Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Wed., Oct. 23,2002

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[Peach]

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

All seems quiet since yesterday's news the shooter may target children specifically. It was released on various news outlets the shooter's 3-page letter to police was in broken English and threatened extreme violence. Police announced an electronic transfer of $10m as requested by the shooter was not possible but other options for transfer remain open. No one seriously believes police will actually give the shooter $$, but police are trying to keep a dialogue open with the shooter in an effort to capture this monster.

[mhking]

What do you base that on?

Pure seat of the pants gut talkin'.

[Freedom2specul8]

Alabama training camp: copy and paste this to newsoutlets?

[Dog]

Duck in a noose???

[relee]

Aaron Brown is disappointed. When he heard the suspect had 3 names, John Allen Williams, his hopes were high that the suspect was a lone gunman; a crazy white male. Too bad, Aaron.

[Chemist_Geek]

www.atf.treas.gov

The server is being hammered right now, I am afraid...

[Lobbyist]

Brown was wishing it was a white guy.

[Clean_Sweep]

"yeah--it's a code to the operatives...."

I think so too. Things may break loose in a bad way.

[TexKat]

Murder victim in Montgomery, apparently

If that is so, how did the sniper get access to the credit card. Are you talking about one of the victims since Oct. 2nd?

[Howlin]

Whitcomb is about to scare me to death. Is he an alarmist?

[HairOfTheDog]

What does that mean.... Some kinda of code to fellow terrorist ?

Probably the code word to some other cell.

[Dianna]

Either this Mohamad (sp?) is not the sniper or he is just involved by other means

But they didn't get a search warrant and start cutting down a tree because the guy has violated some federal gun law. Sniper buddies? Part of the same cell.

[aeronca]

"What does that mean.... Some kinda of code to fellow terrorist ?

Yes, and I think yesterdays message was a code to the terrorists too "Your Children are not safe" meaning Lay low the heat is on

[Freedom2specul8]

WARNING: geocities creates pop up windows.

Alabama training camp: copy and paste this to newsoutlets?

[rintense]

I bet the 'duck in a noose' is an alert code for his buddies.

[Howlin]

Why would they ask Moose to say "We caught the sniper like a duck in a noose" if they hadn't?

[Peach]

Yeah - the manhunt of our lifetimes and Greta holds the pic up for a second, puts it down and holds it up again for a second. If it had been a white guy, we wouldn't be seeing the anchors at all anymore - they'd be doing talk over the constantly pictured photo of the shooter.

[slimer]

There is a lot more going on, right in our midst, than what we watch on t.v. and read on the internet. It feels EVIL. It smells EVIL. It is EVIL.

[Naspino]

So this is like the French terrorist -- he was black right?

[poppyseed]

I've got a bad feeling about this - there's gonna be another shooting tomorrow.

GMTA. Though I'd rather be stupid and wrong than a great mind and on the nose. Sorry for the earlier obscenity - I just... the wind was taken right out of me, particularly given my hyperexcitement earlier, my surety that the guy(s) were as good as caught.