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Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Thurs., Oct. 24,2002
Fox News, CNN, Press Conferences | October 24, 2002 | Fox News, CNN, Press Conferences

Posted on 10/24/2002 2:38:22 AM PDT by wewillnotfail

Overnite, two men arrested while sleeping in their car at a reststop in MD. John Mohammed aka John Williams and his stepson Lee Malvo. Mohammad is thought to be the likely shooter.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: dc; maryland; religionofpeace; rop; shootings; sniper; terrorism; virginia
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To: Sacajaweau
Cognac on a Swiffer cloth?? Nail polish remover on a sanding wheel?? Or maybe leave it on there so you can have nice long chats with Chief Moose, as in the next coming weeks he will be so bored with only bicycle theft reports on his desk??
1,381 posted on 10/24/2002 9:42:58 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yukong
I live in the OKC metro area

Thanks that is very interesting.

I live in the OKC metro area

Thanks that is very interesting.

1,382 posted on 10/24/2002 9:43:32 AM PDT by dinasour
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To: Yaelle
Below really bothers me about Police in this case

Case could have been solved long ago with composite released of Burgandy Chevy Caprice during the first shootings. IMO.....Took 2 hours to find the caprice after the info got out took public.

Evidently the Burgundy Chevy Caprice has been looked for Since the first shootings...and was on the Radar all along..***Where were the graphic composites of burgundy Caprice?***

Sunday, October 13, 2002

FLIT'S SNIPER PREDICTION

At present, the authorities in D.C. are looking for a white cube van, a white panel van, and a burgundy Chevy Caprice. My money's on the Caprice. White vans, because it's the most common delivery truck colour, are near-ubiquitous on city highways. Drive the four-lanes around Toronto, and there's rarely a five minute stretch where something white and van-like isn't speeding away from you in some direction. No, wait, I'll make another prediction. The engagement range of the sniper, when all is said and done, will be found to vary between 75-200m. Nothing farther. (For reference, Lee Oswald hit Jack Kennedy with his final shot at 80m.) All this talk about a "sniper subculture" (which anyone who's played first-person shooter computer games in the last three years must just find unfathomable) and weapons that are accurate past 400m will only obscure the fact that this guy is killing with a cheap, military-grade semi-auto .223 with a scope, from moderate range.

1,383 posted on 10/24/2002 9:43:47 AM PDT by FootBall
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To: joey'smom
Slick and sophisticated, these two were not.
1,384 posted on 10/24/2002 9:45:07 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: TexKat
I think they attract the weak ones, they appeal to the ones who have been brainwashed and have already bought into that injustice/inequality/reparations mentality. It is a short leap from there.
1,385 posted on 10/24/2002 9:45:50 AM PDT by Darlin'
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Quannel X is on FNC! lol At least the Fox people and that Schwartz guy are bringing up the lack of condemnation and of true effort by American Muslims to root out the jihadists.
1,386 posted on 10/24/2002 9:46:39 AM PDT by Skywalk
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To: Howlin
"Their position is that during the period he might have been there, the "camp" was not "the camp" because it had been leased or rented to some fundamental islam koran study group for religious training. Who said that?"

What you have posted is my characterization of the factual summary in the London newspaper and the follow on US article in which, in response to the allegation in the London paper that an Al Queda training operation was being operated at Camp Zero, the Zero operators said that the location was being used by some non-profit organization for these other purposes and the use had long since terminated.

No one has denied that Muhammad was physically present at the location during the period he was in Alabama; and the Camp Zero denial that they were running an Al Queda training operation was directed to a denial of their responsibility for acts being conducted at the location on the grounds that some other entity was the active operator during the period in question. The operators attempt to characterize "Camp Zero" as their activities on the location leaving open the inference that other acts being conducted by other entities on the property, specifically Al Queda training, were not part of Camp Zero.

The London newspaper article is posted earlier on this thread. The local paper article was posted on FR shortly after the original posting of the overseas source.

