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Yesterday I had a theory that the President's life was threatened and that was why his bodyguards were helping look for the killer. What do you think of that theory?

While I think someone could get to Bush if they wanted too, I don't think that's the case here. This guy does not want to get caught, contrary to the babble you hear from the profilers on the news channels. Let's take a look at what we know

1) Capability. The guy is a decent shot which points to a military background. While many Freepers have pointed out that any halfway decent hunter could make that shot, they forget that this guy is shooting children. It's 2 different things to hit a deer and to pull the trigger when a child is in the scope.

2)Motive. This guy is not a psycho. He's not throwing 6 or 7 shots into his victims which would indicate rage. He is one shot, one kill all the way. Plus psychos tend to leave clues or establish a pattern. His only motive can be to promote terror and paralyze the area surrounding the nations capital. That would point directly to the Muslims. I don't think it's a home grown "right wing NRA whacko". I think they would have a definite pattern of hitting immigrants, minorities, law enforcement officials,or liberals.

3) Who. I don't think it is a Muslim. While spectacular when it comes to blowing themselves up, they lack the requisite skill to be so methodical on a consistent basis. This guy comes in, sets up the shot, takes it, hits the target, and escapes into thin air, time after time despite the manhunt. He has to be ex-military.

This brings me to my conclusion that it is someone with extensive military training (the marksmanship and the planning) who has done this before (to shoot a child in cold blood is horrific). The conflict in the former Yugoslavia had a number of sniper teams that would target the other sides women and children. That's where I would start to look. I would also check with private firms that specialize in protecting executives overseas to see who the top assassins in the world are. This guy is getting paid very well to do this.

"3) Who. I don't think it is a Muslim. While spectacular when it comes to blowing themselves up, they lack the requisite skill to be so methodical on a consistent basis. "

I have to disagree with you here. While I am not arguing that it is a muslim doing the shooting, to say, carte blanc, that all muslims are incapable of "the requisite skill to be so methodical " is ill advised. I'd say that 9-11 showed remarkable skill in planning.

I don't think you can rule out a methodical serial killer. I also don't think you can rule out a terrorist on the basis that they too cannot be methodical killers. The guys who took the planes did so after years of planning.

Thanks for your insight. I have but one question in the things you said.....

He has to be ex-military

Does he have to be ex US military though?

"I don't think it is a Muslim. While spectacular when it comes to blowing themselves up, they lack the requisite skill to be so methodical on a consistent basis."

The PLO has carried out some very skilled sniper attacks in Israel over the past few years. However, you're right, it doesn't come naturally to the jihadist mind—Israel actually suspects at least one of the snipers was IRA, "on loan" to the PLO as both a terrorist and a teacher. (The IRA and Muslim terrorist groups often train together, strange as that may seem.) Something similar could be happening here.