.223 Cartridge (above)
Sausage Casing (above)
Posted on 10/18/2002 6:56:22 PM PDT by Asmodeus
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- Investigators of the Washington-area sniper shootings Friday night seized a white box truck after a shell casing was found inside the vehicle at a Virginia car rental agency, Montgomery County Police said.
The caliber of the casing is unknown at this point. The casing and the truck are to be examined by forensics experts at an undisclosed location. The federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is expected to have results of ballistics testing on the shell casing no sooner than 9 a.m. Saturday.
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.223 Cartridge (above)
Sausage Casing (above)
Unfortunately, no information the BATF releases about their findings in this case can be regarded as credible. The BATF is widely acknowledged to be a notoriously corrupt and incompentent organization.
Disregard anything they say or report. If you don't understand how the BATF can be such a corrupt organization, see Unintended Consequences by John Ross for background information.
Hey! They can't do that! Dick already has dibs on that place!
I think the crew of shooters has moved on to another locale. Congress has adjorned for the season. Doesn't anyone find the cesation of shootings and the congressional break a bit puzzling?
It's SOP for rental firms to zerox the renter's photo I.D. and require at least that he/she sign the rental agreement, if not fill in at least some parts of it. If the renter is from elsewhere, they also usually obtain his/her (alleged) local address and phone number for the period of the rental. If a credit card is used instead of cash, the rental agency also has that document. Many rental firms also now have time stamping security camera's video taping the rental office interior around the clock.
It was reported earlier on Fox that the LE has some people under survellience.
Dulles Airport seems to be popular with Terrorist....Remember 911?
9:39 a.m.: An American Airlines Flight 77,(11x7=77) high-jacked from Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, was flown into the Pentagon. The flight had 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots aboard. American Airlines said the jet, a 757, had been scheduled to leave Dulles at 8:10 a.m.
They KNOW he gave false testimony because he said he was outside when the shooting occurred, while security cameras show in inside the Home Depot at that time. Other witnesses also put him inside when the shot was fired. His lying led them to search in the wrong place, although one suspects they didn't find anything in the right place either. It also had the police on the lookout for the wrong vehicle, although they were never only looking for that one type only.
At least one that I know of won't take cash unless they can find someone to vouch for the renter, and it can't be someone standing right there. I once met my brother in law at the airport when he flew in for a job interview, and I had just flow back into town, after having gotten a ride to the airport, that is I didn't have my own car there. They wouldn't rent him a vehicle for cash, and my standing right there vouching for him, with my own ID(s) wasn't good enough for them. He had no credit cards as he was coming off a bad bought of credit card misuse and was trying to get well, which he eventually did.
Hey! They can't do that! Dick already has dibs on that place! The Veep is a multitalented guy, didn't you know he was a forensics expert on the side? </joking
seems kinda dumb to me to go over the truck if the catridge case isn't compatible with any of the recovered bullets, which they would know as soon as they saw the case, so I suspect it is of hte proper caliber. Of course that proves nothing, since they'd pretty well broadcast that the bullets are from .223/5.56X45. At least it wouldn't unless the case is NOT a .223 or 5.56x45.
I don't believe they secretly have the sniper(s), esp. if he/they WERE arab terrorist(s). Too much of a PR op. to cover up.
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