Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Tuesday, Oct. 15

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[Peach]

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

Note: This is the graphics-free thread. Graphics can be found under the thread titled "Beltway Sniper Shootings-Graphics Only"

[ET(end tyranny)]

Are you the one that noticed a black-white-black-white pattern?

[Elenya]

then even if the white van is pulled over, there is no one olive-skinned and nothing otherwise incriminating inside. Hmmm...

Methinks she's forgetting about the dogs. Wouldn't the dogs be able to sniff some residue?

[twntaipan]

I think they have an idea of the appearance of the suspect--and it is not a white guy, cause if it were a white guy it would be plastered everywhere. Whites are the one group that can be safely profiled, vilified and assumed guilty until proven innocent. But I repeat myself.

[ASA Vet]

many different shooters, from different small terror cells

All using the same .223 caliber firearm?

[sell_propaganda]

the sniping spree began one day after Ari Fleischer made that "one bullet" remark.

Interviews on local tv Thursday night had people saying they felt safer closer to the city (read inside the beltway)

[Mixer]

I heard on am 770 this morning a very interesting theory. The scenerio involves three people. One driver one shooter and another person driving the white/cream van/boxtruck as a diversion. Think about it. If this second car does exist it would be perfect. No gun in that vam/truck at all meanwhile the car with the driver and shooter (let's say a blue van) pulls away and doesn't get checked at all.

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm

[demlosers]

This killer can be stopped much sooner with a brave citizen on the spot than 1000 police coming 10 minutes later.

Your right. Somebody got a good look at the killer(s),they're making mistakes.

[Elenya]

I think they have an idea of the appearance of the suspect--and it is not a white guy, cause if it were a white guy it would be plastered everywhere.

I feel the same way. It never bothered them before...

[TLBSHOW]

what about underground tunnels or sewers?

[dhfnc]

Makes alot of sense. Political Correctness has got to stop or more innocent people are going to be killed.

[hankbrown]

I also continue to wonder why the tarot card has never been released to the public. The anthrax envelopes were released very quickly in the hopes someone could identify the handwriting. Makes me wonder if the word they say is God was really something else that begins with an A.

[Sender]

A recently painted angry, white NRA member who crossed over to vote against McKinney and drives his SUV over endangered saplings, IMHO. Definitely not terrorists.

[Robe]

Yes sir, the largest mosque in Northern VA would literally be a 10 minute walk from the Home Depot.

Then I do believe that the time for a warrant has come.
We need to get VERY un-PC and search every mosque in walking distance from every shooting. Someone need to get the media to ask this question at the next press conference
“Sir, since it seems that the shooter clears the area very quickly and may not be traveling via auto, why haven’t you searched area mosques near the shooting scenes”
ROBE

[twigs]

pre-planed escape and route mapped-out

Agreed. Could they have small, even residential routes planned out, knowing the major roads will quickly be shut down?

[alisasny]

Maybe the handwriting is all box letters and slanted just like the anthrax letters to serve as another diversion....?????

[GirlNextDoor]

People see the guy actually firing and getting into his van. But no one chases him, runs closer to get the plate number (if real), no one yells "Stop that guy!" or any thing vaguely resembling a warning.
No this guy just calmly gets back in his van, bold as the night, and drives off into what can only be construed as a traffic nightmare of cars and lights. ...
People see the guy, but we never hear, was he young, old, was he bald or did he have hair, was it short or long, did he have a beard or facial hair, was he tall or short, heavy or skinny, ...

If everything you posted above is accurate I'm further out of the information loop than I thought!

Where did you hear all that, Please?
Not in any of the police briefings I've been following.
Does the media have access to the witnesses?

[areafiftyone]

Thats true. If it is muslims (and I am totally wrong) then we have to declare a anti-Islamic jihad (let them see how it feels to be Jihaded against)! I am sick and tired of them and want them out of the country. Let the PC crowd rot!!!

[Sacajaweau]

We know that the shooter is not extraordinary as far as shooting skills.

We know that the weapon is the same.

We do NOT know that the shooter is the same and it looks like a relay, the weapon changing hands for a one week period.

[hispanarepublicana]

Last night, I really thought that more so than the Home Depot or Michael's angle was the fact that most of the shopping centers in the DC area where Home Depot or Michael's are located are owned by a company called SAUL CENTERS.

[iconoclast]

Authorities in Baltimore, meanwhile, seized a white van and found an assault rifle, sniper manual and ammunition similar to the .223 bullets used in attacks that have killed eight people and wounded two others, WBAL-TV reported.

MSNBC reported that a tarot card was found in the van and a sign on the dashboard read "Gihad in America." A tarot card was also found at one of the shootings.

The van's owner was questioned Monday night by police and released with no charges filed.

Good Lord ... is all this not at least enough to detain this "gentleman"?