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Tucson gunman may not have acted alone
Australian Broadcasting Commission ^ | 9 Jan 2010 | anon

Posted on 01/08/2011 7:47:21 PM PST by BlackVeil

Police believe that the gunman who shot a US congresswoman in an attack which left six dead and wounded 12 in the Arizona city of Tucson, did not act alone, the local sheriff said. ...believe Ms Giffords, who is out of surgery, was specifically targeted and say a suspicious package has since been found at her office.

Clarence Dupnik, sheriff of Pima County who is in charge of the probe into the attack, told a news conference authorities are seeking a second male in connection with the shooting.

"There's some reason to believe that he came to this location with another individual," he said.

Mr Dupnik said the gunman, who was arrested at the scene, "has kind of a troubled past, and we're not convinced that he acted alone".

He said the gunman had a criminal past and was unstable but not insane, adding that the man was not talking to police officers in custody.

YouTube videos posted in Jared Loughner's name contain strange semi-political ramblings about "mind control" and terrorism. ...

It has been revealed that Ms Giffords, who had previously been the target of threats and vandalism over her positions on healthcare and immigration, had been worried about a map on Sarah Palin's website.

Ms Giffords is one of 20 Democrats whose districts were lit up with gun sight icons on Ms Palin's campaign website last year because they had voted for US president Barack Obama's landmark health care bill.

The congresswoman worried at the time that the imagery might incite violence.

"The way that she (Palin) had it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district," Ms Giffords said.

"When people do that they've got to realise there's consequences to that action."...- ABC/AFP/Reuters

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: giffords; shooting
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To: BlackVeil

lazy-ass republicans

need to speak up and demand justice.

..................

reminder,
Fort Hood massacre.
over a year ago

obama’s response ... nothing


21 posted on 01/08/2011 8:02:35 PM PST by Talf
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To: BlackVeil

Beware of weed-smoking freaks.


22 posted on 01/08/2011 8:02:42 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: tuckrdout

Reflecting you sentiments, I posted this earlier today:

“When this thing broke I was listening to Jamie Colby on my XM Radio covering it for FOX News. All I can say is, this woman is F-ing stupid!

Did you guys listen or watch her interviewing the aid to Giffords? Good grief, Colby was pumping the crap out of her for unverifiable information! You could tell from Bret Bair’s analysis, he was trying to rein her in from speculating. Then these idiots in the media (FOX included) report that this Congresswomen had been killed...ONLY TO REPORT A SHORT TIME LATER THAT SHE WAS IN SURGERY!

These media outlets (including FOX) should be sued!

Our media is an abject joke!”


23 posted on 01/08/2011 8:02:54 PM PST by Artcore
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To: BlackVeil
What kind of firearms were used by the shooter?

24 posted on 01/08/2011 8:03:29 PM PST by I see my hands (How's that ballot box working out for you?)
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To: tuckrdout

And the first fact I want is: WHO TACKLED THAT GUY? >>>>>>>

According to one account. An aid to Rep Gabriella Gifford.


25 posted on 01/08/2011 8:03:33 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: BlackVeil

I’m wondering if this 50 year old dude wasnt some sexual “mentor” to Jared. I’m PURELY SPECULATING, but I go back to the DC shooter thing years ago that if I remember right was the same type of thing (older guy, younger guy, gay?)....
.
I think this guy was a wackadoodle and him possibly being gay had nothing to do with hit, but just speculating....


26 posted on 01/08/2011 8:05:46 PM PST by BallparkBoys (Rush is the Jack Bauer of American politics)
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To: tuckrdout

And there has been NO MENTION of any video from security cameras at the shopping center. I find that, in and of itself, odd. There are security cameras EVERYWHERE.


27 posted on 01/08/2011 8:12:03 PM PST by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport all illegal aliens. Americans demand those jobs back! Whooorah, Arizona!)
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To: Artcore

PBS reported that the congresswoman had been killed. Then they apologized for the error, and said that they had been misinformed BY THE SHERIFF. The same sheriff who says there is an accomplice.

I think he was so eager to see a right-wing plot killing a Democrat congresswoman that he just plunged right in a jabbered away without any idea what he was talking about.

