Hanover County Shooting [Ashland, Virginia- North of Richmond]

[William McKinley]

Just reported. Took place outside of a Ponderosa Steakhouse. Not sure if it is related or not at this time. Police have shut down parts of I-95.

[ApesForEvolution]

Every time we are terrorized, from here to the end of the world, we are going to suspend our rights and freedoms???

What are you smoking tonight?

[aeronca]

"Terrorism. We're experiencing an extended act of terrorism.

I look at it this way: we're at war--part of it is going to be fought on our own terf. I look at US Maps that show AQ cells and they are fond of port cities...also high concentration of ME communities in great lakes area....snipers in the DC area...know what comes to mind? "they (tango's) are trying to set up a perimeter"

[Travis McGee]

Motels: see 1406.

[LaGrone]

I can agree with your post 1214.

[rintense]

Go AIR FORCE!

[Senator Pardek]

We were kids then, and Veruca Salt was known as a bitchy kid. My how the years go by!

[texasbluebell]

;>)

It's gets confusing sometimes!

[Howlin]

How do you know that they didn't find an outstanding warrant on that guy?

[OrangeDaisy]

Northbound 95 has now been opened to traffic. Troopers told to remain on ramps. This is above the Caroline County line. Let the traffic move, but keep ramps closed.

So everyone just keeps driving until they reach Canada?

[Mo1]

I'm not sure ... I'll have to get back to you on that one

[rintense]

And how would that help get the sniper- someone who has not been seen?

[relee]

DC TV 9 is reporting the victim is still in surgery and the plan to close the road was put into place within 10 minutes of the shooting. The Ashland Police Chief was on the scene even before the ambulance arrived.

The local fire department is helping light up I-95.

[Doohickey]

I love my Congressman! :)

[Travis McGee]

Not our rights. The enemy's. Muslims.

[GirlShortstop]

Lots of Americans have died for my rights and your rights. Sometimes rights are more important than lives. Its funny that you are calling ME selfish when its only your hide that is important here as opposed to the God-given rights of every other American.....right?   It bears repeating...     Touché!

[Letitring]

I hope the LEO's have their composite sketch at hand. Moose will be very unhappy with them if they don't. :)

[ExSoldier]

"Don't forget, this is wartime, even if the politicos haven't told us so out of fear of panic. Things change during wartime.

Thank God you said that! Somebody needs to be saying the same damn thing everywhere in the country! The American people have to know that we are in a REAL LIVE WAR and it's going to be fought on our own soil for the first time in American history. Things have to change.

Here is where we hit the proverbial crossroads. Here is where we determine if this country becomes a disarmed police state with our populace paralyzed and shaking with fear, or do we join together and DEAL with the situation?

[browardchad]

Filter out all non-suspect vehicles from the highway; wave them off at exit ramps, or funnel non-suspect vehicles to one lane and let them through. Searching for a deadly killer in wall-to-wall traffic invites disaster -- it's not too far fetched to speculate that the grand finale may well include explosives, if cornered.

[Samwise]

Before this is over, it will be coming everyone's way.

I am afraid you are right. It will come--either by conspiracy and design or by other insane copycats--it will come.

[kcvl]

OSAMA'S RIFLEMEN

By NILES LATHEM and MARSHA KRANES


October 18, 2002 -- An al Qaeda suspect in custody in Belgium told American investigators he saw members of the terror organization training snipers in preparation for attacks on U.S. soil, a source told The Post last night.

One of the planned attacks targeted U.S. senators on a golf course.

Suspect Nizar Treblisi - questioned by U.S. agents - said a three-man sniper team trained for attacks while shooting from distances of 150 to 750 feet, the source said.

Investigators plan to ask terror suspects held at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, whether the al Qaeda plot might be tied to the sniper murders in Virginia and Maryland.

The Post first reported yesterday that inmates at the Cuban base would be questioned about the D.C.-area rampage.

Treblisi, a suspect in the plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris, spilled the goods on the al Qaeda plot in the last few days, according to ABC News.

It's no surprise that al Qaeda has taught its operatives sniper techniques.

Al Qaeda terror manuals found in Afghanistan have sections on assassination - and ABC News last night aired film of al Qaeda trainees practicing shooting from the backs of pickup trucks.

Those practice sessions were part of the al Qaeda sniper training course, Treblisi reportedly told investigators.

Even if the Washington-area shootings aren't an al Qaeda plot, they may still have a terror link, The Post's source said.

One possibility is that the killer or killers have al Qaeda training, but are carrying out their plot without direct involvement of the organization.

Or they may be acting on their own as admirers of al Qaeda and its boss, terror lord Osama bin Laden - as may have been the case with Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who gunned down two people July 4 at the El Al counter of Los Angeles International Airport.

Hadayet was shot dead by an El Al security guard.

Investigators believe that whoever is doing the shooting knows area roads - leading them to think that the sniper is a local resident or someone who has been in the area for some time.

Sources noted that some key information is being kept from the public because police want to keep it from the sniper, who they believe has been watching their press briefings and closely following media accounts of the investigation's progress.

This was made clear by Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Charles Moose following a recent tactical session with other Washington-area police chiefs, when he implored reporters not to reveal about any leaks from the meeting because the sniper is watching.