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I'm so damn mad about the cruxifiction that the brave Marine in the NBC video is taking. It make me want to put a boot up someone's behind, but since that would get me in trouble I've decided to try and take some action. If this goes to court martial I think we should take up a defense account for this guy and his family. Before that we can Freep the hell out of the media and the NIS for that matter. Any suggestions about how to support this guy would be appreciated and make my feel better.

I'm wondering if a FReeper with some experience in the arena would like to set up a fund for the Marine who shot that wounded terrorist in the mosque. I get the feeling he is going to be railroaded and will need some help. Whether it be for lawyer's fees, support for his family, or simply just to show him that there are real Americans who support him, I'd like to contribute to such a fund. Suggestions?

What happens when you send an anti-war activist to Iraq with our Marines? You get an ordinary wartime incident blown out of proportion and presented in such a way that a good soldier ends up accused of war crimes. One of our fighting men has come "under investigation" for shooting a terrorist who was pretending to be dead in a mosque. of course, the media is spinning this as a "shooting of a wounded, unarmed Iraqi". Fact is that this was a terrorist playing dead, hoping one of our troops would get close enough to kill, or hoping to escape...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Leading Iraqi politicians called on re-elected President Bush (news - web sites) on Thursday to rely more on talks and less on the gun to solve Iraq (news - web sites)'s problems. The United States should stop acting like an occupier, hand more control to Iraqis and stop backing a security apparatus that could start resembling that of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), they said. "American use of unchecked force will not work. Look at the security forces that have multiplied in the past few months. The result has been less security, not more, said Haidar...

Downtown Little Rock is the scene of an intense search after police arrested one man and found weapons, ammunition and a gas mask on a rooftop. The situation began Wednesday evening after the suspect, Gared Tumblesome, tried to check into a downtown hotel, claiming to be an Air Force Special Forces member. Hotel employees became suspicious and alerted police. Tumblesome was later arrested as he reportedly tried to climb down from a rooftop in the 200 block of West 2nd Street. A search of the rooftop revealed the weapons and ammunition. Police are still searching for another man, believed to...

TORONTO - A man from New Brunswick who called off a shooting spree after a chance encounter with a friendly dog appeared in court in Toronto on Thursday to face several weapons charges. The 43-year-old man, who turned himself in to police on Wednesday afternoon, said he'd loaded his car with guns and ammunition in New Brunswick before setting out with plans of randomly shooting people in Toronto. On arriving in east-end Toronto, the man reportedly went into a nearby park to load his weapons. There, he told police, a playful dog approached him. That encounter apparently changed his mind....

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNN) -- The sister of the man suspected in two dozen Ohio shootings pleaded Tuesday for him to call home, telling her brother that "everything is going to be OK." Charles McCoy Jr., 28, is accused of carrying out 24 shootings since May 2003, most of them driving along Columbus's outerbelt highway. One of the shootings was fatal. "Charlie, we all love you very, very much, and we are very concerned about your well-being right now. Everything is going to be OK," said Amy Walton outside the family home. "Mom and I need you to call us....

Police identified the suspect in a string of two dozen sniper-style shootings in central Ohio with the help of his father, who turned over a gun used in the shootings, a published report said on Tuesday. One of two handguns belonging to the suspect, Charles McCoy, Jr., 28, matched ballistics tests done on nine bullets from the serial shootings, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper reported. The article quoted unnamed sources. McCoy is believed to have bought another gun, Franklin County Sheriff's Department chief deputy Steve Martin said on Monday. He released a photograph and a description of the suspect and his...

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Witnesses Spot Ohio Freeway Shooter Sat February 14, 2004 06:09 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio police got another breakthrough on Saturday in the hunt for a freeway sniper who has been terrorizing motorists for months when witnesses saw a man firing at a vehicle from an overpass. "We have the first description of the shooter. This is the first time anyone has seen the sniper or where the shots were coming from," said a spokeswoman for the Ohio Franklin County Sheriff's Department. Police had previously been given a vague description of a man who might have been the...

