I THINK THE SNIPERS ARE AL QAEDA

Various Cable Networks ^ | 11 October 2002 | Myself

[NordP]

Hubby is ex-cop and a "words matter" guy. He came up with giving attention to the beginning of the sniper's note: "Dear Policeman."

1) When you learn another language, you always learn the more formal ways of speech, rather than the slangs, first. "Dear" and "Policeman" definitely fall into these more formal references.

Also,

2) "PoliceMAN" - who (especially if the profilers believe that this person(s) are aged 20 - 30 still uses THAT reference... and speaks in the totally non-P.C. "man" reference, rather than "Officer?"

And,

3) I would like to add that perhaps thought should be given to the majority of the shootings happening around "oil" supplies...gas...hmm...now let's see, who has the oil, and who buys the oil.

I think these three points are valuable.

[swarthyguy]

Queso --

So now we can call Osama's followers Quesadillas.

[prov1813man]

I have been wondering about that card. The term "Dear Policeman" strikes me as unnatural. Most Americans refer to them as Cops, Police Officers, the police,, etc...It tipped me off that the use of the formal term is at least a hint that the person who wrote it is not comfortable in the language.

Maybe wrong, but gut says middle east males between the ages of 19 and 40.

[mikegi]

I think he's a Kazinsky (sp?) style, cold blooded killer. He's also very quick to take advantage of a situation. The first victims were killed in a short period of time and seemingly random, so he didn't sit around and plan them in detail (like you would an assassination). He must be either trained professionally or self-trained by reading books, etc. How else would he be able to plan a clean entry and exit in such a short period of time???

[SauronOfMordor]

If I were a terrorist, I would terrorize a wide area. A few killings in Md, then move on to another urban area. AQ has the funds to move them around the country. If it is an unfunded terrorist, he has to stay in the Md. area. No money.

If he has enough money to buy a rifle and ammo, he has enough for a tank of gas. $20 worth of gas will get him several states away.

If terror is the object, then his best bet is to shoot up the DC area for a few more days, then show up in NY. Think of the uproar when some rich upper-east-side woman gets popped walking her dog, with the shot taken from the Central Park treeline

[Freedom2specul8]

You got it Juli,

Maryland watch ping

[PokeyJoe]

yeah, i've been calling them ragheads Al Queso for some time now.

Actually, I've also been calling Osama's followers "democrats." =) but quesadillas works for me too.

[LSUfan]

If you ask me, Al Qaeda was behind the anthrax attacks. They almost had to write a note in that case to deliver it in the mail. Too many coincidences...some of the hijackers lived very close to the first victim. New Jersey has an active Islamic extremist population. One of the hijackers sought medical care for a lesion that is consistent with anthrax and another consulted a pharmacist about burning, red hands, also consistent with anthrax. And I think Al Qaeda got the anthrax from Iraq, who we know had the Iowa strain.

[tonyinv]

With every shooting..we get closer and closer to the only explanation..Internaltional Terrorism.

Above someone asks why stay in the same place? Think about the residents of Maryland and Northern VA. Government workers, media, lobbyists, defense, intellegence, law enforcement personnel, all high value targets. Think about the phycological effect of having a sniper roaming just outside the capital, the center of power in the world.

To spread terror it's not required to move from city to city. Terror is spread every minute by the media. I'll bet that as soon as these b*stards are caught, we'll see this happen in another city and so on.

I say deploy the National Guard to augement the local police departments.

[DBtoo]

I think it's either a nut or a black ops operation, but you could be right, may be Al Qaeda. We are living in very strange times so it's hard to know just what is really going on.

[RobFromGa]

The anthrax person left notes, but we've never know Osama's maniac killers to do it.

I think the Anthrax was AQ too, so I am not sure that the Tarot card is out of character.

[jackbill]

While I don't disagree with your general premise (I posted it myself on FR a week ago), you should check some of your "facts".

10 shots, 10 kills? Actually it's 10 shots, 8 kills or 11 shots 9 kills, if today's is connected.

Moving targets? Head shots to "moving targets"? Of the first victims, in Montgomery County, the only one with a head wound was the woman sitting on the bench, outside the post office.

None of the targets were moving. They were all standing, pumping gas, vacuuming a car, sitting on a bench. The shots could be done at 150 yards by virtually anyone after a week's practice.

Perhaps that's why the shooter goes for "stationary" targets. They don't need a lot of expertise.

[landerwy]

"If it is an unfunded terrorist, he has to stay in the Md. area. No money."

Maybe he/they aren't familiar with the other metro areas.

[plain talk]

The fact that they shot with the cop right there

I'm with you. These terrorists who are willing to commit suicide have nothing to fear from policemen. Of course they want to get away so can can continue to fulfill their "mission". But I mean, they have no personal fear of being caught like home-grown wackos.

[Alouette]

Who does that sound like to you?

I'd like to hear what Jeffrey Deaver, Patricia Cornwall and James Patterson think about these shootings. They have all written mystery-suspense novels with similar scenarios. Of course, this begs the question, since these people are fiction writers who made up their stories and so had control over the (fictional) situation.

I wonder if the shooters have read any of these books.

[LibWhacker]

I agree. I've said all along that if 50 million people hadn't been watching on tv, the institutional guardians of the God of Political Correctness would've tried to tell us that 9/11 was an accident.

And here we are in the middle of a war and they are still diddling around with the forensic analysis of bullet fragments and setting up tip lines. Did Patton diddle around with fingerprints?

Dubya should call out the National Guard and ROUND UP THE RAGHEADS, NOW! This is a military matter, not a police matter. Always has been.

[LSUfan]

I have seen two reports of head shots, including the one last night. A head shot is almost always a moving target. We don't realize how much we move our heads, even when we're at rest. The muscles and tendons and ligaments in the neck are many and so articulated that heads are very animated and almost always a harder shot.

I stand corrected: 11 shots 11 HITS.

[Molly Pitcher]

BILL GERTZ TALKING ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW ON JOHN GIBSON'S SHOW!!

[TomGuy]

Gertz on FoxNews now...possibility (theory) could be al-Qaeda.

[glock rocks]

Bill Gertz on John Gibson "Big Story" discussing this RIGHT NOW