Posted on 03/04/2006 5:20:23 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
March 4, 2006
Who would have thought it?: in the crucial first half-hour of their respective shows this morning, Fox & Friends Weekend didn't cover the incident at the University of North Carolina in which an Iranian drove an SUV through a crowd, injuring five people - but the Today show did.
Interviewed by co-host Lester Holt, one of the students who was injured stated he had no doubt the driver - recent UNC grad Mohammed Reza Taheriazar of Iran - acted intentionally. According to the injured student, the SUV had been moving very slowly through an area in the center of the UNC campus, not causing any concern, when suddenly he heard its engine revving hard. The next thing he knew, he was on the vehicle's hood. For the record, the injured student had received medical treatment and was released, though was still feeling sore this morning.
Today reported the FBI statement that Taheriazar "allegedly made statements that he acted to avenge the American treatment of Muslims." Today also displayed Taheriazar's photo twice during the segment.
An aside: Google the incident, and you'll find that virtually every headline is along the lines "SUV Plows Through Crowd", suggesting the culprit was the inanimate object [and a hated one at that in enviro circles] rather than its Iranian driver.
One notable exception is a column in the conservative Human Events flatly entitled "Religious Terrorism Strikes Chapel Hill". The piece was written by Jillian Bandes, a former columnist for the UNC school newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel. Bandes had been dismissed from her position as columnist "after writing in support of racial profiling of Arabs in airports around the anniversary of 9/11." Her column in turn links to a story by a local ABC affiliate providing additional details about Taheriazar and leaving little doubt that the act was both intentional and motivated by religious animus. Last month, Muslim students at UNC protested the publication in The Daily Tar Heel of an original cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad.
In any case, if Today's segment was not a hard-hitting investigative piece on religious terrorism in the U.S., credit NBC nonetheless for running it at all.
Bowles is President of the whole system, not specifically UNC-Chapel Hill. James Moeser is Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill
What part of that statement makes it sound intentional? It sounds like the student shouldn't have attacked the car driven by the Islamojihad by jumping on the hood of his car. Hopefully Johnny Islamojihad will sue the nasty attacker who was obviously acting on impulses of a hate crime.
Are we sure this poor man of Persian heritage was not abducted by the SUV before it decided to seek martyrdom in it's plunge into the crowd? Perhaps it planned to use this individual as cover for it's political agenda and to protect other SUVs in the cell.
The martyr SUV must have been guaranteed 72 mint SUVs in the afterlife.
LOL
Enough "SUV" jokes children
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This is a rerun of the DC Beltway sniper killings - but on a quick impulse by an NC grad who is radical Iranian Islamic creep
More attacks will follow
Don't forget the LAX killings and the EPS killings
Of course the OKC student bombing was not......
But he would have swerved to avoid some baby ducks......In a Yugo..... :)
The FBI is investigating this now. The report will explain that the SUV was made by a disgruntled white militia member...time to move on.
Peruse daily kos or DU. They have already started the chant of "We deserve it."
This was not a quick impulse.
This guy apparently rented this vehicle for this explicit purpose.
The perp had to ~thread~ his way through service access driveways to reach this brick courtyard area. Students here were not "pedestrians" (i.e., foot traffic). They were hanging out in the pit. Frisbees, chatting with friends, card tables with petitions, the odd juggler...that sort of thing. This was nothing like a sudden swerve off the road into passing foot traffic.
This might not have been a massive terrorist attack but it was a deliberate, planned attempt to murder students by driving into the middle of a crowd.
Your comment motivated me to have a look at Daily Kos, where I found this comment:
"It is only a matter of time before more of this happens in the US as a result of Bush and Cheney's egregious errors and lack of accountability for Abu Ghraib and Gitmo."
We already have several p/ups and a hound dog so I guess the SUV has to go. Thanks for the advice. ;9)
"Our Diversity Is Our Strength!"
Yes they do and I hope they get it.
Police evacutated the students living in this criminal's apartment house and the surrounding buildings and waited for legal permission to search his apartment.
They have been unable to locate one of his 2 roommates, so the search for more information is still going on.
Incidentally, he was a psychology major [quel surprise] who had graduated at the end of last semester, so why was he still here? Inquiring minds....
Clinton introduced a quote from Gandhi by saying, "He ran a gas station down in St. Louis."
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