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Posted on 10/10/2002 9:18:38 PM PDT by kattracks
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. -- Some profiling experts are convinced that the roving sniper who has terrorized my neighborhood and surrounding communities is a white male.
-- Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist at New York University Medical Center, described the shooter as "white, male, single, 20s-30s . . . (with a) longtime fascination with hunting and shooting."
-- Chris Whitcomb, former FBI hostage rescue team member, told NBC's Katie Couric that "statistically, it's going to be a white male, and it's going to be a young person, young 20s emotionally, but also because that's the age most likely statistically somebody's going to commit a crime like this."
-- Brian Levin, the director of something called the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism in San Bernardino, Calif., stated confidently that the killer "is kind of a wallpaper white male, a disenfranchised, disrespected man who's getting back at society. That's one of the reasons he's kept his distance from inner D.C., where he might lose his cover."
The media immediately embraced the Angry White Male theory by sensationalizing the cops' questioning over the weekend of one Robert Gene Baker. Newspaper reports described him as "heavily tattooed" and "linked" to "militia and white supremacist" groups. The headlines screamed: "Supremacist Sought in Sniping Spree" and "Neo Nazi Named as Sniper Murders Suspect." But in fact, Baker was never a suspect and had no weapons on him at the time he was taken into custody for an outstanding auto-theft warrant.
The AWM theory remains a plausible one, of course. But it isn't the only one. You won't hear Katie Couric or Peter Jennings talking about it with their conventional-thinking experts, but there is a significant possibility that the sniper and the sniper's support system could be non-white Muslim extremists with ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
Consider: Al Qaeda training videos analyzed by the Army show Middle Eastern terrorists, armed with assault rifles, rehearsing combat scenarios involving ambushes, raids and sniper attacks.
Consider: James Ujaama, a black American Muslim convert, was indicted in August on charges of conspiring to help al Qaeda establish a terrorist training camp on a ranch in southern Oregon. According to one camp attendee, 10 to 15 members of Ujaama's Seattle mosque brought a large arsenal of weapons to the ranch for target practice. "I thought they would only use rifles, but they were pulling out AK-47s, pistols and other assault rifles, enough for everybody and then some," the camp attendee told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Drills included both close-range and long-range shooting.
And consider: Just before the killings in the Washington, D.C., area began, federal authorities arrested members of a suspected terrorist cell in Portland. Their cache of weapons included semi-automatic pistols, a Chinese SKS 7.62 assault rifle, a 12-gauge Remington 870 shotgun, and a 30.06 rifle with scope, which they shot off at a private quarry in Washougal, Wash. According to Skamania County Deputy Sheriff Mark Mercer, the alleged cell members held target practice shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
An unindicted co-conspirator of the terrorist cell, Lebanese-born Ali Khaled Steitiye, was arrested in Portland last October after attempting to buy an assault rifle illegally. Federal agents found several weapons and 1,000 rounds of .22-caliber ammunition in his home (the same caliber used by the D.C.-area sniper), a calendar with Sept. 11 circled in red, and evidence suggesting a link to the terrorist organization Hamas.
One of Steitiye's alleged shooting buddies, accused Portland terrorist cell member and black Muslim convert Jeffrey Leon Battle, joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 2000 and was assigned to a military engineering unit in Oregon. He was discharged for desertion, but had already received basic Army training -- including instruction in firearms and ordnance use. The federal terrorism indictment against him charges that Battle joined the Army "in order to receive training in U.S. military tactics and weapons which he intended to use against the U.S. and in support of al Qaeda and the Taliban."
Many in the mainstream media are convinced that a "wallpaper white male" is responsible for the D.C. area sniper killings. But the faces of evil come in every color. We must be prepared for all possibilities, not just the ones that play into reporters' preconceived notions about hunters, soldiers, tattoos and guns.
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And you are statistically going to be robbed and/or killed by a "peoples" of minority(ness). Let's see 'em discuss that news flash on their liberal shows. No way in you know what...
