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| Priest hit 'ordered over web' |
| 2006-02-12 |
| Ankara - The teenage suspect being held for allegedly shooting an Italian Roman Catholic priest in Turkey received orders to kill him through an internet webcam, the suspect's father said, according to the leading Hurriyet newspaper on Thursday. The suspect's father, Hikmet, was quoted by the paper as saying that his 16-year-old son was excited and nervous on Sunday night, hours after he allegedly killed Santoro. "Look at television, the priest was shot," Hikmet quoted his son as saying in an interview with Hurriyet. The father became suspicious and pressed his son about why the priest might have been killed. Finally, the boy said: "I shot him. If I did not shoot him, they would shoot you," the father quoted his son as saying. The father said he then questioned him further. "He did not reveal the details, he just said he was told by someone through a webcam," Hikmet said. The paper did not provide the father's surname to protect the suspect, who is a minor. Neither the father nor the boy's lawyer was immediately available for comment. The semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported that the boy was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday where he will likely be arraigned. Santoro, 60, was killed on Sunday while praying in his church along the Black Sea coast. Witnesses say the killer screamed "Allah Akbar," Arabic for "God is great," before firing two bullets into Santoro's back as he kneeled to pray. The priest's body was returned to Italy on Tuesday. The suspect was captured on Tuesday and police said they seized a 9mm handgun during the raid and a ballistics test confirmed it was used in the shooting. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #12 There have been several news articles about sex and blackmail schemes via webcams, different countries, but usually aimed at teenagers. Jihad via webcam does not sound unreasonable to me. |
| Posted by: Adriane 2006-02-12 21:07 |
| #11 I thought maybe Sam the Dawg got a webcam. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-02-12 18:33 |
| #10 I say hold off on the cynicism. He could have easily set up a web cam chat with some jihadi leader . Hell, they may have been chatting for months. Complete cyber recruitment. Or better yet, blackmail. Do it for us, but also do it so we don't kill your father. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2006-02-12 18:24 |
| #9 It was the "Control Voice" |
| Posted by: doc 2006-02-12 18:14 |
| #8 Daddy is setting up a defense and/or mitigation for the young jihadi. "Hey...the kid got his instructions to kill the infidel priest off the internet. You know how kids are these days. AND he says by killing the priest he was saving my life. It was a plot by the jooooos." Makes perfect sense from a Muslim state of mind. |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2006-02-12 16:32 |
| #7 This reminds me, did the RB sleuths identify the recent hacker? And that reminds me, do we have Boris the Insane pegged (location, ID)? Just, you know, wondering... *whistling* |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-12 15:07 |
| #6 Edward, it's not that I'm a technophobe, it's that I'm appallingly ignorant. ... and occasionally more than a little obtuse. I saw web cam, but thought street/security cam. Sorry for wasting Fred's bandwidth on such a foolish question. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-12 15:06 |
| #5 How does that work? Probably a big yellow sign that said, "Kill Santoro" in a very prominent font. ;) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2006-02-12 14:52 |
| #4 How do you think, trailing wife? Can't say I'm too surprised, though, in a technological sense (considering that it's not too different from ordering a hit over the phone -- albeit maybe something in the video pushed the teen to do it?). |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2006-02-12 14:39 |
| #3 Allah made him do it. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-02-12 14:34 |
| #2 Sounds like somebody's been watching too many Charlie's Angels reruns. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2006-02-12 14:31 |
| #1 The lad received orders to kill the priest over a web cam?!? How does that work? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-12 13:55 |