They have a sense of humor.
Their website.
Posted on 10/28/2002 6:06:06 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Monday, October 28, 2002
Tacoma synagogue shooting linked to sniper suspects?
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Evidence from a recent shooting incident at a Tacoma synagogue has been sent to a state crime laboratory to determine if there is any connection with sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, officials said Monday.
State Patrol spokesman Capt. Glenn Kramer said the evidence, which he declined to identify, was sent to a State Patrol crime lab in Marysville.
Kramer said he had no additional details, and that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was the lead investigating agency.
Martha Tebbenkamp, an ATF spokeswoman in Seattle, confirmed that the agency was investigating an incident at a Tacoma synagogue, but said she had not been provided any details.
She could not say if the incident was a shooting and could not say if any people were injured or if it was a case of vandalism.
"It's an ongoing investigation and I can't talk about it," Tebbenkamp said. "No one has given me details."
Jim Mattheis, a spokesman for the Tacoma Police Department, also declined to provide details.
A woman who answered the telephone at Temple Beth El, Tacoma's only synagogue, also declined comment, saying an announcement would be made later in the day. She would not give her name.
Muhammad was in the Army at Fort Lewis starting in 1985 and lived in Tacoma off and on after he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1994.
Numerous law enforcement agencies around the state are checking into unsolved cases, seeking a possible connection to Muhammad.
This is the second case law enforcement officials have said is under specific review to determine whether Muhammad may have been involved.
Evidence from a February homicide in Tacoma also has been sent to a state crime lab, Kramer said.
Tacoma Police are investigating whether the unsolved slaying of Keenya Cook, 21, on Feb. 16. Cook was shot in the face when she opened the door to the house where she lived.
Mattheis has said Cook's family recognized Muhammad from news photos after his arrest in the sniper cases and called authorities.
Cook's aunt, Isa Nichols, used to be a bookkeeper for Muhammad's auto repair business in the 1990s. Nichols became friends with Muhammad and his then-wife Mildred, and sided with Mildred during that couple's bitter divorce and child-custody dispute.
Cook had moved into Nichols' home in the fall of 2001 for protection from an abusive boyfriend. Members of Cook's family are now wondering if Isa Nichols was the intended target and that Cook was shot by mistake when she opened the door.
Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, have been charged with numerous murders in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. in the last month. The three-week string of attacks left 10 dead and three others wounded in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Is it Islamist terror yet?
Is it associated with buggery of a minor yet?
Or is it just an Angry White Guy with a really deep tan?
When I was reading a thread yesterday this incident immediately came to my mind and I wondered if there could be any connection between them.
See excerpt and link to thread.
News from August : 250 passports disappear from Toronto
Pakistan news ^ | 2002-08-08 14:24:31 | unknown
Posted on 10/27/2002 2:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
250 passports disappear from Toronto
VANCOUVER, August 08 (PNS): Canadian authorities are concerned over the disappearance of more than 250 passports from a regional passport office in the Toronto area, fearing they might end up in the hands of terrorists.
I was wondering that same thing.
Looks more and more like we're dealing with The Radical Islamic Mind
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