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*GOT A TIP REGARDING THE SNIPER SHOOTINGS? Call the TIP LINE: 1-888-324-9800
*WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY REWARD FUND? Montgomery County Reward Fund, Office of the County Executive, 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, Maryland 20850
BBC.com: "GERMAN POLICE ARREST AL-QAEDA SUSPECT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "German police say they have arrested a Moroccan man suspected of helping an al-Qaeda cell involved in the 11 September attacks on the United States. Police arrested 29-year-old Abdelghani Mzoudi in the northern port city of Hamburg on Thursday, the Federal State Prosecutor said in a statement.") (101002)
PHIL STAR.com - THE PHILIPPINE STAR: "AL-QAEDA SETTING UP BASES IN CENTRAL LUZON, MINDANAO" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The al-Qaeda terror network has established training camps in key areas in Luzon and Mindanao, intelligence sources confirmed to THE STAR yesterday. The sources said the camps, located in Bulacan and Maguindanao, were set up over the past few months by Arab and Indonesian extremists.") (101002)
TOWNHALL.com: "DANGEROUS RESTRAINT" -Column by Thomas Sowell (Column Snippet: "President George W. Bush's speech on Iraq in effect reiterated what Edmund Burke said more than two centuries ago: 'There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.' Today, in a nuclear age, those words apply more strongly than ever.") (101002)
THE SUN.co.uk: "IRAQ HAS 'SUPERGUN'"(101002)
PHOTO ESSAY and DISCUSSION - TOPIC: IRAQ (100902)
FOX NEWS.com (AP): "ISLAMIC CHARITY HEAD CHARGED WITH FUNNELING FUNDS TO BIN LADEN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CHICAGO - The leader of a Chicago-area Islamic charity was indicted Wednesday on charges of funneling donations to Usama bin Laden's terrorist network, with Attorney General John Ashcroft vowing, "We will find the sources of terrorist blood money." Enaam M. Arnaout, 40, head of the Benevolence International Foundation, has been in federal custody since April.") (100902)
DETROIT FREE PRESS: "FARRAKHAN SAYS BUSH, NOT IRAQ IS A WORLD MENACE" (ARTICLE NOTE: Louis Farrakhan is the leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam.) (100902)
CNN.com: Badhdad, Iraq. "FARRAKHAN WARNS AGAINST U.S. ATTACK ON IRAQ" (070702)
CNN.com: Badhdad, Iraq. "FARRAKHAN VISITS BAGHDAD" (070602)
JERUSALEM POST.com: "SADDAM GAVE $15 MILLION TO BOMBERS' FAMILIES, WOUNDED" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Rafad Salim, head of the pro-Iraqi Arab Liberation Front in the West Bank, was responsible for transferring the funds.") (100902)
stepping back in time...SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON AMERICA!
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "U.S. SAYS AL QAEDA EXPLORING RUSSIAN MARKET FOR WEAPONS" by Bill Gertz (100802)
NewsMax.com - Hot Topics: "RUSSIA"
NY POST.com: "BEAT COPS KEEP EYE OUT FOR BOMBERS" (100702)
SEATTLE TIMES.com (KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS): "MAN CLAIMS 'DIRTY BOMB' STILL COMING" (100702)
KNOX STUDIOS.com (TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE): "THE LONG OPEN NORTHERN BORDER" by Sean Robinson, Tacoma News Tribune (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The list of suspected terrorists who have used Canada as their base of operations includes Ahmed Ressam, arrested at the Blaine crossing in December 1999 with a trunk full of explosives and a plan to bomb Los Angeles International Airport. News reports from Canada show other suspected terrorists tied to Canada include Armine Mezbar, an Algerian accused of having ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, and Nabil al-Marabh, who may have played a role in coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks.") (100602)
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD Online: "KHAT DRUG TRIAL SIGNALS A MAINE FIRST" (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as Abdigani Hussein, age 30.) (100702)
NATIONAL POST.com: "BANNED TERRORIST GROUPS HAVE AGENTS IN CANADA" by Stewart Bell (100302)
WorldNetDaily.com: "NEW AL-QAIDA TRAINING TAPE SHOWS ANOTHER SIDE OF TERROR Captured Video Reveals Plans for Home Break-ins, Killing Police, Drive-bys, Golf Course Assassinations" by Joseph Farah (090402)
INSIGHT On The News online: "SCHOOLS VULNERABLE TO TERRORIST ATTACK" by Timothy W. Maier and "CRIME IS NO STRANGER TO COLLEGE CAMPUSES" by Wade-Hahn Chan (081902)
TOWNHALL.com: "TERRORISTS AT OUR UNIVERSITIES" -Column by Ben Shapiro (091902)
CAMPUS-WATCH.org
COLLEGE BRIEFING.org
OREGON LIVE.com: "WAR ON TERROR"
