Posted on 10/23/2002 2:39:33 AM PDT by Peach
Let's keep a live commentary thread going again today. The FBI Tip Line #1-888-324-9800.
All seems quiet since yesterday's news the shooter may target children specifically. It was released on various news outlets the shooter's 3-page letter to police was in broken English and threatened extreme violence. Police announced an electronic transfer of $10m as requested by the shooter was not possible but other options for transfer remain open. No one seriously believes police will actually give the shooter $$, but police are trying to keep a dialogue open with the shooter in an effort to capture this monster.
I will find the exact story.
It looks for sure like there is more than one person in this thing - but what just dawned on me is this - up until now, these perps have been on the offensive, but now I believe that LEO's are beginning to turn it around and ...now they are having to play defense. Let's hope this is true.
I'll volunteer to be the designated poster :)
I will not bad-mouth him here.
I'd like some right now myself, but there's no way I'm gonna go the the store.
Uh...can't we all just get along...
I have been to Marion, SC many times. (Sidenote: the movie The Patriot is based on The Swamp Fox in large part).
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/722854/posts
SAMI SAMIR EL-KASSEM, born 1970 in Sierra Leone; alias SEMI OSMAN, permanent legal resident living in Tacoma, Washington; alias Daniel Anthony McClellan of Washington state; alias Michael McClellan of Washington state
DECEMBER 1988 : Semi Osman apparently first entered the US in 1988 with a British passport through New York City.
FEBRUARY - MARCH 1988 (early) : Osman reportedly served briefly in the Army, undergoing basic training at Fort Benning, Ga.and was discharged as an E-2. Army officials contacted at Fort Benning could not locate records pertaining to Osman's Army service, saying they likely had been transferred to permanent storage.
The region is home to about 35,000 sailors and their families, spread out among four major Navy bases: Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Naval Station Bremerton/Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Naval Station Everett and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. Other smaller Navy facilities also are in the region, with the Army's Fort Lewis, which provides small-arms training and other facilities to sailors in the region, and McChord Air Force Base. Pending the outcome of his arrest, Osman has been transferred to a non-drilling, non-paid status in a Volunteer Training Unit, Filostrat said.
He was arrested in May.
My theory is that the whole story about the letters and the ransom was an elaborate psyop designed to either make the cell members turn against each other or to convince Osman to talk. Looks like it worked to me. Somebody got real upset about the prospect of someone collecting 10M dollars and talked. Since Osman is sitting in jail, I figure it may be him. The rest are falling like dominoes as we speak :)
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