WP,pg1: Jewish activist/Warner volunteer Slain in Attack in Georgetown

[DeepModem Mom]

Man Slain In Attack on Couple in Georgetown
By Lori Montgomery and Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, July 10, 2006; Page A01


Alan Senitt, 27, recently moved to the District from Britain to volunteer for Mark R. Warner. He had been active in fighting anti-Semitism. (Courtesy Something Jewish - Courtesy Something Jewish)

Three assailants who cut the throat of an aspiring politician from Britain killed him and tried to rape his female companion early yesterday in the driveway of a Georgetown mansion, police reported, after the couple had returned from a night at the movies.

The victim, Alan Senitt, 27, a Jewish activist and volunteer for former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner, died at the scene, police said. The woman, whom police declined to identify, was not injured.

Within hours, D.C. police arrested four people in connection with one of the most brutal crimes in years on the affluent streets of Georgetown and said they were looking for possible links to other recent attacks in the city.

Christopher Piper, 25, of Southeast Washington was charged with felony murder and attempted sexual assault. The others -- Jeffery Rice, 22, of Southeast; Olivia Miles, 26, of Northeast; and a 15-year-old boy from Southeast whom police declined to identify because he has been charged as a juvenile -- all face murder charges.

According to police and others, the attack occurred shortly after 2 a.m. as Senitt was seeing the woman home. The couple walked north on 31st Street NW, then turned west toward Wisconsin Avenue on Q Street NW, where the woman lives....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/09/AR2006070900215.html?nav=most_emailed

[ck4829]

1. Horrible

[goclark]

2. So many "incidents" are happening to the Democratic Activists

So sad.


Democrats need to be really careful because they know this is their last chance for power and they will do ANYTHING!

Note: I am not saying that this was done by RepubliCONS , just saying that they are running scared right now and they will stop at nothing.

Poor Martha Mitchell, remember her?

[Richard Steele]

4. And UNUSUAL incidents, too.

Rapists generally work alone, and attack victims who are alone.

And experienced muggers are generally VERY careful not to KILL
their victims. (a mugging at knifepoint gets you a few months in jail,
but murder gets you LIFE)

In this case, we see very RARE exceptions to BOTH of those rules.

And note that the "rape" came to a screeching halt as soon
as the MURDER was accomplished. Doesn't it seem ODD that someone
who would BEGIN a rape under those circumstances would abandon it
just when her friend had STOPPED making noise, and was no longer
able to interfere?

And do the cops TRACK DOWN some suspects based on EVIDENCE?

No, they simply pull the file on some people who are already known to them;
two of whom TURN THEMSELVES IN VOLUNTARILY the next day.

The story we are being given is well beyond mere "not adding up";
this is not just "2 +2 = 5",
it's more in the realm of "2 + 2 = bumblebee tophat".

Which is to say: DOES NOT COMPUTE. ONE OR MORE FACTORS ARE CORRUPTED DATA/INVALID INPUT.

[theHandpuppet]

20. You know, not everything is a conspiracy

I live in an area where we receive several channels of local news from D.C. I doubt the four suspects, one who already apologized ON CAMERA for the death of this young man, were part of some GOP hit team out to get some heretofore unkown intern working in the Warner office. There's a lot of absolutely senseless violence everywhere but D.C. isn't a place I'd be walking about at night.

Yet another tragedy in this ever-violent society.

[Richard Steele]

23. Well, with BushCabal™ in PERMANENT power here in Amerika....

...I figure my experimental "tinfoil skull" implant is money well spent.

Factoring the price of ReynoldsWrap™ against the REAL value of the dollar, I expect
to hit the 'break even' point within 18 months.

10 months if he passes another tax cut bill;
6 WEEKS if he's actually stupid enough to start something with Iran.

[RCinBrooklyn]

30. I agree. 2000 & 2004 Elections: Conspiracy. Sept 11: Conspiracy

[bobbieinok]

11. oddities in this remind of the murder of the 9-11 activist in Minneapolis

[IndianaGreen]

3. What a horrible crime!

Snuffing out such a promising life, just horrible!

[AlamoDemoc]

5. why did they mentioned his religion? are they thinking

this is a hate crime?

[Toucano]

7. The religion is incidental, I think, to the fact that he was an activist.

"Anti-semitism activist" has too many letters for a headline.

That's my guess, anyway.

[Laughing Mirror]

17. "Man Slain In Attack on Couple in Georgetown" is the real headline

The OP seems to have modified it here.

