So was this guy:
Posted on 10/04/2002 8:29:34 PM PDT by joesnuffy
HOMELAND INSECURITY 2 'Hispanics' sought in D.C.-area hunt Be-on-lookout alert describes shooters' race
Posted: October 4, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Paul Sperry © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
By Paul Sperry
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Police in the Washington suburb where five people were gunned down in two days are looking for two "Hispanic" men in the fatal shootings, according to a police bulletin that federal authorities shared with WorldNetDaily.
Montgomery County Police in press conferences have described only the gender, not the race, of the two suspects -- one a driver and the other the shooter.
The be-on-the-lookout, or BOLO, alert that local police sent out earlier today to all law enforcement agencies also described in detail the "white box truck" used by the snipers.
The six-wheeled vehicle resembles a commercial delivery truck, police say. The cab is smaller than, and separate from, the large box-shaped cargo area, which is completely enclosed. The rear passenger side of the bumper has been damaged. And there is block-lettering on the side and rear of the truck.
A Montgomery County Police spokesman confirmed that the BOLO describes the suspects in the sniper slayings as "Hispanic."
But he cautioned that they could be another non-white race.
"We do not count on them being two Hispanic males," said Officer Derek Baliles. "Appearances can be interpreted. We do not want to limit anything at all."
"It's possible," he added, that the suspects could be Middle Eastern.
He also cautioned that their eyewitness account of the suspects is not solid.
Baliles says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is examining bullet fragments in two other shootings to see if they are connected to the other five, which occurred Wednesday and Thursday.
A 72-year-old man Thursday night was shot to death on a Washington street corner. And a Virginia woman this afternoon was shot in the back at a crafts store. Her condition was not immediately known.
ATF ballistics experts have determined that a high-velocity rifle firing a .223-caliber bullet was used in at least three of the shootings. The bullet is used in hunting rifles and M-16s and makes a large wound as it enters the body.
The police spokesman says FBI profilers will put together a "word picture" Saturday morning to try to make sense of the unusual crime and come up with a possible motive.
Authorities are not ruling out terrorism.
Baliles says the Secret Service has assigned at least one agent to the case. The Office of Homeland Security and CIA are not involved, he says.
The shooters took very select shots of random strangers, and appear to be trained in marksmanship. All six victims who died were killed with a single shot, some apparently shot in the head, although Baliles would not confirm that.
Not true. They retrieved a bullet that entered a store through window. It landed by a book. My guess is they have a 55 grain FMJ. FMJ bullets are not frangible so it would not be distorted very much. Additionally 223 caliber bullets for high velocity cartridges fall into a very narrow range for weights. Hardly any commercial bullets are made in FMJ except for the 223. It is actually easy to tell what cartidge they are using, even if it was a HP or HPBT.
I guess I'm not normal.
Eaxctly! I think these shooters are Middle Eastern. Random slaying of innocents is exactly the kind of terrorism practiced by barbaric Islamic extremists. They are trained snipers.
I've never heard of trained, sniper Hispanic terrorists.
I've said it before. Our government is more afraid of what we will do to these bastards to tell us the truth.
Hispanics don't really have a recent history of terrorist attacks in the DC area, but arabs do. If Harry Truman was still in office, maybe hispanics would have been the most likely subjects, but this is a new century with a different threat. It would be much more reasonable to announce that two arabs are the subject of the hunt unless the intent is to bar arabs from any public suspicion.
This spokesman may as well have said nothing.
The training video shows al-Qaida operatives practicing the following kinds of assaults:
using pickup trucks with shooters concealed in the bed of the trucks;
using motorcycles as a shooting platform for drive-bys and assassinations;
execution of prisoners;
ambushes of law-enforcement officers;
residential assassinations;
assassination on a golf course using a rocket-propelled grenade and rifle fire;
drive-up kidnapping of target walking on a street;
use of tunnels, storm drains and sewers for infiltration during urban raids;
rappelling from rooftops of buildings to make entry on upper floors;
use of motorcycles for grenade attacks;
and raids on buildings with large numbers of occupants – perhaps schools or office buildings.
Analysts point out that all scenarios involving prisoners and hostages ended in execution. None included plans for negotiated settlements for escape by terrorists.
Islamic terrorist snipers who gunned down innocent people in Israeli settlements, markets, a university, etc. comes to mind. They are so cold blooded they shot a pregnant woman and her child. There was one case where an infant was shot in the head by a sniper. This may be the second wave. I believe the feds fear the worst as well, as evidenced by the immediate lock-down of the schools. The intelligence on attacking American schools came out at about the same time this terror spree started.
Colin Ferguson. Hey that is a white guy name. Maybe that's what drove the negroid complexioned man to mass murder. And I guess we ain't counting gang initiations, drive-bys, and shooting of happenstance passers-thru on drug dealer claimed streets. Not counting those for some reasons unknown.
Maybe in CVZ's stats he only includes white boys. That explains it.
So was this guy:
Took my words exactly.
I'm pretty po'd right now. This political correctness bullcrap is killing people. Politicians need to be shouted at, leo's need FReeped, etc.
Frickin' call a spade a spade, so to speak.
This is a terrorist incident, perpetrated by ME men, between 18 & 35. Looking for Hispanics is a waste of time.
How's an illegal, as opposed to a legal alien, going to pass the background check? I suspect they were legal. You don't have to speak English to be a legal resident. 8 years ago is just before the backcheck went into effect, IIRC. The courts have ruled that the group "the people" consists of more than just citizens, it inlcludes legal residents, and for some purposes (due process for instance), but not this one, even illegals.
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