Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Fox News: Pentagon on Lockdown; Shooting at Pentagon Metro Station
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Posted on 03/04/2010 4:17:20 PM PST by kristinn

Nothing on the wires yet. No more news given than what I put in the headline.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 20100304; antibush; bds; bedell; bhodod; california; cannabis; coljamesstabow; dcmetro; dod; electricalengineer; gradstudent; hollister; jamesstabow; johnpatrickbedell; jpatrickbedell; leos; officers; officershot; pentagon; pentagonmetro; pothead; sanjose; shooterdead; shooterdies; shooting; sjsu; stabow; subway; subwayplots; subways
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 541-560561-580581-600601-603 next last
To: devolve

That only linked me to one surname...??

My ancestors were Palatine Germans and arrived in Philadelphia on the “Davy” in 1732.


561 posted on 03/05/2010 4:09:48 PM PST by La Enchiladita (wise gringa)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 559 | View Replies]

To: All

ADDING to post no. 483:

Note: Photo included.

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=58203

Officials Launch Probe into Pentagon Shooting

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2010 – The Pentagon Metro station was closed soon after the shooting incident, and modified bus and train service resumed at 11:30 a.m. today. The Metro Entrance Facility and the upper bus platform remain closed, but the lower bus platform is open. All other buses will continue to drop off and pick up at the Corridor 3 “Kiss and Drop” location.

John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., shot two Pentagon police officers outside the Pentagon March 4, 2010. He was shot in an exchange of gunfire and died later at a local hospital. The incident is under investigation. Photo courtesy of the FBI
(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.

Pentagon workers who wish to catch a Metro train will need to leave the building via Corridor 3 and walk to the north escalator to access the train station. Security officers are positioned along the route to assist with directions.
The FBI, in collaboration with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency and Virginia’s Arlington County Police Department, are working to figure out why a California man approached an entrance to the Pentagon yesterday and shot two PFPA officers.

The lone shooter, John Patrick Bedell, of Hollister, Calif., was shot in the head and left arm during an exchange of gunfire outside the Pentagon, near the building entrance adjacent to the Pentagon Metro Transit Center, at about 6:40 p.m.

Bedell was transported to George Washington University Hospital and died at about 10 p.m. Two PFPA officers, Jeffery Amos and Marvin Carraway, were injured in the exchange. The officers were treated at George Washington University Hospital and released. A third officer also was involved in the exchange of gunfire, but that officer’s name is not being released at this time, officials said.

Bedell, who was 36 years old, is believed to have driven to Washington in a green 1998 Toyota Avalon that has been located and removed from a nearby mall parking garage. At the time of the shooting, he had a full beard and was dressed in slacks, a white collared shirt and a blazer.

Investigators are searching the car, conducting interviews and reviewing a video of the shooting in an effort to piece together a timeline of Bedell’s activities leading up the incident. Investigative efforts include reviewing Bedell’s possible internet activity, his cell phone usage and other information which might assist in determining Bedell’s state of mind at the time of the shooting.

The investigation is ongoing and anyone who believes he or she may have witnessed the shooting, or may have additional information, is urged to call the FBI at 202-278-2000.

The Pentagon Metro station was closed soon after the shooting incident, and modified bus and train service resumed at 11:30 a.m. today. The Metro Entrance Facility and the upper bus platform remain closed, but the lower bus platform is open. All other buses will continue to drop off and pick up at the Corridor 3 “Kiss and Drop” location.

Pentagon workers who wish to catch a Metro train will need to leave the building via Corridor 3 and walk to the north escalator to access the train station. Security officers are positioned along the route to assist with directions.

(From a news release issued jointly by the FBI and the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.)

Related Articles:
Shooting Outside Pentagon Causes Lockdown

###
###

Previously...

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=58186

Shooting Outside Pentagon Causes Lockdown

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2010 – The Pentagon was in lockdown for some time this evening after a gunman opened fire on two Pentagon Force Protection Agency officers, according to a statement released by the Defense Department.

The shooter fired at the officers at the entrance to the Pentagon Metro station outside the Pentagon building about 6:40 p.m., the statement says. The officers returned fire, injuring the gunman, it says.

