Posted on 06/13/2002 7:48:09 PM PDT by Ranger
he strange saga of Abdullah al Muhajir, a/k/a Jose Padilla, took yet another turn this morning, when Internet gumshoes Fuckedworld and Junkyardblog spotted his look-a-like . . . guess where?
In the police drawing of a still-missing Oklahoma City bombing suspect, that's where. Al Muhajir, held since May 8 on accusations that he intended to build and detonate a dirty bomb, is the spitting image of the mysterious John Doe 2, featured in police sketches and long touted by cops as a principal along with Tim McVeigh. Some law enforcement officials have insisted no such suspect ever existed, though witnesses described the second figure getting out of the rental truck with McVeigh seconds before the explosion.
However speculative, this clicks in more ways than one, since McVeigh's lawyer tried to argue in Federal District Court in Denver that the 1995 plot may have had roots in the Philippines among men known to have been Al Qaeda operatives with direct ties to Osama bin laden. Though the judge rebuffed his argument, attorney Stephen Jones said he found people in the Philippines who claimed accomplice Terry Nichols met with terrorists there in the years before the 1995 attack.
You better look a little harder?
The picture on the left is an artists imagination and not a real picture - Duh !
Wow....
Nice to see F#@*edWorld is linking to FR now, Junkyard Blog is then linking to F#@*World, and everyone and his brother is linking to Junkyard Blog So all is well. We don't need to determine definitively who had it first as long as FR is mentioned in the mix and seen as a source worthy of being mentioned.
Wasn't it Peggy Noonan who referred to a FR post she read on "a conservative political bulletin board website" without mentioning Free Republic by name?
I think bloggers are usually more than fair in giving credit when the find out someone else may have been first, but competition for blogeyeballs is a sport and some may see pulling an idea from an "obscure anonymous post on FR" as no harm no foul in order to make a name for their themselves and their personal blog. Just as mainstream news wires will often rewrite WorldNetDaily exclusives without credit just because they figure no one will care.
Again, in this case I think Junkyard Blog deserves all the credit he's getting too, and am happy FR was tossed a bone! Thanks to all bloggers and journalists who give credit where it's due, no matter the source.
The key feature I think is the unusual somewhat feminine elongated corners of the eyes on both. It's a bit much to say the eye angle has to match perfectly. And Junkyard Blog also highlighted what looks like a slight scar on the left cheek of both JD2 and JP.
And here's a surprise, F^%#World Blog is poking some fun at how"Jose Padilla's Oklahoma City Connection" is now a Glen Beck Program exclusive! posted June 13
Elohim City's Andreas Strassmeier: John Doe #2?
Would someone please post a photo of John Doe #2 so we can end this nonsense.
Gee, it's just too bad that the Feds killed McVey and cant get any more information out of him.
Also, lighting makes a big difference in how someone looks, as well as the view point.
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