Posted on 04/17/2007 6:39:31 AM PDT by starlifter
Va. Tech Gunman Named
By Michael Shear and Debbi Wilgoren Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, April 17, 2007; 9:36 AM
Virginia Tech officials today identified the Virginia Tech student who killed 32 people and then himself on the Blacksburg campus yesterday as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui of Centreville.
Cho was a South Korean native who had immigrated to this country, the university announced on its Web site this morning. He was a senior majoring in English, and lived in a dorm on campus, officials said.
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There are around 200 in total, so which ones make your point? Or is it the article?
I don’t know why you pinged me to this thread, but please don’t. Is it not obvious who the thread was originally about? Of course it is. Bait someone else. It looks like there are still troublemakers here posting loads of fun for the morons at the DU to quote. This thread should have been deleted long ago. At least many the comments I was referring to were deleted.
Apologies Admin, this is not the thread I was referring to.
Every other person that replied to that post
saw it for what was. A JOKE.
Why can’t you?
You've already gotten some comments on the other thread, but at the time the post on this thread was written, for which your response was a reply had not gotten to Vision's posts yet. All there was was a question for which posts you were referring to (obviously Vision's).
JUST POINTING OUT that your post could have been an actual statment.
JUST POINTING OUT that your post could have been an actual statment.
See post #393
pal? Lots of class you have, do you call your sister or other females pal?
You have been on a roll all night. Give it a rest.
Isn’t Ishmael the progenitor of what would eventually become the Muslim world?
He was also the son of Hagar, Sarah’s handmaid. In the book of Genesis, Hagar was sent away with the young Ishmael, and almost died from lack of water, when it was revealed to her by an angel.
It’s got lots of levels of meaning that could be built up.
In the Islamic story, it was Ishmael who was set to be offered up, but God wouldn’t let the knife cut him.
Ishmael is rejected. Or, Ishmael is the true favored son. (counting on your POV)
Ishmael in Moby Dick is the last survivor.
There is also a sect of Shia Islam that are called the Ismailis, because of a dispute about the succession of who should be Imam. Ismail was the son of the 6th Imam, who died before his father (or was sent into hiding and declared dead to protect him). I read something about the Assassin sect during the crusades being Ismailis. The Druzes trace back to this as well from what I understand.
There was Ismail Pasha, involved with the Suez Canal and the moving Egypt into modernization in the 1800s.
There was the Shah Ismail, around 1500 in Iran.
A couple of interesting Wiki disambiguation pages
For Ishmael:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_%28disambiguation%29
For Ismail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_%28name%29
Lots of speculation.
I speculate he preferred playing a middle eastern character on Battlefield 2.
Occam’s razor, and all that.
Obviously, you still don't realize that the question posed, was simply a question. You didn't give any particular posts, just a link to the entire article which had around 285 posts in total. The question was asking which ones in particular you were referring to. The question was rather straightforward.
At least one of those killed was another of East Asian descent (Chinese), though he could have selected non-Koreans.
And he was on the right age - early to mid-20s. Since the note left behind hasn't been released in full, there is no way to tell if he discusses delusional beliefs, but it does seem that he had elaborate beliefs about being persecuted by certain groups.
There may end up being no further explanation than that he was a young man with a major illness who should have been prescribed medication or institutionalized long ago.
The person who really deserves our attention is Liviu Lebrescu, the 76-year-old Holocaust survivor and Engineering professor who threw himself in front of the shooter,yelling for his students to get out of the room. He managed to hold the gunman at bay, although he was shot five to six times, being killed. All the students survived, getting out the windows of the second-floor classroom, due to the Professor's sacrifice.
No No NO...you guys have it all wrong about the “Ismail Ax” thing...he actually wrote “1 small Ax” as a reminder to buy an axe for the killings, but apparently he couldn’t find one in time, so he just used the guns. ;-)
Seriously, though...did you guys read his scripts over at Smoking Gun? I think this guy was molested as a child. It would explain a lot.
Thoughts???
This unsubstantiated! Repeat: Unsubstantiated!
According to a Korean friend, Korean American papers are reporting that Cho’s parents have committed . Do we have anyone in the Korean community here who can confirm this rumor? My heart goes out to them regardless.
“Ismail Ax”, maybe ?
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