THE STAR.com.my - Malaysian News: "SUSPECTED TERRORIST SURRENDERS AND IS LIKELY TO BE DEPORTED" (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal.) (100802)
*** WWW.FBI.GOV: Portland, Oregon. "FBI's JOINT TERRORISM TASK FORCE ARRESTS FOUR ON TERRORISM CHARGES; TWO OTHERS WHO WERE INDICTED ARE NOW FUGITIVES" (PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "United States Attorney General John Ashcroft announced today that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and members of Joint Terrorism Task Forces have arrested four people on charges of aiding and, in some cases, trying to join Al-Qaida fighters. Joining Mr. Ashcroft were FBI Director Robert S. Mueller and United States Attorney for the District of Oregon Michael Mosman. FBI Special Agent in Charge Charles Mathews III, joined by members of the JTTF, made the announcement in Portland, Oregon. On Thursday, October 3, 2002, a federal grand jury in Portland, Oregon, indicted JEFFREY LEON BATTLE aka Ahmad Ali and Abu Isa, PATRICE LUMUMBA FORD aka Lumumba, AHMED IBRAHIM BILAL, MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM BILAL, HABIS ABDULLA AL SAOUB aka Abu Tarek, and OCTOBER MARTINIQUE LEWIS aka Khadijah. An indictment is a formal method of bringing charges, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. All six people face the following charges: * Conspiracy to Levy War Against the United States * Conspiracy to Provide Material Support and Resources to Al-Qaida * Conspiracy to Contribute Services to Al-Qaida and the Taliban BATTLE, FORD, AL SAOUB and A. BILAL each face a fourth charge: * Possessing Firearms in Furtherance of Crimes of Violence FBI agents and the Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force took BATTLE, age 32; FORD, age 31; and LEWIS, age 25, into custody at approximately 6:00 a.m. today. BATTLE and LEWIS were arrested at their home located at 9871 SW 35th, #32, Portland. FORD was arrested at his home located at 3132 SW Marigold, #15, Portland. Simultaneously, the Detroit FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested MUHAMMAD BILAL, age 22, in Dearborn, Michigan. All arrests were without incident. AHMED BILAL, age 24, and AL SAOUB, age 36, are fugitives, and efforts are underway to locate them.") (100402)***UPDATE: HABIS ABDULLA AL SAOUB is still wanted. (101002)***UPDATE: AHMED BILAL has surrendered.***
YAHOO! News PHOTO OF JAMES UJAAMA'S MOTHER (AP PHOTO via YAHOO! NEWS Photo Caption: "Peggie Thompson, whose son, James Ujaama, is jailed at SEATAC Detention Center in Seattle on charges of supporting terrorism, speaks to a crowd gathered at Seattle's Volunteer Park, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2002. Anti-war activists marched from the park to downtown Seattle on Sunday for a demonstration against U.S. military strikes in Iraq. (AP Photo/Jim Bryant) ") (100602)
SEATTLE PI.com - SEATTTLE POST INTELLIGENCER: "UJAAMA IS DENIED HIS RELEASE" by Sam Skolnik (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as James Ujaama.) (100202)
PHOTO ESSAY and DISCUSSION (100702)
BBC NEWS: "INQUIRY LAUNCHED INTO YEMIN BLAST" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The owners of the tanker, Euronav, say they believe their vessel was deliberately rammed by a smaller boat. "In my opinion, this was a terrorist attack," Euronav director Jacques Moizan said. "The crew saw a high-speed vessel approaching on the starboard side. "An explosion followed with fire." All but one of the eight French and 17 Bulgarian crew members have been accounted for and many of them have been taken to hospital.") (100702)
YAHOO! NEWS - FULL COVERAGE: "EXPLOSION IGNITES FIRE ON FRENCH OIL TANKER OFF YEMEN" (AP SNIPPET: "(AP) - An explosion and fire engulfed a French oil tanker on Sunday off the coast of Yemen, and the tanker owner said a small boat struck the vessel in a "deliberate attack."...)(100602)
stepping back in time: OCTOBER 12, 2000: ATTACK ON THE USS COLE
GULF NEWS.com: "SONS OF YEMENI SPEAKER ARRESTED" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The press office of Yemeni Parliament Speaker, Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein Al Ahmer, has confirmed that two of his sons are in custody for the shoot-out which took place near the British Embassy last Sunday. "Sheikh Abdullah regrets for what was circulated by media about the incident. Fallasies, exaggerations and lies have been circulated by some sick people," said a press release issued by the office.") (100302)
