French AWOL Sniper Suspect is from YUGOSLAVIA!!

UPI/BLOOMBERG/No URL | 10/21/02

[NativeNewYorker]

PARIS, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A French officer-in-training listed as AWOL by Paris figures among the list of suspects in Washington-area sniper attacks that have targeted a dozen people to date. France's RTL radio station identified the officer as a 25-year-old student from the former Yugoslavia.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So is this guy.

[Incorrigible]

Balkans Bump!

[Captainpaintball]

This is how they get the sniper to be "The White Guy" instead of Arab (But islam is a peaceful religion!) or Hispanic. (this may foil our invasion plans!)

[Incorrigible]

Double bump

[txhurl]

This is the most plausible official clue yet, and it has to come from France....

Thanks for this info.

[Guillermo]

Is France blaming our foreign policy for the sniper attacks?

[OldFriend]

Yugoslavia is well populated with islamic fundamentalists.

[wjcsux]

Isn't a deserter from the French army a guy who doesn't want to surrender to the enemy?

[tracer]

This can't be the guy -- if he were French he would have surrendered by now.......

[Blue Screen of Death]

I don't think this picture is a real French sniper. I see no indication that this rifle has been dropped.

[NativeNewYorker]

Well, if he's a native of the Balkans and not France, that would explain why he hasn't surrendered.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don't think this picture is a real French sniper. I see no indication that this rifle has been dropped.

LOL.

Actually, I searched Google for an image of a Serbian sniper, and that is what I came up with: http://ispec.specwarnet.net/serbia/pics/K1.jpg

[stumpy]

There was an article about a lot of Mexicans converting to Islam in the Chiappas area a while back.

[tracer]

Perhaps, but the fine art of suurender is taught during the first week of French OCS......

[tracer]

Perhaps, but the fine art of surrender is taught during the first week of French OCS......

[joan]

"France's RTL radio station identified the officer as a 25-year-old student from the former Yugoslavia."

If they have all this information on him, then why don't they give the most important details of all - his name and his photo, so he could be discovered, tracked, and caught.

The fact that they don't release this information makes me suspect. It reminds me of all the Osama Bin Laden news reports. One week they say he is dead; the next he is reported alive; then there's reports that he's dying of a disease; then his brother says he's alive and well; then he's confirmed dead; then he's confirmed alive; then he's making a new video...

[aristeides]

Yugoslavia is well populated with islamic fundamentalists.

How well do they shoot?

[ccmay]

While there are Muslims in Yugoslavia, particularly in Kosovo, the amount of fundamentalist Muslims are quite small... Bosnia was and is a much more fertile place for Islamic fundamentalists.

The story notes that this man is from the "former Yugoslavia" which certainly encompasses Bosnia.

-ccm