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2006-08-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Video report: Deadly Hit-And-Run Rampage
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Posted by ed 2006-08-30 08:40|| || Front Page|| [9715 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Good, file his teeth off.
Posted by wxjames 2006-08-30 09:10||   2006-08-30 09:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The BBC will use search-and-replace journalism to produce "One witness told us the suspect referred to himself as a militant."
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-08-30 10:36||   2006-08-30 10:36|| Front Page Top

#3 San Francisco car rampage ends at
Jewish Community Center


Omeed Aziz Popal


The SUV struck two people in front of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on California Street, a few blocks from where the rampage ended. [ also very close also Temple Emanu-El and Di-Fi house who's property abuts the Temple]

Blood covered the sidewalk in front of the center's gift store entrance, and 50 feet farther down the sidewalk lay a mangled bicycle.

Security cameras in front of the center captured images of the incident, which happened at 1:12 p.m., according to Aaron Rosenthal, spokesman for the community center.

ht/ The Anchoress: This is becoming an appalling habit in the press and by politicians. An Islamic fundamentalist shoots Jews in a Synagogue, and it’s some sort of random incident. An Islamic fundamentalist uses his car to kill people in front of a Synagogue, and in what would appear to be a somewhat “Jewish neighborhood” and the press takes a while to cover the story (probably looking for the appropriate “frame,”) until someone in authority can be found to sing out, “ROAD RAGE”! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Road rage! Mayor Newsom sees no problem, here…a “relatively young” person, obviously confused! Yes, that’s the ticket!
Omeed Aziz Popal, the poor confused youngster, is 29 years old.
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He's a Muslim terrorist.

..anyone want to wager that he said Allah Akbar while 'coincidentally' running running over infidels and apostates?

Muslim Day Planner, note to self...

Don't forget that when you go...GO JIHAD.
Posted by RD 2006-08-30 11:43||   2006-08-30 11:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe. Or maybe he is mentally ill. Remains to be determined.
Posted by lotp 2006-08-30 12:07||   2006-08-30 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 beleiving anything in that terrorist manual called the Koran is a form of mentally illness.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-08-30 12:13||   2006-08-30 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Not an act of terrorism. Just an isolated individual. Move along folks.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-30 12:58||   2006-08-30 12:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Was his dog driving? .....sorry
Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-30 13:12||   2006-08-30 13:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Was his dog driving?

dogs are way haram Besoeker.

~~

lotp: Maybe. Or maybe he is mentally ill. Remains to be determined.

lotp, fitnah X haraam = PC Scaramm

»:-)
Posted by RD 2006-08-30 13:47||   2006-08-30 13:47|| Front Page Top

#9 gromgoru, I'm not saying move along. I'm just saying the evidence is suggestive that this one really might have been the result of obvious mental illness.

I'll go back to lgf and allahpundit saying that some allegations of photoshopping don't hold up to scrutiny. Doesn't mean that the MSM isn't complicit up to its ears in faked pics, nor that we should close our eyes to it. But if it ain't faked it ain't faked.

And if the info we have suggests this guy might have hit over a dozen people and killed at least one because he's psychotic rather than a jihadi, we should be willing to acknowledge that.
Posted by lotp 2006-08-30 14:08||   2006-08-30 14:08|| Front Page Top

#10 The frustration on the other side is that it would be nice if the MSM and the government would acknowledge that the wacko was motivated by jihadi impulses if that is the case. But unless an airliner is involved these things are hushed up as quickly as possible by all ionvolved. Credibility is now so shredded the default setting is now cover-up.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-30 14:17||   2006-08-30 14:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Understood. And I am as frustrated as anyone about the MSM conspiracy of PC silence, not to mention the govt's complicity in it.
Posted by lotp 2006-08-30 14:19||   2006-08-30 14:19|| Front Page Top

#12 And just how are they gonna cover-up our first blast from a suicide bomb vest that gets activated, at say, a football game?

Just some student upset because his team didn't win? Seems to me, a suicide bomb vest fits the terrorist description, but what do I know? I only watch and read the news.
Posted by Sherry 2006-08-30 14:23||   2006-08-30 14:23|| Front Page Top

#13 I agree with LOTP on this one. The fact that he ended up hitting someone in front of the JCC doesn't really say much if you know the neighborhood and the way the streets go. I used to work out there and lived around the corner.

At this point I don't see that this was a pre-planned anti-Jew act of terror. It is much more random than the guy in Seattle. That was clearly terror. But this guy hit someone in Fremont first then drove over to the city. Maybe he hit the person in Fremont by accident, totally freaked out and then went nuts. I just think this one has some ambiguity based on what I know now.
Posted by remoteman 2006-08-30 14:27||   2006-08-30 14:27|| Front Page Top

#14 beleiving anything in that terrorist manual called the Koran is a form of mentally illness.

lotp, while I totally understand your concern regarding this suspect's mental health and whatever umbrage you take at the word "psychosis" being bandied about, I'm, hoping you might agree that Islam does inculcate a definite symptomology that strongly resembles mental illness.

