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DC sniper's ex-wife, children cope with execution
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Posted on 11/12/2009 3:13:42 PM PST by JoeProBono

One of the D.C. sniper's ex-wives said Thursday that she has fully healed from the abusive marriage she endured with him, and is helping her children cope with knowing their dad won't be a part of their lives. Mildred Muhammad, 49, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that she and her three children watched news coverage of John Muhammad's execution in silence at their Maryland home.

When his death was announced, the children - John, 19, Salena, 17, and Taalibah, 16 - went into different rooms and cried. "It was very difficult to see them in that kind of pain," Mildred Muhammad said. "Because I know what was going through their head - 'this is my dad, he should be in my life, this should not be happening.'"

Her ex-husband was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a series of killings in 2002 that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks.

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KEYWORDS: dcsniper; johnmuhammad; jpb; sniper
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To: JoeProBono

So long Johhhny. Glad the door didn’t hit you on your way out.

Shooting a mother in her back in a parking lot as she adjusted a car seat for one of her two children, thats class baby! He shot her right in front of them! And she wants us to identify with her? Whew!

Nah. I don’t feel sorry for Johnny, and Mom?

Well she made a very large mistake marrying the Muslim terrorist, Johnny.

The children? May they learn the righteous path, and not follow in the footsteps of their terrorist father.

Read the live thread on Johnny’s execution, declared dead at 9:11 pm. Interesting timing.:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383382/posts?q=1&;page=201#230


21 posted on 11/12/2009 3:38:46 PM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: VicVega

Get the Popcorn Ready for Nov 10th: DC Jihadist Set to Get Death Penalty Buh-bye John Allen Muhammad: A US judge in Virginia has set a 10 November execution date for the man behind the 2002 sniper attacks on the Washington DC area. No mention at all in the article that Muhammad's accomplice Lee Malvo described the murders as part of the jihad.


22 posted on 11/12/2009 3:39:32 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

I found that a couple beers and ham sandwich helped me cope with news of his execution.


23 posted on 11/12/2009 3:40:39 PM PST by fso301
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To: latina4dubya
At least somebody reads the articles around here before they start flyin' off at the mouth. ;~)

The woman has a unique perspective on the events, that's all. She's not the villain here.

For Muhammad, however, the execution marked her recovery since leaving her abusive ex-husband a decade ago.

"I woke up yesterday thinking this is the first day, complete day of the rest of our lives that John's presence will not be felt," she said.

Mildred Muhammad said her ex-husband did not respond to his children's requests to see him, and she said she was not surprised he offered no last words.

"I had began saying a week or two before the execution that if anyone was looking for John to apologize or take responsibility for his actions, they're waiting in vain," she said. "I didn't expect him to say anything. I expected him to do just what he did - close his eyes, not look at anyone and that's it."

She said she expects John Allen Muhammad's funeral next Tuesday in Baton Rouge, La., will bring some closure. The family also plans to retrieve letters he left for the children from another ex-wife.

With the man who once threatened to kill her now gone, Muhammad said she plans to continue her anti-domestic violence advocacy and continue supporting her children as they adjust. But one remnant of her ex-husband remains - a protective order against him she's kept for years.

"There's no need for me to carry it anymore," she said. "I guess I need to make a decision to take it out of my wallet, because it's still there."


24 posted on 11/12/2009 3:41:27 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: JoeProBono

If I’ve ever seen a more “poor me” look on a face, I don’t know when it could have been.


25 posted on 11/12/2009 3:43:17 PM PST by Shimmer1 (Froggie sez water nice and warm)
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To: JoeProBono
is helping her children cope with knowing their dad won't be a part of their lives.

Even if he'd gotten life in prison, what mother would want him to be part of her children's lives?

26 posted on 11/12/2009 3:46:54 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: JoeProBono

It’s okay to be Jihad and kill for Allah. Just don’t listen to Beck, Rush or anyone who is Christian otherwise you will burn in Liberal Media Hell.


27 posted on 11/12/2009 3:48:05 PM PST by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in to the world. I love the USA)
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To: JoeProBono

Thanks for that picture. I’d forgotten all about Chief Moose and all the moose jokes here on FR at the time. Chief Moose was himself a joke.


28 posted on 11/12/2009 3:48:25 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: JoeProBono

They should be relieved, he won’t be able to perform any “honor” killings.


29 posted on 11/12/2009 3:56:53 PM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

FART


30 posted on 11/12/2009 4:02:21 PM PST by Mister Muggles (Seattle: a city full of liberal men with vaginas.)
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To: JoeProBono

One hopes none of Mr. Muslim’s children go IslamoWhacko.

One more vainly hopes AP will stop running tear jerker stories about Muslim terrorists with an undercurrent of “Isn’t the death penalty just awful?”


31 posted on 11/12/2009 4:03:20 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: JoeProBono

Hm. Perhaps she should take ample time to consider the many loved ones who are still grieving after her ‘beloved’ gunned them down.

The killer has been executed. Justice has been done.


32 posted on 11/12/2009 4:06:13 PM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

That’s my understand as well.


33 posted on 11/12/2009 4:06:38 PM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: JoeProBono

Oh please! That ‘family portrait’ is sooo telling.


34 posted on 11/12/2009 4:07:40 PM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: JoeProBono

wow - a book. how convenient.


35 posted on 11/12/2009 4:08:28 PM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I understand what you’re saying but please consider the very real possibility that this woman’s story has changed and now she may be milking the situation for all its worth.

If her ex had not gunned down all those innocent people then her children would have their father around in their lives. But. He made the decision to not be there. He was not a *nice* man.

By fawning over the grief this family may be experiencing, we’re making the killer a martyr rather than the vile human he really was.


36 posted on 11/12/2009 4:11:37 PM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
LOL!


37 posted on 11/12/2009 4:17:13 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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