Luke AFB Shooting per Foxnews

Fox ^ | 2/23/2010 | Staff

[Lobbyist]

I nominate them for a Darwin Award.

[hennie pennie]

>>> "These two are Darwin Award candidates." <<<

Or perhaps, a mutual pact for Suicide By Cop?

[American Quilter]

Actually AF police are now referred to as ‘security forces’, and most of the gates are now manned by Rent-a-Cops while the SF patrol inside the base. This is due to manning issues as so many SF are deployed overseas.

In addition, all AFB gate guards perform 100% ID checks since 9/11. That requires more guards because it slows traffic. Many AF bases now have hard-to-approach gates (sharp S turns, concrete barriers and/or boulders, etc.) with two entry lanes instead of one, to handle the traffic flow during rush hour.

[ReformedBeckite]

I bet the car was stolen nearby and had a base sticker on it, and the perps thought that they could just drive around freely on the base with out anybody checking them out. The base cops probably knew about the stolen car and was on the look out for it, a stolen car with a base sticker would be very high risk situation, in which a lot of base security people and local cops would be on the look out for.

[GailA]

Ours do here in Millington, TN Navy base, private guards.

[Peter Horry]

We have MARINES.

Been years since I have on a Navy Base, but the last time I was the gates were manned by civilian police AKA “rent-a-cops”.

The Marines did man the gates, at one time, and still have an on base security force but, unless it has changed, they don’t man the gates nor have routine security duties.

[ReformedBeckite]

In link It appears the police were involved with two cars, one car early that they stopped with out incident and this one that has made the news.

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

Your hunch about the car having a base sticker is probably good.

I found this sentence on the linked TV report interesting:
“[Maricopa County SHeriff Office] said Glendale police investigated a SECOND vehicle associated with the Litchfield Park “.[emphasis added by me to the word ‘second’]

[massmike]

not terrorism

Must be a "man-made disaster".

[maica]

...and only an idiot or someone who is committing suicide by Cop does not do what they are told with a gun pointed at them.

%%%%%%

Unfortunately a huge number of people now believe that rules do not really apply to them. They run red lights or around the barriers at train crossings, so why should the sight of a gun register in their brains as a command to be obeyed!

[BP2]

Ready to add this at Luke AFB to the list if need be:
(still need to add the attempted food poisoning at Fort Jackson, announced last week)

         Islamic Attacks in the US (partially or wholly successful, since 1993)

• 1993 Shootings at CIA Headquarters
• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
• 1993 New York City landmark bomb plot
• 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting
• 2000 New York terror attack
• 2000 Millennium Attack Plots
  
• 2001 September 11 attacks
• 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting
• 2002 Buffalo Six
• 2004 US & UK Financial Buildings plot
• 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot
• 2006 Toledo terror plot
• 2006 Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar SUV attack
• 2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
• 2007 Salt Lake City Trolley Square shooting
• 2007 Fort Dix attack plot
• 2009 New York bomb plot
• 2009 Arkansas recruiting office shooting
• 2009 Fort Hood Shooting
• 2009 Detroit “Underwear Bomber” on Northwest Flight 253

  Failed Islamic Attacks in the US (since 2000)

• 2000 January 1: 2000 millennium attack plots, plan to bomb LAX Airport in Los Angeles, California
• 2001 December 22: Richard Reid tackled by passengers in a plane traveling from Paris to Miami when he tried to light explosives concealed in his shoe.
• 2004 Financial buildings plot: Al-Qaeda plan to bomb the International Monetary Fund, New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup and Prudential buildings broken up after arrest of computer expert in Pakistan and plotters in Britain.
• 2004 Columbus Shopping Mall Bombing Plot: A loosely organized group of young men planned to carry out an attack on an unnamed shopping mall.
• 2009 2009 New York bomb plot
  

  Alleged & Proven Islamic Attack Plots (since 2000)

