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I think the fact that the public has apparently not been much help...it seems the police are grasping at straws...tends to make me begin to lean towards the terrorist angle.

I just cannot believe that with the number of shootings that someone hasn't been able to put two and two together. If you couldn't account for someone at all of those times, if you knew they possessed the shooting skills and proper firearms, I am sure that there would be some clues in a person's demeanor...surely by now there would be someone out there who would at least have strong suspicions and would call in.

The terrorist theory, secrecy, a very tight and supportive community, etc...couple that with the info about al Qaeda and it's "small" terror tactics and it really makes a lot of sense.

al Qaeda and it's "small" terror tactics

This makes a lot of sense. In baseball they talk about "Big Ball" in which you try to get a lot of men on base, hit home runs, and score a bunch of runs; and "Little Ball" in which you try to get one guy on base and then bunt, steal... whatever it takes to get the one runner around to score.

AQ likes to keep their tactics fresh. I'm not saying to ignore the possibility that it's a traditional american homegrown psycho. But we've seen so many occasions where something that is obviously islamic supremacist terrorism is literally covered up by US authorities -- like the shooting at the El Al counter, the anthrax, and the Murra Federal building. It is infuriating. It makes one wonder if our covernment has been infiltrated by these creeps. Therefore anytime I hear any official saying "Oh no, no terrorism here... move along now" I tend to disbelieve.

And why are they so glib about saying maybe the perp(s) work on the weekend and no one even mentions the notion that he might take the weekend off for religious reasons.

This is a holy war. Get used to it, you PC atheist freaks.

I think the fact that the public has apparently not been much help...it seems the police are grasping at straws...tends to make me begin to lean towards the terrorist angle.

The public hasn't been a lot of help because the police, who it seems ARE grasping at straws, haven't really given us much to work with. A white van? A white box truck? Do you have any idea how many of those there are around here? I can count fifty or more on my forty-five minute commute. And we aren't given a physical description of the suspect. That may well be because no one has a description, because part of being a sniper is remaining hidden as you take your shot.

Just because the sniper is behaving like a sniper doesn't mean that this is a terrorist of the AQ variety. It simply means the sniper is pretty good at doing what snipers do, and so continues to befuddle police, who have little information to give the public.