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Muslim arrested in Beltway case (John Muhammad)
WorldNetDaily ^ | October 24, 2002 | Art Moore

Posted on 10/24/2002 5:21:19 AM PDT by Michael2001

TACOMA, Wash. – Two men wanted for questioning in the D.C.-area sniper case were arrested early this morning at a rest stop near I-70 in the vicinity of Myersville, Md., about 45 miles northwest of the nation's capital, according to news reports.

John Allen Muhammad, 41, and stepson Lee Malvo, 17, were transported to Montgomery County, where the sniper task force is headquartered.

A rifle was found in Muhammad's car, reported WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.

Neighbors who several years ago lived near Muhammad in Tacoma, Wash., described him last night as the head of a devout Muslim family who was prone to domestic violence, according to Seattle's KOMO-TV.

Federal sources said Muhammad and Malvo were known to speak sympathetically about the men who attacked the United States on Sept. 11, but the officials believe neither man to be associated with the al-Qaida terrorist network, the Seattle Times reported.

In connection with the sniper case, however, the FBI reportedly is searching "Camp Ground Zero USA" in Marion, Ala., a militant Islamic training camp with possible links to al-Qaida. Last night Fox News reported that FBI sources said "they are not at liberty to comment" and cannot confirm or deny their agents are investigating the camp.

WorldNetDaily reported two days after the D.C.-area shootings began Oct. 2 that FBI profilers believed the case fit no regular category and could find no motive other than terrorism. The shootings, which have caused an economic slowdown in the area, started four days after al-Qaida warned the U.S. that it would strike economic targets, WND reported last Thursday. A former CIA operative told WND in a story published Saturday, that the nature of the killings and Pentagon involvement in the probe support the terrorism theory.

In March 1999, Muhammad abducted his children and took them to the Caribbean after separating from his wife earlier that year, KOMO said. The children, a 12-year-old son and two younger daughters, now reportedly are in protective custody in Maryland.

As the focus of the Maryland-based sniper probe moved to the Pacific Northwest yesterday, task force head Charles Moose announced that Muhammad, also known as John Allen Williams, was being sought for information related to the case.

Moose told reporters last night that it should not be assumed that Muhammad "is involved in any of the shootings we are investigating," but is wanted for federal firearms violations and may have information material to the sniper probe.

Muhammad, described as about 6 feet 1 and 180 pounds, was believed to be traveling with a juvenile and considered "armed and dangerous," Moose said.

The Montgomery County, Md., police chief also gave a message to the sniper.

Moose said "our inability to talk has been a concern for us as well as for you," noting several attempts to establish a connection.

"You have indicated that you wanted us to do and say certain things," Moose said in his message to the sniper. "You asked us to say, 'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.' We understand that hearing us say this is important to you."

The solution, Moose said, "remains to call us and get a private toll free number established," or write to a post office box address.

The police chief's references apparently were related to a note found at the site of Saturday's shooting near Richmond, Va., and another at Tuesday's Montgomery County attack both of which included a demand for $10 million.

Seattle's KOMO radio reports that Muhammad is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War.

A former soldier who says he recognized Muhammad in a photo on TV news last night said he served with Muhammad in the Army.

Randy Lyons, of Bothell, Wash., told KING-TV that he knew Muhammad as an "outstanding soldier" who had a "very pretty wife and kids."

Authorities said they also were searching for Muhammad's stepson, John Lee Malvo, a citizen of Jamaica, according to CNN and Fox News.

Fox said the two men are linked to a blue or burgundy 1990 Chevy Caprice with New Jersey license NDA-21Z, which matched the car in which they were found asleep.

Fox News also reported that warrants related to the D.C. case issued yesterday in Montgomery, Ala.

A telephone call from the sniper alerted investigators to look into a Sept. 21 fatal shooting at a liquor store in Montgomery, according to the Seattle Times.

An official said a piece of paper found at the Alabama shooting scene was traced to Malvo, who then was linked to a Tacoma house where he had been living with Muhammad.

Muhammad was based at nearby Fort Lewis, Wash., in 1994-95 and lived in a Tacoma neighborhood where a backyard search for ballistic material was conducted yesterday, according to Peggy Bellows, an editor for the Tacoma News Tribune.

FBI agents also conducted a search yesterday in Bellingham, Wash., related to two persons of interest in the D.C. sniper case, at least one of whom is "not a U.S. national," according to the mayor of the city in northwestern Washington state.

