Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2002 [Another Shooting?]

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[Peach]

Let's keep a live commentary thread gonig again today.

[Focault's Pendulum]

New shooting site.

[wewillnotfail]

A map of the area.

[johnny7]

The hispanics were just easy to pick up. In a way, I pity them for the treatment they had to go through to be deported.

They are just illegal bums... should have been thrown out long ago.

The Ponderosa note, the Tarot card are just evil pranks. Nothing here.

This is professional work, planned to perfection. The police are just driving around waiting for the next victim and hoping the shooter turns himself in.

Unless they get out of their cars and walk the brush near spots off the belt-way, these people will kill at will.

[Peach]

Yeah - it will be him - although it will be a long delay before there's official confirmation.

[txrangerette]

I'm only saying that money demands
can't rule out a foreign terror source
or connection. You may have reasoned
on valid grounds that it is not such a
group. But taken alone, the $$$ part
is not determinitive. There ARE terror
cells with AQ ties that have used $$$
blackmail. Abu Sayef is a clear case.

[Mo1]

Gates of Heaven Cemetery ????

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Los Angeles Times and Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that a note left at the last shooting contained a threat directed toward schools, which may have led authorities to cancel classes in the Richmond area.

The Los Angeles Times also reported Tuesday that unidentified federal agents said the letter was "very lengthy" and poorly worded, bordering on broken English.

[Peach]

Why do you think the letter and tarot cards are pranks?

[wewillnotfail]

Sorry for the dup graphic. It wasn't there a second a go.
Oooops.

[aristeides]

WMAL: fire dept. reports eyewitness says victim was found on bus. People on station discussing relation between this and earlier report that victim was on bench at bus stop.

[Peach]

Did the AQ sources who committed terror in an effort to get $$ identify themselves as AQ?

[mhking]

Literally within yards of the first shooting.

[laker_dad]

The bus 'stops' at a fixed location. Someone exiting/entering would be at a known distance. Easy target.

[Peach]

I hadn't heard about the broken English. Good catch - thx.

[aristeides]

Across Connecticut Ave. from the Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Sorry for the dup graphic

Wasn't you...it's mine.

[OReilly]

Gates of Heaven Cemetery ????

It is the grey area on the map right below my comment

[Lion's Cub]

The Los Angeles Times also reported Tuesday that unidentified federal agents said the letter was "very lengthy" and poorly worded, bordering on broken English

Thanks, hadn't heard that. Decided to take the evening away from all this last night and am not up to speed yet :)

[wewillnotfail]

Fos says Aspen Hills Neighborhood.

[Peach]

Oh, I'd forgotten about that other victim who was at a bus stop - outside a post office, I think.