The two officers and the gunman were transported to a local hospital. The officers’ injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, it says.

“The officers acted very quickly and decisively to neutralize the threat,” a police spokesman said.

The Pentagon Metro station, bus stop and Metro entrance to the Pentagon will be closed until further notice, officials said.

The shooting is under investigation.

Related Sites:
Pentagon Press Release

###
###

Previously...

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13354

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 172-10
March 04, 2010
Pentagon Statement on Metro Entrance Shooting

A shooting incident has occurred at the Pentagon Metro Entrance this evening at approximately 6:40 p.m. EST. Two Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) officers were injured when an unknown suspect fired at them. The suspect was injured in return fire from the PFPA officers. Injuries to the two PFPA officers do not appear to be life threatening. A suspect is in custody and his condition is unknown. All three injured have been taken to a local hospital. All Pentagon entrances were secured for a brief time but have since been reopened with the exception of the Pentagon Metro entrance. The incident is under investigation. More details will be released when available.

###
###

March 5, 2010

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel10/wfo030510.htm

Shooting at Pentagon Metro Station

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) and Arlington County Police Department, are investigating why a California man approached the entrance to the Pentagon at approximately 6:40 p.m. on March 4, 2010 and shot two PFPA officers.

The lone shooter, John Patrick Bedell, born May 20, 1973, was shot in the head and left tricep during an exchange of gunfire outside the Pentagon, near the entrance adjacent to the Pentagon Metro Transit Center. Bedell was transported to George Washington University Hospital and died at approximately 10 p.m.

Two PFPA officers, Jeffery Amos and Marvin Carraway, injured in the exchange were treated at George Washington University Hospital and released. A third officer was also involved in the exchange of gunfire but that officer’s name is not being released at this time.

Bedell, of Hollister, California, is believed to have driven to Washington, D.C. in a vehicle that has been located and removed from the Fashion Centre Pentagon City Mall parking garage. The vehicle is a 1998 green Toyota Avalon. At the time of the shooting, Bedell, who had a full beard, was dressed in slacks, a white collared shirt, and blazer.

Investigators are searching the car, conducting interviews, and reviewing a video of the shooting in an effort to piece together a timeline of Bedell’s activities leading up the incident. Investigative efforts include reviewing Bedell’s possible Internet activity, his cell phone usage, and other information which might assist in determining Bedell’s state of mind at the time of the shooting.

The investigation is ongoing and anyone who believes he or she may have witnessed the shooting, or may have additional information, is urged to call the FBI at 202-278-2000.

Below is a picture of John Patrick Bedell.


562 posted on 03/05/2010 4:38:37 PM PST by Cindy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 483 | View Replies]

To: LibertyRocks; Cindy; AmericanInTokyo; Velveeta

This is a reply from Jeffrey Imm:

They should be paying attention to Mustafa Qureshi (Mohammad Mustafa Qureshi).

However, I would not at all be surprised if Bedell’s ultimate rationale had nothing to do with Jihad at all - I think he attacked the Pentagon for basically the reasons he put out in his manifesto. [Link was in my last post above.]

I ran this google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Mustafa+Qureshi+%28Mohammad+Mustafa+Qureshi%29.&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

LOL, L.R has this name in post # 516 this thread, according to google.


563 posted on 03/05/2010 5:02:05 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 529 | View Replies]

To: nw_arizona_granny
I don't know why Hollister, CA is "ringing a bell" with you; I can't find anything, either, just the motorcycle gatherings.

Are you, per chance recalling a kidnapping in the early 1990s of Adobe's chief named, Geschke???

GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVE TIMELINE
"Hollister, California"
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22hollister,+california%22&hl=en&ned=au&sa=N&lnav=m&scoring=t

GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVE SEARCH "in hollister" terrorist

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&ned=au&scoring=a&q=%22in+hollister%22+terrorist

564 posted on 03/05/2010 5:15:43 PM PST by hennie pennie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 557 | View Replies]

To: Syncro

I managed to get screen captures of his Wiki Page - if I can get permission from the Op’s I’ll post it on here, the guy was a left-wing, pot smoking, nutcase (I’m uploading a ton onto our website when Dave gets home to show me how!!!)

