Posted on 10/04/2002 3:38:51 PM PDT by RaceBannon
FRIDAY OCTOBER 4 2002
FBI: Maryland shootings fit no category Agency profilers can see no motive other than terrorism
Posted: October 4, 2002 3:10 p.m. Eastern
By Paul Sperry © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – It's not gang-banging. Or spree-shooting. Or armed robbery. And it's not a serial killer.
So what would motivate two assailants to randomly target five victims in a Maryland suburb, and possibly a sixth in D.C., killing each with a single shot from a high-powered rifle?
The calculated shootings, which took place Wednesday and Thursday, are like none that federal investigators have seen.
"If some sicko just wants to go out and essentially assassinate a bunch of random people – and he's not a terrorist – it's almost like a new category" of crime, said a veteran FBI agent.
The perpetrators aren't spree shooters, FBI profilers have concluded.
Typically, spree shooters are loners who snap one day and fire away until police appear and they come to their own violent end.
They typically seek revenge on an employer, such as the post office, or fellow students at a school. They come to the scene loaded with weapons, and take a stand, spraying victims with bullets.
But in this case, two men in a white van or "box truck" did not spray bullets, but picked targets, trained a rifle, or rifles, on their victims and aimed to kill, like trained assassins.
"In a spree shooting, there are usually a lot of people wounded," said one agent. "The shooter is not really taking time to aim."
"This is much more cold and calculated than the typical spree shooting," he said. "The victims were not wounded."
What's more, the sniper, or snipers, didn't take a stand, but sped off to avoid capture.
"This is different – they've taken great steps to avoid being apprehended," he added.
Authorities are said to have a description of the shooters but are not releasing it. They've reviewed video tapes from security cameras at some of the businesses where the shootings took place.
"The idea of terrorism is to spread fear," said one law enforcement officer. "If that's what they wanted to do, they've succeeded, because there's a lot of fear in the Washington area right now."
Related story:
Terror link to Maryland shootings? http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29178
Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily. © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
... Or they're both working at the same Eastern Oregon car wash.
I can't wait to hear the public service announcements.
Trying to strike terror into the hearts of U.S. citizens? The shootings were consistent with Al Qaida training tapes
One of the motives for attacking the WTC was to disrupt the US economy. For the past year, consumer spending has been propping up the economy. The attacks in Maryland and today in Virginia could have been designed to strike terror into the hearts of U.S. citizens as you said but it also could have been intended to keep them indoors and away from public places. I posted on another thread that I had been thinking for a while that such random and anonymous attacks would make sense as the next step. The impression will be that no place is safe.
If these attacks are the work of terrorists, I would expect to see similar attacks in other regions of the country. My guess (and it is only that) would be the suburban shopping areas around other large cities, say Chicago, St. Louis or Dallas.
If other such attacks do not occur or further attacks occur in the same corridor as the current attacks, I would chalk it up to an isolated group of individuals - terrorists or not.
Hmmm...
I wonder if that trigger-happy little sack of shit can account for his whereabouts during this event's time frame?
It wouldn't make any difference if you were walking around with a Tommy Gun if you get hit by a rifle from a distance without any warning. Most vests, the ones you can stand to wear all day long, won't stop rifle bullets either.
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Agreed. But let's say you are walking into you local Pizza Hut and you see a white box truck parked in the corner of the lot with one guy in the driver's seat and another guy poking the barrel of a rifle out the back. Might be nice to be carrying then.
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At the ranges these guys have been shooting at, you'd need to carry a Carl Gustav.
Would it matter? He'd have official immunity again, 100-1...
Just to clarify, I meant that someone who is not the target might spot the truck and perps while they are casing someone else. In that case, there may be opportunity to intervene.
So far, Islamic terrorists have not shown any high degree of skill in anything, except secrecy, subterfuge, deception, theft, fraud, cold-blooded murder and a willingness to die for the demonic Allah.
I definitely don't rule these shootings out as terrorism, but given that this perp is skilled in marksmanship, how many other Islamists with similar skills would you expect to find in other areas of the country?
People Against Goodness And Niceness?
My *guess* is what they meant was they were "one-shot-dead," rather than a bullet or two that was not fatal. But hey, I'm no 6-figure FBI expert!
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