FOX NEWS.com: (AP): "YEMENI STUDENT SUSPECTED OF AIDING HIJACKERS SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS" (ARTICE NOTE: The Yemeni student is identified as Mohdar Abdullah, age 24, a former San Diego State University student. ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Abdullah, 24, acknowledged that he lied when he told an immigration officer that he entered the United States on Dec. 7, 1998, at New York on an Italian passport. In truth, he entered three days later from Canada on a Yemeni passport. The sentencing did not address the explosive allegations made in court documents that investigators suspect Abdullah helped three Sept. 11 hijackers who lived in San Diego in 2000.") (100202)
MIAMI.com - THE MIAMI HERALD: "JORDANIAN NABBED IN HOLLYWOOD" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Federal authorities arrested a Jordanian national possibly linked to Mohamed Atta, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, at a Hollywood train station early Thursday. Mohammed Amin, who sources say has a dozen aliases, was arrested as he boarded an Amtrak train with a ticket to Palatka, a town of 10,000 people 60 miles south of Jacksonville.") (100502)
SCOTSMAN.com: "GERMAN POLICE SMASH ISLAMIC TERRORIST CELL" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "POLICE in Germany say they have smashed a university-based Islamic terrorist cell plotting attacks against US military installations and Jewish groups. Police say the cell included students at the Brandenburg Technical University in the eastern German city of Cottbus. They believe it would have been operation in two months’ time.") (100702)
BBC NEWS: "TERROR SUSPECTS ARRESTED NEAR ROME" (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspects were identified as 3 Egyptians between the ages of 30 and 45. ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Italian police have arrested three Egyptians suspected of planning attacks on the US War Cemetery in Anzio, Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport and fast food outlets. Explosive material and maps highlighting the Nettuno American Cemetery and Memorial were found in the flat of one of the three detained, a police official told Italian radio. "We have seized some TNT and a gun..."") (100502)
DAILY STAR.com.lb - Lebanese News: "POLICE DISCLOSE NAME OF SAUDI ARRESTED FOR LINKS TO AL-QAEDA" (ARTICLE NOTE: The Saudi man is identified as Ismail Dafaa.) (100702)
ALERT NET.org (REUTERS): "MAN SENTENCED TO 58 MONTHS IN FLORIDA BOMB PLOT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Florida man who plotted to bomb electrical power substations and a National Guard armory in south Florida was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison by a federal judge on Friday, officials said. Shueyb Mossa Jokhan, 24, was sentenced to 58 months by U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas in Fort Lauderdale, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's office.") (100402)
CNS NEWS.com: "RICHARD REID PLEADS GUILTY; JOHN WALKER LINDH SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS" by Daniel Guido (100402)
FOX NEWS.com (AP): "OFFICIALS BLAME ABU SAYYAF FOR AMERICAN SOLDIER KILLED IN PHILIPPINE BLAST" (ARTICLE NOTE: 1 American Green Beret killed and 25 others injured (including another Green Beret. The weapon was a nail packed bomb. ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The explosion occurred in Zamboanga, where security already had been tightened in advance of an Oct. 12 Christian festival in the middle of the sprawling archipelago's southern Muslim heartland. The Green Berets, based at Camp Enrile, were part of a U.S. contingent of about 260 personnel deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, which has helped train the Philippine military to fight the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf gang, notorious for kidnappings and beheadings.") (100302)
NTM.org - Special Report: "THE BURNHAMS"
ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES SPOKESPERSON UNIT: "SENIOR PALESTINIAN JUDGE SUPPORTS SUICIDE TERROR ATTACKS"
WORLD TRIBUNE.com: "HOW TO BOMB THY NEIGHBOR: HAMAS OFFERS ONLINE 'ACADEMY'" (100302)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Opinion Editorial: "A QUESTIONABLE CONSUL" by Joel Mowbray (100302)
TOWNHALL.com: "LOOK WHO SUPPORTS AMIRI BARAKA" -Column by Michelle Malkin (COLUMN SNIPPET: "Amiri Baraka hates America. Yet, in the land of the free that he despises so deeply, this black nationalist writer has had no trouble finding fellow Americans to show him love.") (100202)
IDF.il Spokesperson's Unit: "PALESTINIAN ASSOCIATION: WE WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO PHOTOGRAPH ARMED CHILDREN" (082602)
A Closer Look at Terrorists..."PSYCHOTIC DEATH CULT PHOTO ALBUM"
YAHOO! News - Photo Gallery: "Suicide Bomber" (NOTE: Click on any of the numerous thumbnail photos to get THE BIG PICTURE.)