Driver Says Rig Hit By Gunfire Along I-270 Man Positive He Saw Gun Flash UPDATED: 9:04 AM EST December 12, 2003 OBETZ, Ohio -- A trucker driving along Interstate 270 said that his truck was hit by gunfire late Thursday night. FeedRoom Another I-270 Shooting Probed The driver, Efrean Regalado, was driving his tractor-trailer from Nashville, Tenn., to the Aaron's Distribution Center, just off Groveport Road, when he said he noticed a flash coming from an overpass. NewsChannel 4's Beth Dal Ponte reported that Regalado then claimed he heard something hit his truck very hard. Regalado said that he then...

Nervous motorists scanning the woods along I-270 could be looking in the wrong place for the south Outerbelt shooter. Evidence suggests the shooter, in several of the 15 incidents that lawenforcement officials said are connected, might have fired from a vehicle, perhaps traveling in the opposite direction of the victims’. Authorities also recently suggested an in-transit shooter. "We don’t rule anything out, whether stationary or mobile," Franklin County Chief Deputy Steve Martin said. Of the six reports with detailed information about the paths of the vehicle and trajectories of the bullets, each had been struck on the driver’s side. That...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers for the former Colorado man who shot President Reagan said Thursday that psychiatrists support letting him leave a mental hospital for visits with his parents. Government attorneys insisted the would-be assassin was still dangerous and trying to deceive his doctors. Both sides completed their arguments on the fifth day of a hearing on John Hinckley Jr.'s request for permission to leave St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington for the visits. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman declined to say when he would issue a ruling. Hinckley, 48, has been at the hospital since he was acquitted in...

WASHINGTON: The Indian Army ex-serviceman who went on a shooting rampage in Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University on Friday killing a student and wounding two others was a lonely bachelor involved in myriad social and political causes who lost it after a prankster hacked his beloved website. The computer and the worldwide Web was Biswanath Halder’s life. He worked eight hours a day at the University’s business school computer lab to promote personal, social and political causes ranging from ambitious business plans to opposing the US war on Iraq. He listed and forwarded hundreds of petitions. Halder earned a management...

The graduate student arrested in yesterday’s hostage stand-off at a Cleveland university, after killing one student and injuring two other people, Halder was a very active and outspoken member of the loony left anti-war crowd. Charles Johnson, on his weblog, is on top of this story with the linked posting and more.

A camouflage-clad gunman who killed a student and injured two other people during a seven-hour standoff at Case Western Reserve University's business school was a graduate who had sued an employee at the school, authorities said Saturday. Biswanath Halder, 52, of Cleveland, carrying two guns, wandered the halls of the university's Peter B. Lewis Building, firing hundreds of rounds of ammunition on Friday, police Chief Edward Lohn said Saturday. Authorities said 93 people were trapped inside the building for hours, hiding in offices, classrooms and closets. The university employee who Halder had sued was in the building but escaped during...

<p>He had been in and out of trouble with the law before his fatal Thursday standoff with Alexandria police.</p> <p>Twenty-five-year-old Anthony J. Molette got his first glimpse of the inside of the Rapides Parish Jail in 1995, according to court records.</p>

Police Seek Camera Shooter LONDON (Reuters) - Police hunted for a marksman with a grudge on Monday after two roadside speed cameras were shot to pieces in rural east England. Norfolk police said a sniper, probably armed with a high-powered air rifle, riddled the cameras with pellets causing 70,000 pounds ($111,000) worth of damage. The attacks happened days before a number of newly installed cameras were set to go live at accident black spots in the area. "You often have to worry about the mentality of people who do this sort of thing," Bryan Edwards, spokesman for the Norfolk Casualty...

