[RedBloodedAmerican]

I remember when this story first broke, you said it was a muslim in a suicide flight, and you took heat for it. If I recall, didn't you also point out the military base as a possible target? Good call, good catch. Hang in there.

[TomGuy]

This also was around the time Shoebomber Reid was the lone nutcase with no connections to terrorism/al-Qaeda, etc, spin. [Of course, that, too, proved wrong later. He was very connected with terrorism/al-Qaeda.]

[OldFriend]

We all knew he was a terrorist sympathizer.......intent on harming America.

[snopercod]

Another example of how AP and the other media want to keep up the drumbeat against private flying in the U.S.

Regardless of the physics of the matter ( a fully-loaded Cessna 150 weighs 30% less than a Volkswagen beetle), they continue to scare people about the threat of "little planes".

They just can't stand freedom - which personal flying represents.

[ewing]

He's just a harmless depresssed high school boy! (with a Muslim extremist Dad, and has just converted to the Islamokazi faith)

[VaBthang4]

"Bishop's family blames his suicide on the acne drug Accutane and has sued the drug's makers for $70 million."

ROTFLOL!! Classic.

[aristeides]

If I'm not mistaken, MacDill Air Force Base is the headquarters of the Armed Forces Special Operations Command, which had just played a major role in the fighting in Afghanistan shortly before this boy went on his fatal flight.

[floriduh voter]

The kid was arab but changed his name. He was flying over MacDill Air Force Base where they could spot him from the control tower and on radar. He was at Central Command but turned due northeast to fly into a building that I used to temp in.

Maybe he realized there was nothing tall to crash into at Central Command and decided he needed to find a skyscraper instead. That's my theory.

It's lucky for the ATTORNEY who occupied that corner office that he stopped working to grab some lunch. We need all the trial attorneys alive and well so they can donate to Candidate Edwards. Trial attorneys are his base.

[SarahW]

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:7tGKg47xLXAJ:www.madcowprod.com/index15.html+Charles+bishop+bishara&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Despite the slightly hysterical, "LA Confidential" style,
I enjoyed reading this little background piece on Bishop.

Dad might not be so small time, and have waht are now called "Palestinian" sympathies to boot.