Posted on 04/17/2007 11:25:47 AM PDT by TexasBud
One possible source of the gunman's reference to "Ismail Ax" on inside of his arm is... James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie. Character Ishmael Bush had an axe. "And the axe, which created and transformed through destruction, clears the figurative way for the deflowering of the New World."
The axe is apparently both literal and symbolic, and references are made about the character's having moved from the east to the west, creating change through the destruction (using the axe), and the like. Just a possibility, esp. for someone who was an English major?
Good idea but I’m a graphics klutz.
Ok, hopefully this end’s the speculation about the Islamist connection. The perp was an English major, after all.
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Yes, this does shed some light to the Ismail’s Ax.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html?link=rssfeed
Play written by shooter
Good point. Didn’t see the one with the glasses. Got a link?
I think it may be him.
Did you see the Islamic connection in the related pictures on that page?
What’s with the lady in the burque type stuff on in the right hand corner?
Look at the woman in the Islamic headcovering in the top right!
You could be right, just bouncing the photos up and down....shooter looks more, thick framed...
“When the dust settles, maybe we’ll get some clarity..in the meantime I’m going to walk the dogs.”
Just like the Salt Lake City Mall shooting? Hope you have young dogs and a long route!
Thanks beeber
never mind
To be honest, that is no more vile than your average Quentin Tarantino screenplay.
She’s another friend of the woman hosting the photo site.
Mira is my cousin from my father side. Her father is a police working in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.
Aceh (IPA pronunciation: [?a't??h], pronounced approximately Ah-Cèh, but with [e], not [ei] at the end) is a special territory (daerah istimewa) of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Its full name is Nanggröe Aceh Darussalam. Past spellings of its name include Acheh, Atjeh and Achin. It thought to have been in Aceh where Islam was first established in Southeast Asia.
I never thought about the picture being from Asia so it probably isn’t him if that is the case unless he travelled there last year. I suppose we will find out more in the coming days.
Same ears.
I agree. Sympathy with Islam is far-fetched but Moby Dick isn’t?
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