[The Great Satan]

I asked Livingstone about the tarot card and the note left which said "Dear Policeman, I am God." "This guy is like someone pretending to be a disordered mind," he said.

America, what a country. "Dear Policeman, I am God" tells us we're dealing with a Muslim fanatic trying to sound like a crazy serial killer, and "Death to America Death to Israel Allah is Great" is a clue that we're dealing with a lonely whiteboy scientist pretending to be a Muslim fanatic. Such a lot of silliness.

[John Jamieson]

Blind Sheik Rahman has much to do with U.S. terrorism By Eric Fleischauer DAILY Copy Editor
Osama bin Laden's expressed loyalty to him demonstrates Rahman's importance to Islamic militants. Last year, bin Laden swore in a videotape that "we will work with all-out power to free our brother, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and all our prisoners in America, Egypt and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)." One of Rahman's sons, Ahmed Abdul Rahman, was in the videotape and urged Muslims to "move forward and shed blood." The northern alliance announced Thursday that it captured Ahmed, who goes by the name "God's sword." Bin Laden and other Islamic militants issued threats as to the consequences of a conviction of Rahman, and more specifically threatened a violent reaction if Rahman ultimately dies in a U.S. prison.

Maybe the card said "I am God's Sword"

[Mitchell]

It's ironic: the generally accepted views may be completely upside-down.

The government and media are starting to suggest that the sniper is a Middle Eastern terrorist, but it's quite possible that he's a domestic nut. On the other hand, the anthrax mailer is generally thought to have been a domestic nut, but he was very likely a Middle Eastern terrorist.

This shouldn't be interpreted as an opinion on the sniper; there isn't enough evidence yet in my view even to reach a tentative conclusion as to whether it's a domestic nut or a foreign terrorist.