The next post, #1249, is a fair summary of some of the reports regarding the camp. Alabama authorities want to deny responsibility for the possibility that Al Queda training was conducted there however independent confirmation that such training in fact took place is seen in London.

We are less concerned about looking into target practice and self defense training inside the US because we are prepared to take the risk of such training activities for improper purposes in order to preserve the right of US Citizens to receive such training for domestic protection purposes.

Our complaint is that when you have the Moslems declaring war on us, we need to treat all of their domestic US activities as subject to inquiry--to the extent conducted by non-citizen aliens, illegals should be deported, and legals should be required to maintain a current paper record regarding the legality of their presence and the propriety of their domestic US activities.

1,387 posted on 10/24/2002 9:46:42 AM PDT by David
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To: tomkat
dear, i want it to stop twitching, not get bigger

It must be a language comprehension issue.

1,388 posted on 10/24/2002 9:46:46 AM PDT by justshe
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To: wewillnotfail
Someone just posted about FoxNews now not showing photos of the "youth" - which post was pulled and not sure why. It got me thinking that the advocates will probably try to have this [church-going] youth tried as a juvenile so he will only spend one year in a juvenile detention facility. It would be cruel and un-American to charge him as an adult when all he was trying to do throughout this crime spree was get to school or church so he could continue with his science studies or choir singing.
1,389 posted on 10/24/2002 9:48:03 AM PDT by hankbrown
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To: Darlin'
'cause we think only the surface has been scratched ?

Yes. There's more to this.

1,390 posted on 10/24/2002 9:48:29 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Darlin'
Fox News just aired a polled

Could tougher gun laws have stopped the sniper

14% ... Yes
73% ... NO
1,391 posted on 10/24/2002 9:48:57 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: conservativejunkie
I hear ya. (don't say ducks. hehehe)
1,392 posted on 10/24/2002 9:49:19 AM PDT by Darlin'
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To: justshe
must be !
(not a chance in this world i was baiting you ...)

btw, yankin' that tape off is gonna hurt like hell !

1,393 posted on 10/24/2002 9:49:27 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: hankbrown
I don't think so. I don't know about Maryland law, but I do believe he can be waived into adult court in Virginia. (In my state, Wisconsin, a person is treated as an adult in criminal at age 17.)
1,394 posted on 10/24/2002 9:49:32 AM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Catspaw
make that "criminal court."

Just too much freeping in the past few days.

1,395 posted on 10/24/2002 9:50:22 AM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Catspaw
"Unless your bride is a freeper, she works from dawn to dusk & beyond serving your every wish, dream and desire."

HEY!! When did you meet her??? HUH??? j/k
She really is a jewel. The only way she Freeps is through my daily recaps to her.

Nam Vet

1,396 posted on 10/24/2002 9:50:41 AM PDT by Nam Vet
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To: tomkat; justshe
btw, yankin' that tape off is gonna hurt like hell !

Only if it's duct tape!

1,397 posted on 10/24/2002 9:51:11 AM PDT by mhking
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To: yukong
I would like to know how this man and these people behaved in their neighborhoods. I am thinking it could give us all early warnings. There is a disease in our society named al Fuque (sp) and it is preying on the black people. Makes me sick. I listened for 2 hours one night to a meeting of these people aired on CNN. I've NEVER heard such hate before. Never. My Bess says these people are bad and are the types to go into someone's church with a hatchett and chop everybody up. She says there is going to be trouble.
1,398 posted on 10/24/2002 9:51:54 AM PDT by Letitring
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To: Joe Hadenuf
"Slick and sophisticated, these two were not."

Which means that all along, they really were just very lucky.

Knowing now that they were actually trying to call LE for a while and seeing how fast this unraveled after LE finally started taking their calls, It's tragic those calls were missed (for whatever reason) and more people had to die.
1,399 posted on 10/24/2002 9:52:03 AM PDT by Route66
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To: Skywalk
Quannel X is on FNC

I thought he was killed a couple years ago.

1,400 posted on 10/24/2002 9:52:27 AM PDT by Tree of Liberty
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