I saw one of his relatives on TV talking about what a nice boy he was.
They're over there wringing their hands that "24" may lead the most professional and well trained military to commit war crimes.
Blitzer doesn't know Jack.
CNN will make hay on the Smith thing and the BB player who hates gays yet this Muslim terrorist kills 5 and it's a passing story with selective reporting.
Well, despite the MSM's best efforts to hide it, the public found out that Jihad Johnny was a Muslim. New story: he was your basic troubled youth and being a Muslim had nothing to do with it.
Meanwhile CNN is jerking around over his history in Bosnia.
Jerking around with his history in Bosnia??? Good GOD, woman! Have you no heart? Who cares if he was or san't on hand for a slaughter? So what if his Grandfather may have been a terrorist. Big deal if there was not really any ethnic cleansing but just the Serbs "Taking Out The Trash". The REAL issue is that something may (or may not have, but COULD have) hurt his feelings.
The boy (BOY) is the REAL victim here and the United States is to blame in general and Bush and his Neo Con (read that Dirty Jews) friends are the real culprits here.
You'd know that if you'd actually watch CNN from time to time.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Yeah, I'm fine with lax immigration laws....
Does this surprise anyone?
"Two years earlier, Talovic was referred to juvenile court for throwing rocks at a little girl."
Stoning females ... hmmm, where have I heard this before?
I'm astounded at how so much of the media is really going all out to make excuses for this kid. There was an article on Yahoo briefly earlier today that chronicled what his family had experienced over ten years ago and speculated on how that might have affected him. It could lead the informed to conclude, hey, he probably thought he was shooting at Serbs. All is forgiven.
I also loved what I heard last night. How his family was also suffering "because they had lost their son." I'm sure his family is suffering. But this was kind of like the Menendez brothers' lawyer asking for mercy on account of their being orphans.
His history in Bosnia may well have been a big part of how he got so messed up. The family's former landlord, who he threatened with a knife, believes that is a factor, and he's in a much better position to know than we are. However, given the particulars of the young man's run-ins with Utah law as a juvenile, I'm now inclined to blame the courts who didn't heed the huge warnings signs and order serious intervention and supervision (probably including some time confined to an institution) back when it might still have done some good. Earlier news reports had said he had a juvenile record, but that it didn't involve any violence, giving the impression that he just "snapped" to a degree that no one could reasonably have been expected to foresee.
We need to seriously re-think the whole policy of keeping juvenile records sealed. This guy was a time bomb, and if teachers and employers could have had access to his court records, they would likely have interpreted his behavior differently, and responded to it differently.
Some years back, a student at my alma mater, who was living in a dorm at the time, was exposed as a juvenile bomber/arsonist. The only reason it was exposed was because the Secret Service was sweeping the campus prior to an appearance by a major political figure. THEY have access to juvenile criminal records, and based on what they saw in those records, honed in on this girl and started doing some serious investigation and questioning of professors who knew her. Long and short of it was, the Secret Service ended up doing a no-knock entry to the girl's dorm room, after learning that she'd expressed to chemistry faculty and lab TAs about certain types of explosives AND that significant quantities of some chemicals needed to make said explosives had gone missing from the Chem department's supply room. Upon questioning, she reportedly assured the Secret Service that she wasn't planning to blow up the political figure, just the Dean's Office (she had really done things like this in middle and high school, so it wasn't an idle threat). Shouldn't colleges have access to this kind of info about a prospective student, so they can make a reasonable decision about whether it's safe to have her on campus, in Chemistry labs, living in the dorms, etc.?
Why did our government import this creep to this country? So we would have more terrorist acts and become more dependent on Big Brother?
Motive: He was Muslim.
That is sufficient cause for indiscriminate killing of Americans, according to the most prominent imams.