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Ishmael's Axe
http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/articles/suny/2001suny-pikus.html ^

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?


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KEYWORDS: gunman; ishmaelsaxe; ishmailsaxe; ismail; ismailsaxe; vatech
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To: ScreamingFist

Good idea but I’m a graphics klutz.


61 posted on 04/17/2007 11:54:21 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: faq
Check out the spelling skills of the average college student these days. Truly products of publik skuls.
62 posted on 04/17/2007 11:54:32 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Pyro7480

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.


63 posted on 04/17/2007 11:54:48 AM PDT by Southerngl (TEAM BIRKHEAD Longstanding member of the FIRM)
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To: colorado tanker

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html?link=rssfeed

Play written by shooter


64 posted on 04/17/2007 11:55:04 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Good point. Didn’t see the one with the glasses. Got a link?


65 posted on 04/17/2007 11:55:04 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: ScreamingFist

66 posted on 04/17/2007 11:55:43 AM PDT by beeber (stuned)
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To: aCDNinUSA

I think it may be him.

Did you see the Islamic connection in the related pictures on that page?


67 posted on 04/17/2007 11:55:49 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: aCDNinUSA

What’s with the lady in the burque type stuff on in the right hand corner?


68 posted on 04/17/2007 11:56:04 AM PDT by vidbizz
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To: aCDNinUSA; chaos_5; VRWCTexan

Look at the woman in the Islamic headcovering in the top right!


69 posted on 04/17/2007 11:56:38 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (RUDY FOR PRESIDENT 2008)
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To: JewishRighter

You could be right, just bouncing the photos up and down....shooter looks more, thick framed...


70 posted on 04/17/2007 11:57:24 AM PDT by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: SE Mom

“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!


71 posted on 04/17/2007 11:58:12 AM PDT by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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To: beeber

Thanks beeber


72 posted on 04/17/2007 11:58:31 AM PDT by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: JewishRighter

never mind


73 posted on 04/17/2007 11:58:34 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: ScreamingFist
You could be right, just bouncing the photos up and down....shooter looks more, thick framed...

I agree now. I don't think that's him.
74 posted on 04/17/2007 11:59:34 AM PDT by mutley
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To: BurbankKarl

To be honest, that is no more vile than your average Quentin Tarantino screenplay.


75 posted on 04/17/2007 11:59:35 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: BunnySlippers

She’s another friend of the woman hosting the photo site.


76 posted on 04/17/2007 11:59:45 AM PDT by Deo volente
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To: ScreamingFist
Check out Eldarossell’s slide show....

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.

77 posted on 04/17/2007 11:59:48 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: JewishRighter

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.


78 posted on 04/17/2007 12:00:15 PM PDT by aCDNinUSA
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To: beeber

Same ears.


79 posted on 04/17/2007 12:00:26 PM PDT by null and void (To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

I agree. Sympathy with Islam is far-fetched but Moby Dick isn’t?


80 posted on 04/17/2007 12:01:19 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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