anniversary of what...

I am probably going to catch high holy hell for writing this article. But I have to. I have to because nobody is saying this publicly, although a lot of people are thinking it. First of all, every media outlet in the world has been falling all over themselves praising Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose. Theoretically, this sniper pair was caught only after vociferous digging, and many man hours of diligent police work, with the help of honest citizens willing to tell the police about any suspicion about anything they may have had. Bull puckey. Law enforcement really...