Posted on 08/29/2006 10:19:58 PM PDT by KFAT
SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco deliberately running them down before being arrested by police, who believe the same driver struck and killed a man earlier today in Fremont. At least one hit-and-run victim remained in critical condition this evening. Reports of the incidents began pouring in at 12:47 p.m., police said. Within a half-hour, San Francisco police had cornered and arrested 29-year-old Omeed Aziz Popal, who has addresses in Ceres (Stanislaus County) and Fremont. Authorities suspect Popal was the same driver who ran over and killed a 54-year-old man in Fremont around noon. That man, whose name was not immediately released, had been walking in a bicycle lane at Fremont Boulevard near Ferry Lane when he was struck and thrown into a field, where, as of 5:30 p.m., his body remained covered with a tarp. That crash scene is just blocks from Popal's Fremont address, where he had most recently been living. San Francisco police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens said the attacks in the city occurred at 12 locations over a 20-minute period. "The hits were intentional,'' he said, noting that police are treating them as assaults. Gittens had no information about a possible motive.
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Ohmid Aziz Pustule..
These weren't infidels that he run over, were they?
Of course this was just an isolated incident and not in any way related to terrorism.
A quick FR search would indicate that there are just five new threads in any 24 hour period.
The rest are duplicates and/or variations.
Interesting that much of the discussion was an assumption that the media would bury the story.
Yet somehow, it only shows in breaking news roughly 10 hours after the incident.
Free Republic is slipping as a reliable news source! : ) I only know to check FR since I had heard about it on the radio.
Omeed Aziz Popal?
Accident, or one in a long series of many "dry-runs"?
Dunno.
Personally, I think THE LATTER!
You?
I'm not allowed to carry (permit holder) while in the building where I work.
Screw that.
I've seen enough to know that it's me or them.
I can get another job.
I said "Breaking News"
I note though that it was pulled from Breaking. I guess the mods consider Jeb Bush declaring a state of emergency in Florida days ago breaking, but this never was. Whatever.
Reason #1 why I quit NYC's adv-mktg mega-million-dollar salary rat-race, and started my own multi-million-dollar company with 28 (current) employees.
Reason #2? Random drug testing on employees. A clear *invasion of privacy*, even though I'd quit smoking pot, 7 years prior, and quit all drugs 1 year later. Heh.
Every time someone comes back from Afghanistan...
I never heard the perpetrator's name or national origin mentioned in ANY of the news reports that I saw--none at all. No photos of him or the carnage, either. I did read a quote about what a nice person he was--gee. It seems that it was all just a misunderstanding, an anomaly if you like. Watch for the burial of the story as much as the victim. There is a very curious pattern...
NOOOOOOO!
This is not terrorism.
It's not because he's Muslim.
It's not Jihad - even though he said it was...
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
He has a perfectly good excuse.
He was just married to a woman in Afghanistan - an arranged marriage. He was not allowed to see her before the wedding. When he lifted the veil, well... er... she had a bigger mustache than he did and more stubble. At least, he had more teeth.
The MSM is already falling all over itself to create excuses for this freak.
Of course...
Stress from an arranged marriage, huh? Sounds like a plausible enough excuse to avoid the death penalty (or perhaps any jail time at all) for some cowardly, murderous jihadist.
yes in liberal strongholds of SF and UNC the terror strikes. What makes them hit their friends?
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