Moose gives his orders to the coppers
Special agents ride Interstate I-95 ever watchful
Damn! He shot and got away again
Posted on 10/20/2002 11:28:08 AM PDT by blam
U.S. Officials See No Sniper Link to Terror Group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. officials said on Sunday authorities were investigating but had found no evidence to link a string of deadly sniper attacks in the Washington area to international terror groups.
Secretary of State Colin Powell , appearing on "Fox News Sunday," said it was conceivable but unproven that the attacks were connected to the al Qaeda organization of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden , which the United States has blamed for last year's Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
"Obviously, it's conceivable, but I have seen no evidence to tie this terrible series of attacks in the Washington area to al Qaeda," Powell said. "We're looking for every possible connection, but so far I've not seen anything that does tie it to al Qaeda."
Powell and other officials spoke following what appeared to be a 12th attack by the gunman who has encircled the nation's capital since Oct. 2 with random shootings that have killed nine people and injured two.
A shooting on Saturday night in Ashland, Virginia, prompted another massive manhunt and dragnet of highways. Hundreds of local, state and federal officials are pursuing the killer, who appears to pick victims at random and has struck with a high-velocity rifle in Washington and neighboring suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.
President Bush 's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice , told CBS' "Face the Nation" officials were vigorously looking for a link between the sniper and terror groups but had found none.
"There's no evidence to this point that this is the work of an international terrorist organization," Rice said. "We are of course keeping open that possibility and we're going to turn over every rock to see if it might in fact be."
On CNN's "Late Edition," Rice said investigators were sent to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to interview suspected al Qaeda detainees from Afghanistan about the sniper shootings.
Rice also said no claim of responsibility for the shootings had been made and Bush was being briefed daily.
"But there is no evidence at this point that this is internationally driven in any way," Rice said.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle told the Fox program he was frustrated by the case and suggested the FBI and federal authorities do more to help solve it.
"Whether or not it's international, it is terror," the South Dakota Democrat said. "It is striking at the hearts and minds of people in this whole area, changing the way we live and the way we act and the way we think."
"We need to meld forces here and do all that we can to ... apprehend this criminal," Daschle said. "It is not only a concern for our children and our families and the way we live, but a frustration about our inability, with all the resources we have in law enforcement, not to be able to ... find him."
Yeah, Tommy Boy, we'd have alot more resources if you had passed the homeland securtity bill.
"There's no evidence," according to Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice.
That was one of clinton's very favorite sayings. First he would delay and obstruct, then he would shred and delete, then he would lose a few hard drives, then there would be a few Arkancides, and finally he would truthfully point out, "There's no evidence."
If there's REALLY no evidence, maybe they should just keep their mouths shut. But let's keep in mind that the witness who said he got a good look at the van driver when he tried to pull into his lane, and described him as a small, angry-looking, "Middle Easterner," was NOT the same witness as the felon who was discredited for making up a story about broken tail lights, a cream colored van, and an AK-74. The real witness said he got a good look at the man and would recognize him again. And that he was Middle Eastern.
He's been busy with 'kitchen table' issues.
Well then Condi, "why is the FBI, military, and other alaphabet agencies involved in the investigation ?" If you believe your own words, then this should be a matter for local law enforcement and the National Guard. The government is afraid of saying or doing anything that would induce panic, necessitating martial law, but that has already occured so what's the problem ?
A terrorist(s) is on the loose. The terrorist(s) is randomly selecting and killing people with sniper attacks. It matters not to the families and friends of the victims or the rest of the population doing the Maryland shuffle, where he gets his allowance from.
Draw intersecting lines between all the sites of the attacks and the mosques. Superimpose the map of the shooting sites on top of the map of the mosques. Very interesting patterns develop.
That's the way I read it too.
Depends on what the meaning of the word is, is.
would be defeating itself and admitting it was wrong in accepting people into this country from too many damn directions, with little control and very little skepticism questioning their motives.
To accept it is terrorism from abroad now in our midst shoots down the whole diversity sham, shoes off-at-the-mosque "Religion of Peace" idiotic photo ops, and other bastions of entrenched Political Correctness thinking that occupies the entirety of the Democratic party and significant sectors of leadership of the Republican party as well.
Sad to say.
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