Beltway Sniper Terrorists on Trial - Muhammad gets death
sentence....Malvo Life in Prison
Malvo said Muhammad devised a two-phase plan to shoot as many as six random people each
day for 30 days in the Washington area and then target children and police officers with
explosives. They planned to place explosives on school buses in Baltimore, kill a
Baltimore police officer and then set off explosives packed with ball bearings at
the officer's funeral.
When Malvo asked Muhammad why, he said, ``For the sheer terror of it - the worst thing you
can do to people is aim at their children.''
He described how he spent the night in a Baltimore cemetery, training a Bushmaster
.223-caliber rifle on a fast food restaurant, waiting for pregnant women. He said he saw
four, but couldn't bring himself to shoot.
The pair scouted dozens of shooting sites in the region. They looked for scenes that had
few surveillance cameras, a limited number of witnesses and easy escape routes. They
stopped at many shooting sites, such as shopping malls, parking lots and the area around
Howard University in Washington, D.C., but aborted because too many people were nearby.
Malvo said he shot three people during the spree, but that Muhammad was the triggerman in
the others. Malvo said he was supposed to shoot five children at a Bowie middle
school Oct. 7, 2002 as they got off a bus, but that no buses arrived. Instead, he shot
13-year-old Iran Brown.
Prosecutors are presenting evidence from the 13 sniper shootings during October 2002 in
Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Ten people were killed and three wounded during
that stretch. Muhammad and Malvo were also linked to sniper shootings in Alabama, Georgia,
Louisiana and Washington state.
Muhammad, 45, was sentenced to death in 2003 for one of the Virginia shootings. The
Supreme Court refused Monday to hear Muhammad's appeal of his conviction and sentence. He
still has the right, though, to file a habeas corpus petition, in which federal courts
examine state trials for constitutional problems.
Malvo, whose Virginia lawyers argued their client had been brainwashed by Muhammad, was
given a life term for another Virginia sniper killing.
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Beltway Snipers - National Enquirer
Article http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/780767/posts
Muhammad had contact with a mosque in Northern
Virginia that was also frequented by at least two of the terrorists who crashed into the
World Trade Center. While not being part of an organized group of terrorists,
Muhammad would be the kind they use."
At Bellingham's Lighthouse Mission for the homeless, about 100 miles north of Tacoma, John
Alien Muhammad and John Lee Malvo were frightening figures. The shelter's executive
director, the Rev. Al Archer, eventually concluded that Muhammad was a dangerous man
linked to Islamic extremists and more than a year ago unsuccessfully tried to get the FBI
to share his concern.
Fellow residents wondered why Muhammad's wallet often bulged with $100 bills, and how he
managed to make expensive trips
all over America. Sometimes he flew to Antigua where he kept a savings account. It was
weird to have airline reservation clerks contacting a homeless shelter to book one of the
men.
Muhammad hawked a Black Muslim newspaper, The Final Call," on the streets and
distributed radical pro-Islamic pamphlets.
He also made visits to Seattle to meet with fellow Muslim extremists who are being
investigated by the FBI as possible terrorists.
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