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Sources: Virginia Tech gunman left note
Chicago Tribune ^ | April 17, 2007 | Aamer Madhani

Posted on 04/17/2007 8:55:01 AM PDT by 3AngelaD

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The suspected gunman in the Virginia Tech shooting rampage, Cho Seung-Hui, was a troubled 23-year-old senior from South Korea who investigators believe left an invective-filled note in his dorm room, sources say.

The note included a rambling list of grievances and ended with the words "Ismail Ax" in red ink on the inside of one of his arms.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antidepressant; antidepressants; democratunderground; du; duer; dummy; ismailax; shooter; vatech; virginiatech; vtech
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To: Frank_Discussion

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421 posted on 04/17/2007 2:07:02 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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To: 3AngelaD; All
I predict that this writing on the arm will turn out to be:

ISMAIL AK

NOT

ISMAIL AX

See posts 197, 210, 214, 225, 234, and 242 on this thread:

Killer's Note: 'You Caused Me to Do This'

This is an angle the investigators need to pursue with the school's counseling service, the killer's computer, and Dr. Ismail Ak himself.

422 posted on 04/17/2007 2:07:46 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (You've got Ismail!)
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To: Charles Henrickson

For the shoppers among us, AX means Armani Exchange, a nice little boutique in Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus where they sell ready-to-wear Armani and where I have picked up a few favorites.


423 posted on 04/17/2007 2:09:46 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: Frank_Discussion

http://flickr.com/photos/eldarossell/203788467/


424 posted on 04/17/2007 2:10:30 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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To: ctdonath2

I’m just saying that the whole collection of things:

1. “Ismail Ax” on his arm.
2. A pic of fella who looks a LOT like him on a blogsite.
3. Links to that blog site referencing “Ismail ax”.
4. Lots of Moroccan content via those same websites.
5. His rants in his letter re: “debauchery”, etc.
6. He lived in the middle of an Islamic area of Virginia. (Home not his dorm)
7. Impressive shooting skills and the willingness to extend the carnage past his erzatz “girlfriend”.

It makes for a complex picture, and coupled with known active recruitment on college campuses to join Islam, using “party culture”, it seems worthy of more sertious thought.


425 posted on 04/17/2007 2:12:16 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Cold Heat

I did a search on Dogpile for “Ismail Ax and Literature”. One thing I found was this page (a must read in itself!):
http://www.latinodawah.org/newsletter/jan-mar2k6.html


426 posted on 04/17/2007 2:12:31 PM PDT by GOP_Thug_Mom (libera nos a malo)
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To: penowa

Maybe we need to be more selective as to who is allowed to enter our colleges from other countries.


427 posted on 04/17/2007 2:14:46 PM PDT by stopem (God Bless the U.S.A the Troops who protect her, and their Commander In Chief !)
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To: 3AngelaD

Has a lot of hallmarks of schizophrenia.


428 posted on 04/17/2007 2:16:33 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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To: Frank_Discussion

He doesn’t live in the middle of an islamic area of DC. There are tons of foreign born people all over the VA suburbs. Centerville is no more islamic than any other suburb.

My parents still live there.


429 posted on 04/17/2007 2:17:28 PM PDT by pa mom
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To: Cold Heat

That’s interesting. It could be the standalone reason for the writing on his arm, or it could be something he thought was witty when applied to the acts he was committing under other’s direction.

I just don’t know. Any way you look at it, the guy was sick.


430 posted on 04/17/2007 2:17:39 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: GOP_Thug_Mom
Gawwwd....

Latino/American Muzzies....LOL!

431 posted on 04/17/2007 2:17:45 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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To: GOP_Thug_Mom
The middle guy in the last picture on this page is referred to as "Ismail Ax", and looks a lot like the guy in the first picture on this page (which also comments on being part of the "AX" group), who looks identical to the shooter. That's a significantly short, precise, easily-found and unique link between an odd phrase scrawled on the shooter's arm and a photo of his [former] face.

In contrast, a lot of people are scouring the Web for a TROP connection, having to address cross-language spellings, old literary texts, obscure unrelated authors, and presume connections between arguably different words - a lot of work to make a very tenuous connection.

BTW: "Ishmael" in Arabic isn't "Ismail", it's "إسماعيل" (English, Arabic and Hebrew use radically different alphabets, so theories based on spelling differences are misguided).

432 posted on 04/17/2007 2:18:46 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: Frank_Discussion
No question that he had serious issue with the culture here.

Angry, hate filled and apparently out of touch with reality is my guess.

433 posted on 04/17/2007 2:19:07 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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To: GOP_Thug_Mom

The Latino Muslim Voice! Great, there are now two hell holes that they can return to, their ancestral hell hole, or their spiritual hell hole. If this country is so horrible, why don’t they return to one or the other.


434 posted on 04/17/2007 2:19:24 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: pa mom

I could have sworn I saw more than one reference to him being in a particularly islamic area, physically surrounded by many islamic neighbors.


435 posted on 04/17/2007 2:19:50 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: wideawake
Is this the one you are reading?
436 posted on 04/17/2007 2:20:58 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Frank_Discussion

Your #6 is new to me, and interestingly pulls 5-7 together. Keep going!


437 posted on 04/17/2007 2:21:20 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: Cold Heat

Aye.


438 posted on 04/17/2007 2:21:43 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: wideawake

Sorry, that meant to go elsewhere.


439 posted on 04/17/2007 2:21:54 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Frank_Discussion

You don’t have to apologize for the obvious connections. The Ismail Ax points directly at Islam. This is supposed to be the FREE exchange of ideas.

Maybe we should all stay with the gun crazed right wing paramilitary connection the clintons always focused on. Until were sure he’s not Mooselip it should be in the mix.

Pray for W and Va Tech


440 posted on 04/17/2007 2:23:16 PM PDT by bray (The Surge is Working against both enemies of America)
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