Disregarding terrorism, for the moment (difficult, I know), let's just focus solely on the institutionalized abuse of women in Arab culture. This sort of almost pathological misogeny signifies a fundamental warping of character and morality that would recommend itself for clinical therapy or confinement in most Western societies. Much of the everyday treatment Arab women receive would qualify their mates for legal charges of spousal abuse or, at least, court-ordered counseling.

Further examination of just how stagnant overall Arab societies have remained for almost a solid millennia only provides further proof of how paralysing Islamic doctrine is to an individual's personal, emotional and spiritual growth. The added dimension of terrorism with its death obsession and callous disregard for innocent human life is damning confirmation of the above indicators' veracity.

Bereft of any congenital excuse or alibi, Islam rapidly assumes the nature of a pathological meme. The overall impact of its interaction with progressive society resembles nothing more than a millstone around our collective neck. Brief examination of the massive security expenditures, necessary military interventions, avoidable epidemics, constant abuse of human rights and famines that result from the ideological excercise of Islam all prove it to be little more than a parasite on enlightened cultures.

From all appearances, once a person is infected with this virulent meme, the only affordable cure is killing them before they murder people or contribute thereto, be it overtly or covertly.

Credibility is now so shredded the default setting is now cover-up.

Or collusion, NS
Posted by Zenster 2006-08-30 15:14||   2006-08-30 15:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Zen, can't take time right now to respond to that. Will do so this evening, though because you raise a couple important points IMO.
Posted by lotp 2006-08-30 15:16||   2006-08-30 15:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Thank you, lotp. I'm a patient man and am very interested in your response.
Posted by Zenster 2006-08-30 15:45||   2006-08-30 15:45|| Front Page Top

#17 
Posted by Texas Redneck 2006-08-30 17:52||   2006-08-30 17:52|| Front Page Top

#18 No matter what race or religion, he's a terrorist, even if he wasn't a Muslim, but he is..hmmm.
Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2006-08-30 19:40||   2006-08-30 19:40|| Front Page Top

#19 Zen, I'm not ignoring your comment -- I'm up to my ears in meeting a drop-dead deadline. for work I'll get back if I can later ...
Posted by lotp 2006-08-30 19:44||   2006-08-30 19:44|| Front Page Top

#20 lotp, I trust your sincerity. Please don't stress.
Posted by Zenster 2006-08-30 19:47||   2006-08-30 19:47|| Front Page Top

#21 We will soon learn that the FBI had this fellow under surveillance for the past five years, knew he was a pizza delivery man who owned his own BMW SUV, was enrolled in a private Evasive, Offensive and Defensive Combat Driving and shooting courses......and that the SAC dutifully reported it to Bureau, but Washington dismissed it as "possible profiling" and never connected the dots.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-30 19:58||   2006-08-30 19:58|| Front Page Top

#22 We will soon learn that the FBI had this fellow under surveillance for the past five years, knew he was a pizza delivery man who owned his own BMW SUV, was enrolled in a private Evasive, Offensive and Defensive Combat Driving and shooting courses....

Taught by the Deliverator, I suppose?

(Seriously, if this guy was tied into a network, or more than just mentally unhinged, wouldn't the body count have been much higher? I mean, we all read every day about how Al Qaeda has put the plans for building your own Thermobaric device out of material available at your local welder's supply store on the internet...)
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-08-30 22:16||   2006-08-30 22:16|| Front Page Top

#23 AS, I'm a little disconcerted at the efforts you and lotp have put in to deny it could be a malicious act. I'll await the facts, but the evidence (other than self-serving comments from th efamily) shows a willful act against western and Joooooish interests. We are all aware of the power of mental illnesses. We are also aware of the use of that defense to minimize culpability. Cool out, everyone?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-08-30 22:37||   2006-08-30 22:37|| Front Page Top

#24 We are all aware of the power of mental illnesses.

I'll also ask people not to forget how that, even if this man suffers from mental illness, being exposed to the intensely hateful messages of Islam could easily have exacerbated his condition to where murder became an option.

Only rarely are the voices heard by schizophrenics benign in nature. More often they are admonitory, abusive or otherwise compelling, even being perceived as divine in origin. After being inundated with Islam's typical drivel it is more than easy to imagine how whatever voices he heard began exhorting this individual to kill Jews and infidels.

I maintain that even in the presence of mental illness, Islam is still not off of the hook.
Posted by Zenster 2006-08-30 23:06||   2006-08-30 23:06|| Front Page Top

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