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Monkey County shooter a terrorist?
Jennie thinks there might be a turban involved in the Montogomery County snipings, too...
I think the odds are about even that the shooter is a terrorist, as opposed to a plain old-fashioned lone loon.

It's clear that all of the shootings have been done by the same killer, but whether he's motivated by jihad or simply by personal demons is impossible to determine at this point.

By shooting that poor teenage boy at his middle school today, he/they have made sure that the terror engendered by the shootings has spread to schools and children so is he/are they "terrorists" in the classic sense of the word? Definitely.

But whether he is/they are Islamist Jihadi terrorists remains to be seen.
I agree with that guesstimate. I think the chances are about even that it's jihad-associated. Something in the back of my mind just keeps suggesting "Paleostinian," though probably not associated with a formal banger group. The other 50 percent chance is the fellow with the pot belly who wears camo pants to the grocery store and bores you in the beer joint talking about the "stopping power" of guns you've never heard of. I suppose both of those should be 45 percent chances, since there's always the possibility it could be some other kind of Bad Guy entirely.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-08
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