Have DU rules for using original headlines in LBN been changed?

[DeepModem Mom]

26. I think you're allowed to modify a headline to make it clearer --

The phrase describing the "man" appears in the article: "a Jewish activist and volunteer for former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner." I thought the man's identity would be of interest here, and unknown in the subject line if I didn't make it clear. Hope I didn't break rules.

[TomClash]

18. I doubt it

Sounds like young men on the prowl to plunder and pillage.

And no police around to dsicourage the crime. A DC tradition.

[Captain Hilts]

32. Police protect property, not people. nt

[TomClash]

34. Not in the precinct I live in nt

[Toucano]

6. Tragic.

RIP, Alan.

[northzax]

8. what's scary is that at 2:30 Saturday morning

24 hours before this, I was sitting on the curb not a block from there, talking to a nice girl. there but for the grace I suppose.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Whoa -- glad you're safe, northzax! nt

[Behind the Aegis]

10. How very sad and tragic!

It appears he did some really wonderful things and had great potential. This is a tragedy.

[Dover]

12. Seems a little unusual that a British citizen would come work for an

American presidential candidate. Says he was a volunteer for Warner. Was that full time or did he have a regular job to support himself as well?

[951-Riverside]

13. Whats the race of the assailants?

[Behind the Aegis]

14. Why would that matter or be relevant?

[TomClash]

19. If you know DC

2700 block of Robinson Place gives you a good idea. That's WaPo telling you the race of the alleged assailants without . . . specifying the race of the alleged assailants.

[Biernuts]

21. We don't need the race on DU - but WaPo should publish the

description in the paper's local versions in order to enable any citizen to be vigilent and call the police when they are spotted.

[Name removed]

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[Behind the Aegis]

16. and...

"Later, Senitt worked for Greville Janner, a member of the House of Lords from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party who founded the Co-Existence Trust, a group that promotes Muslim-Jewish relations.

Last month, Senitt quit that job and moved to Washington to volunteer for Warner's potential presidential campaign and study political fundraising. Senitt was a Labor candidate this year for the council in the northwest London neighborhood where he was raised. He lost, but Danny Stone, a friend who took over at the Co-Existence Trust, said Senitt was committed to a life in politics."

[Lurking Dem]

27. Interesting link you have there.

"The answer remains, the Zionist lobby in all it devious forms." -

But at least Mr. Llewellyn has admitted his bias publically. Of course he, too, is a paid lobbiest. For the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding.

Alan Senit was a dedicated leftist and an activist who has been tragically murdered. Period.

[Peace Patriot]

22. With the connections that people have posted above, I certainly hope

that political motives are investigated in this horrible crime. The circumstances of the crime seem a bit strange--four people, including a woman, intent on rape? I haven't read the whole article yet--I'm wondering what stopped the rape. Also, how did the police apprehend the four so quickly? Did the unnamed woman whom Senitt was with know them? Were they caught fleeing? (--doesn't sound like it; it says "within hours"). And, of course, are they the real perps? Early accounts like this can be confusing and misleading. I wonder--if it was indeed a street crime--if robbery wasn't the motive, at least originally. (It makes more sense.)

[Peace Patriot]

24. Just read the whole article, and there sure is a lot about this story that

doesn't seem right. The other crimes that the 4 arrestees seem to be suspected of were nothing like this crime. They were mostly muggings. No murder, no attempted murder. One of the 4 (Rice) said outright that he had nothing to do with a murder. The article does not make clear why they fled, nor what stopped the rape. They had a gun but didn't use it. Senitt's woman friend was pulled away to be raped, by one of them (Piper), while the two other men killed Senitt (slit his throat). And they did this for a purse? And then fled with the purse? The arrests are mysterious as well. It doesn't seem likely that street criminals would turn themselves in, if they thought they would be charged with murder. (Two of them did.) The woman who was arrested (Olivia Miles) is never mentioned again in the article. It says "the three men fled."

