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Shooter Boy and Dad Nabbed...

2002-10-24

Two men wanted for questioning in the wave of deadly sniper attacks were arrested early Thursday after they were found sleeping in their car at a Maryland rest stop. The arrests raised hopes of a conclusion to the intensive and often frustrating investigation of the shootings that have killed 10 people and critically wounded three others since Oct. 2 in the Washington, D.C., area.
Told ya there was a turban involved. Ignore the fact that I was wrong on most of the other stuff...
The men were not immediately charged in the attacks, but authorities made clear the arrests were considered pivotal. The lead investigator described one of the suspects as "armed and dangerous," and a newspaper report said the men were motivated by anti-American bias.
The rest of us are motivated by anti-Bad Guy bias...

See last night's postings for details of the events leading up to it...

FOLLOWUP 10.20 a.m.
The radio (ABC News) is reporting that President Bush has been briefed that the case is solved. I wouldn't put my entire considerable weight down yet â Kathy has the story behind the "duck in a noose" remark that Chief Moose recited last night.

Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#8 off with there heads

Posted by: daddyo 2002-10-24 22:51:52

#7 Speaking from Bellingham, Washington here, we're being overrun by media looking into the "Whatcom County Connection." Bizarre. I guess it helps that I'm just across the street from the Light House Mission. I knew that William's/Mohammed's mug looked familiar somehow...

Posted by: T. Schultz 2002-10-24 16:18:14

#6 Heres the thing with the "white van", if you watch the background anytime one of the on-the-spot talking heads are talking, you'll see at least one "white van" go driving by. Once someone somewhere early on in all this put out the message about a "white van", thats all anyone saw.

The police-folk say " theres only one thing worse than an eyewitness, and thats two eyewitnesses".

Posted by: Frank Martin 2002-10-24 16:02:28

#5 Ok, I give up on the active link! The URL I was trying to reference is this:
http://www.rantburg.com/default.asp?D=10/19/2002

(Like anyone cares!) ;-)

Posted by: Aracona 2002-10-24 12:49:03

#4 Dang it, the link didn't show up. Trying again...

(Fred, please feel free to clean up my messes!)

Posted by: Aracona 2002-10-24 12:48:00

#3 It's interesting to see I was pretty on-target with my comments a few days ago, guessing it was Islamic terrorist wannabes and a 2 person team instead of a loner. (See: ) But in any case it's good to have these nutbags off the streets!

On another note, it's strange how the white van ended up as a blue Chevy Caprice... wonder what the story is with that?

Posted by: Aracona 2002-10-24 12:46:46

#2 Good call on the turban.

The things that really burns me up is that they were staying in a CHRISTIAN homeless shelter in Tacoma, Washington.

Count on followers of Muhammed to accept the hospitality of an infidel while planning their jihad against the very hand that feeds them...

This provides evidence of the following: there is systemic failure in Islam as a political system and, by extension, as a religion. Look at all of the Nobel prizes won over the last century, look at the increases in standard of living, look at any metric you prefer and Islamic fundamentalist states lose on every account (except possibly corruption and export of instability).

Posted by: Anonymous 2002-10-24 08:52:10

#1 that Anti-American bias sounds like grounds for a hate crime huh? They should execute them, then execute them again for the hate crime...better yet, let Alabama try them first for the killing there..Kathleen Kennedy Townsend would probably commute their sentence

Posted by: Frank G 2002-10-24 08:51:47

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