Descent into Evil (John Muhammad suspected of attack on US troops during Gulf War)

Newsweek ^ | Nov 4 2002 issue | Evan Thomas

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"...[John Muhammad] Williams’s unit was sent to Operation Desert Storm to clear mines and bulldoze holes in enemy lines. A few nights before the invasion of Iraq, Sergeant Berentson awoke in the early hours to find his tent, with 16 sleeping men inside, on fire. Someone had tossed in a thermite grenade. Berentson, who was fed up with Williams’s insubordination, immediately suspected Williams and told the Army’s Criminal Investigative Division. Berentson says he last saw Williams being led away in handcuffs. Williams’s military records make no mention of the incident; indeed, they suggest Williams had a distinguished gulf-war stint. But Berentson always kept Williams’s name and dog-tag number in his wallet. He says he was not surprised to see Williams’s face on television..."

Back to the current attacks:

"...A witness outside the Fredericksburg, Va., Michaels craft store, scene of a shooting on Oct. 4, reported a “dark-colored vehicle with New Jersey tags” leaving the scene. A woman calling the tip line on Oct. 7 said she had spotted a black man crouching beneath the dashboard in a dark Chevy Caprice. The woman was struck by the intensity of the man’s stare. The agent on the tip line brushed her off. “We’re looking for a white truck,” she said.

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Looks like this guy wanted to be a serial mass murderer! Similar M.O. to what terrorists would use in each case.

What does the UCMJ say about an American attacking U.S. forces during wartime? Would that be "premeditated unfriendly fire" or just treason?

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ping

[mondonico]

WHOA!!!

BTTT!!!!

[twigs]

I remember someone reporting a dark-colored vehicle after this attack, so some media must have reported it. Don't remember the NJ plates though. This really makes my angry. I can't believe that she was brushed off. Well, I guess that I can on second thought. Hope this case will change the ways that such investigations take place--without reducing our civil liberties!

[alisasny]

I heard other day he was court-martialed twice for insubordination resulting in a rank decrease.

[Grampa Dave]

spycaster, thanks for posting this. You have truly ruined my day.

If this SOB is guilty of this act, he has been sheltered from justice due to the PCing of our military. He deserves to be brought up on appropriate charges and tried in a military court and then shot when found guilty.

How many more Nation of Islam anti Americans have been in our military and are in it do damage to our good service people.

[sanchmo]

The agent on the tip line brushed her off. “We’re looking for a white truck,” she said.

Also a white man.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"The agent on the tip line brushed her off. “We’re looking for a white truck,” she said."

Why do they have a tip line if they don't take tips?

[riri]

How many convert to Islam while in the military. Particularly, how many converted during the Gulf War?

[Dog]

I saw a report over the weekend that said the day they caught those two illegals at the phone booth ...on one cable networks footage you can see the blue Chevy Caprice in the background.

[dd5339]

Ping

[Interesting Times]

Why do they have a tip line if they don't take tips?

Maybe it's like a push poll.

[spycatcher]

Incendiary hand grenade.

The radius of the burst is approximately 6 meters, but fragments of the plastic body occasionally fly as far as 27 meters. Effective portions of the agent may be carried as far as 75 to 100 meters downwind. Personnel using these grenades should wear protective gas masks.

Incendiary Grenades

The AN-M14 incendiary (thermite) hand grenade is cylindrical in shape and has a sheet metal body with emission holes in the top (fig. 12-4). It weighs 32 ounces and contains a filler of 26.5 ounces of TH3 thermite mixture. It uses an igniting fuze that sets fire to the thermite filler after the normal delay. The thermite filler bums for approximately 40 seconds at a temperature of about 4300°F. A portion of the thermite filler changes into molten iron that flows out of the grenade and produces intense heat over a small area. This molten iron ignites or fuzes whatever it touches. It is used to ignite combustible materials and to destroy all types of equipment. It burns through about one-fourth inch of steel and welds together steel or iron machinery parts when molten iron flows between them.

[Grampa Dave]

Those of us who knew the Black Racist POS PC Moose from his PC actions as Chief of Police in Portland, Oregon, said at the start of the sniping fiasco: That the good leads in the first day or two of the sniping were lost so they could pursue the white racists driving the white van Bravo Sierra.

You might want to go to the link to a thread I posted this past weekend on this issue: (Police spotted suspects' car 10 times during sniper spree (PC killed more innocents! link)

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Why do they have a tip line if they don't take tips?

Tax-payer funded overtime for the union workers.

The longer it goes unsolved, the bigger the paychecks.

Cha-ching!

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Why give them tips, anyway? According to Brother Muhammed, the service was quite lousy........

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In other words, the guys in the tent would all be dead. False report?

[kjam22]

I agree that it is bad the woman's tip was "brushed off". But the problem is that they had 70,000 tips and only a dozen or so were valid. So their brush off ratio of good tips to bad tips has to be pretty good. :)

Hindsight is always 20 20. Not long ago many here were complaining because not enough info was being released. No composite etc narrowing the search. Now we're complaining because they were looking for a specific vehicle.

[SarahW]

Lesson #1 -

Always report your tips to Free Republic or the press,
in addition to any tip line you might use.

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I haven't heard anyone, anywhere, describe these daring warriors as "Capricious."

Am I the first? If so, I hereby copyright the term and assign all rights to the Free Republic.... 8~#