Sorry if this is a dupe.  I looked, but didn't see so hold your fire dupe police.

ETA:  Okay, I looked again and saw this topic was posted yesterday.  Sorry about my infraction Mr. Dupe Policeman.


UNC alum faces attempted murder charge

Saturday, March 4, 2006; Posted: 8:38 a.m. EST (13:38 GMT)


CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (AP) -- A recent University of North Carolina graduate faces attempted murder charges after he allegedly drove a sport utility vehicle through a popular campus gathering spot Friday, clipping and scattering startled bystanders.

No one was seriously hurt.

Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, who graduated in December after studying psychology and philosophy, was in the custody of campus police. They intended to charge him with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, said police Capt. George Hare.

Taheri-azar called police to surrender and then awaited officers on a street two miles from the campus, authorities said.

The FBI joined the case because Taheri-azar, a native of Iran, "allegedly made statements that he acted to avenge the American treatment of Muslims," said agent Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in Washington. "The ongoing investigation will work to confirm this."

Local investigators declined to discuss a motive.

The incident happened just before noon near the center of campus in an area known as The Pit, a sunken, brick-paved area surrounded by two libraries, a dining hall and the student union.

"I see everyone kind of part because there's a car coming through, and the next thing I know, I'm on his windshield," sophomore Jeff Hoffman, his arm in a bandage, told The Daily Tar Heel, the campus newspaper.

The Pit is a center of campus activities, with students perched along walkways and steps. Friday's noontime crowd included candidates for Black Student Movement elections.

"He slowly came in, and I thought he was going to stop or something," sophomore Scott Wilson, a candidate, told the newspaper. "But then he sped right through."

Five students and a visiting scholar were treated for minor injuries and released from UNC Hospitals, the university said in a statement. Three other people declined treatment at the scene, police said.

A bomb squad searched Taheri-azar's apartment in nearby Carrboro and declared the building safe. Taheri-azar encouraged authorities to check the apartment after he was arrested.

"He said it almost in a baiting type of way," Carrboro police spokesman Capt. Joel Booker said.

Investigators declined to say what they found in the apartment and continued searching it Friday night for other evidence, Booker said.

The incident came a week after a UNC dormitory resident adviser was killed when he and another student crashed through a dorm window, falling four stories onto the concrete below. The second student remains hospitalized.

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Okay, I looked again and saw this topic was posted yesterday. Sorry about my infraction Mr. Dupe Policeman.

Thread title is not informative.

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Sorry Mr. Thread Title Isn't Informative Policeman.  I'll run them by you before posting from now on.

Quoted: Quoted: Thread title is not informative. Sorry Mr. Thread Title Isn't Informative Policeman.  I'll run them by you before posting from now on.

If by some grand cosmic fluke yours was the first thread on the subject, how would anyone be able to search for it?

I don't think it's a dupe. It* was posted once, then locked because of comments the posters should have known would draw a lock. While that one was still up, I posted a dupe, which was locked for being a dupe. Once #1 was locked for lack of decorum and #2 was dupe-locked, there was no thread on a legitimate bit of news. I therefore re-posted (thread #3), making for a single live thread on the topic, which contained nothing ugly about muslims, iranians, arabs, or anybody else. However, one of the mods was hypersensitive (isn't their drum circle the First Friday of the month?) and locked thread #3 and refused to unlock it, apparently "just because."



*The story.

This may be a dupe, but it's more informative than anything else I've read or heard up till now.

For reasons unknown, this story has been buried by the MSM and to even dicuss it here is like running through a minefield.