Agents in Tacoma recovered two shell casings along with a tree stump with bullet holes in the backyard of a fourplex, said KOMO-TV in Seattle.

The material was to be transported by air to Washington, D.C., according to news reports.

Bellingham mayor Mark Asmundson told Seattle's KING-TV that his police department began cooperating yesterday morning with FBI agents interested in two men who were residents of the city, near the Canadian border, in the past year and a half.

One was a student at Bellingham High School and the other was an older man, according to Asmundson.

A KOMO-TV report later confirmed that the student was Malvo.

The two were most recently in Bellingham nine months ago, Asmundson said.

"Being near the border, we've had our share of unusual characters in Bellingham," Asmundson said.

In Tacoma, sources confirmed that the search there was related to the D.C. sniper case, according to KIRO-TV.

Fort Lewis spokesman Lt. Col. Joseph Piek said the FBI had asked for help from the base, KOMO-TV reported.

The backyard search was conducted by consent of the property owner, said FBI spokesperson Melissa Mallon on the scene late yesterday afternoon. Local television news reports said the owner is not a person of interest.

"There is no immediate danger for anybody in this neighborhood," Mallon said. "If there were, we would let people know."

Tacoma mayor Bill Baarsma said in an interview with KING-TV in Seattle that he was called out of a meeting at about 12:30 p.m. yesterday to be met by the FBI.

"It was a day of irony for me, because I was called out of a meeting about how to cope with a terrorist attack," he said.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: alfuqra; alqaeda; blackmuslims; blackpanthers; jamaatalfuqra; newblackpanthers
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To: anniegetyourgun
Do you know why people wanted it to turn out like this?

How about if it was a white guy? Already we'd be hearing that Rush and Hannity with a shot of FOX news drove him to this. All right wing radio and TV shows would be labeled hate speech and they would try to boycott them. Gloria Alred would be tearful about how this is hate speech and it's all George W Bush's fault. Pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell would be on the hit list

They'd also be harping on gun control and confiscation big time, forget the database, they'd use it to take ALL guns.

You can spare me your sympathy for the murdering religion behind 9/11. What if this is only one of many cells assigned this duty? Will you still be crying for them if it happens in other cities? Ground zero in Alabama is just a summer camp?

41 posted on 10/24/2002 6:16:23 AM PDT by Lx
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To: anniegetyourgun
I don't think anyone is saying that everyone that converts to Islam should be put to death, but we need to see this religion for what it is, and stop pretending it is a religion of peace.

There will be a lot less converts when it is recognized as a religion rooted in violence. I think a lot of Americans will start taking a hard look at this religion when little Johnny comes home and says he is converting.
42 posted on 10/24/2002 6:16:55 AM PDT by FR_addict
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To: porte des morts
Growing trend indeed. The prison conversions are numerous. Remembering the gentle "Black Panther" slaughtering 2 officers walking up to his door in Georgia last year. H.Rap Brown and his conversion and his endless hours of work with his fellow man and Muslim brothers. Prisons are a breeding ground for conversions because the petrie dish needed to grow hatred and vilolence is already filled with the recipe needed to nuture and grow inner rage masked by peace and love. Watch your back because this demon seed is also being watered by the Democrats every election. Race division and separation is being fostered by the left for election purposes. The legacy for all our children will be terrible.
43 posted on 10/24/2002 6:18:09 AM PDT by oldironsides
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To: Jeff Head
"John Muhammed, a longtime convert to Islam, a follower of Louis Fara Khan and an individual who vocally apporved of 911"

That's what he is, and those are the relevant points. Their statement smears hundreds of thousands of honorable war veterans.

You called it like it is!

44 posted on 10/24/2002 6:18:55 AM PDT by FR_addict
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To: anniegetyourgun
If they are Muslim, if they are radical (ie. followers of Louis Fara Khan) and if they have stated their approval of 911 .... then we'd best be all over them. It takes all of that annie at this point, not just that they are Muslim.
45 posted on 10/24/2002 6:19:11 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
praying for another Timothy McVeigh

And even his ME terrorist connections are coming to light.

46 posted on 10/24/2002 6:20:02 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Jeff Head
Jeff, looks like some of the smug posters from the thread yesterday get to eat crow, apparently a favorite dish for some of them. It ain't the "angry white guy" and I shudder to think how many more just like them are around. You could get an idea, I suppose, by attending any Farrakan rally.

