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Woman Shot Inside New Orleans Airport

Posted on 05/22/2002 4:30:01 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Breaking on Fox News Channel now


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To: unix
Meanwhile, airline pilots are not able to carry guns! I suggest the pilots adopt the military "don't ask, don't tell" policy and keep them on hand anyway!
41 posted on 05/22/2002 4:48:24 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: blam
Set that turban on fire--while he's still wearing it!!
42 posted on 05/22/2002 4:49:02 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: spunkets
In an airport? I thought they were banned there

Not only that, it was a sawed off shotgun. Late May in New Orleans is not coat wearing weather. He either burst right through the door blasting away or was in full Islamic regalia for the Airport Security not to notice....uhh wait, strike that last part...

43 posted on 05/22/2002 4:49:16 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: TheLurkerX
Like the MISSING 96 barrels of SODIUM CYANIDE in Mexico???

YES...that pisses me OFF too!

44 posted on 05/22/2002 4:49:39 PM PDT by antivenom
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To: Shermy
Lee told a gathering of reporters that the man said he fired because people in the airport were making fun of his turban. “That’s his story,” said Lee. “We don’t know what really happened.”

LOL - could be, but I doubt it. You're telling me in an urban area (especially freaky NO), adults actually behave like that? Oh and he also had a shotgun on hand to defend his sullied honor.

Good grief...

45 posted on 05/22/2002 4:49:57 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: princess leah
Yep. I think it's a crock that pilots can't be armed. Why do I have to be worried about them getting control of the aircraft? That's their job!!
46 posted on 05/22/2002 4:50:45 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: oc-flyfish
He was carrying a loaded shot-gun. Looks like he came there to kill people. Thank God for the person who tackled him.

sw

47 posted on 05/22/2002 4:50:58 PM PDT by spectre
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To: TheLurkerX
wonder why the AP article doesn't make any mention of that

They left out a couple of items. Shep Smith also said he was carrying a copy of the Koran and that he invoked the name of Allah.

48 posted on 05/22/2002 4:50:58 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: gitmo
"Thanks to Gun Control, everyone was safe."

Yep, and thanks to Magaw, Ridge and the rest of the benevolent bunch that keeps us safe, there were no armed pilots around that may have attempted to intervene, running up the casualty toll 10 times!

49 posted on 05/22/2002 4:51:01 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
That's my airport!!!!!
50 posted on 05/22/2002 4:52:52 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: all
I got bagged on for calling this a terrorist act. A turban-wearing fruitcake firing shots with a sawed-off shotgun at the airport is terrorism in my book!
51 posted on 05/22/2002 4:55:05 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Shermy
Huh? "Patrick Gott" was carrying a Koran wearing a turban? Aren't these nuts supposed to change their names to something Arabic when they convert to Islam? Geez, even Muhammad Ali and Johnny Taliban knew that!
52 posted on 05/22/2002 4:55:21 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: princess leah
The screeners are giving them the hardest time, they probably would if they could.
53 posted on 05/22/2002 4:56:10 PM PDT by StriperSniper
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Maybe, but it might just be fruitcake-ism.
54 posted on 05/22/2002 4:56:16 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: freeperfromnj
Shep Smith also said he was carrying a copy of the Koran and that he invoked the name of Allah

Yes -- a Fox News Alert, and they haven't mentioned it since. It's obviously more important to talk about Buddhist Monks threatening people with rifles, or whether Mike Piazza is gay, than someone getting shot in our oh-so secure airports.

55 posted on 05/22/2002 4:56:45 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
A few more details:

Man Opens Fire At Armstrong (Local NBC TV

KENNER, La. -- A woman was shot Wednesday at Louis Armstrong International Airport, and police are still trying to determine a motive and her relationship -- if any -- to the alleged attacker.

The suspect, Patrick Gott, 43, of Pensacola, Fla., is in custody.

Gott, who was wearing a turban and carrying a copy of the Quran, told investigators that he fired because people in the airport made fun of his headwear.

The incident occurred at 3:37 p.m., according to airport spokeswoman Michelle Duffourc.

Witnesses said the woman was approached as she stood in a ticket line near the Southwest Airlines and US Airways ticket counters by Gott, who pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and fired once, hitting her in the stomach.

An airline employee also reportedly was grazed by buckshot from the blast.

As Gott allegedly tried to reload, he was tackled by an airline employee and another man, who held him until police arrived.

"I thought it was an explosion," a US Airways employee said. "I went down, I got back up and I noticed this gentleman here -- the gunman, with a shotgun. He went to pump for a second time, the gun jams. He goes up with the gun to pump for a third time, and a customer jumps on him and then some other individuals got involved also."

The 45-year-old woman, whose name is not being released, was taken to Kenner Regional Medical Center, where she is in critical condition, a hospital spokesman said.

Because the shooting took place in an airport, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and Kenner police are being joined in the investigation by the FBI.

Duffourc said airport operations are returning to normal.

56 posted on 05/22/2002 4:56:47 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: oc-flyfish
some stupid cowboy with no brains

I don't know where you come from, Pilgrim, but here in Colorado, cowboys are pretty traditional. Most wear cowboy hats, one or two wear propeller beanies, but you'd never find one wearing a turban!

On a more serious note, good thing he short-stroked that pump gun, otherwise there would be a lot more injured and dead.

57 posted on 05/22/2002 4:57:06 PM PDT by white trash redneck
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"Let Me at Him !!!"
58 posted on 05/22/2002 4:58:05 PM PDT by The Turbanator
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To: Senator Pardek
New Orleans has become a magnet for stupid people. It's run by crooked small time crooks who use their skin tone to get elected and stay elected.
59 posted on 05/22/2002 4:58:22 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: freeperfromnj
Pardon my ignorance, but I thought Sikhs wore turbans. Muslims like Yasser and Prince Abdullah wear those tea towels with a cord around them.
60 posted on 05/22/2002 4:59:14 PM PDT by xJones
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