Posted on 10/16/2003 8:28:15 AM PDT by quidnunc
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 DNA, is the note left for authorities at the scene of the shooting in Ashland, demanding $10 million. In the sniper case there may have been a parallel motive as well: hostility to the United States and its values generally, and to its white Christian people in particular.
The sniper shootings happened about a year after 9/11. What follows, drawn partly from material appearing in this space last November, is based solely on information contained in newspaper accounts … .
Born John Williams, he changed his name to John Muhammad in April, 2001 — 16 years after his conversion to Islam. He was a member of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
(A Times-Dispatch news account cites a Manassas prison guard testifying Malvo and Muhammad "blamed white people for plotting an assassination attempt on … Farrakhan. When [the guard] noted that the [sniper] shooting victims were of all races, Malvo said he and Muhammad intentionally selected racially diverse targets … . 'He said, "If we only shot white people, the cops would catch up to us quicker, so we shot all kinds of people."'")
A former Washington state friend said Muhammad disparaged Christians and Jews. "In his mind, even black people were no good if they stood with whites or Christians." The friend added it might not be merely coincidental that none of the sniper victims was visibly Muslim.
Muhammad is believed to have shot up a synagogue in Tacoma, Washington. He was connected with the Islamic Center in Laurel, Maryland. Federal authorities have investigated whether he had ties to a sect of militant American Muslims (al-Fuqra) committed to waging holy war against the U.S. — and linked (as of a year ago) to 13 killings and 17 firebombings in the U.S. and Canada. Specifically, Muhammad may have had connections to an al-Fuqra commune in Georgia.
(Al-Fuqra — "the impoverished," seeking to purify Islam through violence — is suspected of having had ties to Richard Reid, the Briton convicted of trying to blow up a Paris-to-Miami jetliner with a shoe-bomb two years ago. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, on his way through Pakistan to meet al-Fuqra's top sheik, Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, was kidnapped and beheaded.)
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John Muhammad seems clearly to be embittered and an Islamist terrorist sympathizer. As noted here previously, if he were a Branch Davidian or a religious rightist calling himself "God," and if his declared religion had broadly known terrorist factions, everyone would be all over his religious connections and those connections to terror. His trial could prove him to be not only guilty in the sniper shootings, but the Muslims' worst nightmare.
But, of course, he a practicing member of The Religion of Peace™ so any discussion of his faith is out of bounds.
The only thing that is realistic is that the role of PC Moose, Ph.D., is played by some obese and monumentally confused and stupid-looking actor.
We are now watching how the left wing mediots/videoits at work. Your description of this vile activity is excellent:
The Beatification and Canonization of P(olice)C(hief) Moose, Ph.D.has begun, with the release of a made-for-tv tripe-fest, which demonstrates how our entire American way of life was preserved by the alert, heads-up police work of PC Moose, Ph.D. The man is a an absolute role model for the generations of Affirmative Action Clymers who are to bedevil us for generations to come.
If Muhammad was not actually part of a Muslim terrorist conspiracy, it is certain that he was inspired by them.
The sniper did not conceive his crime out of thin air...
What filthy satanic cult repeatedly and consistently ties all these together?
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Celebrate diversity.
I know Pearl is said to have been investigating Al-Fuqra and Richard Reid. And I can't blame any journalist for not heading to Pakistan to pick up the investigation, but I sure would think more would be done in the United States. As you say, the PC virus is more likely the reason. I mean they are all tough guys when they went off to investigate McVeigh's background which was hardly as compelling as the sniper's.
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