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Source: Santa Monica gunman previously hospitalized for mental health (Update: John Zawahri)
CNN ^ | 6/8/13 | Michael Martinez, Susan Candiotti and Miguel Marquez

Posted on 06/08/2013 10:45:41 AM PDT by jimbo123

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To: jimbo123
Now they're IDing the shooter as John Zawahri. So, maybe Christopher is the murdered brother and not the shooter.
81 posted on 06/08/2013 1:20:40 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Las Vegas Ron

SWAT-clad man uses assault rifle in chaotic Santa Monica shooting spree
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028918/posts?q=1&;page=51

Police: As many as 6 [Update:4] dead in S. California shootings; gunman also killed
CNN news ^ | 7 June 2013 | By Chelsea J. Carter. Miguel Marquez and Phil Gast
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028753/posts

Shooting Near The Campus Of Santa Monica College
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028656/posts

Five dead in Santa Monica shooting rampage
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 7, 2013 | By Andrew Blankstein, Robert Faturechi and Joel Rubin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028843/posts

I was just commenting about how it takes three people to write one article.


82 posted on 06/08/2013 1:22:26 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

SM gets a lot of money from Tourism — I’m going to guess that is why there is a news BLACKOUT. And that is exactly what it is. I live two blocks from the college — helicopters for 6 hours, city buses re-routed up and down my street and 7 stations yesterday AND not to have a Local update today is preposterous.

cynwoody — thanks — good info there. And to you too Sarah.


83 posted on 06/08/2013 1:24:47 PM PDT by bunster
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To: bunster

Here he is entering the library
https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/343464368257761281/photo/1
And your right, a lot of tourists go to the Promenade and Santa Monica Place(been there a few times) and since the mother has not been notified yet I guess I can understand why they won’t reveal the name. The gunman did NOT have an AR-15, he had a 223 Rifle..but of course the media will keep on referring to it as an “assault weapon”


84 posted on 06/08/2013 1:30:52 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: PapaBear3625

Maybe. But I suspect that , if the family were Christian, we would already know it.


85 posted on 06/08/2013 1:33:07 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Since it’s Jon, now, today’s his birthday?


86 posted on 06/08/2013 1:38:03 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

You’ve seen that 60’s painted, colorful open air tour bus haven’t you that goes down Pico to the beach? Well, it came by my house yesterday. Now I know they re-routed Pico buses but to not cancel that silly “Kandy-Kool-Aid” thing was bizarre.

Lots of foreign travelers with SM as destination and of course, the high percentage of foreign students at SMCC. I ran into one Irish tour group in Sept who wanted to know when the sun would come out, as that’s what was promised in their brochure. Yes, I laughed.


87 posted on 06/08/2013 1:39:20 PM PDT by bunster
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To: Godwin1
if the family were Christian

Reportedly, they are Jordanian and belong to the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church.

Given he shot relatives first, it's likely this is an Adam Lanza or Charlie Whitman type of case and not jihadism.

Of course, it's also possible his family had turned Christian, but he got the old religion back.

88 posted on 06/08/2013 1:40:17 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: txhurl

Arrrgh, I got ya.

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for clarifying ;)


89 posted on 06/08/2013 1:40:23 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medecine is the keystone in the arch of socialism - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: txhurl

Yeah apparently today was the schmuck’s 24th birthday, guess he wanted to go out with a bang


90 posted on 06/08/2013 1:43:45 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bunster

yeah Ive seen that painted bus, weird that they did not cancel that..the bus that was shot up on Cloverfield and Pico, man I must have been on that bus hundreds of times..Blue Bus #7 used to take it everyday from SMC back home, havent been on it for a while since I dont go to SMC anymore but still, its weird when it hits close to home. On the Promenade, you see A LOT of foreigners..I like the Promenade, you see a lot of whackos there but its still lots of fun, good stores..been to the movie theater on Arizona and 2nd with my friend a few times, nice place..but since I live so close to The Grove I mainly go there


91 posted on 06/08/2013 1:47:29 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bunster

How the media used to cover this sort of incident (1966): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTU5lPzKvjI


92 posted on 06/08/2013 1:53:44 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cripplecreek; Migraine

You’re right, my bad. Thanks :-)


93 posted on 06/08/2013 1:55:07 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: cynwoody

Dang it — cannot view. What was the event on You Tube?


94 posted on 06/08/2013 1:55:37 PM PDT by bunster
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To: bunster
What was the event on You Tube?

Chet Huntley reporting on the Texas Tower Massacre of 1 August 1966.

95 posted on 06/08/2013 2:01:50 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Start of a turbulent decade — from The Beatles to turmoil in a blink of the eye.


96 posted on 06/08/2013 2:14:51 PM PDT by bunster
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To: machogirl
On another mass shooting, the one in New Orleans a few weeks ago in which 15 people were shot, not a peep from Barry. Wonder why?

Final count turned out to be 19 per FOX 8 local news.

97 posted on 06/08/2013 2:17:13 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: cynwoody; jjotto

“Jordanian and belong to the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church.”

Finally some better information. On the other thread I tried to caution that we should not jump to the conclusion that the perpetrator was Muslim. What struck me is that the Father’s name was Samir. I have know eastern Christians from the M.E. who had that name. Then someone else on the thread knew Lebanese Christians with the last name of Zawahri.

I now suspect that the family is of Christian background, and many of these M.E. Christian groups go back many, many generations. That is, not new converts.

There are several Christian groups in the M.E. and many have fled because of persecution.


98 posted on 06/08/2013 2:31:51 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: The Cajun

I don’t believe I heard a PEEP from “the One”?


99 posted on 06/08/2013 2:41:16 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: cynwoody

“Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochian_Orthodox_Christian_Archdiocese_of_North_America

“The Antiochian Orthodox followers were originally cared for by the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the first bishop consecrated in North America, Saint Raphael of Brooklyn, was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1904 to care for the Syro-Levantine Greek Orthodox Christian Ottoman immigrants to the USA and Canada, who had come chiefly from the Vilayets of Adana, Aleppo, Beirut and Damascus (the birthplace of the community’s founder St Raphael).”

There are also Arab Christians in Lebanon who are Maronite and recognize the Pope, but have married priests:

Although reduced in numbers today, Maronites remain one of the principal ethno-religious groups in Lebanon. The Maronite Church asserts that since its inception, it has always remained faithful to the Church of Rome and the Pope.[2] In November 2012, Pope Benedict appointed Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi as a Cardinal.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronite_Church

“Before the conquest by Arabian Muslims reached Lebanon, the Lebanese people, including those who would become Muslim and the majority who would remain Christian, spoke a dialect of Aramaic.[4][5][6] Syriac (Christian Aramaic) still remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church.[7] The members of the Maronite Church are a part of the Syriac people; though they have, over time, developed a distinctive Maronite character, this has not obscured their Antiochene and Syriac origin.”


100 posted on 06/08/2013 2:43:30 PM PDT by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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