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Here is my post from another thread for everyone's consideration and criticisms.

To: Indie

I disagree that there is more than one shooter. It appears to me that the sniper acts alone, is highly trained, proficient (although not in the Lon Horiuichi category), disciplined, intelligent, and dedicated. He neither wants nor needs anyone else.

"He travels fastest who travels alone." Plus, partners can snitch. Why would he need a partner? To do what? He can do it all himself. After all, he is God.

The evidence suggests to me that our sniper is a home grown terrorist who knows the lay of the land like the back of his hand, has been highly trained by either the military or law enforcement or both, knows police procedures and how to thwart them, and has a grudge against Chief Moose and/or his department. His job (assuming he has one) allows him to be out and about scoping out new cites and carrying out shootings without arousing attention. He is not Middle Eastern in appearance, and could easily blend in anywhere.

Sometimes he walks, sometime he drives. I doubt that he has a white van. He uses a single shot from a single weapon. The single shot allows him to make a quick getaway. He does not really care if the victim lives or not, and a second shot would allow the direction of the shooter to become known. He may be proud of his skill using one shot, but practicalities, not ego, drive his one shot rule. He uses a single weapon so that it can be more easily shed when the time comes.

His weapon is either a deconstructable rifle or a rifle calibre pistol. Within seconds after the shooting, he is walking down the street toward his car carrying a backpack, duffle bag, briefcase, etc., totally escaping suspicion from anyone who is looking for a guy who has just used a gun to shoot someone.

Putting this all together, my vote is for a current or former, presumably disgruntled LEO with an unknown agenda or something to prove. He is not a "psycho" or a "nut," unless you are going to take the position that all murderers are by definition a psychotic nut.

We will now more about his motives when we know more about him. It could be something so petty as being passed over for promotion or being told he didn't make the grade for an elite team. He is using the 911 tragedy as cover. He is a terrorist, but his terror is a means to an end, not the end itself. I can only speculate about what that end might be, but his ultitmate objective may not be that important, except only to him.

This is the best explanation that I have been able to come to given the known facts and reasonable inferences and interpretations thereof.
991 posted on 10/21/02 4:59 AM Pacific by Iwo Jima [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 987 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]