Posted on 10/18/2002 1:14:51 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:09:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
While the 9/11 thing is uncanny, I have thought like you about it. I just don't think the guy is THAT good a shot. Either of the survivors, especially the boy, could have just has easily been fatalities but for the grace of God.
Very logical question, however, keep in mind that the cops don't think regular people are as smart as them or capable of handling the truth. They KNOW the media isn't, and you and I both know that neither the cops nor the media are as smart as the average FReeper. ;-)
Perhaps, but keep in mind that the shooter seems to be reacting many times to what is being said in the news and there had recently been raised the question of his marksmanship capability. He may have been trying to prove himself capable of hitting the smaller target.
They believe this is or should be a problem for other folks as well since its manifestly such an obvious response to the problem of people dieing in a house (hunh?!).
The Taliban shared in the Islamist belief that most of the world's problems are caused by Jews who are in league with the United States.
So, simply assume the killer in the DC area is an Afghan Taliban, and you have the answer to the patterns he has made.
One pattern is that he has been killing people on or near property owned by Jewish people - to wit: Shoppers Food Warehouse, Michael's, Hillandale Beer and Wine, and quite possibly some of the gas stations. I was unable to find data on the ownership of the stations since some are franchise operations and others are owned by the companies.
In the eyes of our hypothetical Taliban shooter, that "ruins the property"!~ This is kind of like blowing up the Buddha statues.
Then, he shoots folks at places with a name from the list of the Hebrew 12 Tribes of Israel - Manassas and Benjamin so far, and maybe a couple of the others.
He also managed to kill someone in front of a synagogue that isn't even in the phone book. It's located inside the Washington Ethical Society on Kalmia street. The only reference at www.google.com is a news article in the Washington Blade (a gay oriented newspaper around here.) You can find it at their website. This one leads me to believe the shooter is a cab driver in the Silver Spring area.
There are several other shootings that occurred within a block or two of yet other synagogues.
If as many as three Methodist churches had been this close to this many killings in this period of time he would be called the Weslyan Killer. The proximities to these sites is important, and I would imagine by now the Montgomery County P&P squad have figured it all out and are on their way to the kabob joint/bakery at this moment to pick up a couple of white trucks to check out.
Our longest war was the Viet Nam War. It runs from 1959 to 1975, which is longer than the combined total of Civil War, WWI and WWII!
True enough, the rest of the country didn't really turn out, unless it was for the other side. I turned out for it, and lots of other Freepers turned out for it. Not likely we will forget.
Hey, some of the guys who really were at the battle shown in "We Were Soldiers" ran my basic training company and served as training cadre. We all swore to leave no one behind. Can't forget it.
What if a terror cell had 6 members...they perform the sniping in three teams of two. Two cars are decoys...a box truck and a white ladder van. The shooters car, (across the street in this case) if they are smart, is a plain dark sedan.
The vans are in the light, drawing the attention of the witnesses, and perhaps playing lookout. If they are stopped...they are unarmed. Meanwhile the sniper escapes with a quick jog unto a nearby highway.
This scenario could cover your revelations AND the eyewitness testimony. Witness attention would be drawn to the vans while the sniper car escaped. Testimony from eyewitnesses would be inconsistent and deemed unreliable.
In any case, Mr. Carr is very precise in the use of words. He made the point of this paragraph very clear: that whoever is behind the shootings wants "terror" back on the front burner of this nation's news reporting. Like many on the Left, he seems to separate the war on terror from taking down Saddam, whereas the President and many others on the right see them as two sides of the same coin. The notion that taking down Saddam is not part of the war on terror is what leads Mr. Carr to the, in my view, incorrect conclusion stated in the paragraph you highlighted.
From the WP:
"A 30-year-old Woodbridge man, Atiqullah Qazei, was charged by Arlington police on Oct. 3 with filing a false police report after he claimed that he was the sniper."
He didn't have the gun, or the ammuniton, or a white truck so they didn't believe him.
Still, I suspect there's something to this - maybe he has OTHER EVIDENCE that might implicate someone he knows and respects - or fears!
Actual slavery is still common in the Tribal Territories in Pakistan, and in their equivalents across the line in Afghanistan. Not all the people we have gotten as refugees are "free in the mind". Then there are tribal loyalties and medieval attitudes.
I would have this fellow locked up and would be bringing in all his kin to talk to him. The first guy who wasn't kin who showed up, I think I'd toss him in the clink for some questioning as well.
If we have an Afghan Taliban or AlQaida fire team at work, we can break them! This guy ought to be considered nothing more than the first in line.
I agree, it's too bizarre.
I wonder if October 3 is the date the Secret Service got involved in the case....
I'd like to add a "God Bless You" for your Vietnam service. I'm a Desert Storm vet, myself. (Which might explain why I actually know a little about military history).
I was reading an article last night that drew an interesting parallel - between Truman's recognition of the cold war and W's recognition of the war on terror. The main point of the article was that both of these instances required the president to (a) recognize, (b) publicly identify, and (c) make major strategic changes to fight a 'new kind of war'. The article also pointed out that Truman's administrative shake-up (DoD) wasn't an overnight success - it actually suffered from some of the same problems W's Homeland Security department is facing, politically.
I hope and pray the war on terror is eventually just as successful as the cold war.
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