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Shepard Smith didn't get the memo. Shep, why aren't you shrieking at the camera, wringing your hands, blaming the koran? Liberal whoppers: John Patrick Bedell, the man who went on a shooting spree outside the Pentagon this week, was a Bush-hating, pot smoking, registered democrat. Although officials said he did not have any suspected links to terrorist groups, it was discovered this weekend that Bedell used the Arabic term “inshallah” or “God willing,” using Arabic font – “إن شاء الله” – on more than one on his internet postings. The Pentagon shooter, resolving political conflict, inshallah Creeping Sharia When the...

The (internet) user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was "a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions." . Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the Californian identified as the gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers before he was mortally wounded in a hail of return fire. John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was identified as the shooter. Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001,...

Investigators on Friday were looking into the history of a man who they say shot two police officers at a Pentagon entrance Thursday evening. The shooter, identified by a law enforcement source as John Patrick Bedell, appears to have railed against the government repeatedly on the Internet. Through podcasts and a Wikipedia page, a man identified online as JPatrickBedell cast the government as a criminal force destroying personal liberties. "This seizure of the United States government by an international criminal conspiracy is a long-established reality," the man said in a podcast in November 2006, which also was published as text...

There was a shooting just outside the Pentagon today, at a security checkpoint. Two cops were injured; breaking reports say the suspect, J. Patrick Bedell, has died. The suspect, believed to be a U.S. citizen, walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon in an apparent attempt to get inside the massively fortified Defense Department headquarters, at about 6:40 p.m. local time. “He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting” at point-blank range, Keevill said. “He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face.” The Pentagon officers returned fire with...

Fox News can confirm that Fort Hood suspect Army Major Nidal Hasan is awake and speaking to medical staff at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.Hospital spokesperson Maria Gallegos says he's in critical but stable condition. A U.S. Army spokesman says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected Fort Hood gunman, is in critical but stable condition three days after he allegedly opened fire on the military base that killed 13 and left 29 wounded. Hasan, 39, was shot during an exchange of gunfire during Thursday's attack. The military moved him on Friday to Brooke Medical Center, where he...

Police were called early Sunday to the home Manuel Salvador Morales Jr. shared with his parents because relatives said Morales was threatening himself with knives. Police spokesman Tom Nichols says two officers confronted Morales, who was armed and failed to comply with their commands. No additional details about the confrontation or how Morales was armed were released. Nichols says Officer Albert Riccardi fired two shots at Morales, who was hit twice in the torso and pronounced dead at a hospital.

Tucson police say an officer fatally shot a suicidal woman after she pointed a gun at police. Tucson police spokesman Officer Chuck Rydzak said Sunday that officers went to the woman's home Saturday night after she sent a text message to family members telling them goodbye. Officers heard loud music coming from 57-year-old Joanna Lee Smith's house when they arrived. Smith refused to open her door and told officers to "just go away."

LA TUNA CANYON, Calif. -- A woman threatening to shoot herself at her home in La Tuna Canyon was fatally shot by SWAT officers after she allegedly pointed a weapon at them, according to police. The standoff -- which began about 7:30 p.m. Thursday when the woman called police and threatened suicide -- ended in gunfire about noon Friday, said Officer Rosario Herrera of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations office. No officers were hurt, Herrera said.

A 20-year-old Evansville woman is recovering at St. Mary's Medical Center after being shot three times by police officers early Saturday. Samantha McDaniel, 1054 Hatfield Drive, was wounded after she allegedly threatened officers with what ultimately proved to be a BB pistol. The incident occurred shortly after midnight on the Lloyd Expressway east of Boeke Road where officers stopped her after she reportedly enticed police to chase her Ford Mustang. At a news conference Saturday afternoon, Evansville Police Chief Brad Hill questioned whether McDaniel might have been attempting "suicide by cop." He explained she repeatedly had called dispatchers and initiated...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- An armed man was shot to death early Monday by an Inglewood police officer, authorities said. The shooting occurred at Hillcrest Boulevard near Regent Street at about 12:30 a.m., an Inglewood police officer said. Authorities withheld the name of the dead man, pending notification of relatives. Police said officers went to the apartment building in response to a report of a family dispute. "The door was opened by an individual," Inglewood police Lt. Mike McBride said. "He was armed with a handgun, and he immediately raised the handgun toward the officers, and at that point, the officers...

See for example this thread first. A man shot to death. That's not all; He first shot at some cops--what gall! For where it was done it's time for a pun-- "Seeing Peter by Robbing St. Paul?"

