Sniper suspect had talked to policeman

Baltimore Sun ^ | October 25, 2002 | Jamie Stiehm and Del Quentin Wilber

[spycatcher]

"...The man they identified yesterday as Muhammad told the women he was from out of town, planning to drive all night and just wanted to rest in his car. He asked whether they would mind. He stood barefoot, wearing shorts and a T-shirt, outside a car Thompson described as cluttered, as if he was living in it.

By chance, he had chosen a sandwich shop next to the Donut Connection, just off the Jones Falls Expressway - a few blocks from the offices of the city police warrant apprehension task force.

Thompson recalled a laptop computer, its screen glowing blue, on the car passenger seat..."

[spycatcher]

First it was airline tickets for a homeless man, now he's got a laptop computer.

[aristeides]

Computer. Think he was monitoring us on FR?

[JRandomFreeper]

Think he was monitoring us on FR?

It's pretty unlikely. Not enough bandwidth on a cell phone. Lord knows I've tried it, and FR is way too busy to follow on a cellphone/laptop combo.

/john

[Cicero]

His laptop was glowing blue? Probably either Windows 2000 or Windows XP, I would guess. In other words, probably an expensive new computer.

It looks to me as if these guys had some financial support from the terrorist network.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Couldn't have been some sort of blue wallpaper, could it? Edit and DosShell were blue as well, IIRC.

[spycatcher]

Plus most screens like TV's also generate a "blue glow"

[Joe Hadenuf]

It looks to me as if these guys had some financial support from the terrorist network.

I would doubt that very much. Obviously, if he was corresponding with other bad guys, the feds would already know all about it after seizing and impounding the vehicle....Unless he hocked that laptop for a big mac......

[Bogey78O]

'He asked Snyder for directions to Interstate 95 - a highway the sniper had routinely traveled. Then Muhammad drove off.'

I bet this cop feels like crap right now. "If only I didn't give him directions maybe it would have slowed him down..." I'm sure he's thought.

[twntaipan]

Probably the blue screen of death--how appropriate for this vermin.

[per loin]

caught in one of the largest dragnets ever seen on the East Coast.

No. He was caught when a truck driver, who had heard the car's description and license broadcast over a trucker radio show, called the police. The "dragnet" let him slip on through each time it contacted him.

[dennisw]

He could have had any old piece of crap laptop. Check the phone records at the motels he stayed at. That's when he went on line to read about his exploits.

He could save stuff and read it off line later on. To get his rocks off.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

...Yes, I do think M -&- M were monitioring US on Freerepublic.com from inside their car on a laptop computer

...WHY else do you think they ended up parking where they could so easily picked up...?

...M -&- M's Sniper TV Propaganda Value in scarring US to death as we fast approach the day we all will be standing in line to vote as HILLARY RODHAM's run for President in 2004 hangs in the balance ...had run its course.

...Next serving coming right up, Senator PAUL WELLSTONE, with TED KENNEDY flying shotgun for him in a companion plane and WALTER MONDALE just chomping at the bit to get himself back to Washington, D.C. where his own daughter ELEANOR provided personal "services" to President BILL CLINTON in our Oval Office.

...Just think, when WALTER MONDALE was in the U.S. Senate last time around he tried to KILL our APOLLO Moon Space Program.

...A Senator WALTER MONDALE almost personally serviced US into Earth's 1st Man on the Moon being...

...a Russian Communist.

NEVER FORGET

[David]

"It looks to me as if these guys had some financial support from the terrorist network.

I would doubt that very much."

Why?

Where did he get the money for the two of them to trundle around the country going to Al Queda training camps and getting set up for this operation?

And as long as we are at the why's the Feds are concealing from us, who is the woman whose credit account was to receive the ransom proceeds? What was the relationship between these two Islamics and her? Or is she also an Islamic terrorist or part of their network?

[Bogey78O]

"she" was a slain woman who they stole the credit card from.

[Common Tator]

What this tells us is he certainly followed the principles of Edgar Allen Poe. He hid in the open.

Lets see

 What where the cops looking for.
   1. A white male,
   2. Aged 28 to 40, 
   3  Native or living in the area for some time.
   4. Has local address 
   4. Very knowledgeable of the area.
   5. Literate and angry at the world 
   6. Driving local or Stolen untraceable car or van
   7. Usually white vans or trucks
   8. Has job in D.C area (tied up week ends)

So what did the cop find on this person to make him suspect?

Nothing.

   1. A black male
   2. aged 28 to 40
   3. Family in New Jersey
   4. From Washington state.
   5. Very poor (sleeping in old junk car)
   6. Very polite asks for directions
   7. Shows no fear of cops but does show respect
   8. Owns old car in home state of New Jersey.
   9. Can't be local. Valid current Washingoton State
      drivers license. Is from 3000 miles away headed
      for next state.

With what the profilers and witnesses told the cops how could this guy be the man.

When a person a cop checks out meets 70 or 80 percent of what he has been told to look for He nails the guy. When the guy meets zero percent of what the cop has been told to look for he is to let him go. That is what the cop did.

A cop has to have permission or probable cause to search a car. A cop that has no reason to suspect someone does not ask to search. Otherwise he would search every car and person he met.

[x]

By chance, he had chosen a sandwich shop next to the Donut Connection, just off the Jones Falls Expressway - a few blocks from the offices of the city police warrant apprehension task force.

How much longer will the rampant stereotyping continue?

"You could tell he wasn't from Baltimore," Thompson said. "His vocals didn't have an accent or tone."

You can't make things like this up.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Interesting take on events at #12, Ronnie. You inspire us to work a little harder to defeat all things Clinton-related.

...Speaking of which, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel and the Miami Herald all endorsed Jeb Bush for Gov. It's a battle, but the good guy's winning in Fl. (^:

[HangThemHigh]

"His laptop was glowing blue? Probably either Windows 2000 or Windows XP"

"The Blue Screen of Death", no doubt.

[Joy Angela]

Senator PAUL WELLSTONE, with TED KENNEDY flying shotgun for him in a companion plane

No way! Kennedy was in a companion plane? Oh my gosh. Where can I read more on this?

[Bogey78O]

But spy is saying the profile the cops made they knew to be faulty.