[aristeides]

They turned out to be a Black Muslim group who referred to themselves as the Death Angels. I think several of them were supposed to be released from prison in 2002 - that is, this year.

If any were released, I wonder where they are now. (Although the Haitian killed on Georgia Ave. last Thursday was black, and I suspect the 13-year-old boy in Bowie also is.)

[livius]

Many Black Muslim groups are reconciled with "mainline" radical Islam and now no longer are merely anti-white, but are simply anti anyone who is not Muslim.

The thing that interested me in the "Death Angels" is that, aside from their name, they also managed to avoid capture for quite some time, even though the group was composed of several people. They also made a specialty of going after vulnerable people (people washing their cars, women walking to the grocery store, etc.), because this made it clear that they had no mercy and were truly dedicated killers.

They started by using small handguns and even, if I recall, once used a machete. But in general their MO coalesced into shooting a random (and usually isolated) victim from their car and simply blending into the traffic again.

They did not, to my knowledge, ever issue a statement or taunt police, however. The fact that they got away with it for years - and even had the black community up in arms when a traffic stop was attempted after one of the killings - was probably taunt enough.

That said, I do wonder if when we talk about home-grown terrorists, we should be looking more closely at folks like this. I find it particularly odd that they were due to be released from jail in 2002 (although I don't know if they actually were).