Sniper Search near Seattle (digging for evidence)

Local NBC News Channel | Oct 23, 02 | MSNBC

[spycatcher]

MSNBC reporting sniper related digging and searching of a building in Tacoma WA. FBI is involved. May be related to something the sniper told police

[DaughterofEve]

it looks as if they are throwing swords on a tarp in the back yard.

(from someone else's post above..)

WHAAAAAAA?

[lelio]

Its a "dig" for shell casings from what I've seen on TV and what a neighbor said.

[txhurl]

Yeah, buddy. Back to VA now, for Teddy. Here we go.

[HonorInPa]

Thanks for the reply!!

[lds23]

Don't know if this helps....

Meanwhile, police sources in Paris said earlier yesterday the sniper could be a 25-year-old French deserter from officer training school.

France has alerted Interpol about the army deserter, who is known to be an excellent marksman.

The cadet has been missing since early September from the elite military school, Saint-Cyr Coetquidan, in Brittany, eastern France, after going on vacation in August, officials said. When he left the school, he reportedly told friends that he was heading for Canada.

Interpol was notified of the disappearance of the officer, a normal procedure, and a judicial investigation was opened, which is also normal, said Defence Ministry spokesman Jean-Francois Bureau.

Bureau acknowledged there was some speculation of a connection with the sniper investigation, but he said that was just hypothetical at this point.

"We have no certitude of a link," he said in a telephone interview. However, "this soldier has a very, very good reputation as a marksman."

And since the September 11 terror attacks on the United States, "these are things we follow very closely," he added.

Interpol, the international police agency based in the French city of Lyon, said it refuses to comment on active cases.

The deserter, not identified by name, was given permission for an August trip to the United States and Canada, said Bureau. Police sources said he had planned a trip to Chicago.

RTL radio reported the deserter was of Yugoslav origin, but Bureau could not confirm that, saying that he had to be a French citizen to attend the military school.

The missing officer never showed up for school in September. The gendarmerie, a force under the Defence Ministry, sent a note last week to the Interior Ministry. Interpol was then contacted, said Bureau.

Bureau cast doubt on reports in the French media that students at Saint-Cyr alleged they recognised their comrade in an unofficial police composite drawing of the sniper reportedly shown on French television.

[aristeides]

WMAL: FBI will be conducting other house searches during the night; Moose may have something to say later this evening.

[AmericanInTokyo]

cells? safe houses? interesting..... thanks!

[kjam22]

Basically, a search warrant has been issued to search a home in connection with the sniper shootings in Tacoma washington. Apparently they are looking for bullets and weapons that a former resident may have used for target practice there. More search warrants are supposed to be issued across the country. Very wierd.

interview of neighbor on other channel (cnn I think) ...neighbor says that the guy who lives there has lived there for 8 years.

[Pete]

I have a summary of tonights events here.

[Howlin]

Fox saying "local reports" are that the sniper is a Native American of Mexican decent!

[hispanarepublicana]

Shep on Fox: local reports that sniper is native american of hispanic origin......

[Right_in_Virginia]

Great summary.

Bless you!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Got it........thanks.....

[lawdog]

Fox is reporting that "the sniper" is a " Native American of hispanic extraction". ???

[kjam22]

shep is saying that it is RUMORED as to the nationality.

[lelio]

There's throwing some stuff on to a blue tarp. Couldn't tell what was on it.
There's a "burn drum" that's in the back yard, but a lot of people have them around here. Just an oil drum that you burn junk in. Yeah its classy.
Woo woo! Junked car in his backyard. Welcome to Tacoma!

[agrandis]

Why do they have to have press conferences to say, "we ain't sayin' nuthin'?"

[William McKinley]

That sounds like someone who would be non-white, non-black...

[WhiteGuy]

OK

Here's today's guess........

The "sniper" is a team at work,

Part of a larger group,

their goal is to keep every American focused on the shootings....

until after the election.


Paranoid or what?

[spycatcher]

Unconfirmed "local reports" from Fox News that the sniper is a Native American of Hispanic extraction