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2007-04-18 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Steve White 2007-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 CHICAGO SUN TIMES > VT shooter may be possible CHINESE AL QAEDA??? OTOH, WAPO > is KOREAN, NOT Chinese???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-18 00:49|| 2007-04-18 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 COPYCAT? WND > Flurry of bomb scares + other threats forcing 3 universities to close down andor increase security.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-18 00:51|| 2007-04-18 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 South Korean, JosephM. Came here with his family at age 8 years, grew up in a suburb of Washington, DC where there is a high concentration of Korean emigres. His parents own a dry cleaning business. There's a round-up on Page 5 of the new news.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-18 01:02|| 2007-04-18 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 TW has there been anything about where Cho got his shooting skills? There was also a question regarding a possible trip to Indonesia.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-18 07:06|| 2007-04-18 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 I didn't see anything about that last night, Icerigger. But if he indeed owned more than the two new pistol thingies he used for his massacre, perhaps he'd spent time at a local firing range. No doubt the Guardian will winkle it out. It seems that many of those he shot received multiple bullets; clearly he was quite skilled.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-18 07:21|| 2007-04-18 07:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Wonderful. Lots of hot-button emoting photos, not a single goddamn image of the actual site of the massacre. How the hell did he do this with a pair of pistols? I have my suspicions, but some idea of what Norris Hall looks like inside would be useful...

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-04-18 09:21|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-18 09:21|| Front Page Top

#7 There was also a question regarding a possible trip to Indonesia.

Is it just me or is that a Big Red I hear cranking up in the background?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-18 15:36|| 2007-04-18 15:36|| Front Page Top

#8 btw, there's a schematic in the last page of the interactive graphic on the NY Times article. My theory about deep doorways is shot - thin curtain walls makes the likelihood that he was using doorway chokepoints to defend himself... not particularly likely. It's more probable that his early butchery of the professors in each room decapitated the authority structure in each locality, psychologically speaking. He shot the "adult" in the room, and the "kids" didn't put up any resistance. Horrible.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-04-18 17:13|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-18 17:13|| Front Page Top

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