[ChasingFletch]

":-) But all the news reports say it was a ransom."

(nearly) all news reports said Flight 800 was a center feul tank problem, and that there was no Muslim connection to OKC, and Vince drove his own car to the park that say! Should I go on?

[johnny7]

Moose is a fool. The people that are doing this don't want money and don't leave clues.

Just goes to show, police can't stop terrorism.

[Tarheel]

But all the news reports say it was a ransom."

Can the shooting of the schoolkids, that was supposedly threatened in the note, be considered as a method of extortion and from this the concept of 'ransom' evolved because of poor reporting by some newsies? Somehow the shooter asking for money so far into the killings just does not make sense.

The Tarheel