A man was shot and killed by Antioch police early this morning after he threatened officers with a knife. Police responded to a call on Rubye Drive at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday night from an elderly man who reported seeing what he described as a group of vampires outside of his home, Antioch police Cpt. Steve McConnell said. When officers arrived, the man invited them inside and then came at one of the officers with a large kitchen knife and a meat fork. The officer shot the man twice. He died at the scene. Police did not release the name of...

DULZURA – A sheriff's deputy shot and killed a 42-year-old man during a struggle after a traffic stop on rural Deerhorn Valley Road near Honey Springs Road yesterday, authorities said. The man grabbed the deputy's baton and came at him, ignoring orders to drop it, sheriff's homicide unit Lt. Dennis Brugos said. The deputy fired at least twice, killing the man. The man's name was withheld until his family could be notified. The deputy's name was not released.

LONGWOOD, Fla. - The 15-year-old boy shot by police while brandishing a pellet gun in a middle school bathroom was clinically brain dead Saturday but was being kept alive to harvest his organs, his family's attorney said. Christopher Penley was expected to die Saturday night, said family attorney Mark Nation. "His organs are in the process of being harvested," Nation told reporters outside a hospital. Earlier, Kelly Swofford, a family spokeswoman and neighbor of the boy's parents Ralph and Donna Penley, said the boy had died and that the family was "devastated." Penley, of Winter Springs, was accused of pulling...

LONGWOOD, Fla. — A suicidal eighth grader who pulled a handgun in class and briefly took another child hostage was shot by a sheriff's SWAT team member Friday when he later threatened deputies, Seminole County officials said. Sheriff Don Eslinger said the 15-year-old boy brought the gun to Milwee Middle School in his backpack and briefly took a fellow student hostage during a classroom scuffle. The sheriff's office said they have not confirmed if the gun is real or a toy. The student then ran from the classroom, Eslinger said, and was pursued by deputies into a restroom and isolated...

Deputies shot a "suicidal" 15-year-old student who brandished a gun at Milwee Middle School near Longwood this morning after chasing the boy into a restroom, Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger said. The student was taken to a hospital, and his condition was not disclosed. The boy brought a gun to school in his backpack, Eslinger said, and briefly took a fellow student hostage in a classroom while other students evacuated. After a scuffle, the 15-year-old ran from the classroom and "traveled with this firearm throughout the campus," Eslinger said. He was pursued by deputies into a restroom and isolated there....

The man killed by San Diego police after a moving gunbattle Thursday afternoon had a criminal past that included convictions for armed robbery and assault on a police officer, records show. Santino Juarez, 31, of Encanto was also wanted on two arrest warrants: for violating probation for a purse-snatch conviction in Chula Vista in 2003, and for a drunken-driving conviction July 28 in El Cajon. An undercover San Diego police detective was looking for Juarez in connection with the robbery warrant when he spotted him about 2 p.m. near the mobile-home park in Encanto where Juarez lived. The detective called...

LOS ANGELES - Police officers shot a man and the 19-month-old infant he was carrying Sunday night when he emerged from a home and fired at them following an hours-long standoff, authorities said. The man was killed and it was unclear how badly the baby was injured. The standoff began at around 3:45 p.m. when officers responded to an area west of Watts because residents reported a man behaving erratically and aggressively. The suspect, who was not immediately identified, fired at the officers and ran inside a home, taking at least two people hostage, LAPD spokeswoman Officer April Harding said....

William Henkle had more than 20 alcoholic drinks in his system when he attacked police with a chain saw outside his Forty Fort home last month, toxicology tests reveal. Henkle, who was killed by a flurry of police bullets following the attack, had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.495 percent, according to test results recently received by the Luzerne County coroner's office. The 40-year-old's blood-alcohol concentration was more than six times the amount (0.08) to be considered legally drunk in Pennsylvania. No traces of illegal drugs were found in the two blood samples and one urine sample tested at National Medical...

It began as an argument between a husband and a wife, bickering over a growing pile of trash. By the time it was over, Kamal Lal, 43, was lying on the shoulder of Interstate 101 in Belmont, shot dead by two California Highway Patrol officers who had pursued him in a high-speed chase up and down the freeway Sunday. Lal's wife, Shelly Lal, was in shock Monday, trying to grasp how her first-ever 911 call to police over a domestic violence incident ended with the death of her husband of 16 years. "Everyone has their problems, but where this went,...