The article says that Senitt and his woman friend were "rummaging in the trunk of a car" (in the driveway, as he brought her back to her apartment). That seems a bit odd, in itself. You come home from a date, and start rummaging in a car trunk? (Of course it could have a lot of inane explanations.). But the main thing that doesn't add up is this cold-blooded murder--with at least 3 against 1--for a purse! Why didn't they just punch him out? Why this excess? It doesn't make sense--even if he fought them. They had him outnumbered. It would make a little more sense if he had a weapon, but then, if he did, why would the guy with the gun leave Senitt and take Senitt's woman friend off (with intent to rape)? If Senitt was a threat--because he was fighting them, or because he had a weapon-- you'd think the guy with the gun would keep the gun on Senitt, or shoot him before he tried to rape his girlfriend. And if Senitt wasn't a threat--didn't have a weapon, or was not fighting successfully--why did they kill him? Why would street criminals do a gratuitous killing--with a knife!--and then leave a witness behind, unharmed? --for a purse? It just doesn't make sense. Things can go wrong in crimes, for sure. Maybe one of them was doped up or crazy, and things got out of hand. But, given these facts, I would sure look for something else behind this crime.

[Dogmudgeon]

25. Conspiracy Theory! Conspiracy Theory!

Tinfoil hats! Lone gunmen! Grassy knolls!

Time for our intellectual betters to pour ridicule and derision down upon this story and write solemn, "informed" think pieces on 9-11 and three (soon to be four) stolen elections.

Haven't you heard? People Who Believe Weird Things deserve to be ridiculed.

And now, we laugh.

Bwa-ha, bwa-ha, bwa-ha. (Mu-ha, Mwa-ha, Bu-ha, and ROTFL are also acceptable.)

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

--p!
Sarcastic? Moi?

[MountainLaurel]

28. I'm not surprised

I work in Georgetown, and there have been a metric fuckload of armed robberies and assaults in the past year. We get a notice at least once a month, and those are only the cases involving our employees and students.

[goclark]

29. I remember Georgetown as being the perfect place to live

Guess I am out of touch.

It is just so sad to hear about incidents like this happening Anywhere.

:(

[Peace Patriot]

31. But not murders. And that's one of the things that seems odd about

this crime. The other crimes have almost all been muggings, robberies, one or two sexual assaults. Not cold-blooded murder. And the circumstances are more than a bit odd. The guy with the gun walks AWAY from Senitt. And the two others then slit his throat. To get a purse? The woman is left unharmed, as a murder witness and identifier of them all. Why did they kill Senitt? It doesn't make sense as a street crime. And then why did they run away, leaving a witness behind? (They had a gun and knife.) Crazed on drugs? Maybe. But the OTHER muggings/robberies in the area seem more organized and methodical--their purpose being theft (not a murder rap). One of the 4 arrested has already denied knowing anything about the murder. And 2 of the 4 turned themselves in! I don't know. I think one of the things I would like to find out (if I were a detective) is, have any of these 4 come into a lot of money lately? Was one of them paid to kill him? Was this a staged murder?

His political connections open that possibility. AIPAC has been involved in some cloak and dagger stuff. (Franklin just got convicted of passing stolen US documents to AIPAC and thence to Israel). The Bush junta is a House of Horrors on all kinds of black ops muck, including pervasive spying (and potential blackmail), outing CIA agents and entire CIA networks, torture, rendition, secret prisons, unaccountable "lost" billions. It is at least conceivable that Senitt knew something that got him killed. And another oddity about the story is a Brit working for a US political campaign. Observing for a while, yeah. But working in it? Why would an up and coming young man in British politics be coming over here, to work on a prez campaign? He ran for MP in England and lost. Shouldn't he have been studying his OWN district and country, if he had been serious about continuing in politics THERE (which was said about him)? Well, maybe he was changing his ambitions, and moving on (after losing an election). Still, isn't having a foreigner in your prez campaign kind of...oh, not done?

I would also like to know if Senitt had any connection to David Kelly, the British WMD expert who was found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances, on July 18, 2003, four days after Valerie Plame was outed. Kelly's offices and computers were searched, and four days after that, on July 22, the entire CIA WMD counter-proliferation network was outed, putting all of its agents/contacts at risk of getting killed, and disabling all projects. (People forget that there were TWO outings--both by Novak.) I think there is something worse beneath the Plame story and investigation--that the Plame/Brewster-Jennings outings were a cover up of something else. I bring it up here because of the untimeliness of both deaths, and the puzzles about this one (Senitt). Also, out of a sense of a great deal of bad stuff being covered up, buried, lied about, by the Bush junta.

[Dover]

33. Do a search on Senitt. The links I found and posted here were deleted.

Also check out his organizational affiliations and their agenda. He was a political climber in the UK and then suddenly began volunteering for an American candidate.