Sniper-Related Warrants Issued In Alabama

nbc13.com ^ | 10/23/02

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Sniper-Related Warrants Issued In Alabama
Authorities Search Suspected Terrorist Training Camp

POSTED: 10:05 p.m. CDT October 23, 2002
UPDATED: 10:18 p.m. CDT October 23, 2002

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Search warrants related to the D.C.-area sniper case were served Wednesday in various parts of the country, including the state of Alabama.

Sources told NBC13 that federal authorities from Montgomery were in the city of Marion in Perry County Wednesday night, armed with a warrant, and were searching property.

The search warrants are reportedly for a terror camp called "Ground Zero," which is located in Marion. The camp was discovered earlier this year following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York.

At the time, authorities thought militants from overseas trained at Ground Zero. There has been no official connection between the camp and the al-Qaida terror network. The owner of the camp said it was a training area for police officers.

NBC13 spoke with camp owner Mark Yates, of Tuscaloosa, who says he knows nothing of any investigation into his camp. Perry County Sheriff James Hood also told NBC13 federal authorities have not contacted him.

The Alabama search warrants were issued hours after authorities started searching a property in Tacoma, Wash. NBC13 has also learned that an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent from Alabama is assisting in the investigation in Tacoma.

Sources are describing the issuance of Wednesday's warrants both in Washington state and in Alabama as attempts to follow up on "solid leads."

Developments in this story are unfolding. NBC13 News and NBC13.com will have the latest details on the sniper search and the possible Alabama connection as they become available.

[Dialup Llama]

Seems like they are taking a cue from the Jihad in America map.

[Southack]

"Is Marion a liberal area, with liberal local leaders and is this sheriff a PC Bubba?"

The Sheriff notified various authorities that Ground Zero was using a police car for their target practice.

[blondee123]

"you have cought the sniper like a duck in a noose".....what the fu*k!....is this guy surrendering or something.

Could be a signal to other cells & the Chief just delivered the message for him!! GEEEZZZZ

[Howlin]

Did you see this one: http://www.msnbc.com/news/668509.asp

[Brad’s Gramma]

Bumping 51

[Howlin]

Do you have a link to that map?

[eddie willers]

H. Rap Brown tried to hide near there when he was on the run from Georgia.

You're right!
I had forgotten that.
H. Rap's now got some silly assed Muslim name that escapes me.

[cyberaxe]

.....yep.....

.....that's where i found the url for groundzero.....

[blondee123]

You know, Chief Moose made it very clear in his statement that the named person was not the sniper suspect, but the newsmen have now come to calling him the sniper, which will highly P+ss off the sniper if this isn't him, he won't want anyone stealing his spotlight, so that means more shootings to prove his point!! Does it seem like people here have more common sense than the experts or what????

[Grampa Dave]

What a great find. I wish that we could bookmark something like this.

I knew this place was an al Fuqra training camp, and that was I went ballistic when one of Fox News mediots tried to portray it as a militia training place.

Of course 99.99999% of Americans if they hear militia immeditiately start thinking of evil white Southern Christian Conservatives instead of evil black al Fuqras who hate America/Americans. That was I blasted an email off to Fox News and said they sounded worse than CNN with that lame a$$ed comment. Shortly after that they back away from that BS.

[marajade]

My guess is Mohammad shot off the gun in Tacoma before selling to another person at some camp in Alabama who then used it to commit the robbery at the liquor store.

[woofie]

This al Fuqra Stuff looks like it is it....first Ive seen it , sure is hard to keep up

[Grampa Dave]

Just in case you missed this link/reply, please go to it for a look at this training camp for future assasins: (A very scary article on this al Fuqra/Islamic training camp to teach people how to kill the rest of us)

[Dialup Llama]

I presume the angry, loner, white male of profilers' lore is no longer the operant theory.

[bybybill]

I got a real hard time believing this story. Your going to operate a terrorist training camp in Alabama? What a great choice! Not

[Grampa Dave]

Some of us have been following al Fuqra since we found out that they had an encampment last year in Clovis, Ca. near Fresno.

These are really dangerous people. They have been training for over a decade to do something like this sniping.

They have been shielded by the Political Correctness lovers of America. Al Fuqra makes the KKK look like a bunch of local yokels.

[KsSunflower]

No kidding...you should hear CNN..they have spent the last 10-15 minutes first announcing that this camp in Alabama has been suggested to have islamic militant connections and then try to explain that they have discussed with all of their sources and none of them gave any credence to the possibility that this could be int'l terrorism, yada, yada, yada...

Hello, read Free Republic, we have had this pegged for quite a while now!!

[Grampa Dave]

Just in case you missed this link/reply, please go to it for a look at this training camp for future assasins: (A very scary article on this al Fuqra/Islamic training camp to teach people how to kill the rest of us).

The Portland and Seattle area is probably crawling with these thugs.

[gabby hayes]

Pundits have been clearly devastated the "persons of interest" are not white males but they (even on FOX) are pushing the (white) militia, not the AQ connection to Camp Ground Zero. PC lib orthodoxy could be the literal death of this country.