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<p>SAMARA, Iraq — The sun was sinking at the desert's edge when Sgt. Randall Davis, an Army sniper, spotted his target: an armed Iraqi on a rooftop about 300 yards away.</p> <p>"It was just getting dark. I saw a guy step in front of the light," Davis, 25, recalls.</p>

<p>TACOMA, Wash. — The first clue that the day would be different came when neighbors saw men in suits snooping around the slate-colored duplex.</p> <p>"They just moseyed up and started looking around like they owned the place," said Dean Resop, who lives a block away from the home. The strangers were FBI agents.</p>

There it is! It's done... Too late now to prosecute her for AIDING AND ABETTING the sniper-pair while she was staying in the DC area ... ... ... Mother of accused sniper deported     The mother of accused sniper John Lee Malvo has been deported to Jamaica, federal authorities confirmed yesterday.     Una Scion James, 38, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service officers on Tuesday after deciding not to appeal a pending Nov. 19 deportation order by a federal immigration judge. She initially filed a petition with INS requesting special protection as a battered...

<p>October 18, 2002 -- A lying witness misled investigators in the Beltway sniper case, casting doubt on just what is known about the shadowy shooter or shooters, cops said yesterday.</p> <p>A witness who claimed he saw the psycho who gunned down the last victim and then watched him flee in a cream-colored van may be charged with perjury or filing a false statement, authorities said.</p>

<p>An al Qaeda suspect in custody in Belgium told American investigators he saw members of the terror organization training snipers in preparation for attacks on U.S. soil, a source told The Post last night.</p> <p>One of the planned attacks targeted U.S. senators on a golf course.</p>

From MEMRI (Translated from the Original Arabic language article). Special Dispatch - Syria/Iraq In English: December 5, 2003 (Based on Nov. 4, 5 and 6 articles) Editor of Kuwaiti Daily: "Syria's Secret Service is Behind the 'Iraqi Resistance'" TRANSLATION FROM ARABIC:"The November 1, 2003 conference of foreign ministers of the countries neighboring Iraq yielded numerous articles in the Arab press condemning Syria's pro-Saddam stance. Among the authors were editor of the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, Ahmad Al-Jarallah, and Iraqi opposition member and political commentator Dr. Riyadh Al-Amir. The following are excerpts from the articles: Iraqi Resistance, Directed by Syria’s Secret...

. . .driving home this afternoon, I heard the good news: John Muhammad, the older of the DC Snipers, was convicted on all four counts, and the jury is now going on to the penalty phase, where they will determine whether he gets executed or spends the rest of his life at taxpayer expense. But what was bothering me was THIS: EVEN AFTER he was convicted, all the newsies kept referring to him as "DC Sniper SUSPECT". . . I'd say that, now that 12 of his peers have found him guilty of one count of Capital Murder, One count...

Enemies Foreign and Domestic: An Interview with the Author By Lady Liberty Matthew Bracken is the author of a book entitled Enemies Foreign and Domestic. After reading the book (see the book review at http://www.ladylibrty.com/book_review.html), I wanted to hear more about the book and its plausibility directly from the author himself. Mr. Bracken kindly agreed to answer some questions for publication. Those questions and his answers follow. Lady Liberty: What originally served as the inspiration for the plot of Enemies Foreign and Domestic? Matthew Bracken: I kept reading various Free Republic (http://www.freerepublic.com) Second Amendment and Right to Keep and...

The IAF is assembling a special sniper's platform that will be fitted into Black Hawk helicopters, adding a further dimension to Israel's targeted strikes. According to the latest edition of Air Force Magazine released this week, technicians have used shock absorbers and a special suspension system to give the sniper a steady shot. The platform is expected to greatly enhance the accuracy of snipers firing from hovering helicopters. The IAF's Center for Weapons and Systems Maintenance is developing the platform and technicians there told Air Force Magazine it would be ready in about six months. The platform is 1.2 meters...

Israel's "Operation Enchanted Day" Closes Terror Tunnels in Gaza By INA and AP Jerusalem---October 10......The Israel Defense Forces sent tanks and elite ground units into a Gaza refugee camp early Friday to destroy tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to smuggle weapons. Military officials said they acted on warnings that terrorists were trying to acquire anti-aircraft missiles. Israel's raid of the Rafah refugee camp — code-named "Operation Enchanted Day" - began around midnight Thursday and could last several days, military sources said. It was part of stepped-up military activity in response to last weekend's suicide bombing that murdered 20 Israelis in...

The United States military has deployed five teams of 10 airborne snipers to defend Iraq's northern oil pipelines from acts of sabotage by forces loyal to ousted president Saddam Hussein. Sergeant Brian Stinson said final modifications were being made to Blackhawk UH-60 helicopters, before snipers from the elite Tiger Force could begin patrols along the crucial oil supply lines. "There is so much area to cover that it requires precision fire, we're on call for 24-hours a day and can be airborne within 30 minutes," he said. Protection of Iraq's northern pipelines, which stretch 500 kilometres to Turkey and almost...

Israel uses Russian snipers on West Bank By David Blair in Jerusalem (Filed: 23/09/2003) Veterans of Russia's campaign in Chechnya are serving in the Israeli army as highly trained snipers in the West Bank and Gaza. Russian immigrants fill the ranks of a specialist sniper unit known as the Aliya (Immigration) brigade, the army confirmed yesterday following a report in the newspaper Ha'aretz. Sharpshooters with experience in Chechnya have been concealed at vulnerable points where Israel is open to infiltration from the occupied territories. A security official told Ha'aretz that the men were deployed to reinforce the defences of "weak...

<p>The second shooting occurred August 14 at a Speedway gas station on Charleston's south side.</p> <p>CHARLESTON, West Virginia (CNN) -- Investigators in the killings of three people at Charleston-area gas stations last week are questioning 100 people they consider suspects in those shootings, Kanawha County Sheriff Dave Tucker said Monday.</p>

U.S. snipers in Iraq kill two men and wound two others in a raid on a weapons market in Tikrit (AP)

ROCKVILE, Md. (AP) - Former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose reached a deal with the county ethics commission Tuesday that clears the way for him to write a book and pursue a movie project about the sniper investigation, his attorney said. Moose resigned last month, but his departure did not resolve the legal dispute over his book about the three-week manhunt following the sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington area last fall. The county ethics commission had argued Moose could not write his book - even if he had resigned - saying he would be unfairly profiting from his...

<p>June 27 (Bloomberg) -- Eight men were arrested on charges they formed a ``Virginia jihad network'' with ties to the Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-E-Taiba and planned terrorist attacks overseas, the U.S. government said.</p> <p>The men, along with three others believed to be in Saudi Arabia, are accused of plotting to engage in a ``jihad,'' or holy war, in Kashmir, Chechnya, the Philippines and other countries. U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty, who announced the indictment today in Alexandria, Virginia, declined to say whether any attacks were planned in the U.S.</p>

ROCKVILLE, Md. – Marriott International Inc. won't deny persistent rumors circulating in the Montgomery County Police Department that Chief Charles A. Moose recently was paid a substantial out-of-court settlement from the hotel chain after lodging a race-bias complaint. Police and county sources tell WorldNetDaily that Moose, who is black, allegedly complained when security at a Marriott resort in Hawaii asked to see his hotel key. He and his wife, Sandy, a self-proclaimed civil-rights lawyer, vacationed there during the Christmas holidays. Chief Charles A. Moose "It is routine for security to check people in hotel complexes in Hawaii by asking to...

<p>The police chief at the center of the Washington-area sniper case could face fines and jail time himself for violating an ethics ruling against publishing a book about the ordeal.</p> <p>A lawyer for a Maryland ethics commission, Edward Lattner, said Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose violated a commission ruling by allowing his book about the case to be posted for Internet sales.</p>

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- In a confidential letter to the ethics commission here, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose argued he should be allowed to supplement his income with book and movie deals in part because he makes less money than Atlanta's new police chief. A county official called the comparison "outrageous" in view of Atlanta's higher crime rate. Chief Charles Moose "My salary is considerably below that of certain other police chiefs," Moose complained in his March 10 letter to the panel, a copy of which was obtained by WorldNetDaily. "For example, the new Atlanta police chief earns $225,000, plus...

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- An ethics board here is reviewing whether Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose must return a $4,250 movie-consulting fee he pocketed before it denied him permission to profit from such deals related to the Beltway sniper case he led last fall. Moose and his wife deposited the payment from Cates/Doty Productions Inc. of Hollywood into a personal checking account earlier this year. The Montgomery County Ethics Commission learned of the payment just before it recently denied Moose's request for a waiver from a county law barring officials from profiting from the prestige of their office. What action...