Posted on 03/03/2006 6:14:40 PM PST by Stayfree
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9 injured by SUV at UNC-Chapel Hill Updated: 3/3/2006 7:32 PM By: Associated Press
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UNC Hit-and-Run
The driver of an SUV that sped through the UNC-CH campus, hitting several people, allegedly planned the attack as retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A recent University of North Carolina graduate faces attempted murder charges after a sport utility vehicle raced through a popular campus gathering spot Friday, hurting nine people and scattering startled bystanders.
Six people -- five students and a visiting scholar -- were treated at UNC Hospitals, though a hospital spokesman said none was seriously injured. Five were released Friday and the sixth wasn't expected to be admitted to the hospital, the university said in a statement. Three other people declined treatment at the scene, police said.
Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, 22, a December graduate, was being held Friday by campus police. They intend to charge him with nine counts of attempted murder and nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, said Capt. George Hare of the UNC Department of Public Safety.
The FBI joined the case because Taheriazar, a native of Iran, "allegedly made statements that he acted to avenge the American treatment of Muslims. The ongoing investigation will work to confirm this," said Special Agent Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in Washington.
Officials say the incident occurred in front of Lenoir Hall in a gathering area known as The Pit, a popular gathering spot in the center of the campus. Officials say the incident occurred in front of Lenoir Hall in a gathering area known as The Pit, a popular gathering spot in the center of the campus. Taheriazar called police to surrender and then awaited officers on a side street about two miles away from campus, Chapel Hill police Capt. Brian Curran said.
"He kind of gave himself up," said Officer Herbert Bryant of the university's Department of Public Safety.
Local authorities declined to discuss a motive.
"As far as delving into his motives and things like that, we're in the process of developing that in our investigation," Hare said.
The incident happened just before noon near the center of campus at the area known as The Pit, a sunken, brick-paved area surrounded by two libraries, a dining hall and the student union. It does not have any easy access points for vehicles and can't be reached without deliberation.
"I see everyone kind of part because there's a car coming through and the next thing I know, I'm on his windshield," sophomore Jeff Hoffman, his arm in a bandage, told the campus newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel.
Mohammed Reza Taheriazar is led to the back of a police cruiser. Mohammed Reza Taheriazar is led to the back of a police cruiser. Student Nicholas Altman was talking on his cell phone when he heard someone scream.
"I turned around and there was a white SUV. It looked like it hit a couple of people. One person in particular went over the hood," he told WRAL-TV.
On a sunny, cool day like Friday, the Pit is a busy center of campus activities, with students perched along the walkways and steps. Friday's noontime crowd included a gathering of candidates for Black Student Movement elections.
"He slowly came in, and I thought he was going to stop or something," sophomore Scot Wilson, a candidate for BSM vice president, told The Daily Tar Heel. "But then he sped right through."
By 3 p.m., a bomb squad from the State Bureau of Investigation had come to University Commons apartments in nearby Carrboro, where Taheriazar lived, at the request of local police, said SBI spokeswoman Noelle Talley. Carrboro police did not immediately return a call.
The incident came a week after a UNC dormitory resident adviser was killed when he and another student crashed through a dorm window, falling four stories onto the concrete below. The second student remains hospitalized in fair condition.
They sure hushed that booger up, didnt they?
Have learned to never trust the MSM about anything.
I get my news on FR.
great job, Socratic!!
One of the nice things about an engineering degree from Clemson - we didn't have time for all the stupid stuff. It was get down to business and do it quickly.
If the calculus, differential eqn, orthogonal eqns & BVPs, organic chem, P. chem, physics, statics, dynamics, strengths of materials, electrical eng theory, kinetics, controls, and thermo professors were libs, they sure didn't have time to worm it into the classes!
It's so effing obvious it's doesn't need discussion! Throw the book at this terrorist!
The headline alone shows how little people care about incidents like this one.
