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SNIPER ESCAPE BID FBI agents grab him as he flees
newsoftheworld ^ | 10/25/2002 | newsoftheworld

Posted on 10/26/2002 6:07:42 PM PDT by TLBSHOW

SNIPER ESCAPE BID FBI agents grab him as he flees

THE 17-year-old Washington sniper made a dramatic freedom bid—by punching his way through the CEILING of an interview room.

John Lee Malvo seized his chance after being left alone by FBI interrogators.

He leapt on a table and quickly smashed the flimsy ceiling tiles with his fists—then began hauling himself up into a ventilation shaft.

Agents dashed into the room, grabbed his flailing legs and wrenched the struggling teenager back down.

Last night the FBI refused to comment on the embarrassing incident at the "secure" and secret federal centre in Baltimore, Maryland.

Malvo and fellow sniper John Muhammad, 41—who face the death penalty in seven different jurisdictions —are refusing to help enquiries into their reign of terror in the US capital.

Posed

One agent said: "Never mind co-operation. They're not even talking."

The pair—who killed ten and wounded three in a 21-day spree— could also be charged with an unsolved murder on America's west coast.

Keenya Cook, 21, was killed in February with a single head shot as she opened her front door in Tacoma, Washington State, where Muhammad and Malvo were living at the time.

The assassins were friends with her family—and even posed for the now infamous picture together on their sofa.

But ex-Army marksman Muhammad, who changed his name from Williams because he converted to Islam, fell out with the Cooks when they befriended his ex-wife.

Claims of warnings about the pair to police BEFORE the killings started were piling up last night.

The Rev Al Archer, who runs the Lighthouse Mission Centre in Bellingham where the pair once lived, said he suspected the Gulf War veteran was a terrorist after September 11.

He said Muhammad distributed pro-Islam brochures, made anti-American slurs and also threatened to kill cops. He added: "If he'd been stopped at that time, a lot of people would be alive who are now dead."

Mr Archer revealed that Muhammad, who was existing on handouts, started travelling extensively by air. Harjeep Singh, who knew the snipers at a YMCA gym, said he was alarmed at their vow to go on a gun-rampage, targetting cops and fuel tankers.

Police and an FBI agent interviewed Mr Singh but no action was taken.

There were also chilling new revelations last night about how Malvo and Muhammad mocked police by repeatedly slipping through dragnets.

Their 1990 blue Chevrolet Caprice— a killing machine with holes in the boot to fire through—was first noted by police on October 3, just 24 hours after the first killing. But it was lost in the system while the entire hunt centred on a white van.

Meanwhile, Muhammad was stopped or spoken to by officers TEN times for various traffic offences.

During a spot-check on October 8, he was parked and asleep at the wheel. But cops failed to look in the boot, where they would have found the Bushmaster XM15 rifle.

The most chilling escape was last Monday when two illegal immigrants in a white van were held in a swoop as they used a phone booth being staked out by cops.

Muhammad and Malvo had given the number of the booth to detectives in a phone call. And just yards away, they were lurking in their blue Chevy, watching every move in the fiasco.

The car was even caught in the background on news footage—and still the jigsaw did not piece together.

Finally, police realised the car they were looking for. But Chief Charles Moose refused to reveal the number plate. It was only when one of his team leaked it that the pair were found one-and-a-half hours later.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dcsniper; domesticterrorism; escape; keystonecops; sniper
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1 posted on 10/26/2002 6:07:43 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
"But he's just a child" criminal bump
2 posted on 10/26/2002 6:10:24 PM PDT by MTCJK
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To: TLBSHOW
I like the writer of this article. He calls them "assassins". That's what they are--murdering punks, filthy cowards, cold killers.

Death to both of them! Send them to Alabama. Those Southerners still have the electric chair. No nice PC "lethal injection".
3 posted on 10/26/2002 6:20:15 PM PDT by Palladin
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To: TLBSHOW
"Mr Archer revealed that Muhammad, who was existing on handouts, started travelling extensively by air."

THIS NEEDS TO BE CHECKED-INTO!

