Posted on 10/08/2002 8:37:23 PM PDT by kristinn
WUSA-TV 9 News in Washington, D.C. reported in its 11 p.m. broadcast that police found a tarot card and a note to police at the scene of yesterday's sniper shooting of a 13 year old boy at Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Md.
The tarot card was the 'Death' card. The message said, 'Dear policemen, I am God."
Someone who taught ESL (english as a second language) to Arab students for a number of years told me that when she saw the blocky lettering on pictures of the anthrax envelopes it reminded her very strongly of her students lettering. I think the obvious is being overlooked in that case.
I didn't realize "Michael" was the Angel of Death or patron of seamen and mariners.
My middle name is Michael.I work on and in the water and have made it back in several times when by all rights I should have died.
Maybe I'll call Mom tomorrow and tell her thanks for giving me an edge. :)
CL,you might find some of the comments on this thread interesting from about #136 down.
About 5:20 pm Wednesday: window shot out at Michael's store in Northgate Shopping Center. no one injured.
About 6 pm Wednesday:Jim Martin, 55 year old White male shot at Shoppers Food Warehouse parking lot in 2200 block of Randolph Road (Glenmont Shopping Center). a program coordinator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a top notch professional and history buff with a unique sense of humor. Martin spearheaded the office adoption of a DC elementary school.
7:41 am Thursday: James L. Buchanan, a 39-year-old landscaper . Man shot while mowing a lawn at 11411 Rockville Pike (White Flint near intersection with Nicholson Lane). Buchanan was identified as the son of a retired Montgomery County police officer.
8:10 am Thursday: Premkumar Walekar, 54, was shot dead as he made his daily stop at a Silver Spring Mobil gas station. The cab driver from India leaves behind a wife, a daughter, and a son. Male cab driver shot while filling up at a Mobil station at the intersection of Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue. This guy worked for presidential cab.
8:37 am Thursday: Sarah Ramos, 34, of Silver Spring , Hispanic woman shot in head sitting on bench outside of the Post Office next to the Leisure World Retirement community in Silver Spring (on Rossmoor Road).a witness reported seeing a white van or truck speed from the post office parking lot.
9:58 am Thursday:Lori Lewis Rivera-- 25-year-old Lori Lewis Rivera who was gunned down while vacuuming her minivan at a gas station in Kensington Thursday morning. Woman shot in head at the Shell gas station at the intersection of Connecticut Ave and Knowles in Kensington.
9:15 pm Thursday: Pascal Charlot, 72, of Washington, DC, killed while standing on a street in the nation's capital. In Northwest Washington, The 72-year-old Northwest man was standing on Georgia Avenue just inside the distrcit line when he was struck by a sniper's bullet.
Michael's craft store-- On Friday afternoon, a 43-year-old woman who had been loading purchases from a Michaels craft store in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was hit by a bullet that pierced her lower back, exited her chest and came to rest inside her Toyota minivan. She was in stable condition Sunday in a Fairfax hospital.
Middle school At 8:09 a.m. Monday, a 13-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded outside a middle school in Maryland's Prince George's County.
I can't imagine them being able to even do that. The bullet is stressed by the force of the gases created when the round is fired, it's acted upon by the rifling, and then really gets beat up when it hits the target, and probably broken into two large pieces plus some small fragments. The shell casing is pretty pliable material, and the pressure of those gases forms the metal to conform to the chamber, probably eliminating any connection to the bullet. That's why fired cases have to be resized and sometimes trimmed before being reloaded.
Sounds like a Christian. A Muslim would have used "Allah."
2. Anthrax Latters: Death to America
a. Both the "sniper" and the anthrax perp contain a "Death" order
b. Same time of year.
c. Eastern Time zone
d. DC vicinty included in both scenarios.
e. Only a few deaths (One is too many)
f. Very well planned (No witnesses.
g. Headline News
h. Defense requires "all our resources" to be dispersed.
h. It's after the beginning of the school year (college age perp??)
i. Deaths are random.
j. It's headline news.
Many have changed their thoughts to domestic but let's put the emergence of the UBL tape as an event together with these similarities.
Sac
About 5:20 pm Wednesday: window shot out at Michael's store in Northgate Shopping Center. no one injured.
About 6 pm Wednesday:Jim Martin, 55 year old White male shot at Shoppers Food Warehouse parking lot in 2200 block of Randolph Road (Glenmont Shopping Center). a program coordinator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a top notch professional and history buff with a unique sense of humor. Martin spearheaded the office adoption of a DC elementary school.
7:41 am Thursday: James L. Buchanan, a 39-year-old white male landscaper . Man shot while mowing a lawn at 11411 Rockville Pike (White Flint near intersection with Nicholson Lane (in front of Bryant Automobile?). Buchanan was identified as the son of a retired Montgomery County police officer.
8:10 am Thursday: Premkumar Walekar, 54, Indian from India was shot dead as he made his daily stop at a Silver Spring Mobil gas station. The cab driver from India leaves behind a wife, a daughter, and a son. Male cab driver shot while filling up at a Mobil station at the intersection of Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue. This guy worked for presidential cab.
8:37 am Thursday: Sarah Ramos, 34, of Silver Spring , Hispanic woman shot in head sitting on bench outside of the United States Post Office next to the Leisure World Retirement community in Silver Spring (on Rossmoor Road).a witness reported seeing a white van or truck speed from the post office parking lot.
9:58 am Thursday:Lori Lewis Rivera-- 25-year-old Lori Lewis Rivera white female who was gunned down while vacuuming her minivan at a gas station in Kensington Thursday morning. Woman shot in head at the Shell gas station at the intersection of Connecticut Ave and Knowles in Kensington.
9:15 pm Thursday: Pascal Charlot, 72, african american of Washington, DC, killed while standing on a street in the nation's capital. In Northwest Washington, The 72-year-old Northwest man was standing on Georgia Avenue just inside the distrcit line when he was struck by a sniper's bullet.
Michael's craft store-- On Friday afternoon, a 43-year-old woman (race unknown?) who had been loading purchases from a Michaels craft store in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was hit by a bullet that pierced her lower back, exited her chest and came to rest inside her Toyota minivan. She was in stable condition Sunday in a Fairfax hospital.
Tasker Middle school At 8:09 a.m. Monday, a 13-year-old boy (race unknown)was shot and critically wounded outside a middle school in Maryland's Prince George's County.
While I think it must have been a tough decision whether or not to put the tarot card find out into the news, it may pull in some "very useful" tips. (Lessons from the Unibomber failure).
I'd say it's a 99% traceable commodity even if it was purchased off the web.
Sac
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