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Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Thursday, Oct. 17
FNC, CNN, MooseChief, Presstitutes | 17 October '02

Posted on 10/17/2002 4:07:52 AM PDT by tomkat

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: beltway; chiefmoose; maryland; shooting; sniper; virginia
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To: nevergore; Fred Mertz; Lion's Cub; Peach; aristeides
My Prediction.....

They will hit this morning....their pattern .....says a daylight attack.

Look for to be in an area not yet touched by this....they will want to expand the area the LEO's have to cover ...before that aircraft is brought online...

81 posted on 10/17/2002 6:00:01 AM PDT by Dog
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Thanks, Kim, for pinging everyone.
82 posted on 10/17/2002 6:06:37 AM PDT by Peach
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To: Dog
Where will they strike next?...Waldorf MD.?, Gaithersburg MD.?, Frederick MD.?
83 posted on 10/17/2002 6:08:37 AM PDT by dakine
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To: aristeides
But if they stop now, I will wonder if their object all along was to kill FBI intelligence analyst Linda Franklin -- the only victim specifically targeted -- and the other killings were cover. One of the articles yesterday said the FBI is tracking money transfers to the terrorists in this country

Excellent point.

I half expect them to stop temporarily until they evaluate the threat of the drone. In the meantime, I figure they may pass on the duty to a cell elsewhere. I figure it may take the weekend for them to confer and set up. By Monday I expect a sniper to be active again somewhere.

84 posted on 10/17/2002 6:09:00 AM PDT by Lion's Cub
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To: nevergore
Interesting that in the last shooting one witness was clearly able to identify the weapon as a AK74 (not an AK47) which the differences in outward appearance are extremely subtle. Yet the same witness is unable (according to authorities) to provide an accurate description of the shooter???

You have a point. I think the witness identified it as an AK-47, but the cops know through ballistics the slugs fired were .223 cal and then figured out(inferred) an AK-47 chambered for an .223 cal, which is known by the name AK-74.

85 posted on 10/17/2002 6:09:14 AM PDT by demlosers
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To: tomkat
One thing that seems to being missed is that whatever the discrepancies in sightings of the shooter by eye-witnesses, it would seem they are in agreement that this is not the "young, video game, set" doing the shooting.

Seems to be an older shooter by all accounts.

86 posted on 10/17/2002 6:09:41 AM PDT by twntaipan
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To: dakine
Somewhere within 10 minutes from a mosque?
87 posted on 10/17/2002 6:09:52 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Miss Marple
John Walsh thinks that he is the expert on all crimes. Just because he has a TV show does not make him an expert. The only reason his show helps catch so many criminals is because of the general public's tips it actually has absolutely nothing to do with him.
88 posted on 10/17/2002 6:09:53 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: Dog
My prediction- They are long gone. No more shootings in that area. They may pick up somewhere else during the holiday rush- watch for the day after Thanksgiving maybe.
89 posted on 10/17/2002 6:09:54 AM PDT by ThinkingMan
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To: Quilla
I read it in the NY Post this morning but the only downside is that there are so many applications that it will take at least 6 weeks for each one to go thru.
90 posted on 10/17/2002 6:10:48 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: Lion's Cub
Concealed-carry permit applications are up 500% in the No. VA area per press reports today.

I saw on the idiot box (television) last night that Radio Shack in No. VA was sold out of police scanners. Bright local citizens are trying to determine what's going on without relying on PC spokespeople telling then half-truths.

91 posted on 10/17/2002 6:11:13 AM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: areafiftyone
Walsh stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
92 posted on 10/17/2002 6:11:25 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Quilla
LOL - Was he eating a donut and did he save the world?
93 posted on 10/17/2002 6:15:30 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: Dog
...they will want to expand the area the LEO's have to cover ...before that aircraft is brought online...

Very little aircraft activity in the area, this morning. I can see the sky in most of the existing area (not Spotsylvania, or Mananas). Two helos went over about 8 am transiting south to north. No AC-7's.

Wondering if the FAA needs to publish NOTAMs to airmen for three days or something.

94 posted on 10/17/2002 6:15:53 AM PDT by OReilly
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To: dakine
Have you noticed there is one area that has not had an attack yet....look at the area the shootings have been in...they are pretty much WEST of I-95.....so I would guess they would strike the area SOUTH/SouthEast of DC..

That area so far has been untouched..

95 posted on 10/17/2002 6:16:09 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog
I have a hunch they've gone underground while trying to get new vehicles and figure out how the military planes work on surveillance from overhead. There were so many witnesses from Monday night's shooting, it seems likely they will be extremely careful for a while. Of course, they could also be feeling that since LEO's haven't released composites of their faces, they are safe to continue their shooting rampage. See - either way I have my bases covered!
96 posted on 10/17/2002 6:16:54 AM PDT by Peach
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To: ThinkingMan
I think they're gone too. At least temporarily.
97 posted on 10/17/2002 6:18:16 AM PDT by Peach
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To: aristeides
Your from MD right??

The reason I ask is how close is the shooting's in Aspen Hill-White Flint-Wheaton MD to Silver Springs ....or Rockville??

98 posted on 10/17/2002 6:20:29 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog
Think so, too... this morning, black female....gas station..Virginia.
99 posted on 10/17/2002 6:21:21 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: demlosers
Sorry, the police didn't infere.... the witness insisted that it was a AK-74........

Per media reports....please feel free to serach it here on F.R. but I'm certain of the fact.

NeverGore
100 posted on 10/17/2002 6:22:14 AM PDT by nevergore
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