FReegards

47 posted on 10/24/2002 6:22:48 AM PDT by MileHi
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To: twigs
...And even his (Timothy McVeigh's) ME terrorist connections are coming to light.

Not much light, and not for long. There has to be at least one angry white redneck male terrorist to be a poster boy for the media.

48 posted on 10/24/2002 6:23:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: Michael2001
"You asked us to say, 'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.' We understand that hearing us say this is important to you."

Gee, isn't it nice of them to broadcast the terrorist's codes to his friends?

What are the odds that his buddies will keep shooting innocents? That way the Liberal enablers can scream for his release, since he "obviously isn't THE sniper."

49 posted on 10/24/2002 6:23:30 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Michael2001
Add Little Katie Communist of the NBC Today Show to the list of talking heads in mourning this morning that John Williams and his boyfriend were not just angry right-wing white men. Remember, Islam is a peaceful religion as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered, and the infidels killed.
50 posted on 10/24/2002 6:24:46 AM PDT by jrlc
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To: Michael2001
"...the head of a devout Muslim family who was prone to domestic violence..."

That says it all, doesn't it?

51 posted on 10/24/2002 6:25:05 AM PDT by valkyrieanne
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To: Jonathan
ARREST. DEPORT. EXPEL - ALL MUSLIMS FROM AMERICA.

I have some good friends, a married couple who each came here in their teens to the U.S. from Iran in the wake of the fall of the Shah. They have lived here ever since, raising a family. They daughter is at the Univ. of Texas and eventually wants to be a pediatrician. The son is a computer genius, at the Houston High School for Math and Science.

They are Muslim, btw. Do you suggest we "arrest, deport and expel" them?

I have a friend who lives just down the street. He is from Syria originally. He is an accountant, married to an American. He is a Muslim--though she is not.

He loves America, but he is also committed to his religion.

Shall we "arrest, deport and expel" him because of his beliefs?

There is a name for those who condemn an entire religious people based on stereotypes and knee-jerk hatred.

Can you guess what it is?

52 posted on 10/24/2002 6:25:25 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: joanie-f; Dukie; JohnHuang2; Travis McGee; Critter; Lurker; harpseal; sneakypete; Luis Gonzalez; ...
FYI ... Let's hope they got these animals and that there are not more waiting to go into action.

Let's also hope that the relevent facts regarding this man and his accomplices come to light and we recognize this for the terror it is, and for the source that produced it. And that we do something about it.

Then they need to quickly try, convict and fry these folks ... try and fry, that's a new one.

ARM THE PEOPLE

53 posted on 10/24/2002 6:27:08 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: porte des morts
elder reported to be a security guard... for the million man march

Verrrry interesting. One of the men shot at a gas station in VA was also connected to the million man march--Kenneth Bridges. He helped provide some sort of professional assistance to it.

54 posted on 10/24/2002 6:27:41 AM PDT by twigs
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To: FR_addict
Of course it is a religion full of bloody scriptures. That doesn't mean these guys are Al-Queda.
55 posted on 10/24/2002 6:27:51 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Illbay
Thank you.
56 posted on 10/24/2002 6:29:08 AM PDT by stuartcr
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To: MileHi
You could get an idea, I suppose, by attending any Farrakan rally.

That would be a start ... particularly any of them that have expressed approval for 911 or sympathy for those who did it.

57 posted on 10/24/2002 6:29:16 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: JuddFrye
My husband is named John and I can assure you, if he converts to Islam, I will keep a VERY careful eye on him. Given what we are learning, I would consider the lives of my family and Americans in potential danger.
58 posted on 10/24/2002 6:29:47 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Jeff Head
Hey--anyone remember the man that gave the false description
of the shooter? the media played it down--I am now wondering
if he really saw muhamad and tried to throw authorities off
the trail.
59 posted on 10/24/2002 6:30:38 AM PDT by mj1234
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To: rightwingextremist1776
why aren't we marching in the streets protesting the racial profiling that occured, after all they were looking for angry white men. Can you imagine if they said all along they were looking for two angry black men and it turned out to be white guys. I can hear Al Sharpton and the Rev marching in DC.
60 posted on 10/24/2002 6:31:41 AM PDT by madyank
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