Seattle Suspect Allegedly Ambushed Girl (Jewish Center shooting - WAPO)

[oberliner]

Some new info on the Seattle shooting:

Seattle Suspect Allegedly Ambushed Girl

By CURT WOODWARD
The Associated Press
Saturday, July 29, 2006; 9:52 PM

SEATTLE -- The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity's foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl's head, the police chief said Saturday.

Once inside, police say, Naveed Afzal Haq opened fire with two semiautomatic pistols. One woman, Pam Waechter, 58, of Seattle was killed at the scene. Five more women were wounded.

Haq, 30, was ordered held on $50 million bail Saturday pending formal charges of murder and attempted murder.

Haq, a Muslim, told authorities he was angered by the war in Iraq and U.S. military cooperation with Israel.

"He pointedly blamed the Jewish people for all of these problems," Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said at a news conference Saturday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/29/AR2006072901032.html

[merwin]

1. AP left out a key part of the Police Chief's comments regarding Iraq...

“He said he wanted the United States to leave Iraq, that his people were being mistreated and that the United States was harming his people,” Chief R. Gil Kerlikowske of the Seattle Police said Saturday at a news conference. “And he pointedly blamed the Jewish people for all of these problems. He stated he didn’t care if he lived.”

[geek tragedy]

2. How is that key?

Dude's a delusional racist asshat.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Because his delusion was about Iraq, not the Israeli-Hezbollah fight

which is the reason that occurs to people when they read that a delusional Muslim was shooting Jews when the Israeli attacks are in the news. The fact that this disturbed man was an Iraqi upset by the war in his own country is important to understanding the story.

[geek tragedy]

4. He's a Pakistani-American. Apparently 'his people' refers

to Muslims.

[fujiyama]

5. I don't believe he is Iraqi

I read elsewhere he is Pakistani.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. My mistake on the nationality. n/t