Relatives: Rampage suspect may have been stressed...(Details on Afghan-American who ran down 14)

Mercury News via Sweetness & Light ^ | August 29, 2006

[Sam Hill]

From the Bay area Mercury News [excerpted]:

Relatives: Rampage suspect may have been stressed over wedding

By James Hohmann and Katherine Corcoran

Relatives of a Fremont man connected to Tuesday's deadly driving rampage said he may have been distraught after returning recently from Afghanistan without his newlywed wife who is waiting for a visa.

Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, who sources said was being held by the San Francisco police, was normally a kind and gentle person, said Hamid Nekrawesh, 43, a first cousin in Fremont.

But a recent trip to Afghanistan to participate in an arranged marriage could have caused him a lot of stress, Nekrawesh said.

"He was a very respectful, quiet, nice guy,'' Nekrawesh said. "I've never seen him do anything violent.''

Zarghona Ramish of San Jose, who also identified herself as Popal's cousin, said he had been having strange dreams since returning a month ago from Afghanistan...

He was born in Afghanistan, but came to the United States at a young age. Three months ago, he returned to his home country to marry, relatives said, and his wife's family was very traditional and strict.

"He grew up as a Western boy in the United States and went to Afghanistan to get married culturally over there,'' Nekrawesh said...

An earlier video report from San Francisco's KTVU does not describe the perpetrator in any way. It offers no physical description of the driver or even any mention of his name.

All that is allowed to be said about him is to have some witnesses remark upon his placid demeanor.

The KTVU piece does deign to mention that the indescribable driver ended up near a Jewish Community center. And that "one witness said he referred to himself as a terrorist."

Of course the reporter quickly goes on to assure us, "but police say this case might have been many things, but it wasn't an act of terrorism."

But why is this so certain?

Note that the Mercury article mentioned Popal's is his first cousin, Hamid Nekrawesh.

Mr. Nekrawesh appears to be a devout follower of Islam, or at least greatly interested in it. He is also interested in the progress of the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

Nekrawesh is also a contributor (of $50) to the anti-war Bush-hating crackpot Lyndon Larouche.

The other relative mentioned, Zarghona Ramish, has been issued an order from the state of California (view pdf file) to desist and refrain from her pyramid scheme:

7. During 2001, 2002, and 2003, Ramish, Ghias, Farzana, Tamiz, Abawi, and Aziz were active participants in an organization operating under the name of Women Helping Women (WHW), Women Empowering Women (WEW), Women Helping Women Dinner Party (DP), or The Women’s Garden Party or Garden Circle (WGP).

8. WHW, WEW, DP, and WGP operated as a pyramid scheme.

9. Women in these groups operated by inviting women to a "potluck" gathering at individual’s homes and/or community centers or conference rooms. The gathering was described as a "support group." During the gatherings, women would be recruited to contribute money to the group.

Women Helping Women (WHW) raised money for women suffering in Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake. (As we know, the plotters who wanted to blow up all those planes from the UK to US last week were also raising for Pakistan quake relief, and funded their plans with some of it.)

But perhaps I am needlessly suspicious.

Still, it was just six months ago we were talking about another mixed up and murderous SUV driver of Middle Eastern heritage.

Nobody wanted to call the clean-cut UNC student Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar a terrorist, either.

[backhoe]

Just like those guys in Toronto. They came from so many different backgrounds. What did they have in common?

Gee whiz! Surprise, surprise!

Terror Strike Toronto ( Aborted! )-- Click the picture:

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Nothing to see here, move along.

[RSmithOpt]

A life of crime would be easy against those two police specimens. Heck, almost anyone could out run, out climb, dodge those gurls (gurls make me hurl).

[redgolum]

Sudden Jihad Syndrome

Catchy, kind of like the flow of the words. I expect to hear it on Rush this afternoon!

[redgolum]

I was stressed out about my wedding. Never crossed my mind to mow down a dozen or so people.

[backhoe]

I was stressed out about my wedding. Never crossed my mind to mow down a dozen or so people.

I generally just cuss like a pirate- maybe I'm missing something here, but I thought civilized people weren't supposed to act like the Mongolian Hordes...

[dennisw]

Sudden Jihad Syndrome Catchy, kind of like the flow of the words. I expect to hear it on Rush this afternoon!

