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.

[looney tune]

Oooh - you might be on to something!

[wewillnotfail]

Or not if they didn't want to tip them off til they had them good.

[aristeides]

It was WMAL who said he converted a year ago. I think they cited WA sources.

[berkeleybeej]

And maybe that is why he didn't get the chance to get out on bail for a misdemeanor charge.

[Cboldt]

They were stopped Oct 8 . . .

Duck in a noose, right there. What is your source for this fact, BTW?

[mewzilla]

I hadn't thought of that. Paging Tiny Tom Daschle...

[aristeides]

Maybe the 6 murders are the ones they have a confirmed ballistics match on.

[Miss Marple]

Yes, I wondered why he wasn't given bail. On a charge such as that, usually you wil get bail even if you have a prior record. There was no mention of him being in violation of parole or anything.

[GirlNextDoor]

LE is looking a lot better than so many of the Keyboard Kops attacking them on this site have been claiming.

:-)

You're right!

[mware]

I studied cultural anthropology. It is an native american fable.

The fable goes that a rabbit was bragging that he could catch a goose. He thew a rope around the goose to catch him and the goose took off and the rabbit had to hold on or he would be killed in the fall. The goose flew over a tree and the rabbit got stuck in the tree and was caught instead.

[aristeides]

Stop in Baltimore Oct. 8 reported by WMAL.

[Miss Marple]

I wonder if it was the stepson who converted a year ago, and WMAL got it mixed up.

[Sacajaweau]

Yea, someone said he had been in trouble before. Maybe that is why they didn't let him out on bail.

Sac

[Caribou]

In one of the notes given to Moose, it said something about "being as serious as they were in Montgomery" or something like that. They thought at first it was Montgomery County then they decided to check other shooting crimes in the U.S. and found out that a woman was killed and one was injured in a liquor store in Montgomery, Alabama in September. The woman who survived could probably identified who shot her. Also, the credit card the killers used to have the $10 million transfered to was the one stolen from this liquor store in Montgomery, Alabama.

If it's true he was dishonorably discharged from the Army, this may be his motive for killing so close to D.C. I'm glad he and his step-son were caught. Hopefully they are the ones and the charges stick.

[livius]

Why would Black Muslims shoot four (or is it five?) blacks?

From my post #347 - sorry to repeat, folks!

Black Muslims were formerly not accepted by regular garden-variety Muslims because they believed that their founder, Elijah Muhammed, was a prophet. However, Farrakhan (or perhaps another of their leaders) resolved this problem a couple of years ago. So now Black Muslims are free to be just regular America-hating Muslims.

And can hate non-Muslim blacks, as well.

[blam]

"I am wondering about Matthew Dowdy, the bogus witness still in custody. I now wonder if he was in on this deal."

Interesting possibility, I had forgotten about him.

If these two guys were living out of the car, where were they watching TV?

There will be more arrests.(?)

[spectre]

CNN interviewing a Mr. Blank, who was getting ready to go on duty as an attendant at that particular Rest Stop...who had a total stranger walk up to him and announce the guys in the car might have been the snipers.

They locked themselves up in a van till the cops got there.

That's all I heard.

sw

[wewillnotfail]

Reported earlier from Wash times....it's a storytale.
A rabbit catches a duck in a noose but the duck flys away,
dragging the rabbit into the air with him. the rabbit falls off and lands in a hollow stump where he is trapped.

[hellinahandcart]

He was already a Muslim. Changed his name to Mohammed last year.

If he changed it after 9/11, I'd say that's as good as picking a side.

(And I don't care what anyone thinks of me for thinking that :D)

[aristeides]

WMAL: Baltimore Sun reporting traffic stop of Caprice in Baltimore on Oct. 8th. When was the arson/murder in Baltimore?