GOOGLE - Search Term: "HOMICIDE BOMBERS"
Discussion Forum - Topic: "Jihad in America"
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Actually, I think that you'll find that the younger the criminal who goes on such a killing spree, the more shots are fired in each encounter. Firing discipline (e.g. one shot = one kill) is not associated with the very young.
Moreover, this particular killer is strictly limiting her (oops, his) victims to one person per encounter, rather than taking in more than one target of opportunity.
That's two facts, not conjecture, that point towards strict training in this person's background.
Serious mistake by the author, would have been caught already in this thread if the author's political agenda didn't match most of FRs :-)
.22 ammo and .223 ammo are very much different.
There are many well-founded reasons to have this opinion but I think if it turns out that this Sicko is a Muslim Terrorist it will be carefully reported in "read between the lines" PC terms.
It's a bit late here on the east coast, right here in the sniping state of Merryland. But that comment above left me laffing because darn if that doesn't seem to be the assertion.
Though when you think about it, all of the famous snipers were white males. Not that I know of a single famous sniper but the movies, you know.
It's been rainy all day here in Merryland. I knew as soon as I awoke this morning that there would be no shootings today. I knew it in my bones. Which means I've been living too long here in sniper alley and have oddly formed a sort of communication with the killer.
Today as I rounded the bend to my house I noted a big white cube truck parked a few houses down from mine. I immediately decided I would get directly in front of my car upon exit. The idea was that the car would provide protection while I eyed up this unusual truck in my neighborhood, deciding if it was a bonafide delivery vehicle or just what was up.
So I stood in front of the car but realized to my chagrin that the entire upper torso of my body was still completely unprotected and subject to sniper fire. I then crouched down in front of the car's grill and pretended to be petting my dog eager to greet me but still on the other side of the fence. I heard the cube truck start up so I remain crouched until it passed by. The dog thought I was nuts because why don't I come into the yard already and stop this nonsense of trying to pet a dog head through a chain link fence.
Yeah I felt a little silly but ponder now why. Of course it's only us citizens being targeted, citizens who carry this country on our backs, mowing our lawns, going to work, tanking up on gas for the next day's commute. And like 9/11, we are once again the soldiers in this war yet have no proper training.
The politicians are having some fun what with Governor Spendenning calling the perp a "coward" which left us all, um, underwhelmed.
Ah well......remember this...no snipers on rainy days. You are free to roam around now.
That wasn't the only one.
Chinese SKS 7.62 assault rifle,
SKS is not an assault rifle, nor even an assault weapon. Aside the bayonet lug, it's a very plain vanilla looking semi-auto carbine fireing an intermediate power catridge, about the ballistic equal of the venerable 30-30 lever action deer rifle catridge (yeh I know their are bolt action 30-30s too, probably break action and maybe falling block too for all I know, but it's most commonly associated with "cowboy style" lever actions)
The SKS, in it's original and most often seen form, doesn't even have removable magazine, one of the requirements to be an "assault weapon". It has a wood one piece stock, just like mnay hunting rifles of old.(aside from the gas tube cover that is) althoguh it can of course be equiped with a more modern plastic or composite stock.
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