Long time no speak sweetie!!! :-)


565 posted on 03/05/2010 6:40:24 PM PST by Brytani (Support Allen West For Congress - www.allenwestforcongress.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 524 | View Replies]

To: devolve; potlatch

:)


566 posted on 03/05/2010 6:43:38 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 553 | View Replies]

To: potlatch

.

Go to the header links at top

This is the surname link:

131,599 individuals, 48,809 families from file 20100304.ged (4 Mar 2010)

http://genweb.whipple.org/surnames.html

There are several US Presidents listed including FDR and the Bush family - also decended from Francis Cooke and his son John Cook

Most Presidents decendants have chosen to not give permission to post their genweb info and genlinks

The Bush family is not on Whipple.org for those reasons

I believe 15 US Presidents had/have Mayflower ancestors

Try:

Alden
Coolidge
Roosevelt

It is not unusual for an American citizen to have distant relatives to several US Presidents

95% of my old HS graduating class has surnames that show up on Whipple.org


567 posted on 03/05/2010 7:00:49 PM PST by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . Hussein Junior-Rigging the USA in any which way possible . . . . . . .)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 561 | View Replies]

To: Brytani
Yea it's been a while!

On another thread I posted a link to the cached page of that nut

It's at This Link

I think I pinged you to it.

568 posted on 03/05/2010 10:15:36 PM PST by Syncro (TPXIII coming soon! March 27th to April 15th 2010)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 565 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB719A0128856D6&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

San Jose Mercury News (CA) - June 3, 1992 - 6B Local

2 ARRESTED IN ADOBE CHIEF’S ABDUCTION ARE ARRAIGNED AND HELD WITHOUT BAIL

The two men arrested in the abduction of Adobe Systems executive Charles Geschke were arraigned Tuesday in Palo Alto Municipal Court on one count of kidnapping for ransom and four counts of making terrorist threats. Municipal Judge Ralph E. Brogdon noted the severity of the charges and agreed with the prosecutor that Ahmad Mohammed Sayeh, 25, of Campbell and Mouhannad Albukari, 26, of San Jose posed a flight risk. The judge ordered the men held without bail. Brogdon also ordered the...

>> Purchase complete article, of 325 words

[You might be right, I got lost checking your searches and ended up checking food articles.......LOL, granny]

[When I said I was lost, I had no idea of how lost, LOL, I posted the above to the survival list first, was in shock when the wrong thread came up after posting........granny]


569 posted on 03/05/2010 10:45:24 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 564 | View Replies]

To: LibertyRocks; La Enchiladita

I thought you might want to check this out as this is being cleansed from all MSM reports.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2464584/posts?page=159#159


570 posted on 03/06/2010 3:51:36 AM PST by freema (MarineNiece,Daughter,Wife,Friend,Sister,Friend,Aunt,Friend,Mother,Friend,Cousin, FRiend)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 527 | View Replies]

To: nw_arizona_granny
See item no.3 returned in this search about an alternate spelling for one of those kidnappers:

Abu Ahmad --- HAMAS

Could the "Ahmad Mohammed Sayeh" from your articled be the same person as Ahmad Mohammad Salah AKA Abu Amad who is mentioned in a book about Hamas, as having contributed large sums of money to them?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Ahmad+Mohammad+Salah%22

571 posted on 03/06/2010 5:38:58 AM PST by hennie pennie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 569 | View Replies]

To: nw_arizona_granny
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&ei=jluSS4eMAY2PtgexkanUCg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CBAQBSgA&q=%22Mohannad+Al+Bukhari%22&spell=1

_________________________________________

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Mouhannad+Al+Bukari%22&btnG=Google+Search

_________________________________________

572 posted on 03/06/2010 5:50:30 AM PST by hennie pennie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 569 | View Replies]

To: nw_arizona_granny
Maybe those Scandinavian researchers who've claimed that smoking marijuana is very dangerous for some individuals may have been correct in THIS case.

Pentagon shooter little known by neighbors - News Radio 590 KLBJ - The AP Wire
http://www.590klbj.com/news/article.aspx?id=1991708

John Patrick Bedell was a brilliant and seemingly gentle computer whiz, yet so withdrawn that people in this rural community where his parents and grandparents are civic leaders knew little about him _ until he opened fire at the Pentagon this week.

