SEATTLE TIMES.com: "11 NEW CHARGES FILED IN JEWISH FEDERATION SHOOTINGS; DEFENDANT PLEADS INSANITY" by Christine Clarridge (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Haq is accused of forcing his way into the secure Belltown offices of the federation on July 28 by holding a gun to the back of a 14-year-old girl. He carried two guns, court documents allege, and spewed anti-Semitic statements as he made his way through the office, randomly shooting people he encountered as some screamed and tried to escape or hide. The shooting came a day after the FBI had warned Jewish organizations nationwide to be on alert after Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon and al-Qaida's second in command urged that the war raging in the Middle East be carried to the U.S. Haq reportedly told operators in a 911 call during the shooting, "These are Jews. I want these Jews to get out."") (May 30, 2007, 11:20 am)
WorldNetDaily.com: "1 Dead, 5 Hurt in Seattle Terror" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Haq's father was a founding member of the Islamic Centre of Tri-Cities in Richland. He and his wife moved to Pasco three years ago. According to Chris Richey of Everett, Haq had been his neighbor until two weeks ago, when he abruptly moved. The landlady at their apartment told Richey Haq was going to Pakistan. Haq spoke often about guns and politics, said Richey, and didn't like President Bush. A law-enforcement source said Haq had a licence to carry a concealed weapon.") (July 29, 2006)
UPDATE:
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/357426_haq03.html
Last updated April 2, 2008 3:48 p.m. PT
“Half of prospective jurors in Naveed Haq trial dismissed”
By TRACY JOHNSON
P-I REPORTER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “One man thought whoever opened fire at the Jewish Federation offices was “an anti-Semitic, Islamic coward” and was fuming because the chaotic incident stranded him in downtown Seattle for hours.
Another believed the insanity defense was just something “put up by defense lawyers to get their client off the hook.”
Both men were kindly thanked for their time Wednesday — and then sent on their way — as attorneys began questioning potential jurors for the trial of Naveed Haq, a 32-year-old Tri-Cities man who is charged in the deadly July 2006 shooting.
Judge Paris Kallas plans to have 12 jurors and two alternates chosen before April 14, when the trial is expected to begin in King County Superior Court.
For now, 75 of the approximate 130 prospective jurors are being brought in to the courtroom individually to discuss thoughts on religion, mental illness or personal matters without their comments tainting the whole jury pool.
Of 13 who showed up Wednesday morning, the judge excused roughly half of them and will have the rest return for further voir dire next week.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1995304/posts?page=80#80
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/358980_jewishfed15.html
Last updated April 14, 2008 10:51 p.m. PT
“Jewish Federation shooting victims recall terror of that day
Victim describes terror at Jewish Federation”
By TRACY JOHNSON
P-I REPORTER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Burkum, now 16, was the first witness Monday against Naveed Haq, a Tri-Cities man accused of killing one woman and wounding five others inside the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s downtown offices.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Haq is accused of ranting about Jews, U.S. troops in Iraq and the situation in the Middle East, where Israel had been engaged in increasing violence with Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.
Ehlert told jurors Haq acted deliberately when he walked from office to office at the federation, shooting each woman he saw, and that he later told a detective he “came here today to do this.”
Pamela Waechter, the federation’s 58-year-old annual campaign director, was killed. Prosecutors say Haq shot her in the chest, chased her to a stairway and shot her again in the head.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He was saying that he “was an angry Muslim American, and he wanted to make a statement,” Stumbo said.”
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“Prosecutors to refute Jewish center defendant’s insanity claim”
By GENE JOHNSON
AP Legal Affairs Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The man accused of shooting up the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle two years ago, killing one woman and wounding five, was not insane but had a deliberate plan to make a blood-soaked political point, a prosecutor said Monday as the man’s trial began.
Naveed Haq, 32, of Kennewick, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of murder and attempted murder in the July 2006 attack, during which he walked through the Jewish center’s downtown Seattle office, ranting against Israel and the Iraq war as he fired, hitting some people at their cubicles and killing Pamela Waechter as she fled down a stairwell. If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
King County Deputy Prosecutor Erin Ehlert told jurors in her opening statement that Haq’s careful preparation belied his insanity claim. He made four trips to gun shops in the weeks beforehand and used the Internet to map the 227-mile trip from his parents’ home in Pasco to the center.
“He thought about what he did. He planned what he did,” Ehlert told the jurors.
Even when a police officer stopped him for a traffic violation minutes before the shooting, he and the officer had “a normal conversation in a normal tone of voice,” she said.”