[eclectic]

"Dear Mr. Policeman, I am God."

These can be Al-Qaeda terrorists indeed. All indications to this effect (reference to god (Allah), wrong tarot card, AK-74, elaborate planning, random targets, olive skin) and absolutely no indications otherwise.

BTW, there were several deadly accurate sniper shootings in Israel among other things. Might be graduates of the same training camp

The most serious argument is that the sniper has an accomplice. Everybody agrees that this is a madman or a terrorist. Well, madmen are rarely accompanied by helpers/drivers when going on a rampage

[BlackVeil]

Eclectic, says "madmen are rarely accompanied by helpers/drivers" and Spodefly says it is not like a serial killer. It is not like the usual serial killer, who works alone and has crimes which are strongly sex related. But there are other types of serial killing, and sniping like this would fit one type of pathology. Also, there have been documented cases of serial killers who work in pairs. In these cases, psychologists say that often they would not have become murderers if they had not met each other (hmmm ... I don't know.)

America has more serial killers than anywhere in the world. But in Australia there are some examples of "pairs" and "shooters". There was the "Truro Serial Murders" by two men who preyed on young women. And there was Josef Schwab, who went crazy in the Northern Terroritory and went around shooting people - rather similar to this sniper. I think he may have murdered as many as 7, before he himself was killed.

I agree with Mitchell that we just do not know yet. There are some strange details about the Washington case which make me think that it might not be random crime, might even be terrorism. But with the current information, I do not know.