Maryland Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary

Fox News, CNN | October 10, 2002 | Fox News, CNN, Press Releases

[Peach]

To avoid multiple vanity threads regarding any news that comes from press conferences, let's keep a live commentary thread going again today.

[antivenom]

Pete check out the Michael's map at #439

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[Peach]

So far we aren't being a grouchy crowd for people who haven't had much sleep!

[bonfire]

Thanks, relee. good summation of conference.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Whatever this situation turns out to be, we can't forget that AQ has trained for just these sort of individual attacks, including attacks on golf courses, of all the unlikely places.

Absolutely! Just not this time, imo But I imagine at some point in the not so far future.

[bonfire]

A paneled van is one with no windows on the side? Like a florist truck?

[Sacajaweau]

Regardless of who, this is terrorism.

If it was happening in a different area, I'd score 10 extra points for a "couple of guys playing playing terrorist-like" games.. BUT... this is all around DC and I have to put the 10 points in a different column and speculate that there may be a whole group with the same mentality.

This is a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 etc...in a very short time span. Don't think it fits a couple of guys "playing terrorist". I don't care how good they are. It took a tremendous amount of planning.

Sac

[spunkets]

"Um, right?"

I wouldn't be so sure of that.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Check your mail

[Elenya]

Wound is to the upper part of the body.

That changes my speculation from last night. Then it still could be the same shooter as the one whose victims didn't die, except he got his first success. In that case, he would've shot from OUTSIDE the van, not inside like the other shooter whose victims were shot in the head.

I doubt the skilled shooter would've missed a shot to the head, unless he's getting nervous which could be a good thing. So if it turns out the shot was fired from inside the van, I'll have to seriously reconsider my theory...

[Peach]

Guardian who saved 13 year old boy the other day to be interviewed on Fox in a few minutes.

[relee]

Back in the late '80s, a friend of mine used to drive a white panel van and park wherever he wished. He always carried some orange cones. After parking illegally, he placed the cones out in front and back of his van and almost never got a ticket. They must have thought it was a utility van from the phone company or something.

[bonfire]

First we'll hear from a family member.

[valleygal]

"At least you didn't wander in the Arizona wilderness and talk to Jesus for three days."

Good thing; the last person that did that in June started half of the country's largest forest fire (with her signal flare). :)

[Deguello]

"This guy could be very sane, just wrong."

He may be more of a sociopath, just doesn't care.

[Elenya]

I like your screen name, even though you sound like you're tired of it. And yes, according to Dog, you can change your name and keep the date.

[Fred Mertz]

Decent summary.

The Attornery, Mr. Ebert, was asked about Maryland's moratorium on the death penalty. Ebert said that he couldn't speak for Maryland, but that he would use two possible VA statutes to pursue the death penalty - 1) two homicides within 3 years or 2) the Patriot Act with regard to terrorist actions.

Thanks for the summary; the Chief Deane did a decent job at the press conference as did Mr. Ebert.

[relee]

...I doubt the skilled shooter would've missed a shot to the head...

Would the head be considered part of the upper part of the body? How about the neck? Would it mean somewhere from the shoulders on down to the waist?

[bonfire]

Hospital conference. That poor boy in still in critical but stable condition.

[ET(end tyranny)]

I got about 2 hours of sleep Tuesday night, and have been up since 6am Tuesday.

[John_11_25]

This is a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 etc...in a very short time span. Don't think it fits a couple of guys "playing terrorist". I don't care how good they are. It took a tremendous amount of planning.

I agree. But what will happen when they catch these people. The government will not want to call them terrorists, so they might just disappear to Cuba and nobody will ever know.

Can you imagine the uproar and possible carnage that may take place in the US if they end up being muslims.