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Police say sniper may have tried to contact them, but the call was garbled
Associated Press ^ | 10-21-02 | STEPHEN MANNING

Posted on 10/21/2002 3:01:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) --

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: call; chiefmoose; dc; sniper
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To: Jeff Head
someone else is trying to make some money

Jeff, I have seen a lot of freepers say this, but I can't see how anyone could make money on the snipings. How?

/john

21 posted on 10/21/2002 3:50:32 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper
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To: Dog Gone
If they are trying to extort the release of some prisoners, is there some reason why they wouldn't be phoning the police?
22 posted on 10/21/2002 3:51:38 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: JRandomFreeper; Jeff Head
And anybody who is working with the sniper has an easy way to collect half a million dollars: turn him in, and collect the reward.
23 posted on 10/21/2002 3:52:59 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is a commercial ready-made for Sprint, with its insufferable puke in the black trenchcoat....
24 posted on 10/21/2002 3:54:54 PM PDT by tracer
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To: Diver Dave

25 posted on 10/21/2002 3:56:01 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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To: JRandomFreeper
They could leave the note with the number. Make contact with LE and demand money. Then hope the money is delivered and they can get away with it.

The ones doing this are displaying a level of stupidity (IMHO) that has not been displayed by the shooter(s) to date. Doesn't add up to me.

But it's just my onw specualtion and opinion and I clearly don't have access to all the information that LE has. And that's all it is, noting more, nothing less.

I hope I am wrong.

26 posted on 10/21/2002 3:57:19 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: aristeides
If they are trying to extort the release of some prisoners, is there some reason why they wouldn't be phoning the police?

Well, the police don't have prisoners, unless you're talking about a county jail.

27 posted on 10/21/2002 3:58:21 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Jeff Head
It doesn't add up to me, either. If this is an al-Qaida operation, I can't imagine why it's not happening in 20 cities at the same time.

As an extortion attempt, there are a lot easier targets to extort than the government.

My best guess, and it's no better than anyone else's, is that the sniper is having fun with the police. He's screwing with all of us.

28 posted on 10/21/2002 4:02:49 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: B4Ranch; tomahawk
I hope the snipers go down to western South Carolina. The show will end quite soon if they do.

Wouldn't last long in Tennessee either. We's heavily armed.

O.K. This is not just directed at you, but at everyone else who has made some silly, chest-beating statements on other threads as well about why this guy better not move south if he knows whats good for him blah blah blah.

What the heck are you going to do about it??!!??! Seriously???!!

29 posted on 10/21/2002 4:04:36 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: Principled
And signing up to vote for Democrats!
30 posted on 10/21/2002 4:05:04 PM PDT by Wolfstar
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To: Dog Gone
I am afraid, whether this one is the terrorists or not (and I still believe it could be and they are honing their tactics) ... it is showing them what they could do in 20 or 50 or 100 cities.

I pray to God we can avoid it. We need everyone armed and in a postion to have local Sheriff's or LE calling up sentry duyt, roving patrols, etc. That's what it should/will come to if it goes bad like that.

31 posted on 10/21/2002 4:06:22 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: southern rock
Thank you. We here in VA have guns, shall issue CCW, just passed a "right to hunt" amendment in addition to our existing rkba in our constitution. Are they planning on having a counter-sniper team stake out every gas station, restaurant, and retail store? No one has seen the sniper, so what the hell are they going to shoot at?
32 posted on 10/21/2002 4:08:15 PM PDT by m1911
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To: Dog Gone
Announced today that a number of Gitmo prisoners to be sent back to Pakistan.
33 posted on 10/21/2002 4:09:14 PM PDT by per loin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I find it strange that the anthrax letters were disclosed right away; while the anything to do with this sniper is not.
34 posted on 10/21/2002 4:09:30 PM PDT by knak
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35 posted on 10/21/2002 4:10:33 PM PDT by Elenya
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To: Dog Gone
If it's a prisoner they want released, it seems to me that they would a) be calling the Feds, not the police. And b) it wouldn't be the perps who would make the call; the call wouuld come from somewhere outside the US, from the sponsers of the snipers.
36 posted on 10/21/2002 4:11:11 PM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: Dog Gone
This has the ring of the Unabomber. He demanded that his manifesto be published, and if it was, he'd stop bombing. When his brother finally turned him in he had at least one bomb almost completed and a couple more in production.
37 posted on 10/21/2002 4:12:22 PM PDT by Catspaw
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To: m1911
LOL!! Yeah, well all I gotta say is that sniper had better not come down here to south Texas where I am and start shoting people from 200yrds away if he knows whats good for him, because if he does he'll..... well we'll...... ummm...... I dunno, but he just better not.

Don't Mess With Texas!!

There, that'll stop him. We don't play around down here damnit!

LOL!!:)

38 posted on 10/21/2002 4:13:24 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: per loin
Announced today that a number of Gitmo prisoners to be sent back to Pakistan.

I hadn't heard that, but there's no way it's related. Bush is not Clinton.

39 posted on 10/21/2002 4:14:42 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Catspaw
This has the ring of the Unabomber.

That seems more likely to me. I think we're dealing with a very intelligent nut.

40 posted on 10/21/2002 4:16:42 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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