Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Thurs., Oct. 24,2002

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[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.

[Route66]

"Pat Brown is on MSNBC - saying she was not suprised at all Mohammud fits the profile ...blah, blah, blah"

You know, I remember a lot of profilers saying this guy would turn out to be an angry WASP, but I don't remember even one saying it would turn out to be multiple angry Black Muslims.

[Sunshine55]

Oh my :) I go to the store and all this twitchin' and growin' is goin' on...someone mistake the Allegra for the Viagra???

[Letitring]

IF we handle this right, we can see to it that doesn't happen this time.

[Howlin]

spot mop

[EnquiringMind]

Sophisticated, trained terrorist, these guys were not.

But their "friends" are.

[Chemist_Geek]

That's because I wrote the dam* tip number on my belly with a permanent marker.

Any suggestions??

Acetone, heptane, and 2-propanol, maybe?

[Letitring]

Crawl on MSNBC says Mohammad was considered to be boys "play father." What does that mean???

[Howlin]

Car has a trap door to shoot from!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Details coming up on the contents of the blue Caprice. Bet they find beer cans, a 223, maybe drugs, blankes, and fast food trash, and dirty clothes.........

Again, trained, sophisticated terrorist, these guys were not......

[Sacajaweau]

AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM!!!! In Buffalo, they had a rally for the "alleged terrorists" and were willing to put up their houses as bail money.

However, to date, the $600,000 bail for the one can get out on bail has not been met.

Looks like a few of them folks changed their mind but going inside and locking the door does nothing to help the situation.

THEY have the best chance of weeding these radicals out of their groups.

Sac

[TexKat]

I still want to know where is the Mama? Have they killed her and stuffed her body somewhere?

[ZinGirl]

HELP NEEDED from any FReepers who live near any of the shootings:

this is a long-shot and quite possibly may require a tin-foil hat, but......do any of you living near the shootings remember seeing tea bags taped to stop signs?

This could apply to anybody, really.....but I have reasons to ask particularly about the Aspen Hill, Silver Spring, Falls Church areas.

Thanks.

[Howlin]

Back seat folded down; the hole was concealed by was big enough to sight through to shoot!

[tomkat]

...someone mistake the Allegra for the Viagra???

it's possible, but at least johnson's not sneezin' ...

[alisasny]

If he is no longer married to the kids mother how can he still be the stepfather?

[Dazedcat]

On the face of all this he does seem to be the leading candidate for Darwin Award accolades, doesn't he? But I have serious doubts about this entire scenario.

For a couple of weeks, he's acted with total impunity. He's killed, showed an amazing amount of skill and stealth. He's pretty much done what he wanted to do, the guy was almost like smoke. Suddenly, he started getting stupid and sloppy? Hell he might as well have hung a sign around his neck advertising the fact that he's the guy. I really have a concern about this.

I realize conventional wisdom would say he just got very arrogant about his success and it gave him a false sense of empowerment to do whatever he wanted. Sorry, but I don't buy this at all. It's clear he's had professional training and he's good at what he was doing. People like that just don't turn stupid overnight.

I'm not trying to start an argument over this at all, just expressing my concerns.

[RippleFire]

What the heck is a Quannel X?

[Letitring]

Okay FReeper who said the back seat folded down and the killer shot from the vehicle, TAKE A BOW. They are announcing this on MSNBC. The car had a trap door in it, back seat folded down, guy shot through the car.

[justshe]

(not a chance in this world i was baiting you ...)
btw, yankin' that tape off is gonna hurt like hell !

Life is haaaa-rd.

P.S. Unlike some other things (snicker)

P.P.S. SO glad I passed my anti-bait class!

[Sunshine55]

I took a run to the store because listening to Beck just isn't the same when not in the car...last thing I hear him say again was "do not be fooled...our lives changed last night every bit as much as they did on 911"...you can bet this is just a small chapter in a very big book. Someday, I'm gonna find myself a man like Glenn Beck!