Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Monday, Oct. 21, 2002

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[Peach]

Let's keep a live commentary thread going again today. The FBI Tip # is 1-888-324-9800.

[Peach]

Overnight News: The 37-year old victim had surgery again last night, vital signs stable and he's breathing with the aid of a respirator. Chief Moose said last night the shooter left a phone number and read a mysterious statement that he said would only be understood by the shooter. He was correct - we are all confused.

[wewillnotfail]

bookmark and bump

[Oldeconomybuyer]

French connection? -

SNIPER? -- French military trainee missing in North America

[Diogenesis]

"This just in. Chief Moose continues his dedicated daily news conferences.
The public patiently awaits a possible composite of the shootist for the sixteenth month.

[ /sarcasm]

[Peach]

Ping, and Prayer Thread Here

[muawiyah]

Assume two people, one of whom was going along to unload the produce and packaged goods at a middle-eastern store North of Richmond (which would naturally be served out of a larger warehouse operation in the DC suburbs with many more Moslems around).

The individual figures out he's with the "wrong guy" somewhere along the trip. At dinner at the Ponderosa (which I believe is "halal") he drops a note for the cops.

No doubt he will be dead himself as soon as the guy he was with finds out about the note!

That's why Charlie Moose should have just made the call and not worried about who was answering the phone!

Hope that clears up the confusion.

This presumes that the note was found at the restaurant - but it will work as well if the note was found at the spot the truck stopped so the shooter could fire his weapon.

[mystery-ak]

Fox News is reporting that other Tarot cards have been left at the other crime scenes....let's hope today is the day they get this POS.

[JameRetief]

The phone number wasn't for the police to call him, it was a third party number (probably a pay phone) that the shooter knows would be "confiscated" by the police. This was so that the shooter could call that number and the police would know without a shadow of doubt that it is the shooter.

Now we just have to wait to see what the shooter wants to talk about.

[LS]

What if it IS Chief Moose?

[JameRetief]

P.S., FNC last night said that the note was found at the spot where the shooter fired from.

[Diogenesis]

..... or someone or group he may be protecting.

[Peach]

Yes, I just heard that about other tarot cards. Does anyone know if brian wilson at fox news posts here? Last night on another thread someone wrote that brian wilson will confirm that the writing on the tarot cards was in German.

[ZinGirl]

What if it IS Chief Moose?

whoa.....another angle to consider....is he always 'first on the scene'? have the tarot cards included the words 'flustrated'?

[livius]

In German? I wonder if the shooter is a Turk. I believe they are quite addicted to Tarot, and there's a large and rather hostile colony of them in Germany.

[Peach]

Saw that Rueters pulled this story this morning - on the advice of LEO's?

[mystery-ak]

I read that thread too...I remember from other threads, posters said that Brian Wilson posts/lurks here...but I don't know for sure.

[Peach]

BTW, story Rueters pulled is the article posted above regarding a French sniper who has been missing since August.

[tomkat]

madam:

i would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize for aiding in the
general degeneration of last night's portion of this fine thread.

i can only ask in my defense that, given our having been subjected to the chief's
ebonic presence yet again, you would bear in mind the well-known and
causal link in these quarters between moose and cheese.

while unable, at this time, to foreswear a recurrence of the misdemeanors
of which this mea culpa is the subject, i can assure you and your listeners
that should such behaviour recur, no tarot cards will be left at the scene
in some irresponsible and/or churlish attempt to muddy the waters.

now, about that plea bargain ...

[Peach]

Thanks for info. Maybe someone who knows JimRob can ask this question.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Don't know. The first time I saw this Reuters story was this morning.