• 2002 May 8: José Padilla accused by John Ashcroft of plotting to attack the United States with a dirty bomb, declared as an enemy combatant, and denied habeas corpus. No material evidence has been produced to support the allegation.
• 2003 May 1: Iyman Faris pleas guilty to providing material support to Al Qaeda and plotting to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge by cutting through cables with blowtorches. He had been working as a double for the FBI since March, but in October was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
• 2005 August 31: Kevin James, founder of radical Islamic group J.I.S (Jam’iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh), Hammad Samana, Gregory Patterson, and Levar Washington were indicted on charges to wage war against the U.S. government through terrorism in California. James later pled guilty to the conspiracy charge.
• 2006 February 21: The Toledo terror plot where three men were accused of conspiring to wage a "holy war" against the United States, supply help to the terrorist in Iraq, and threatening to kill the US president.
• 2006 June 23: The Miami bomb plot to attack the Sears Tower where seven men were arrested after an FBI agent infiltrated a group while posing as an al-Qaeda member. No weapons or other materials were found. On May 12, 2009 after two mistrials due to hung juries five men were convicted and one acquitted on charges related to the plot. Narseal Batiste the groups ringleader was convicted on four charges the only defendant to be convicted on all four charges brought against the defendants.
• 2006 July 7: Three suspects arrested in Lebanon for plotting to blow up a Hudson River tunnel and flood the New York financial district.
• 2006 December 8: Derrick Shareef, 22, a Muslim convert who talked about his desire to wage jihad against civilians was charged in a plot to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans December 22 at the CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois.
• 2007 May 7: Fort Dix attack plot Six men inspired by Jihadist videos arrested in a failed homegrown terrorism plot to kill soldiers. Plot unravels when Circuit City clerk becomes suspicious of the DVDs the men had created and report it to authorities who place an informant in the group. In October 2008 one man pleaded guilty to charges related to the plot. On December 22, 2008 five other men were convicted with conspiracy to kill American soldiers but were acquitted of attempted murder.. Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka were sentenced to life iin prison.
• 2007 June 3: John F. Kennedy International Airport terror plot Four men indicted in plot to blow up jet-fuel supply tanks at JFK Airport and a 40-mile connecting pipeline. One suspect is a U.S. citizen and one, Abdul Kadir, is former member of parliament in Guyana. All The airport was targeted because one of the suspects saw arms shipments and missiles being shipped to Israel from that locale. In a recorded conversation one of the suspects allegedly told an informant that "Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States. To hit John F. Kennedy, wow.... They love JFK -- he's like the man". Plot unraveled when a person from law enforcement was recruited.
• 2009 May 20: 2009 New York City bomb plot Three U.S. citizens and one Haitian from Newburgh, New York were arrested in a plot to bomb a Riverdale Temple and a Riverdale Jewish Center in The Bronx, New York City in an alleged homegrown terrorist plot. It was also alleged that they planed to shoot down military planes operating out of Stewart Air National Guard Base also in Newburgh. One of the suspects whose parents are from Afghanistan was said to be "unhappy that many Muslim people were being killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the United States Military forces."
• 2009 September: Najibullah Zazi of Denver was indicted on charges of trying to build and detonate a weapon of mass destruction by purchasiing hydrogen peroxide, acetone and other chemicals. Prosecutors suspect he wanted set off bombs on September 11 on commuter trains in New York. On September 29 Zazi plead not guilty to the charges. Zazi and two others were prevoiusly arrested on charges of making false statements to the government following raids in New York City and Colorado. ABC News reported that the plot involves at least three teams of four men each.. As of September 25 dozens of suspects were still being monitored.
• 2009 August - September: On September 24 William Boyd and Hysen Sherifi charged with "conducting reconnaissance of the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia and obtaining armor-piercing ammunition with the intent to attack Americans". Boyd, two of his sons and several other suspects had been charged on international terrorism charges in August, but at the time there was no indication that they wanted to plot a United States attack. An audio tape of Boyd decrying the U.S. military, discussing the honor of martyrdom, and bemoaning the struggle of Muslims was played at a August hearing. It is the first case of a ring of homegrown terrorists having specific targets..
• 2009 September 24: Michael Finton/Talib Islam a 29 year old man from Illinois charged with trying to kill federal employees by detonating a car bomb at the federal building in Springfield, Illinois. Charges based on F.B.I. sting operation. He is said to idolize American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh.
• 2009 September 24: Hosam Maher Husein Smadi a 19 year old illegal immigrant from Jordan charged with trying the bomb the 60 story Fountain Place office tower in Dallas, Texas. Charges are based on F.B.I. sting operation in which agents posed as members of an Al Queda sleeper cell.
• 2009 October 21: Tarek Mehanna a pharmacist from suburban Boston arrested on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The federal charge alleges a plot to obtain atomic weapons, shoot up two mails, and assassinate two unnamed former members of the executive branch of the federal government. The alleged plot was repotedly inspired by the 2002 Beltway Sniper Attacks. The suspect allegedly went abroad on a failed trip to buy weapons.

[Fyscat]

Thats a nice little complilation you got there. Thank you.

[raygunfan]

terr_ism

“pat, i would like to buy a vowel”

[Miss Didi]

Must be a "man-made disaster".

And an "isolated incident."

[MarineMom613]

Maybe this was Suicide by military?/s

[TornadoAlley3]

[Fyscat]

I'm not following this on TV, but I used to live in PHX. It is the wild west out there and this could be anything. With that said, one day we will be like Israel, perhaps another twenty years. The thing that upsets me the most is by then, I will be an old man and it will be my sons fight.

[DYngbld]

The picture they just showed on fox was a pickup truck. odd not only have the names not been given the vehicle has changed from a car to a truck.

[aft_lizard]

It hasn’t changed here in the local news.

[verity]

Damn you for reminding me of my crazy old paranoid aunt who gossiped over the fence. lol