Posted on 03/04/2006 3:05:01 PM PST by Dubya
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - A recent University of North Carolina graduate faces attempted murder charges after he allegedly drove a sport utility vehicle through a popular campus gathering spot Friday, clipping and scattering startled bystanders. No one was seriously hurt.
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, who graduated in December after studying psychology and philosophy, was in the custody of campus police. They intended to charge him with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, said police Capt. George Hare.
Taheri-azar called police to surrender and then awaited officers on a street two miles from the campus, authorities said.
The FBI joined the case because Taheri-azar, a native of Iran, "allegedly made statements that he acted to avenge the American treatment of Muslims," said agent Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in Washington. "The ongoing investigation will work to confirm this."
Local investigators declined to discuss a motive.
The incident happened just before noon near the center of campus in an area known as The Pit, a sunken, brick-paved area surrounded by two libraries, a dining hall and the student union. The Pit is a center of campus activities, with students perched along walkways and steps.
"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 Daily Tar Heel, the campus newspaper.
A bomb squad searched Taheri-azar's apartment in nearby Carrboro and declared the building safe.
And of course he'll claim that he was upset by those cartoons of Mohammad ....
What was it about the car that made them decide to use the bomb squad to search his residence?
Some would say "charge him with a hate crime". I say charge him with treason and let the courts sentence him to death. We don't need any more "lone nut" terrorists threatening our citizens.
No doubt he reasoned that trying to run over Americans with his car would be the best possible method of improving American public opinions of Muslims.
LOL. Very good.
Whoops, #5 should have been addressed to you.
"Stop Jihad Now!"
Was he charged with a "Hate Crime"? ..... oh, I'm sorry, that's only for white Christian males!
Unless Jesus personally tells me to have a better attitude towards Muslims, they can all go to hell.
DUI-SUV
Driving under the influence of an evil SUV.
The poor boy was upset, what with all the cartoons and his Iranian background, tie that in with the frustrations associated with trying to obtain a suicide belt in North Carolina. He just graduated from a Psychology course , Physician heal thyself, he is a total nut.
I figure he will get sent home and not serve much time here, he is needed at home to become a terrorist there.
By the time the State Department gets done with this it wont amount to much.
There's something about this whole case that makes me scratch my head.
He rents an SUV, heads for The Pit, careens around wildly without seriously injuring anyone, screams about how his brother muslims are getting shafted, then calls the police and surrenders?
Almost like he didn't want to get hurt.
Maybe a dry run?
Over $5 million for bail????....I don't think we know everything about this guy yrt....
It really is a bit bizarre.
The poor thing is just too dumb to live. Put him out of his misery -- or send him back to Iran -- or hey, I know, do both! Put him out of his misery and then drop him into the presidential palace of the current deranged fool who runs Iran.
It's the gentle thing to do.
That little fact also makes me wonder.
Well it IS amazing that they let him graduate. He did pass the "hate America" requirement, but evidently he failed on the feminism, heterophobia, green requirements. I mean, honestly, driving an SUV! Can you iMAGine!
Seriously, if only for a minute, from what Mike Adams says about the UNC system, if the guy drew the erroneous conclusion that it represented American thought and attitudes, his wanting to do something violent is less surprising -- still reprehensible, but strangely comprehensible.
Chancellor Moose?? That's a little ironic.
This guy needs executed.
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