l***@rogers.com
2006-08-30 06:49:11 UTC
SF hit-and-run murderer identifies self as terrorist;
~police say it wasn't terrorism~
| What in hell else would you call it????
| American Heritage Dictionary -
| ter·ror·ism (tr-rzm) Pronunciation Key
| n.
| The unlawful use or threatened use of force or
| violence by a person or an organized group against
| people or property with the intention of intimidating
| or coercing societies or governments, often for
| ideological or political reasons.
Omeed Aziz Popal has, like Muhammad Reza Taheri-azar several months
ago, driven his SUV into people, clearly trying intentionally to hurt
or kill them. Like Taheri-azar, he seemed completely calm and at peace
with himself after the incident.
After mowing down as many people as he could, Popal was boxed in by
police and arrested. According to this video, he then identified
himself as a terrorist (this bit comes right at the end of the report).
Police, however, have already ruled out the possibility that these were
acts of terrorism -- again, as they did in the case of Taheri-azar.
Here are more incidents of authorities engaging in dubious denials of
terrorism.
Was this yet another case of what Daniel Pipes has termed "sudden jihad
syndrome"? Perhaps it was, perhaps it wasn't. But clearly an act of
random violence by someone who declares himself a terrorist is
terrorism even if he lacks a laminated Al-Qaeda ID.
"1 dead, several injured in San Francisco hit-and-run rampage," from
CBC News:
One person has been killed and at least 14 injured in the San
Francisco area on Tuesday after a driver targeted pedestrians on
crosswalks and sidewalks, police allege.
The victims were taken to three hospitals. One was in critical
condition.
"These are the things, these are so senseless. They're utterly
inexplicable. They're impossible to rationalize," Mayor Gavin Newsom
said.
The spree began around noon in the Fremont district, where a
55-year-old man walking on the side of the road was struck. He was
thrown into a field and pronounced dead at the scene, said Sgt. Chris
Mazzone of the Fremont police.
Witnesses said the driver did not slow down.
The driver then crossed the bay into San Francisco, where at least
four separate incidents occurred over a 20-minute span.
"It was like Death Race 2000, "firefighter Danny Bright told the
Chronicle. "Guys were walking down the sidewalk and the guy just came
up and ran them over. The guy went crazy.''
Police were eventually able to box in a black Honda Pilot in the
city's Richmond district.
The arrested man was identified as Omeed Aziz Popal.
More details here: "Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree: 7 critical;
driver believed to have struck, killed a man in Fremont earlier," from
the San Francisco Chronicle.
Links for cites @
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012926.php
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Political correctness is destroying Europe.
America will be the next down the PC tube
greased by academic idiots like Scott Erb,
Noam Chumpsky and Ward Churchill
~police say it wasn't terrorism~
| What in hell else would you call it????
| American Heritage Dictionary -
| ter·ror·ism (tr-rzm) Pronunciation Key
| n.
| The unlawful use or threatened use of force or
| violence by a person or an organized group against
| people or property with the intention of intimidating
| or coercing societies or governments, often for
| ideological or political reasons.
Omeed Aziz Popal has, like Muhammad Reza Taheri-azar several months
ago, driven his SUV into people, clearly trying intentionally to hurt
or kill them. Like Taheri-azar, he seemed completely calm and at peace
with himself after the incident.
After mowing down as many people as he could, Popal was boxed in by
police and arrested. According to this video, he then identified
himself as a terrorist (this bit comes right at the end of the report).
Police, however, have already ruled out the possibility that these were
acts of terrorism -- again, as they did in the case of Taheri-azar.
Here are more incidents of authorities engaging in dubious denials of
terrorism.
Was this yet another case of what Daniel Pipes has termed "sudden jihad
syndrome"? Perhaps it was, perhaps it wasn't. But clearly an act of
random violence by someone who declares himself a terrorist is
terrorism even if he lacks a laminated Al-Qaeda ID.
"1 dead, several injured in San Francisco hit-and-run rampage," from
CBC News:
One person has been killed and at least 14 injured in the San
Francisco area on Tuesday after a driver targeted pedestrians on
crosswalks and sidewalks, police allege.
The victims were taken to three hospitals. One was in critical
condition.
"These are the things, these are so senseless. They're utterly
inexplicable. They're impossible to rationalize," Mayor Gavin Newsom
said.
The spree began around noon in the Fremont district, where a
55-year-old man walking on the side of the road was struck. He was
thrown into a field and pronounced dead at the scene, said Sgt. Chris
Mazzone of the Fremont police.
Witnesses said the driver did not slow down.
The driver then crossed the bay into San Francisco, where at least
four separate incidents occurred over a 20-minute span.
"It was like Death Race 2000, "firefighter Danny Bright told the
Chronicle. "Guys were walking down the sidewalk and the guy just came
up and ran them over. The guy went crazy.''
Police were eventually able to box in a black Honda Pilot in the
city's Richmond district.
The arrested man was identified as Omeed Aziz Popal.
More details here: "Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree: 7 critical;
driver believed to have struck, killed a man in Fremont earlier," from
the San Francisco Chronicle.
Links for cites @
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012926.php
- -
Political correctness is destroying Europe.
America will be the next down the PC tube
greased by academic idiots like Scott Erb,
Noam Chumpsky and Ward Churchill