Suspect in Utah Killings Fled Bosnia War [the Associated Press at its finest]

Associated Press via ABC News ^ | 14 Feb 2007

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Suspect in Utah Killings Fled Bosnia War

Teen Suspect in Utah Killings Fled War in Homeland of Bosnia As a Child, Neighbors Say

The Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - The Bosnian teen who killed five shoppers at a Salt Lake City mall fled the war in his homeland at age 10, neighbors and friends said Wednesday.

Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old immigrant fatally shot by police after Monday's rampage, was only 4 when he and his mother fled their village of Talovici on foot after Serbian forces overran it in 1993, people close to the family told The Associated Press.

Talovic lived as a refugee in Bosnia from 1993 to 1998, when his family moved to the United States, they said.

During that period, he spent some time in Srebrenica, the northeastern enclave where up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in 1995 by Serb forces loyal to former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. It was the worst massacre of civilians since World War II.

The teen gunman left Srebrenica two years before the massacre, but acquaintances suggested it may have left an indelible mark on the quiet little boy they knew.

"That's why I'm convinced the war did this in Utah," said Murat Avdic, a friend of the family. "There cannot be any other reason."

Avdic, 54, said that when the village of Talovici fell, the family split.

"Sulejman and his mother walked to Srebrenica, and from there were later evacuated by a U.N. convoy," he said.

"Suljo, the father, headed over the mountains and forests with his comrades as well. Many left the village, but only a few made it."

Avdic described the family as "very normal, very decent and quiet."

Up to 200,000 people were killed and 1.8 million others lost their homes in Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

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Reporting by the Associated Press establishes why the muslim teen, Sulejman Talovic, murdered five innocent mall shoppers in cold blood. Jihadi beliefs? Nah. islamist fantasies? Nah. What then? Obviously, it was post-traumatic stress syndrome. Talovic's early childhood memories of the Bosnian war made him snap 10 years later, drive to the mall and open fire.

What could be clearer? I, for one, will admit to having thought otherwise, but my eyes have been opened to the horror poor Sulejman endured.

[Clioman]

Give the story time...wherever the plot involves a muslim male and murder, sooner or later an imam turns up...

[ccmay]

So, this country sent her fighting men to shed their blood defending this boy and his co-religionists from Christian Serbs, then took him under her wing as a refugee, and this is how the vermin repays us? Dig him up, shoot him again, and feed him to a herd of hungry swine.

-ccm

[Longtooths]

So he repays the US who saved his family by shooting Americans??

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Talovic's early childhood memories of the Bosnian war made him snap 10 years later, drive to the mall and open fire.

...and not just that, but his experiences in a massacre that he missed by two years. Of Course! This just makes it all better, too! The murdered have sprung back to life now that we know it wasn't his fault! He was the real victim all along! Sue the cop who shot, er, brutally gunned him down without trying to understand his plight for civil damages! Ban guns! Raise taxes for anti-massacre education! Pull out of Iraq before we cause some young Iraqi to do the same in ten years! Legalize weed, it could helped him deal with the emotional pain!

I'm sure the above statements (and in the case of the victims resurrected bit, attitude) will be appearing on DU soon enough.

[Minn]

"That's why I'm convinced the war did this in Utah," said Murat Avdic, a friend of the family. "There cannot be any other reason."

I can think of one, but we won't be hearing anything about it.

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The teen gunman left Srebrenica two years before the massacre, but acquaintances suggested it may have left an indelible mark on the quiet little boy they knew.

"That's why I'm convinced the war did this in Utah," said Murat Avdic, a friend of the family. "There cannot be any other reason."

I'm glad I wasn't drinking water when I read this...

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Yep (see #6)...

[Cicero]

Thank you, bill clinton for fighting that war on the wrong side, and also for inviting hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees into our country.

[coloradan]

Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old immigrant fatally shot by police

Or, an armed citizen, if that's what an off-duty officer is.

[freeangel]

"by shooting Americans?"

That's what muzzies do.

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We'll be hearing more from those refugees, I'd guess...

[kjo]

The Associated Press should be ashamed. But then, they don't have any shame left.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

"an 18-year-old immigrant"
Now imagine if it had been a Jew, Mormon or Catholic. They would never have omitted that fact.

[delphirogatio]

So, he had a rough childhood? How come Holocaust survivors haven't been running about gunning down the innocent? By the author's own statistics and tortured form of logic, they'd have more justification for doing so. *slaps forehead* That's because Islam is a religion of peace! Oh yeah...forgot for a sec, what with all the gunfire and such. /s

[kittymyrib]

One of those righteous Albanian Muslims that Billy Jeff imported to the USA, no doubt. The rancid Clintoon legacy just keeps killing people.

[DustyMoment]

OMG!!! The AP is trying to drum up SYMPATHY for this murderer!!????

This is positively the WORST!!!!

It is crapola like this that has long since driven me away from anything to do with the MSM!

[Parley Baer]

So that must mean its Klinton's fault.

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So, they painted him as a damn victim now. Sonofa.....

[DustyMoment]

"That's why I'm convinced the war did this in Utah,"

What war is Utah in?? I haven't heard about this!!