Posted on 03/05/2010 8:45:19 AM PST by MissesBush
Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the Californian identified as the gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers before he was mortally wounded in a hail of return fire.
The shooter's death was confirmed early Friday, hours after the Thursday evening assault, as authorities searched for a motive behind the brazen attack. The two officers, grazed by bullets, were treated in a hospital.
The attack unfolded at the subway entrance to the massive Defense Department headquarters, as an eerie calm and silence were broken by the explosion of gunfire.
"He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting" at point-blank range, said Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face."
The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons, sending the shooter to the hospital with critical injuries. Beverly Fields, chief of staff of the D.C. medical examiner's office, confirmed the man's death and said his body arrived at her office shortly after midnight.
John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was identified as the shooter. Officials said they'd found no immediate connection to terrorism but had not ruled it out.
Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was "a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions."
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Oh, and in case I forgot to mention it-—Goodbye to bad trash and nice shooting DC police!
It’s doesn’t matter what State run Media says anymore. We have entered the age of the unchallenged ‘big lie’...with the exception of FOX news that is...
...the hand writing on the wall says their days as a free thinking media are numbered. Now more than even I believe that is possible. I haven’t been this scared since the Cuban Missile crisis.
Oh, but this just shows that allowing handguns in DC leads to violence! BAD Supreme Court, BAD! /sarc
Colonel, USAFR
They need to keep tabs on that dangerous Rosie O’Donnell. ;-)
Was he a frequent contributor to MSNBC?
How convenient. Another leftist anarchist gets called a right-wing extremist, just in time for the Southwest Poverty Law Center report documenting a rise in right-wing extremism.
Liberals live a lie, what’s one more?
This ended the way ALL such incidents should end.
Kill’em all.
I don’t care why they do what they do, take care of buisness!
This ended the way ALL such incidents should end.
Kill’em all.
I don’t care why they do what they do, take care of buisness!
One wonders if there was an affiliation with a political party.
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Yet another BDS Left-wing shooter. No different than the Unibomber.
One of O's appointees?My clue was that he hates America.
vaudine
Ronald Domingues, 74, who lives next door to Bedell’s parents in a gated golf course community in Hollister, said he doesn’t know the family well. But he said Bedell sometimes lived with his parents and struck him “like a normal young man.”
Yep, every normal red blooded American 36 yr old male lives with mom and dad.
Plus, the article said that he “harbored ill will against the military”. Well, excuse me, but since when did a “right-winger” harbor “ill will” against the military?
Good catch I must have walked right by that one. Just amazing what the media thinks they know about the vast right wing conspiracy, turns out those are all far left nutcases improperly labeled as tea party folks on purpose.
*Oh, but this just shows that allowing handguns in DC leads to violence! BAD Supreme Court, BAD! /sarc
Colonel, USAFR*
Of course you realize that the Pentagon is not in DC.
And the poster above realizes that these were not DC police who returned fire.
As you were.
I figured chances were pretty good that he transited DC somewhere in the process.
Carry on.
Colonel, USAFR
I do so love to see people cover for their own mistake(s) with lame excuses. It happens about 90% of the time.
So...this guy drove across the country to attack a target in Arlington, VA—and for reasons completely unknown kept going ENE for a few miles before he realized that the hotels are all far too expensive in the District and ends up at the Arlington Holiday Inn.
Sure, that sounds logical.
Soon the guy who thought the DC police did the shooting will show up and claim that they were DC police moonlighting as Pentagon security.
Yup.
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