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Good Morning Everyone...

Up until last night I was thinking this may or could be a non-american, possibly a terrorist import. But after reading this article Angry Missive Complains of 'Ignored' Calls I truly believe that if the things written in this article are true, this is an american home grown nut case. Several factors in the letter have me believing this...

A terrorist would demand more money than 10 million. A terrorist would not have kept track of the names of the tipline people answering the phones who ignored him and report this in a letter to police. A terrorist would have not had the problems that this guy is having about getting his point across and to the police.

Also the money request is a front for the sniper, he is not interested in the money and is using this as reason to justify his killings. He knows the money is not going to be paid out and he will this fact as an excuse to kill more people. He is trying to make the cops look paid and like they are not working with him and the cops are going to stall him as long as they can and will continue to play his game until he slips up or until they figure out a way to capture him after a shooting. The killing of the bus driver back in the area that is suppose to be under recon plane watch was a test to see if he could get away with it and to see if the planes did picked up his body heat or gun fire. Of course he did escape. I believe he picked early morning because he knew it would take them longer to get everyone organized and out of bed that early in the morning, I think it took 20 minutes for them to get the area completely blocked off yesterday. He probably was on foot yesterday. I think the police are getting closer to him and are stalling and hoping they can keep him talking to them without him killing again.

Good points. But on thing that sticks in my craw is the fact that the Pentagon has authorized the use of several, published and unpublished, surveilance aircraft. I used to work for a company that outfitted these aircraft and know that video surveilance is only half of their game. They have significant CommInt/ElInt capabilities as well.

It just gives me the heebie-geebies a little. I can't imagine that the Pentagon would throw that kind of hardware into the fray if we were talking about a nutball with a pea shooter. Bet your bottom dollar that it is costing millions to have these eagle-eye's looking about for one man.

It just doesn't jive with me.

I think the police are getting closer to him and are stalling and hoping they can keep him talking to them without him killing again.

I hope you're right. But I'm not so sure they're getting any closer. The sniper is always 2 days ahead of LE. He shoots, it takes 2 days to process the crime & crime scene - in the meantime he's scoping out his next place of attack. While LE is looking back, the sniper is looking ahead.

I posted this on the other thread too, but what the heck. I think you've hit the nail on the head. A real terrorist wouldn't give authorities a chance to comply with anything. They would just make their hits until they die for doing it. It's all about dying for allah and getting 7 virgins.

Did you read valleygal's comments about her sis yesterday? Something's going on...