Bet on it! In the first segment - opening monologue.
The conservative blogs and Free Republic are show prep for Rush

[redgolum]

I generally just cuss like a pirate- maybe I'm missing something here, but I thought civilized people weren't supposed to act like the Mongolian Hordes...

The Golden Horde was more civilized than this. If you didn't mess with them, they usually let you live. If you fought them, they would kill till all of the town was dead.

But they at least gave the town a chance!

Been trying to give up cussing, but I found that chopping weeds and tree limbs is a good way to take out aggression.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Member of TROP goes on killing spree and he is "stressed." Member of anything but TROP goes on killing spree is a murderer. Four legs good, two legs bad. Musn't say that the member of TROP is a murderer, CAIR would be very "offended". GAG!

[sergeantdave]

I need help sorting this out.

So if a ROP adherent had an attack of SJS and ran over 14 pedestrians, and American citizens pulled the ROP adherent out of his SJS vehicle and beat him to death, would that be a fatwa and allowed under Islam law or considered an SJS and permitted under American liberal law?

[blam]

"This isn't going to stop until Americans start dragging these bastards out of their cars and clubbing them to within an inch of their life."

To much work, just shoot the SOB.

[wolfcreek]

Perhaps SJS is chemically induced? Just a thought.

[backhoe]

Been trying to give up cussing, but I found that chopping weeds and tree limbs is a good way to take out aggression.

That works pretty well for me until I run across something frustrating, then it's "Cuss Like a Pirate" day all over again.

[Velveeta]

Augusta Delzotto, a 40-year-old Russian Hill resident, said that around 12:45 p.m. that she “heard this thundering sound” come from the intersection of Sutter and Fillmore streets, then saw a “black SUV coming down the sidewalk, barreling very close to the stores.”

She was on her way to pick up her son from school and screamed as at least 10 people and a dog jumped out of the way. It all happened “so fast,” she said.

She watched as a teenage boy “jumped into a store screaming” as Popal allegedly tried to strike him. His screams joined those of others who either watched or scrambled to get out of harm’s way. “There was tremendous screaming,” Delzotto said.

She witnessed an elderly woman walk out of a store near Sutter and Fillmore streets and get slammed by the SUV. “You just heard this thud. She got thrown against the wall of one of the stores,” Delzotto said.

http://www.examiner.com/a-251738~Witnesses_describe_a_motorist_running_amok_in_The_City_s_streets.html

Bastard.

[ncphinsfan]

"...is that we are seeing not PC run amok, but a studied effort to avoid panicking the sheep."

The assumption that we are sheep and need to be sheltered from events or, at the very least, have events interpreted for us by our intellectual superiors is one of the fundamental uses of PC. We are not qualified to see the world and its events. We need an interpretor. BAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[Dinah Lord]

"Could it be that that this poor soul was suffering from Post Islamic Stress Syndrome (P. I. S. S. ed) as a result of some recent Islamofacist setbacks?"

tee-hee.

[reformedliberal]

I am wondering if her family told him that unless he had killed some infidels, no marriage.

If all this information is accurate, something happened over there to challenge him to show just how anti-American he could be.

Maybe he previously was a gentle, assimilated person. If so, then perhaps it was just easier to kill infidels from behind the wheel of his car, rather than confront them more directly.

It has been my contention for a long time that the American Jihad will begin in the most politically-correct cities.

[arthurus]

suspect may have been stressed over wedding

Stressed Mohammedans get relief by killing infidels. It is a cultural difference and must not be stigmatized. We must celebrate diversity. It must be compassionately explained to Mr. Popal that in America non-saracens do not vent their frustrations that way and he should try to understand the people who seem to be uncomfortable about his religions practices. He must be counseled lest he develop a phobia. Or something.

[Gritty]

[Cheburashka]

My own 2 cents, for what it's worth, is that we are seeing not PC run amok, but a studied effort to avoid panicking the sheep.
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You may be right. Of course, they have no problem with panicking the sheep about global warning or health care costs, how the Republicans are going to repeal the Civil Rights Act and sell all blacks back into slavery, cut Social Security and force Grandma to live on an all dog-food diet, etc.

I will give them this. I don't want to see an increase in attacks on innocents (I seem to remember that there was a case of an assault on a Sikh after 9/11 because he wore a turban. Sikhs are as Moslem as the Mormons.) And there are nut cases who are not Moslem. But their other "appeals for calmness" suggest Political Correctness is at work.