4 posted on 10/26/2002 6:20:31 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: TLBSHOW
High powered trained Al Queda operatives as these guys may have been, they surely did a lot of stupid things. Our failure to catch them earlier looks really bad because you have to assume the next cell will be better disciplined and make fewer mistakes.
5 posted on 10/26/2002 6:25:12 PM PDT by David
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To: Sabertooth
Finally, police realised the car they were looking for. But Chief Charles Moose refused to reveal the number plate. It was only when one of his team leaked it that the pair were found one-and-a-half hours later.

Of course. They were racially profiling whites. That car didn't fit into their profile.

Sabertooth, I think this deserves wide distribution. Please put it on your ping list.

6 posted on 10/26/2002 6:26:03 PM PDT by Nogbad
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To: TLBSHOW
That's similar to the way Ted Bundy escaped from the Garfield County Jail.
7 posted on 10/26/2002 6:26:36 PM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: TLBSHOW
Their 1990 blue Chevrolet Caprice— a killing machine with holes in the boot to fire through—was first noted by police on October 3, just 24 hours after the first killing.

Hmmm, "holes", plural. Anybody know whether News of the World is right that there was more than one firing hole in the trunk (= "boot," Britspeak for "trunk").

8 posted on 10/26/2002 6:26:54 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: David
Our failure to catch them earlier looks really bad because you have to assume the next cell will be better disciplined and make fewer mistakes.

Let's hope our cops will have wised up a bit too.

9 posted on 10/26/2002 6:27:56 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: Palladin
I like the writer of this article. He calls them "assassins".

News of the World is the Brit National Enquirer.

10 posted on 10/26/2002 6:29:15 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: TLBSHOW
"But Chief Charles Moose refused to reveal the number plate. It was only when one of his team leaked it that the pair were found one-and-a-half hours later."

Everyone is busy giving Moose kuddos, and this fact is being ignored.
11 posted on 10/26/2002 6:30:56 PM PDT by demkicker
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To: TLBSHOW
Muhammad and Malvo had given the number of the booth to detectives in a phone call. And just yards away, they were lurking in their blue Chevy, watching every move in the fiasco.

My question is:

Where is the phone they were using? Or, who's phone were they using?

12 posted on 10/26/2002 6:33:57 PM PDT by It's me
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To: TLBSHOW; ofMagog; Pippin; Scuttlebutt; COB1; Fred Mertz; humblegunner; Flyer; dix; beowolf; ...
Bump to show everybody that I know.


Stay safe; stay armed.


13 posted on 10/26/2002 6:35:23 PM PDT by Eaker
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To: TLBSHOW
Put on some Redman rap and light up some ganja wid 'em -- they'll talk.
14 posted on 10/26/2002 6:36:28 PM PDT by bvw
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To: aristeides
I heard there was one hole for the barrel, one for the scope.
15 posted on 10/26/2002 6:37:06 PM PDT by L`enn
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To: aristeides
A hole "the size of a coke can" wouldn't be large enough to accommodate the muzzle and sight path of the rifle described. Either two holes or a larger hole would be required.
16 posted on 10/26/2002 6:47:16 PM PDT by FreePaul
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To: L`enn
The headline should read: "Sniper Escape Bid...Malvo shot dead while trying to flee". Imagine how many disappointed Defense Lawyers there would be in the country tonight.

17 posted on 10/26/2002 6:49:29 PM PDT by outpost44
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To: Eaker
I carry a Bersa .380..mine is the black matte finish.

Armed Citizen

HINT LADIES it fits small hands really well.

18 posted on 10/26/2002 6:51:52 PM PDT by GailA
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To: aristeides
Yes....let's hope the police have wised up....but the scary thing is other Islamiscist cells have also probably "wised up." They've been given a lot of information....
19 posted on 10/26/2002 6:54:49 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: TLBSHOW
"If he'd been stopped at that time, a lot of people would be alive who are now dead."

Here come the "IF ONLYs".

20 posted on 10/26/2002 7:13:01 PM PDT by slimer
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