1) Tacoma isn't too far from Portland.
2) Serial killers rarely work in pairs.
3) His last name happens to be Muhammad.
4) AntiGuv signed up 2002-07-23.
1) Tacoma isn't too far from Portland.
Washington D.C. is about just as close to Scranton, PA; Youngstown, OH; Charleston, WV; Roanoke, VA; and Rocky Mount; NC as Tacoma, WA is to Portland, OR. Yet, I've never been to any of those places (well, I rode a bus through Charleston when I was 19..).
2) Serial killers rarely work in pairs.
Interesting myth which I've encountered previously on these boards. This isn't the movies, bud. Team killers are much less rare than people here seem to think:
3) His last name happens to be Muhammad.
There are a billion people in the world with a Muslim name who are not Al Qaeda terrorists. I have no affinity whatsoever for Islam, but a Muslim name is evidence of little more than a Muslim faith - in and of itself. That being said, I have relatively little doubt that his self-evident rejection of America factored into his conversion as much as his killing spree. However, I'm similarly confident that his killing spree would've taken whatever rationalization was available.
4) AntiGuv signed up 2002-07-23.
What's that supposed to mean: that I haven't been properly indoctrinated into the cult myths of the forum, or something? My actual interests are politics much more so than ideology and I came to FR because it's a good conservative resource for finding the latest election news. Rest assured that I'll have little motivation to hang out online after Nov. 5th. Otherwise, I almost never read the threads except when something catches my eye on the way to the Campaign 2002 forum. I happened to wander into a few of the sniper threads because the story was so gripping, and here I find all this fringe speculation amounting to little more than fantasy & innuendo. I should've restrained myself from any comment, but I slipped. Sorry. Doubt it could happen again as my time with FR will likely be up in a couple weeks. It's a great forum, but cyberchat just isn't really my thing. Perhaps we'll meet again in 2004.. :)