Washington sniper vanishes after signature hits

ABC NEWSONLINE ^ | 10/14/02

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Chief of Police, Montgomery.

Thanks.

[jaybee]

Husband just thought up a new possibility--Work-release inmate who's in jail over the weekend.

I think that if this guy COULD do this on the weekend, he would have today, as an in-your-face to everyone who said he wasn't active then.

[cyberaxe]

.....that's a new one.....

.....might hold water.....

[www.corvettewave.com]

here are my comments made on another thread. just my $.02
God Bless these people and families.
The sharp shooter is simply showing that he is smarter than law enforcement agencies. for one reason or another he needs to prove that he is smarter. maybe he was turned down for a job, lost a job, etc. as far as being a "sniper" goes -- any farm boy, or hunter can make those shots with ease. i would guess that the white van is a part of the decoy being used. think about it, what better way to hide than to always make sure you have a white van around. there are thousands of these deliveries trucks on the street daily. i suspect he will never be caught, but will fade away after a final hit on a very important person as kind of a final signature.

[smoking camels]

Moose impressed me as a dimwit from day one.

[cynwoody]

I am convinced we are witnessing a terror cell operating here....

If this is an Al Qaeda operation, how come there are not multiple cells spread around the country?

[concerned about politics]

Earlier this month, TV station al-Jazeera aired an audio tape in which a voice attributed to bin Laden warned that the "youths of God" are planning more attacks against the US.....CNN

"I am God" connection? TaRaRa found this on CNN site.Here

[David]

The islamic war types like al Queda see themselves as fighting a prolonged quasi military operation against us. Better if your troops don't take a lot of casualties so they can fight another battle tomorrow.

The goal of this operation is not the immediate damage they inflict when they kill a sniper target (distinguished from the Pakistan Church operation; or the synagogue or church attack--which is done in part to discourage church and synagogue attendance; or the 9/11 attack for that matter which had as its objective inflicting the damage that resulted and for which they were willing to incur 19 casualties); goal here is to interrupt the normal flow of commerce and force you to devote huge amounts of money and manpower to interfering with the attack which goal they have accomplished. Goal is to force you to try and make them stop which they accomplish by continuing to attack you.

Reason I would stop on Saturday and Sunday is that you don't have the usual predictable flow of commerce traffic on Saturday and Sunday and are thus exposed to having some unusual event obstruct your escape route--during rush hour traffic, the goal is to keep the streets open and flowing.

I also think that is why they have chosen most of the target times they have used--they have devoted planning to escape routes and related target locations. We didn't get them on Friday because they stayed off the freeways which we could shut down.

[CharacterCounts]

The White Isuzu would be a great choice because they are all over.

I'll bet for every Isuzu parcel delivery truck on the road there are 100 Ford or Chevy minivans. The truck would stand out in traffic like a sore thumb compared to these minivans. Second, putting lettering on the van only aids in identification. Think, the shooter takes a shot but this time a witness see the shooter in a large white truch with Fred's Market (or some similar logo) on the panel and calls the police. This truck could very well be spotted long before the shooter could repaint it. It isn't intelligent to put a large identifing tag on our get-away vehicle.

Your comment about the RPG laucher seems pretty far fetched. For one, this shooter is a coward. He runs from his hits an is unlikely to engage the Police in a shoot-out when the finally find him. Plus, if you have a RPG launcher mounted, why not use it for yoy initial shot as opposes to a .223. It would sure make a bigger statement.

[David]

" If this is an Al Qaeda operation, how come there are not multiple cells spread around the country?"

I assume there very well may be and we may well see additional locations at some point in the future.

But observe this--Al Queda has not generally taken immediate direct credit for much of anything they have done to us; the embasey bombings, 9/11 to name two we know about; TWA 800 and the OKCity bombing to name two we suspect. I have assumed the reason why is because Ossama assumes we are as tough minded as he is--we could make them stop by responding forcefully; we bulldoze the mosque off the Temple Mount; or we nuke or threaten to nuke Mecca or Medina.

Facts are we could respond forcefully--if Ossama were president, he would have. He assumes we may be restrained by lack of certainty as to the perp. If we get the DC attack in ten other metropolitan areas, people will face reality.

So that consideration may operate as some restraint on what they would do.

[Mo1]

That is a very real possibility and I wouldn't rule anything out at this point.

But some of these news briefings are not helping and don't have anything new to offer because they are not releasing any new information

I am not saying the have to tell everything they know .. but a week release a picture of that truck??

[Mixer]

.....wrecking the local economy is what this is all about......

I agree. This is exactly what they announced they would do in their latest audio tape. I also believe that this is some sort of terror cell that has been awakened. The guy(s) at the end of the gun may not be of ME decent but they are paid but Al-Queda. Is that just my opionion? Sure but it makes more sense then a kid who learned how to shoot a rifle at 140 yards by playing videogames.

[Jeff Head]

Then again, perhaps it's so noisy there...

Exactly.

[agrandis]

He apparently does not kill on the weekends. Will he ty again tomorrow?

[David]

Reponse to your #229:

I think you would lose that bet--the diesel powered Isuzu is the tool of choice in that market at the moment--they are everywhere. And maybe this particular truck is not the truck at all, maybe they used a Ford or Chev.

Maybe you are right about the sign although maybe you are really wrong--they gave enough thought to what the sign should say that the witnesses who remember the letters can't remember the words.

The shooter is not a coward and does not "run from hits"--he is a stratigic planner--part of his mission is to complete a large number of hits and so he has planned to conceal the hits from witness so that they can't give authorities enough data to apprehend the attacker.

However in this kind of operation, you might plan for a possible counterattack that interrupts your withdrawal--the larger truck permits you to carry around enough firepower to deal with any initial counterattack that local police authorities could mount.

Reason you don't use an RPG for the initial hit is the same reason you used the truck in the first place--the hit would be immediately detected so you don't do that. The objective is not to make a statement; the objective is to eliminate targets.

[Jeff Head]

Could be gathering G2 and putting together a play book.

Hope they're not.

[tomkat]

...y'all are starting to sound like the Rats defending Klinton...

and you're being an asshole on multiple threads toward people who know at least as much about what's going on as you do.

suggestion ---> offer something of substance or shut the f*** up

[Samwise]

[Samwise]

Really weird calling cards.

[ET(end tyranny)]

From another article recently posted.

"We're working as hard as we can," he said (Moose). "People are continuing to give us information; we're following up those leads. We want people to keep the faith and remember this is certainly not the first person or group of people who tried to change us or change the nation. So please continue to be resilient."