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Va. Tech: Gunman student from S. Korea
AP / Yahoo! ^ | 4/17/07 | ADAM GELLER

Posted on 04/17/2007 8:11:45 AM PDT by ribosomal soup

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So much for the Chinese grad student report by the Chicago Sun-Times. The Sun-Times is as usual full of crap.
1 posted on 04/17/2007 8:11:47 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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South Koreans have mandatory military service for men over 18. It’s likely Cho learned his stuff there.

South Korea, what a great ally she is.


2 posted on 04/17/2007 8:17:50 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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South Korea hoped that the tragedy would not "stir up racial prejudice or confrontation."

The Foreign Ministry wasting no time in playing the race victim card!

I guess they must be thinking about all the Arabs randomly attacked in the street by Americans after 9/11 - oh wait, that didn't happen!

3 posted on 04/17/2007 8:19:12 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!

So much for the left’s non-stereotypes! He’s Asian, he must be CHINESE! I try to tell my young children that not all asian people are Chinese, but they are but children. The media, well... maybe they are but children as well.


4 posted on 04/17/2007 8:21:33 AM PDT by Southerngl (TEAM BIRKHEAD Longstanding member of the FIRM)
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He’s 23 and has been here since 1992. When did he get his training?


5 posted on 04/17/2007 8:22:18 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ribosomal soup

Have they announced yet what mosque he attends?


6 posted on 04/17/2007 8:24:01 AM PDT by Ozone34
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He’s 23 and has been here since 1992. When did he get his training?

Probably from the likes of these guys:

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7 posted on 04/17/2007 8:26:21 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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Va Tech has been doing a good job of clearing his name from their directory.
http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/virginiatech?q=Cho+Seung-Hui&btnG=Search&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&domains=vt.edu


9 posted on 04/17/2007 8:28:01 AM PDT by mnehring (McCain '08 -------------------------------------- just kidding...)
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“stir up racial prejudice or confrontation.”

COMMENT:

You beat me to the same conclusion.

This country has let the liberals push their stupid “can’t we all just get along “ agenda for way to long.

It’s time for America to take back it’s borders and quit bowing at the alter of “America needs foreigners to survive” mentality.

I don’t want to hear another word on amnesty or any other give away US citizenship for free program by those who only have the almighty dollar as their god.

10 posted on 04/17/2007 8:30:58 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, DUNCAN 08, ELECTION 2008, MOST IMPORTANT OF MY LIFE TIME)
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"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him," school spokesman Larry Hincker said.

I wish that someone would ask Hincker about this statement he made earlier this week, concerning the General Assembly's defeat of a bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus :

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-50658

11 posted on 04/17/2007 8:33:55 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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Agreed. What or who gave the initial information that the shooter was a Chinese student on a visa?


12 posted on 04/17/2007 8:36:56 AM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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No way this guy's an English major (IMO)! It's a typical journalistic rush to a scoop without double checking!

A South Korean English major??? Nah, it doesn't pass the smell test.

A South Korean English major on a killing rampage in an engineering building??? You've got to be kidding.

My guess is that some low level clerk checking the University's records saw the student's college listed as ENG (abbreviation for ENGineering) and assumed it stood for ENGlish. They probably passed that mistake on to a university administrator/spokesman and then on to a reporter.

It'll be days before the MSM gets it straightened out, and by then the public will be too bamboozled to every get it right.

13 posted on 04/17/2007 8:39:07 AM PDT by delacoert
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I know lots of South Korean guys who have been in the US forever, but going back to South Korea to complete their mandatory two years of service (often before college). The guy is 23, which is older than the usual age of 21-22 for a college senior.

If they don’t do the mandatory service, and then one day land in South Korea, they can be arrested for desertion.


14 posted on 04/17/2007 8:41:05 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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A gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead

WTF! Suspected??

15 posted on 04/17/2007 8:41:27 AM PDT by chaos_5
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South Korea, what a great ally she is.

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You seem to be suggesting that South Korea itself is somehow at fault for this guy's spin-out. Where do guys like you come from?

16 posted on 04/17/2007 8:42:26 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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The media can be characterized as nothing more than vultures.


17 posted on 04/17/2007 8:43:40 AM PDT by OldFriend
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If this had been in S. Korea and an American student had committed mass murders; Americans would not be safe in public and embassies would be under seize. There would be anarchy in the streets of Seoul. Here we just blame Bush again! Sad, sad, sad... not sad in that we do not riot, but sad in the lack of national unity within America!

LLS

18 posted on 04/17/2007 8:44:29 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: wtc911

Have you seen some of the movies that South Koreans are producing in South Korea? One film called “Welcome to Dongmakgol” makes it honorable for Koreans to kill American troops during the Korean War. I’m totally serious, you can probably Google the film and buy the DVD and watch it for yourself.

Maybe you should look into contemporary South Korean anti-Americanism before making personal attacks.


19 posted on 04/17/2007 8:45:57 AM PDT by ribosomal soup
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South Koreans have mandatory military service for men over 18. It’s likely Cho learned his stuff there.

He moved to the U.S. when he was 8.

20 posted on 04/17/2007 8:46:02 AM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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