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Cops Hung Up Phone On Beltway Shooter(!)
Houston Chronicle ^ | 10/23/2002 | Sari Horowitz and Carri Morello

Posted on 10/22/2002 9:56:15 PM PDT by Dirk McQuickly

Edited on 10/22/2002 10:21:53 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

An angry letter found tacked to a tree behind a restaurant where the sniper wounded a man this weekend complained of six failed attempts to reach police, and threatened more killings, of children in particular, if millions of dollars were not deposited in a bank account within two days, law enforcement sources said.

The letter listed half a dozen calls that had been "ignored" by operators answering phones at the command center in Rockville, Md., the Montgomery County police station and the FBI. It even named some of the people who had answered the phones.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; graspingstraws; mooseisloose; pckillsinnocents; police; sniper; tinfoilalert
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To: brigette
Time for the cops to release the tapes of his voice. If it embarasses some FBI intern, so it goes.
101 posted on 10/22/2002 11:10:49 PM PDT by per loin
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To: ingodwetrust
It is unbeleveable to me that we are cutting deals and going out of our way to make this low life piece of dirt "comfortable."

Source?

102 posted on 10/22/2002 11:12:18 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Howlin
Good grief, I missed TV for a few hours and came here for some FACTS. It's difficult to separate the ravings from any small grain of truth here anymore.

STICK TO THE FACTS, PEOPLE!
103 posted on 10/22/2002 11:12:43 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: billclintonwillrotinhell
The movie RANSOM. Raise it to 20 million.
104 posted on 10/22/2002 11:13:15 PM PDT by John Jamieson
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To: Dirk McQuickly
I can't believe all this time that I've been speculating on who or what this guy is doing and why that I didn't even guess this guy being on serious drugs, crack, to be exact.

Who else could believe he could hold the country hostage and need money? There's been too many threads and too many post to read if this has already been stated or not.
105 posted on 10/22/2002 11:14:14 PM PDT by swheats
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To: MedicalMess
Any one of us here could have written this then. Perhaps the sniper is amoung us!
106 posted on 10/22/2002 11:16:06 PM PDT by ingodwetrust
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To: swheats
Can he shot straight on crack?
107 posted on 10/22/2002 11:16:07 PM PDT by John Jamieson
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To: All
Clues for police elevate thrill of chase
108 posted on 10/22/2002 11:16:52 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: Maximum Leader
Try making a living as a salesman and missing an important call that costs your company millions of dollars.... bye bye.
Taxpayers are spending tens of millions on this case. Take the damn calls.
109 posted on 10/22/2002 11:17:38 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: norraad
Maybe the sniper is the ex-staffer at Barbra(sic) Streisand's website who kouldn't spel Irack.
110 posted on 10/22/2002 11:18:26 PM PDT by weegee
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To: John Jamieson
If he's caught and have it in his system, I'd have to say yes he shot quite straight.
111 posted on 10/22/2002 11:18:42 PM PDT by swheats
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To: weegee
know weigh!
112 posted on 10/22/2002 11:20:05 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: brigette
"Do we think that an offender who is as intelligent as this and who learns as quickly as this would really put himself on the other side of the phone?" Mr. Turvey asked.

I'd guess that Mr. Turvey will soon be wishing he had read this article before making that statement.

113 posted on 10/22/2002 11:20:39 PM PDT by per loin
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To: Dirk McQuickly; Howlin
To: Howlin

One more time: I'd either turn the investigation over to someone (or some dept.) more competent or demand the feds to come in with their unlimited resources and have at it. Moose is clearly in over his head.

Read: I'm not saying I'd do any better, but there's too much at stake to be playing Instant Message with a terrorist when we've got illegal aliens using payphones who need deporting....

67 posted on 10/22/02 10:45 PM Pacific by Dirk McQuickly
 

Dirk, the eyes of the nation are on Moose.  Everyone from the White House to main street USA has observed him, and judged him to be a decent capable individual.  Do you think for one minute the feds wouldn't take over this case if they thought he was incompetent?  Right now we have the Secret Service, the FBI, the military and other agencies coordinating with Chief Moose.  None of them are saying what you seem to be.  There isn't the slightest hint at incompetence from any other agency.  They are all working and contributing like a finely tuned machine.  What more could they do under the circumstances?  This idiot shooter is operating in a fifty mile radius.  How or what do you propose to make this operation more successful?  I'd love to hear it.  I think the government would too.

I don't think Moose is operating in a vacuum.  He has the FBI and the Secret Service helping not only to provide manpower, but to devise strategy.  Where have you obtained the opinion that Moose is in over his head?  I think the man needs our support and not the slings of arrows at his back.

114 posted on 10/22/2002 11:22:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: ValerieUSA
Please see my post # 114.
115 posted on 10/22/2002 11:23:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
Ditto what you said.
116 posted on 10/22/2002 11:24:45 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: All
Sniper danger put in context
117 posted on 10/22/2002 11:25:36 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: hole_n_one
What is with people jumping to Moose's defense without knowing a thing about his totally dismal record as police chief in Portland? The man hasn't caught a bad guy in his life.

However, the first policewoman to die in the line of duty in Portland was killed on Moose's watch in Jan. 1998 during a warrantless raid for a marijuana bust.... The liberal Portland media made a lame attempt to find out the details of this tragedy, but Moose threw a tantrum at them and the obese paraplegic suspect hanged himself in jail when the video camera wasn't working, so the whole thing was swept away and Moose started applying for chief's positions elsewhere....

The big shining star on his resume is his support for community policing programs. Real cops hate the concept of putting their own families in bad neighborhoods just to build trust with untrustworthy criminals. Police chiefs are a different breed. They like c.p. because it looks good on their resumes to say so when they apply for positions as top cop in big cities run by liberal politicians... and they don't have to include the part about their own teens buying crack in these dreary neighborhoods...




118 posted on 10/22/2002 11:25:56 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: DoughtyOne
To me, he may be there because that's what the sniper has demanded; and also, I am not sure how it would look if they did remove him now, do you?

I believe there is a LOT more going on than we know and we'll hear about it when this is all over; until then, we should reserve judgment.

I sure as hell wouldn't want that job, but it fell to him.

119 posted on 10/22/2002 11:26:17 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: bonfire
Aren't you the dreamer. :-)
120 posted on 10/22/2002 11:27:05 PM PDT by Howlin
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