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FWIW, here are some random thoughts on this thread:

1. I hate to say it, but I have a sick feeling in my gut that these guys are not going to get caught. I think they are going to just stop one day and move on to another operation...and that is what this is: AN OPERATION. These are not serial killers. The Feds and the media are so quick to dismiss Jihadists as a possibility here. The Feds because it makes them look clueless, the media because they want it to be a right wing gun nut.

2. I think they chose the parking garage last night because of the extreme light contrast it appeared to provide on TV. Even with iron sights, shooting into a very well lit area from darkness is easier than even shooting in daylight. Same scenario in the last gas station shooting.

3. I think that the reason there is no shooting on weekends has nothing to do with these terrs' personal lives (what a ludicrous comment...if the present FBI profilers are anything like the retired FBI profilers on TV, these guys will be getting medals in Baghdad before we have a clue). I think they are planning their week on the weekends. They are scouting sites and setting up shots and rehearsing on the weekends...in unknown vehicles and without firearms. I am so sick of the psycho-babble on TV. One TV profiler even speculated that the perpetrator (singular) may have an elderly parent or relative to care for on weekends! HELP!

4. Al Qaeda only takes credit for its ops indirectly and long after they are over. The FBI guy's denial was weak. They are literally worried that, if the media and the public start to suspect that this is al Qaeda, there won't be an FBI as we know it fairly soon. The Marines at Quantico call the FBI at Quantico the Fag Boys Institute...and with good reason.

5. I live in New Orleans. We had a fairly famous sniper incident in 1973. A former black sailor set fire to the Howard Johnson's Hotel in downtown N.O. and then started shooting firemen and pedestrians with a Ruger .44 magnum carbine. The NOPD was clueless...there was no SWAT team at the time...I vividly remember officers bringing their hunting rifles to the scene. You know how they finally got him? This is no $h!+: a Marine Colonel with balls at the Naval Air Station across the river, loaded a few Marines in a CH-46 (he was the squadron cdr) and went and started flying around the building...they took a M79 grenade launcher and blew holes in a blockhouse on the roof. The perp ran out and two Marines armed with M14s put 20+ rounds into him.

The Marine colonel got in trouble for violating posse comitatus. He should have gotten a medal.

A few dozen Marine snipers from Quantico could have these guys in body bags within 2 weeks...I GUARANTEE.