Posted on 04/07/2011 10:54:38 AM PDT by Nachum
I think it's important to note that all of the headlines in the news reports in Portuguese call the murderer an Islamic suicide bomber and report that his letter refers to Islam, while none of the English outlets are reporting this critical clue.
"In recent months, she said, he appeared to have got closer to Islam."
At least 11 people, mostly children, died Thursday and more that 15 were wounded when an armed man attacked a school in Realengo in the poor suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.
According to a preliminary police report, the attacker - a 24- year-old former student at the school - was among the dead after shooting himself in the head. He attacked Tasso da Silveira school, where some 400 students ages 9-14 were in classes. [...]
Beltrami described the letter as 'the words of a person who no longer believes in anything, full of sentences that made no sense and references to Islamic fundamentalism.'
Huh? He no longer believes in anything but made references to Islam?
Beltrami said the attacker was friendly as he went into the school, chatting with administrators and teachers and asking for permission to address the children. When he reached the third floor of the building, the suspect entered one of the classrooms and started to shoot at students, killing nine girls and one boy. The attacker apparently committed suicide upon being chased by a police officer who had been called in by a student who managed to escape the building
Roselane de Oliveira, a sister of the attacker, told Rio de Janeiro radio station Band News that the young man 'was very strange.'
'He had no friends, and he spent all his time on the Internet,' she said.
In recent months, she said, he appeared to have got closer to Islam.
Police stressed, however, that there was no concrete evidence that the attack had either a religious or a political motive.
(more here.)
Irmã de atirador diz que ele era ligado ao Islamismo e não saía muito de casa; ele deixou carta suicida UOP Noticias
Rio school shooting: official says 13 children dead Guardian
Witnesses tell how gunman opened fire on pupils at Tasso da Silveira primary school in Rio de Janeiro
As many as 20 pupils are feared dead after a gunman opened fire in a primary school in western Rio de Janeiro.
The vice-mayor of western Rio said 13 people had died in the shooting at Tasso da Silveira primary school, although it was not clear if that figure was accurate or included the attacker. Edmar Teixeira said the gunman was a 24-year-old former student who pretended to be giving a speech to students before opening fire with two handguns. When police appeared at the scene the gunman shot himself dead, Teixeira said. He left behind a letter outlining his motives.
One witness told the Guardian he had seen between 15 and 20 children dead or seriously wounded.
"It is a massacre, a true massacre," said Roni de Macedo, a fireman who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting began and dragged eight seriously injured children from the school.
"There is blood on the walls, blood on the chairs. There are 15 to 20 dead I think," said De Macedo, who was covered in blood. "I've never seen anything like this. It's like something in the United States."
Fuhrer Obama just returns from visit to Brazil, and muzzie loonies go boom .. makes me go ... “Hmmmmmm”
Another moslem “accomplishment.”
Omoslem can add this to their list of contributions.
Christ.
Lordy.....I HATE our media.
Many prayers for those poor children. :-(
is this the worst muslim school slaughter since Beslan?
Didn’t Barry say Brazil was a model for the rest of us?
Those poor poor parents
Note the axxhole mostly took out little girls.
ROP bkmk
Islam is an insane murder cult, from Mad Mo until now.
ABC news stated it was a “former student”. Nothing else.
ABC news stated it was a “former student”. Nothing else.
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Just heard that. Sickening.
Come now De Macedo - was that dig at the U.S. really necessary?
Although I'm not a fan of the 'Religion of Murder and Mayhem' -- this guy just seems to have been a run of the mill Whacko who happened to be muslim. Like the Tucson shooter was another insane guy who happened to be a leftist.
Maybe we'll find more out about this islamist later (not in the US Media though) - but from this initial read it sounds like he was stark raving mad, and his religion had nothing to do with it (other than the fact that if you actually read the koran and claim that its the 'word of God' -- you are going to damage your brain by trying to mentally manage the book keeping in your brain that something that is illogical and blasphemous is holy. At some point I could see the person fritzing out their brain cells).
Did Barack Hussein unleash a few sleepers while he was down there?
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -- Winston Churchill
Terry Jones’s fault, no doubt.
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Let's see.
Say something publicly here, you get blamed.
You may get fired
You may get sued
Say it in Europe, you may go to jail
There are riots
In Muslim countries, they will murder anyone they blame with no repercussions
Burn a Koran?
Get 400 plus death threats
Attacked in every news media
Attacked by our president
Attacked by our legislators
Get a bounty (fatwa) put on your head for 2 million...
Article in Portuguese.
It seems that this guy was a new convert to Islam.
I wonder what he told the principal he was going to talk to the kids about... probably religious tolerance and islam..
it is not going to get better.
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We too will have our own Beslan and Rio.
But it will only happen once.
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