Like many liberals, he evidently is not really concerned about knowing the facts. Instead, he wants to use this for his own political purposes, and the hell with the facts.

I wouldn’t trust a thing he says, without independent confirmation.


28 posted on 01/08/2011 8:13:09 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: I see my hands

The shooter used a Glock. What model I do not know.


29 posted on 01/08/2011 8:13:26 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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To: isthisnickcool
TY.

30 posted on 01/08/2011 8:16:26 PM PST by I see my hands (How's that ballot box working out for you?)
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To: BallparkBoys

Is the 50 year old “BoyBlue?”


31 posted on 01/08/2011 8:17:22 PM PST by Per-Ling
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To: I see my hands

“What kind of firearms were used by the shooter? “

I earlier today heard reporters stating emphaticly that the pistol used was reported to be an automatic pistol, not a simi-auto but a full auto one. More uninformed, uneducated B.... S.... from the overeducated idiots in the MSM.


32 posted on 01/08/2011 8:18:33 PM PST by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport all illegal aliens. Americans demand those jobs back! Whooorah, Arizona!)
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To: BlackVeil

why are lazy-ass republicans letting this
crisis go to waste?


33 posted on 01/08/2011 8:19:22 PM PST by Talf
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To: BlackVeil

Dupnik is an unprofessional idiot. I hope for their sake he loses the next election for sheriff.

The sheriff has already diagnosed the perpetrator as “unstable but not insane”. Presumably Dupnik must have been a psychiatrist before he became sheriff.

Just at a distant glance it seems to me that this shooter seems to be nutty as a fruitcake, and unlikely to be involved in a conspiracy with anyone else.


34 posted on 01/08/2011 8:20:02 PM PST by devere
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To: tuckrdout
Jared seems to be very politically motivated. He uses a whole bunch of left-wing code words and left-wing terminology.

He admires in his video of “Second Constitution” - a term used sometime by the left-wingers for the 14th Amendment, when they interpret it as allowing a complete federal control over individual states and unrestricted immigration.

He is against God and a dollar (talks about “new” currency and uses the phrase “I don't trust in God” - a statement clearly directed against the famous slogan).

He adheres to the “conscious dreaming” - a shamanic way of life away from the modernity. And he laments that Americans are not all “dreamers”

And, he also burned American flag.

35 posted on 01/08/2011 8:22:33 PM PST by alecqss
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To: BallparkBoys

Yes, I wondered about that. Other crimes show it to be a possibility. About the incident in general - I am waiting to hear the full story, but I posted this article for an update.


36 posted on 01/08/2011 8:22:54 PM PST by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil

According to fellow DemonRats in Tuscon he was under the direction and influence of the “Evil Tea Party”.


37 posted on 01/08/2011 8:23:11 PM PST by jongaltsr (It)
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To: FourPeas
Dupnik ("dipstick"?) pi**ed me off when he railed against talk radio and "some" TV shows, probably referring to Beck. As if Loughner really listens to them. Homo boy was influenced by Daily Kooks and the libtard media. If Sheriff Dipstick wants to rant against anyone, he needs to go after them and the Huffy-Puffy Post.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

38 posted on 01/08/2011 8:25:59 PM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: Cicero

I agree!

I just knew listening to FOX’s Colby that a retraction was going to be necessary later in the day for some misinformation by these di*kwads. Sad to say I was proven correct.

As you mentioned, there should be “independent confirmation” before these A$$wipes report that a person has died. Can you imagine her parents or husband, or any other family member hearing that she had died when she HADN’T?

The media needed a story (FOX’s COLBY is an idiot!), and the Left needed a boogeyman as you noted.

I’m so done with television and cable news! FOX is a joke anymore!


39 posted on 01/08/2011 8:26:09 PM PST by Artcore
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To: Artcore
Then these idiots in the media (FOX included) report that this Congresswomen had been killed...ONLY TO REPORT A SHORT TIME LATER THAT SHE WAS IN SURGERY!

The "killed" part was first reported by NPR. Everyone took it from them and ran with it.

40 posted on 01/08/2011 8:26:57 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (Giving back a little of what has been given to me: Proud monthly sponsor of FR.)
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