Posted on 03/26/2006 5:32:52 AM PST by NCjim
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The man who told authorities he drove a SUV into a crowd of students at UNC three weeks ago appeared in court. After the hearing, family members said they are shocked by their loved one's actions and words.
Mohammed Taheri-azar, 22, appeared to laugh during a hearing earlier in the day as witnesses described the attack on the university's flagship campus.
Taheri-Azar told investigators that he drove through the crowd at the Pit, a popular gathering spot on campus, because he wanted to kill people as payback for the killing of Muslims around the world.
Laila Taheri-Azar, Mohammed's older sister, told reporters that her brother was an average guy who liked to fish and camp with his friends and he also followed NASCAR.
"Please let us echo in your ears that my brother was and always has been a kind, gentle and pure soul," she said. "His current actions and words are as much a source of shock and distress to us as they are to you."
In court Friday, family members of Taheri-Azar sat in the courtroom as four students took the stand to discuss what happened on March 3. Taheri-azar, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, appeared to be reading the Quran during much of the hearing and seemed to laugh at times during testimony.
UNC freshman Alex Slater said he had just finished lunch that day and was walking to class when he noticed the SUV in the area.
"He rolled up right next to us and I looked inside the car and there is the driver, and he just stepped on the gas and turned the wheel," he said. "He just floored it right through the pit."
Well, at least it wasn't terrorism.
I wonder where that kind and gentle soul has been worshipping? Did he attend a mosque?
The Default Setting.
Who are his friends and where do they fish and camp? I know some outdoors-men that would like to know.
I believe that this incident happened on a Friday, probably right after his prayers at the mosque.
They are shocked that he failed to kill anyone. Allah will be displeased.*
* In a joint statement, Pat Buchanan and CAIR blamed the neocons for his attack.
I love those pure souls and gentle people
Who drive in my home town
Because those pure souls and gentle people
Will never ever mow you down
They read the Kor-an from Fri to Monday
That's how their weekend goes
They've got a big mosque
And virgins someday
A peaceful life they've chose
There's a place I'd like to be
And it's down in ol' NC
Where your friendly neighbor smiles and says hello
It's a pleasure and a treat
To meander down the street
And find yourself a glob of flattened jello
I love those pure souls and gentle people
Who live and drive in my home town
Because those pure souls and gentle people
Will never ever mow you down
Leni
I bet it WAS right after the Mosque. We were in Jerusalem one Friday afternoon, right after the mosque. A swarm of humanity came through the Old City, and they were amped and pumped up. It was 1999, so no beheadings.
I thot this was standard -- 'mild-mannered reporter' by day, the family is always surprised.
The family should do the right thing.
Honor killing, he dissed the family so take him out.
Here come Israel's Tuesday elections, with the 'ROP mind-mannered' Palies screaming for bombs, rockets, and wholesale murder. Nothing succeeds like success, and this no different from yesterday's LA Hispanic/Mexican demonstrations. Get what you want by force. Kill or threaten to kill anyone in your way. So we can expect imminent, widespread violence in the US, too.
Why does Big Media refuse to call this man a Terrorist?
I'm not shocked. You shocked?
Now that says it all"frame that one"
Now that says it all"frame that one"
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