Can you believe they would pass this off as just another evil SUV on a rampage? Well of course we can, that is why it is the old media.
This shouldn't be glossed over like the Univ.of OK student. Malkin had some great links on that story this week. I recommend checking it out.
And it's all the Joooos fault!
You're kidding right? It's a lot closer to Berkeley than Texas!
In checking the network websites, Fox News, MSNBC and ABC carry this story. To no one's surprise, CBS and CNN do not.
ABC was the only one that used the word Muslim in the headline.
Here is the Oklahoma information and http://www.michellemalkin.com/ has alot of info on this Carolina guy as well. She's da bomb...kaboom!
THE OU BOMBER: CASE NOT CLOSED
By Michelle Malkin · March 01, 2006 12:15 PM
So much for the lonely, depressed young student theory to explain how University of Oklahoma Joel Hinrichs found himself blown to bits on a park bench outside the packed campus football stadium last fall. The Daily Oklahoman reports on A1 today:
A Norman police bomb expert said Tuesday he does not believe University of Oklahoma student Joel Henry Hinrichs III committed suicide by blowing himself up outside a packed football stadium.
"I believe he accidentally blew himself up," Sgt. George Mauldin said.
Mauldin said Hinrichs, 21, an engineering student, had two to three pounds of triacetone triperoxide, commonly known as TATP, in a backpack in his lap when it exploded Oct. 1.
When asked if he believed Hinrichs meant to enter the stadium with the explosives, Mauldin replied, "I don't believe he intended for an explosion to occur at that spot (on the park bench)."
"Some of us will forever wonder what he (Hinrichs) was doing at that time, at that place," Police Chief Phil Cotten said.
Hinrichs was sitting on a park bench 173 yards from the OU stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State when the TATP inside his backpack detonated.
"Someone saw him fiddling with it (the backpack) shortly before the explosion occurred. I think he got cocky, and it went off," Mauldin said.
Hat tip: Mark Tapscott, who writes:
Within hours of Hinrichs death, the FBI's Joint Task Force on Terrorism took over the investigation of the incident. Soon thereafter, both FBI officials and University of Oklahoma President David Boren said Hinrichs had no known terrorist connections and intended only to kill himself.
Despite the official denials, there was substantial evidence at the time of Hinrichs death and in the days thereafter as more was learned about his background and actions during the final year of his life that suggested to others the distinct possibility that Hinrichs was involved in some way with a terrorist activity.
Jason Smith:
So what "spot" was he intending to detonate? That's the million dollar question. He had 2 to 3 pounds of TATP, "the most unstable explosive known and the explosive of choice in the Middle East". Even a small amount can cause an explosion. 2 to 3 pounds. That's quite a bit of "mother of satan" for a lonely kid to use when he decides to "just quit living".
Same at Georgia Tech!
LOL
Not kidding, I make an effort to stay away from places like that.
Last time I went thru Austin the only thing I saw was Kerry signs and stickers.
Was as out of place as a bastard boy at a family reunion.
Will we descend into civil war?
Sorry forgot to link to our original statement about this!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589722/posts
Sorry also, I am too emotionally charged and html challenged at the moment to make this a simple link...God bless all of you!
Thanks.
I agree. What really ticks me off is that this mojo didn't mind our Western education or taking advantage of what life in the US has to offer. What a flaming hypocrite. If Muslim life is so great- Pack your prayer rug and get out!!!
Did you ever run into a dog on the street, that had a look, that if you turned your back, he'd wrap his teeth around one of your legs? That is how "they" look to me. I live in a city and stared down a whole bunch of these satanic pricks after 9/11. They are fairly scarce on the ground these days.
That firecracker in the turban is not comic relief.
You probably need to spend more time on FR keeping up with the news about the Religon of Peace.
"It seems to me that this article pretty well lets the cat out of the bag, and I don't know how the FBI can cover it up now. "
-- Probably the same way that they handled that pesky APB for that islamic looking John Doe #2 in Okla City
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