Note: Photos included.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/359453_jewishfed18.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20080417/450haq18_20745_videowaechter.jpg
“Jurors see last seconds of shooting victim’s life
Waechter rushed down Jewish Federation stairs”
By TRACY JOHNSON
P-I REPORTER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Jurors saw the last seconds of the life of the woman who didn’t survive the Jewish Federation shooting, watching her on choppy video footage Thursday as she ran from her office, one hand pressed to her wounded chest.
· Photos from security cameras, trial
Pamela Waechter came into view for just a moment, then disappeared as she hurried down a stairway. Naveed Haq followed. He reached an arm over the railing — a moment in which police say he shot the 58-year-old woman in the head.”
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004357397_haq18m.html
Friday, April 18, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
“Woman died in Seattle shootings and lived to testify about it”
By Natalie Singer
Seattle Times staff reporter
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Rexroad testified that she was finishing up her work just after 4 p.m. when she heard “popping” noises. Rexroad went down the hallway and saw Haq, who had forced his way into the locked building about two minutes earlier.
“He turned and looked at me. He had a gun in his hand. He shot me,” she said, her voice quivering. “I remember feeling stinging, and then feeling nothing.”
She slipped into a nearby conference room and tried to close the door behind her, she testified. “He was trying to get in. He shot me again — it went across the back of my knee and knocked me down.”
Somehow, she stumbled into another hallway, down the back steps and through an exit. All along, she was yelling for someone to help her. But other co-workers had either already fled the building or had also been shot.”
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TRIAL UPDATE:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004363419_webhaq21m.html
“Victim pregnant at time of Jewish Federation shootings testifies in Haq trial”
By Natalie Singer
Seattle Times staff reporter
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Still, Klein reached up and pulled down the telephone receiver from her desk and dialed 911. As she spoke with an operator, Haq appeared again in her doorway and told her “because you were too [expletive] stupid to listen, you are my hostage now.”
With Haq’s gun trained on her head, Klein offered him the receiver and then crouched quietly in a corner, she testified.
“He began to state that ... he would like to talk to [television talk-show host] Larry King and the Jews ... need to get out of Lebanon and Iraq. This is his Hezbollah, this is his personal statement.””
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/359931_jewishfed22.html
Last updated April 21, 2008 9:33 p.m. PT
“Jewish Federation shooting victim breaks down during testimony
‘He had the gun at my head the entire time’”
By TRACY JOHNSON
P-I REPORTER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Haq, who was raised in a Muslim American family, gave the operator his name and Social Security number. He said he shot Klein. Asked if she needed an ambulance, Haq replied, “Yeah, I don’t care.”
He answered the operator’s questions, confirming that he was acting alone and hadn’t been drinking.
“I don’t care if I die — I just want to say that,” he said. “This is just to make a point.””
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080501seattlecase05012008.html
“Prosecution rests in Seattle shooting;
defense starts with gunman’s mother”
(May 1, 2008)
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blog:
http://jewishbreakingnews.blogspot.com/2008/05/prosecution-rests-in-seattle-case.html
(JTA.org)
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008
“Prosecution rests in Seattle case”
SEATTLE (JTA) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Seattle Police Det. Thomas Luckie, a computer forensics expert, said that among the hundreds of sites he visited were scores of pornography sites, Muslim and Middle East news sites, sites of Jewish members of the U.S. Congress and the site of the American Israel Political Action Committee.
Luckie said the searches on the day before the shootings were broad at first but over time became more targeted.
“On July 27, 2006, [Haq] searched CNN specials and the Mideast crisis, Luckie testified. He searched the Iraq war, the situation in the Middle East, and Pakistan missile technology.
Haqs search records from July 23 to July 26 of that year also showed searches about Hezbollah and the resistance until he finally focused on AIPAC seminars in Seattle and throughout the United States.
In a precinct interview after the shootings, Haq told police he originally thought he would attack an AIPAC event, but that he changed his mind because he believed it would be too complicated. That evidence was suppressed by the judge because Haq was not provided an attorney after repeated requests.”
