[Grampa Dave]

Man, this flew under the radar at least for me.

The "black activist" killed by the DC snipers had had business dealings with Farrakhan, including theoreticly acting as go-between for Farrakhan and Libyan Pres Mummuar Quadafi

Could this "equal-opportunity" killing have been a very NON-random Farrakhan-ordered hit?

Thanks for posting it, and congrats on being employed again.

Hey, Travis does this reply by SoM bring back some old memories for you like for me?

[Travis McGee]

I don't know, but I'm sure the FBI is hot on the case, pulling all these events together.

< /sarcasm >

[SauronOfMordor]

Take a good look at the second link in #80. The killing of Ken Bridges took place (according to another source I read and wish I saved the link to) shortly after Bridges had secured a $mil in venture funding for his black-products company. This, coupled with his business dealings with Farrakhan, makes me real curious as to who ultimately gained control of the company after Bridges was shot, and also whether there was any interest by Homeland Security in what Bridges might have been able to say about links between Farrakhan and certain "people of interest"

[aristeides]

And I still suspect Linda Franklin, the FBI analyst the snipers killed, had been working on the sniper investigation. It was the man in charge of that investigation, after all, who gave a testimonial statement on her work to the press.

[TexKat]

'All I Ask Is To Be Loved For Me, Lee'

Inadmissible Letter Is Called Plea for Help

By Serge F. Kovaleski

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, December 4, 2003; Page B01

CHESAPEAKE, Va., Dec. 3 -- It was scrawled in the darkness, late at night, with the covers pulled over his head to avoid any detection that the letter was being written at all.

The four small pieces of paper reveal the scattered thoughts of a 17-year-old expressing self-loathing, fear and despair to a girl he had a crush on.

They are the words of Lee Boyd Malvo in the midst of his cross-country odyssey with John Allen Muhammad.

"Why am I here, there seems for me no purpose," he wrote. "Everyone who has met me hates my gutsy rambling and consider my jibberish fake," Malvo wrote to one of Muhammad's nieces in Baton Rouge, La., in the summer of 2002.

"My patience is thinning, my conflict unresolved, my psyche and fear strewn," he wrote. "I should have been banished and killed . . . for I'm perceived as a walking time bomb waiting to explode . . . All I asked is to be loved."

Attorneys representing Malvo at his capital murder trial here have described the letter as a plea for help by a vulnerable youth who they claim was manipulated by Muhammad into participating in last fall's sniper shootings. They tried to enter it into evidence Wednesday so the jury could see it, but a Fairfax County judge ruled it hearsay.

The missive was written at the Baton Rouge home of one of Muhammad's relatives after the pair had spent a week in the city. They were staying in separate bedrooms, and Malvo's handwriting was not as neat as it has appeared elsewhere, perhaps because of the darkness.

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