[wideminded]

But three days after the shootings, Kamal’s family got a copy of a letter that was found on his body, they said. The letter said he planned the violence as a political statement, his daughter said.

If such a letter had been found on his body this story would have come out before. I don't believe that the government and media are conspiring to not let us know about these things.

Furthermore if the letter had been found on the body, the authorities would not have sent it by FedEx to the family in Gaza so that they would get it only three days later. The family could have received a copy of the letter from another source but then they would have no assurance that it was found on the body.

The man's motivation might have had something to do with avenging Palestinians, but the story as written does not make sense.

[Rodney King]

Good post, perhaps the following explanation:

Man sends it to his own family, so that they know why he did what he did. He says a copy of it would also be on him when he did it. Just a thought.

[DBrow]

" If such a letter had been found on his body this story would have come out before."

What makes you think that? The woman in the story claims to have tried to get media attention and failed.

The US media would much rather promote civil disarmament than arouse us to enemies within, who plot against us (that would make us resist disarming all the more). This is not a conspiracy, it's bias, and they are quite open about it.

If Rudy knew, he'd keep it quiet, since his main message of the need for "sensible gun controls at the federal level" would have been blunted. No conspiracy, just keeping on topic in a PR move.

And as for the timeline, yes, it would take several days to snail a real copy of the letter, but even way back in '97 we had technology that would let us send an image of the letter. The cops would not have sent the actual letter, they'd keep the original for forensics for months.

[Publius6961]

If such a letter had been found on his body this story would have come out before. I don't believe that the government and media are conspiring to not let us know about these things.

Well, I do believe exactly that.
That the government is conspiring to keep certain facts from the American public to prevent panic and a widespread public response.

We seem to have honest differences of opinion.

[faq]

But three days after the shootings, Kamal’s family got a copy of a letter that was found on his body, they said.

I can kind of see this. If the FBI or police found a letter on the body proclaiming jihad they probably wouldn't tell the family that right away. They would play dumb at first asking questions about a possible motive just to see what the family knew. And after a few days the media had already run with the anti-gun angle and maybe the police weren't ready just yet to confirm that story to the media either. It would be interesting if someone from the media would follow up with this now and confirm the story (doubt that will happen).