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To: a fool in paradise

Did he kill as many as this guy? And wasn’t that an accident?


268 posted on 11/09/2009 11:45:45 AM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

There have been several such incidents which were NOT “accidental”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omeed_Aziz_Popal

Omeed Aziz Popal is alleged to have intentionally struck 18 pedestrians with his black Honda Pilot SUV on August 30, 2006, and faces a murder charge and 19 counts of attempted murder.[1][2] Popal was 29 at the time of the attack. Several major news organizations have described his attack in the San Francisco Bay Area as a “rampage”.[3]

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The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Popal “was terrorizing the neighborhoods near the Western Addition and Pacific Heights”,[8] and KTVU reported that a woman at the scene of the arrest heard Popal say “I’m a terrorist, I don’t care.” A second witness confirmed the first’s account.[9][10]

Popal’s rampage ended in front of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, where the final two victims were struck.

However, within hours of Popal’s arrest, police asserted that there was no evidence of Popal’s intent to commit an act of terrorism.

Popal’s attorney, Majeed Samara, has described his client as “mentally ill”.[11] However, he provided no details. In contrast to his lawyer’s claims, one psychologist has said that “the mental disorder explanation is actually very weak,” and that it fails to account for this specific crime, which is exceptionally rare in the U.S.[12]

The media has noted the similarities between Popal’s case and that of Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an American citizen who intentionally struck nine pedestrians with his SUV on March 3, 2006, and was charged with nine counts of attempted murder. Taheri-azar was 22 at the time of the attack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Reza_Taheri-azar_SUV_attack

In March 2006, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born American citizen, confessed to intentionally hitting people with a sport utility vehicle on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to “avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide” and to “punish” the United States government. While no one was killed in the attack, nine people were injured (none seriously).

Shortly after the attack, he turned himself in and was arrested. He pled guilty to nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, and in 2008 was sentenced to 33 years in prison.[2]

In one letter, Taheri-azar wrote, “I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohamed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, who obtained a doctorate degree.”[3]


279 posted on 11/09/2009 12:11:20 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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