Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Wed., Oct. 23,2002

Fox News, CNN, Press Conferences | October 23, 2002 | Fox News, CNN, Press Conferences

[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.

[Lion's Cub]

Yep. Richard Reid is tied in there too.

NOVEMBER 1999, late : Two men from Abu Hamza's London mosque then traveled from New York to a remote ranch in Bly, Ore., where Semi Osman lived with a woman and two children. Klamath County, Ore., Sheriff Tim Evinger told the AP that Abu Hamza, other men "of Middle Eastern descent" and their guests were on the property for about three months. "There were some folks living there, and they had some guests. They did some shooting on the property, mostly small-arms practice," said Evinger, who was on the Klamath Falls police force at the time. A British-born Taliban soldier at Gitmo, Geroz Abassi traveled to Afghanistan from London in 2000 with a Muslim convert with ties to Seattle, Semi Osman, according to Abassi. The two (Geroz Abassi and Semi Osman) men reportedly met at the North London Central Mosque, the religious center led by Abu Hamza that was visited by Zacarias Moussaoui, the only suspect charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, and Richard Reid, the man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. jet liner with explosives hidden in his shoe.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/722854/posts

[snickeroon]

WHY is that the biggest point of the news story?????This can NOT be allowed to meander into the "Total Spin Zone...." By the way, can we see a composite YET???????

Gee, BORDERS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE......could this all somehow be related to one or more?????

[slimer]

I think I said last week "If this is AQ terrorists I will eat my mousepad"

What if it were Iraqi terrorists?

[rintense]

BUT... if these people entered the US after 9-11... there will be hell to pay.

[Senator Pardek]

GO GET FARAKHAN!!!!!

LOL - calm down. It's a local psycho. Bet on it.

[swarthyguy]

I didn't either. Doesn't matter, they've been converting and the discussions if u thought it was AQ terrorists, everyone assumed ME.

After Walker, Padilla and those blackguys, race IMO is not the issue, the brain and ideology is.

That's all. Sorry if came on too strong.

[Peach]

This is rich - one isn't even a citizen and one is probably Muslim - whether converted or not - and the press can't even be honest and would rather portray them as just plain ole militia types - you know -- white, trash, poor, uneducated, etc.

[MasonGal]

Yea, right - I hear ya... :))

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, then I think I am off the hook!

[Elenya]

Thanks for the link.

The Rats are gonna lose the House and the Senate.

[Dog]

Looks like we were right...

[Sacajaweau]

It's all in how the branches are hanging.

(Oh, I'm going to get banned. :-)

[Freedom2specul8]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/774748/posts#17
FOX: John Mohammed & Lee Melvo wanted for question in Sniper Case


Some of ya might want to lurk or post here too

[POGIFFMOO]

Weren't the Dems about $10M short on campaign money?

[185JHP]

Remember the old Billy Martin commercial - "I feel very strongly - both ways!"? We (the public) don't have enough information to know. When we do, we'll pounce like an Alpha Bullfrog on a fat Junebug...

[Catspaw]

Clinton Maryland, at least according to Mapquest, is very close to Andrews air force base.

[Peach]

Mark Furhman.

[Bella]

Names--Wanted for questioning--John Mohammad, 42yr old, ex-military, and, 18yr old Lee Melvo (sp--?)

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, what a relief that is! - Thank you for putting my mind at ease!