  Family and friends now paint a portrait of a troubled man who sank deep into mental illness and anti-government rants, even as his mother _ a nursing instructor _ tried to seek help.  

"The family tried over and over to get him into some kind of treatment, but because he was an adult, they were restricted," said Reb Monaco, a family friend for three decades. "Patrick himself was in some sort of denial."  

It is still unclear why Bedell opened fire at the Pentagon entrance Thursday _ wounding two police officers before he was fatally shot _ though he had railed on the Internet about his distrust of the government and his distaste for marijuana laws.

  "We may never know why he made this terrible decision," his devastated family said in a statement Friday. "One thing is clear though _ his actions were caused by an illness and not a defective character."  

Bedell, 36, a graduate student in electrical engineering at San Jose State University, was diagnosed as bipolar, or manic depressive, and had been in and out of treatment programs for years.

  After a 2006 marijuana and resisting arrest case in Orange County, Calif., his psychiatrist said Bedell tried to self-medicate with pot, inadvertently making his bi-polar disorder symptoms more pronounced........  

573 posted on 03/06/2010 7:04:57 AM PST by hennie pennie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 572 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie; freema

[Have you read this report, I understand now why there could be high feelings about the death of Colonel James E. Sabow..
granny]

Colonel James E. Sabow,
USMC
Analysis of Jon Nordby’s Report of Death
Investigation
Prepared For
Chairman Duncan Hunter
And
The Senate and House Armed Services Committees
Prepared By
John David Sabow, MD

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:Mo47zWyPzpsJ:meixatech.com/EVALNORDBYREPORT-SABOW.pdf+injustice+of+Col+James+Sabow%27s+death&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

From this google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=injustice+of+Col+James+Sabow%27s+death&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a


This article from the Freema link above fills in the blanks:

Pentagon Shooter and the Murder of Col. James Sabow

http://salem-news.com/articles/march052010/sabow-media-tk.php



574 posted on 03/06/2010 9:14:28 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 571 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie

AKA Abu Amad who is mentioned in a book about Hamas, as having contributed large sums of money to them?<<<

Makes sense, kidnapping is an old way to raise money.

Makes one wonder if the facebook names are to honor a relative?


575 posted on 03/06/2010 9:27:26 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 571 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie

More Facebook pages.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=mpCSS82RIJGVtgfqoujUCg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CBcQBSgA&q=%22Mohannad+Al+Bukhari%22&spell=1

Has one with 2 names. [If I read it right]


576 posted on 03/06/2010 9:32:16 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 572 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie

After a 2006 marijuana and resisting arrest case in Orange County, Calif., his psychiatrist said Bedell tried to self-medicate with pot, inadvertently making his bi-polar disorder symptoms more pronounced........<<<

I had wondered about that, for the Police Scanner has many cases of bi-polar subjects, some nights it is almost one after the other and I had wondered about the disease.

Interesting.


577 posted on 03/06/2010 9:35:16 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 573 | View Replies]

To: nw_arizona_granny
This page UPDATES all the time with the lastes about "James Sabow" BIDELL

Granny, next time you do a search at GOOGLE, click on the "options" button, there's lots of different things you can do with a google search nowadays.

578 posted on 03/06/2010 9:45:07 AM PST by hennie pennie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 574 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie

next time you do a search at GOOGLE, click on the “options” button,<<<

Good advice and I have been doing so.

This may win the record for the most twisted story of the year, the left say he was a righter and the right call him left.

It is odd that he was so upset about a man being killed for exposing dope importers, when he was a dope user himself.


579 posted on 03/06/2010 4:45:02 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 578 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie

This is a tragic case of a mentally ill person from a very good family falling through the cracks. A story heard over and over again in these modern times,when parents cannot commit a child, no matter how seriously mentally ill he is.

I know a friend of the family, who lives near them in Hollister; they are grieving for their dead son, and doubly grieving because they tried so hard to keep his life from ending like this.


580 posted on 03/06/2010 4:51:17 PM PST by Palladin (Dear Obama: "Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 573 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 541-560561-580581-600601-603 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson