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Gunman killed after shooting 2 Pentagon police
Gunman tied to online grievances about feds shoots 2 Pentagon officers, dies from return fire
Matt Apuzzo and Devlin Barrett/AP News
The gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers was heavily armed and spent weeks driving to the Capital area from the West Coast, authorities said Friday. Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 [...]
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Ex-Police Chief Flips: Maybe Something Was Awry In ‘86 Bishop Shooting Case
TPM/Muckraker, Justin Elliott
The former Braintree, Mass., chief of police who is said to have ordered Amy Bishop released the day she killed her brother — and then threatened at least two people with a shotgun while frantically searching for a getaway vehicle — now says he may have made the wrong decision.
Shorter Question Everything
Australia
‘The actual target of their planning was never revealed in court.’ Hefty jail terms for terrorism plotters: 16 Feb 2010 Australia’s longest-running criminal trial ended in a specially-built courthouse in Sydney’s West on Monday, with five men sentenced to jail terms of up to 28 years. In a televised hearing, Supreme Court judge Antony Whealy [...]
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Accused shooter linked to Harvard bomb plot
More details emerge from Alabama professor’s past linking her to cases
MSNBC
The scientist who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama had been a key suspect in an attempted bomb plot at Harvard in 1993, police officials told The Boston Globe on Sunday.
Authorities questioned Amy Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, in [...]
Disgruntled Professor’s Murderous Past
Truthdig
Adding to the sensationalism, reports are showing that accusations of lethal violence against Harvard-educated biology professor Amy Bishop, arrested Friday in the killing of three at the University of Alabama, are not new. In 1986, according to The New York Times, Bishop shot her brother to death, putting an additional twist on the Alabama carnage.
Bishop [...]
Report: Ala. professor killed brother in 1986
MSNBC
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The University of Alabama-Huntsville biology professor accused of killing three colleagues during a campus faculty meeting fatally shot her brother in an apparent accident in Massachusetts more than two decades ago, The Boston Globe reported Saturday.
Amy Bishop shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth M. Bishop, an accomplished violinist who had won a number [...]
Man is charged with murder in 8 Appomattox shootings
Washington Post
By Fredrick Kunkle and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 21, 2010; A01
APPOMATTOX, VA. — Christopher Bryan Speight described himself in court papers as a dependable, hardworking person who was not quick to anger, and he showed pride in his ability to “find ways to get out of problems without using force or violence.”
Shorter Question Everything
US: Washington
Maurice Clemmons, the suspect wanted in slaying of four Lakewood, Wash., police officers, was shot and killed in Seattle early Tuesday morning. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee broke his silence Monday and defended his decision to support freedom for a convict now wanted in the ambush slayings of four Seattle-area police officers. Clemmons was [...]
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FRANK SCHAEFFER: Evangelical Mike Huckabee is Unfit for Command
Former AR Governor, GOP Presidential Candidate, Fox ‘News’ Host Must Take Responsibility for Murder of Four Police Officers
Bradblog
‘How many more godly goofs can this country afford?’
Guest Editorial by Frank Schaeffer
Mike Huckabee broke his silence on Monday and defended his decision to give clemency to a convict said to be responsible for the ambush murder of [...]
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Drill will simulate shooting at Metro station