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

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[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.

[Dog]

They are it seems...

[commish]

Give me the credit for your credit card/montgomery, al scoop brian!! I posted it here almost 30 minutes ago!!!!

[Dianna]

Now how stupid do you have to be to kill someone, steal a credit card and then give the number to the Feds while you're involved in the biggest doggone story in the whole year!

Yeah, no one would check the cc number...

[rintense]

Well I am exhausted and heading to bed. I hope to wake up to good news in the morning- not what we all woke up to on Tuesday.

[Pete]

Moose said that the sniper wanted the police to say "We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose."

[looney tune]

Falls in a stump?

The plot thickens!

[abner]

Here is one anagram for 'a duck in a noose'- CIA NUKED SOON

[Mo1]

Either he is really stupid or this is just a diversion

[bcoffey]

nite, rintense... sleep well.

[chnsmok]

Exactly. I stopped by DU a little while ago and they were disgussing how somebody found 10 bucks in their winter coat.

[Darlin']

Outrageous. LOL

[Naspino]

The great think about this "Duck in a noose" statement is that it isn't common especially if it does pertain to the folklore. This could by our Unabomber manifesto and why the police released it.

[Lobbyist]

My client was not taken into custody. The stump is a "stump of interest". That is all.

[valleygal]

(FWIW)..LOL I was thinking it was worth alot.

[Rocko]

The poster acknowledges it is a terrorist training camp but doesn't seem to like that this info was reported

Doesn't like that it's not a "white right-wing nutcase gunfreak Repig extremist."

[Letitring]

Just WHERE have you been? ROFL. Joking. Glad you are back. This is a mess. What are the LEO's doing? ARE these guys the sniper or not? Could it be they are connected to the sniper somehow, ie know who he is? Support group for him? Mercy. If, with that phrase, Moose activated the black muslim groups in this country, we are all in deep trouble. Big, bloody mess.

[relee]

CNN-

No credit card

No Alabama

No more Mohammed, just John Allen Williams.

[Mo1]

Here is one anagram for 'a duck in a noose'- CIA NUKED SOON

Geeez are you serious??

[Doohickey]

I don't know how to interpret that. I'd imagine that since the last note we know of was recovered yesterday, the shooter didn't know that the stump in Tacoma was "in play", so tentatively we can discount that.

However, there is the possiblity that that phrase led LEOs to the stump.

How it's interpreted really depends on who is the rabbit and who is the duck. If the shooter is the duck, it could mean that he's trapped and needs to be extracted, which could get REALLY ugly.

OTOH, if the shooter is the rabbit, he could be signalling that he's going to ground...

[yukong]

Man, you are really you are really putting in the hours there. good work.