SUMMIT COUNTY - Local wildlife officers are investigating the illegal shooting of a moose east of Green Mountain Reservoir. According to Tom Kroening, district wildlife manager with the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW), the incident happened just over a week ago. Someone illegally shot an approximately one-and-a-half year old bull moose on National Forest land, just off of Williams Peak Road. Though several moose are accidentally shot during deer and elk season each year in Colorado, "this is the first I know of in Summit County," Kroening said. The hunters responsible usually turn themselves in and/or field dress the animal...

Excerpt only - New York Times ariticle originally. After the bombing in Bali, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, was moved to observe that it was "a wake-up call for the Indonesians." Are we sleeping through our own wake-up call? Relief that the killers seem to have been caught should not be confused with closure. We must not now forget that the failures of cooperation between federal and local law enforcement as the sniper piled up his kills were a replay of the turf wars between Rudolph Giuliani's cops and the feds after last fall's still-unsolved anthrax attack. The...

Late Wednesday night authorities began searching for two "people of interest" in relation to the Beltway Sniper. What's interesting is that one of the two "persons of interest" was identified as a Tacoma, Washington man connected with Fort Lewis. Stuck in the middle of this story is something even more interesting. The FBI is also searching a militia training camp in Marion, Alabama, in possible connection to the sniper case. Step back for a moment. What's the common link between Tacoma, Washington and Marion, Alabama? It could be James Ujaama, Zain-ul-abidin, and Abu Hamza. James Ujaama is currently being held...

NATIONAL GUN CONTROL FREAKS HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR FREE MEDIA BASED ATTACKS ON AMERICAN SEMI-AUTO RIFLE GUNOWNERS!! CSPAN2 LIve SIMULCAST now! Saying he is a former "Marine and U.S. Congressman from Montgomery County, Maryland", Michael Barnes of the Brady Campaign to ban guns just declared that M16-like semiautomatic .223 rifles similar to what the shooter used "have no place in civilian hands". Michael Barnes just claimed that semi-auto black rifles are mainly being sold to "criminals." Bushmaster, AR-15 owners especially should take note! Jon Cowan, "Americans for Gun Safety" Executive Director is now blabbing about "centrist, moderate positions" on "gun safety."...

Local Baltimore TV reporting that sniper was security guard for Farrakhan's Million Man March

And what's the story on his new last name - is he a Muslim convert like attempted shoebomber Richard Reid? Muslim converts, like converts to any religion, can often be a hell of a lot more zealous (and annoying) than those born into a particular faith. And if this is the guy, and there is a Muslim motivation, will the authorities attempt to play it down, like they did with the guy who shot up the El Al counter at LAX on the 4th of July?

Let's keep a live commentary thread gonig again today.

Police Arrest Witness Accused Of Lying To Sniper Investigators Falls Church Man Faces 6-Month Jail TermFairfax County Police have arrested and charged Matthew Dowdy, 37, of Falls Church, Va., for allegedly making false statements to police.Dowdy was arrested Friday afternoon, one day after police said his account of Monday night's sniper shooting outside the Home Depot store had been discredited.He is charged with "knowingly and willfully make(ing) a materially false statement or representation to a law enforcement officer who is in the course of conducting an investigation of a crime by another". He faces up to six months in jail.Dowdy's...

This guy must be ex-military. Look at his skill in slipping away, only trained snipers can do that. The most recent shooting in Virginia happened when he shot the guy with a police officer 50 yards away. Dang, how do you slip away from that? That's one of the things they know how to do, not only shoot the guy, but slip away with skill. Either that or these Washington-area police are complete bafoons, which I'm willing to accept. All looking for a white van, even though there are so many white vans out there you could count 30 easily...

Police Won't Confirm Missing Man Has Shooting Connections Man Is Reportedly Affiliated With White Supremacist Groups RALEIGN, N.C. -- State police in North Carolina said that they're looking for a former resident -- but won't confirm or deny a connection to a string of killings in Maryland and Washington, D.C. A Raleigh newspaper, The News and Observer, reports that a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has issued a bulletin for Robert Gene Baker III, (pictured, right). Baker is a former Raleigh resident, but it's unclear when he last lived there. Federal agents said that they believe he's heading south...