[swarthyguy]

What do you think of this?

He/They have gone to ground for now.

I still believe the FBI lady, Cyber operations analyst was a target. He took more risks to get her when tension was high. Tinfoil, maybe, but coincidences are risky to take at face value in a terror environment.

Downside of a deliberate hit idea is that you would probably hit a federal employee of some kind in the area even by chance.

But, then, why did the shooter not take out her husband; a far bigger target? And easier if he was targeting at random.

Would help to know if they were together or he was on the other side of the car. In that case, this theory probably doesn't hold, but if he was with her on the same side of the car or loading stuff in the back....but the idea of cyberanalyst working on counter terror shot dead....

[aristeides]

If this was a coincidence, it was an incredible coincidence. What must the odds be?

[Destro]

The purpose of so terrorizing the nation's capital? To steal the initiative: To force all other news, including and perhaps especially the possibility of war with Iraq, off the air waves and the front pages, and thus ensure that terror rather than war is the main story once again.

I read this in the hard copy of the NYPost and the above paragraph cought my eye. No one on this thread has commented. Just who would not want the Iraqi war debate off the medias radar? Who is Mr. Carr implicating? al-Qaeda? Why would al-Qaeda want Iraq off the news? If not al-Qaeda who then?

[sweetliberty]

"why did the shooter not take out her husband; a far bigger target? And easier if he was targeting at random."

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.