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

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[Elenya]

That of course would mean the shooter was on foot, and either meeting up with someone or returning to his parked vehicle.

Or his motorcycle.

[jwalsh07]

FYI

Pentagon may send the big dogs after the mutts.

[rintense]

HAHAHA! Typical liberal BS once again. I love it. Couldn't think their way out of cardboard box.

[Miss Marple]

That's an excellent point. If this isn't terrorism, (and by the way, President Bush said it was yesterday, although whether domestic or international he said there wasn't enough evidence to say) then why is the Pentagon being brought into this?

Very interesting.

[homegroan]

Which fits into the back of a box truck

[OReilly]

Who is in charge?

Oh, no one... a committee. Good God.

[eno_]

My problem with MOST of the Muslim terrorism theorists is that they're "concluding" it's a Muslim terrorist, or that it "has to be" Al Quaeda.

Well fair enough, so here's my logic in a nutshell: IF it is a lone shooter, the odds are it is a domestic nutcase, just because there is a larger supply of domestic nutcases. But IF there is more than one person involved, it is more likely to be a terrorist cell, for two reasons: 1) The odds it is nutcases goes down geometrically for every incremental nutcase involved, i.e. if the odds for a certain demographic are one in 100,000, the odds two of them got together are one in 10,000,000,000 - one in ten billion, which makes it unlikely such a team of nutjobs even exists in the human population. 2) AQ trains for such actions - as in the Oregon cell - in small groups, and they also train multiple cells (as for 9/11) for the same op.

Even if you quibble with my "one in 100,000" number, it doesn't matter. Any fairly long odds - even one in 1000, which would make such killings a common event - get into the millions and then billions against once you add one or two co-conspirators. If it is a team effort, I'd give odds it is terrorists.

[Elenya]

Our local SR copters have IR equipment. I was wondering earlier why they weren't dispatched when the dogs took off. Looks like they decided to get the heavy duty stuff instead...

[rintense]

Let me guess. Helen Thomas asked that question.

[tomkat]

that bouchard guy just loved sayin' the bit about 'illegally possessing firearms' ...

$0.02 - including 'crypto-racist' discount

[mewzilla]

A journo just asked the ATF guy who was in charge of this charlie foxtrot. The agent's response was that no one agency was in charge, that the investigation was being run by committee.

That explains a lot.

[Letitring]

LOL. It stayed with me because it offended me. :) I feel each American is so very valuable and precious, I love us.

[Elenya]

Which fits into the back of a box truck

Now that you mention it...

[Smogger]

The more the "experts" on FoxNews deny the possibility of the shootings being done by terrorist in responding to questions by the moderator, stating that it isn't believable because none have stepped forward to take credit, the more convinced I become that the officials have no clue, but are desperately hoping, and wanting us believe, that it is a "lone-nut".

These frequent denials, in spite of many of us knowing that some of these terrorist groups do not claim credit, doesn't sit right with me.

I agree 100%. See my post #445. That FBI guy on Fox News did not inspire confidence. Your one of several other people who said the same thing.

[mhking]

Oh, and to anticipate your response, the Amish have not been active terrorists overseas, either.

[Sacajaweau]

The Tarot Card:

Frankly, I don't think it's for us at all...It produced a Tarot card cartoon oversees that said "authority" at the bottom. Interesting that they interpreted it that way.

Is it just to tell someone "over there" that this is "us" and their cartoon is "WE SEE YOU".

I think they didn't show the actual card to counter a copycat.

Sac

[livius]

"Did we carpet-bomb Son of Sam?" What an image! (Finding humor where we can, I guess :-p)

But I think this means that there may be enough evidence - accumulated somewhere by somebody - to indicate that this is not a nut-case. Or even a bunch of nut-cases somehow having hooked up together.

[Elenya]

the investigation was being run by committee.

OMG!

[tomkat]

charlie foxtrot

precision + succinctness = foflmao !

[Quilla]

A journo just asked the ATF guy who was in charge of this charlie foxtrot.

ROFL.