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                           HOMELAND INSECURITY
                           2 'Hispanics' sought in D.C.-area
                           hunt
                           Be-on-lookout alert describes shooters' race

                           Posted: October 4, 2002
                           1:00 a.m. Eastern

                           By Paul Sperry
                           © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

                           By Paul Sperry

                           ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Police in the Washington suburb
                           where five people were gunned down in two days are
                           looking for two "Hispanic" men in the fatal shootings,
                           according to a police bulletin that federal authorities
                           shared with WorldNetDaily.

                           Montgomery County Police in press conferences have
                           described only the gender, not the race, of the two
                           suspects -- one a driver and the other the shooter.

                           The be-on-the-lookout, or BOLO, alert that local police
                           sent out earlier today to all law enforcement agencies
                           also described in detail the "white box truck" used by
                           the snipers.

                           The six-wheeled vehicle resembles a commercial
                           delivery truck, police say. The cab is smaller than, and
                           separate from, the large box-shaped cargo area, which
                           is completely enclosed. The rear passenger side of the
                           bumper has been damaged. And there is
                           block-lettering on the side and rear of the truck.

                           A Montgomery County Police spokesman confirmed
                           that the BOLO describes the suspects in the sniper
                           slayings as "Hispanic."

                           But he cautioned that they could be another non-white
                           race.

                           "We do not count on them being two Hispanic males,"
                           said Officer Derek Baliles. "Appearances can be
                           interpreted. We do not want to limit anything at all."

                           "It's possible," he added, that the suspects could be
                           Middle Eastern.

                           He also cautioned that their eyewitness account of the
                           suspects is not solid.

                           Baliles says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
                           Firearms is examining bullet fragments in two other
                           shootings to see if they are connected to the other
                           five, which occurred Wednesday and Thursday.

                           A 72-year-old man Thursday night was shot to death
                           on a Washington street corner. And a Virginia woman
                           this afternoon was shot in the back at a crafts store.
                           Her condition was not immediately known.

                           ATF ballistics experts have determined that a
                           high-velocity rifle firing a .223-caliber bullet was used
                           in at least three of the shootings. The bullet is used in
                           hunting rifles and M-16s and makes a large wound as
                           it enters the body.

                           The police spokesman says FBI profilers will put
                           together a "word picture" Saturday morning to try to
                           make sense of the unusual crime and come up with a
                           possible motive.

                           Authorities are not ruling out terrorism.

                           Baliles says the Secret Service has assigned at least one
                           agent to the case. The Office of Homeland Security
                           and CIA are not involved, he says.

                           The shooters took very select shots of random
                           strangers, and appear to be trained in marksmanship.
                           All six victims who died were killed with a single shot,
                           some apparently shot in the head, although Baliles
                           would not confirm that.

WHAT?!? No white militia men?

With this being around DC this could be terrorism of the 1st degree! The shooters aren't stupid enough to enter DC proper and face a bunch of heavily armed Federal police.

CRC

According to the FBI profiler the suspects are between the ages of 20-25 and white
Columbine types that will keep on until caught...

I thought it made a .223 size hole. I guess that's "large".

   This sounds like half the U-Haul rental trucks you see on the road!!!

Either they did not speak to an ATF ballistics expert and just made this up, or the 'expert' doesn't know squat.  It makes a large hole exiting, not entering.

Maybe they are covering the fact that it might be something of a large caliber so that they can demonize the AR15 type rifles.

you mean Arabs, not Muslims