Posted on 03/07/2002 8:16:51 PM PST by maturin
The story is still sketchy, but it appears that early this morning in Cumberland County, here in North Carolina (Fort Bragg) the wife of a combat Army Special Forces GI fighting in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan was viciously stabbed to death while her horrified daughters, aged 12 and 14 looked on and then tried unsuccessfully to stop the assailant. The murderer broke through a security protected rear door to the house and used a kitchen butcher knive to stab the soldier's wife to death.
The Police, along with State Bureau of Investigation personnel, are saying little about the case, apart from the already general knowledge that the murderer was a "white' male in his twenties with dark, collar-length hair parted in the middle. There is no record or suspicion of extra-marital relations, drugs, or any other possible motive, apart from the fact that her husband is fighting al-Qaeda forces holed up in the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan.
Two weeks ago, the family found that cable and phone lines to the house had been cut during the night and the mother of the family, like a typical Army wife, took care of the problem without alarming any one else in the family and had the lines re-connected and and then re-activated a security alarm system that was already in the home.
The Fort Bragg soldier has been recalled from Afghanistan and the two girls are now staying with their grandmother.
No further details are available at present as police and SBI agents set up a command center on the property to conduct intensive forensic analysis of the premises.
Though it might be premature to speculate, there are several hundred thousand non-citizn Muslims living in the United States and many thousands of them are here illegally. There are three universities, NC State, UNC, and Duke University all within close driving distance of the crime scene. Many legal and illegal Muslims routinely use college student visas in order to gain entry to the country and stay here. There are some thousands of Middle Eastern and other non-citizen Muslims now living in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill-Fayetteville (Ft. Bragg) area.
There are many crimes in the US, but this one "smells to high heaven" according to some Army personnel serving at Fort Bragg.
Developing...
Got a link to an actual news article, as opposed to baseless speculation, on this?
MKM
You all know that people that part their hair in the middle are on drugs.
LOL.
I could point out there are probably thousands of dumbass drunk white trash with mullets and criminal records within driving distance of Ft. Bragg, too, probably more of them than Muslims, were I too apply the baseless speculation standards of the original poster.
Assassinations are so much easier to than a massive terrorist attack, because there are so damn many targets to protect! If the terrorists can't kill Bush, they'll kill a dozen governors. If they can't have the governors, they'll kill off city councilmen. How can we stop that? If they want to take everyone who appears on the news, and put their names on a list, how could we stop that? Only by no longer reporting a lot of details...
Then again, this might not have anything to do with the "war on terror," it could just be an isolated incident...
Smell fishy to me too, but branding it on a Muslim seems alittle premature, and considering what is not known to the public, I would say it's hard to speculate anything solid right now about any possible motive unless you were part of the investigation.
I hope that it's not true, and that it won't turn into something else for "us" military folks to worry about. They have no idea what they are in for if so.
If I'm not mistaken the military doesn't give out the names of people fighting over there, or allow photos showing the faces of special Forces soldiers. So yes it probably is a coincidence.
Let's face it; both of those guys go to sleep at night fervently hoping they'll wake up to a black church torched by the KKK, or a black girl supposedly "gang raped" by a bunch of white guys.
A lot of this board is fervently hoping (a lot of them subconsciously) for an Arab or Muslim to go on a shooting spree in home for crippled children or something in the US, to further their agendas.
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