Posted on 03/05/2006 8:54:02 AM PST by Howlin
But Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar appears to have acted alone, campus police say
A UNC-Chapel Hill graduate told investigators he intentionally drove into a crowd of students on campus Friday to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world," UNC Police Chief Derek Poarch said Saturday.
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, told detectives to go to the Carrboro apartment he shared with two other men, saying authorities would find evidence there that would explain his decision to hurt students. Poarch declined to say what, if anything, was found, but emphasized that Taheri-azar appears to have acted alone.
It does not appear that Friday's attack had anything to do with a recent editorial criticizing Arabs and a cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad in the campus newspaper, both of which angered many Muslim students, Poarch said at a news conference Saturday.
But because Taheri-azar's statements to police suggested a political motive, campus authorities contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he said.
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What's new?
This is now being referred to as Religious Revenge, coining a new phrase to avoid the use of the word terrorism, no doubt.
What's missing?
Any trace of the remarks made on Friday that "if he had accomplished what he had originally planned, there would be a lot of people dead."
Ping.
Hmm... "religious revenge". Does this mean it's open season on Germans by any Jew with a weapon?
For a Muslim, Religious Revenge is the same as Terrorism....
What's missing is the MSM's inability to truthfully label the actions of Muslims. The MSM is so seemingly entangled by various PC codes that they simply can only hint of the truth of some actions.
Yet they still continue to give each other coverage awards.
Sorry Counsel, it's still a Hate Crime!
I'm noticing that on the news, the constant refrain is that law enforcement is "trying to discover why" he did it. What? He already said why he did it. Take him at his word.
Why not? Did he have cartoons of Muhammad hanging up in his apartment?
Another liberal-MSM white washing of the truth.
A UNC-Chapel Hill graduate told investigators he intentionally drove into a crowd of students on campus Friday to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world," UNC Police Chief Derek Poarch said Saturday.
You nailed that.....
It's almost like they had to invent a new word in order NOT to say what everybody in this state knows already.
So now I want to know just how many OTHER things like this have occurred in this country that have been quietly hushed up.
And I want to know how many people have to be INVOLVED before it "qualifies" as terrorism.
Hahahahaha! I think it is safe to say he registered as a Democrat, no matter what his citizenship status.
So far, Taheri-azar has been very cooperative with police, Poarch said. He will appear for the first time before a judge at a hearing in Orange County District Court on Monday.
Authorities used some sort of explosive to get into Taheri-azar's apartment in the University Commons complex in Carrboro on Friday. Charred fragments of molding and siding surrounded the doorway Saturday, while debris, including a white plastic kitchen trash can, latex gloves, hinges, glass and pieces of a doorknob littered the landing. The door itself, blackened and warped, leaned backward into the foyer, leaving the inside of the four-bedroom apartment open to view. Neither of Taheri-azar's two roommates appeared to be home.
You have to use explosives to enter a cooperative perp's home?
MSM continues to sell their souls to their perverse god.
The guy's registered to vote and nobody's knows if he's even a citizen?!?
I guess my new acronym, ROJ ("Religion of Jihad), is not acceptable? That's too bad, I like it. ;)
OHHHHHH!!!! Its religious revenge, Thats different then isnt it. No one ever committed a hate crime involving religion. Hell: Give him a pass. Poor boy just woke up with a sudden need to run down people in the name of the religion of peace. I think this guy was under the Influence of that evil SUV. Tell ya what, crush the SUV and give this poor fellow a ticket home on the next plane.s/
I do not know, trubl; it is obviously something that we in the great unwashed masses cannot understand.
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