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Terrorists in Washington Surburbs? Authorities are not ruling out terrorism.

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The serial sniper stalking the suburbs of the nation's capital left cops a chilling calling card: a taunting note written on a tarot card, a local television station reported last night. "Dear Policeman, I am God," it said. The note was scrawled on the death card, the most ominous of the fortune teller's deck. The card was found along with a shell casing in an area of matted grass overlooking the entrance of a Bowie, Md., school where a 13-year-old boy was shot and nearly killed. Police believe the psychopathic sharpshooter laid there watching kids through his rifle scope as they filed into school.

Professional profilers have speculated that the marksman who shot eight people at random, killing six is reveling in his ability to choose who lives and who dies. Waiting helplessly for a new attack, officials lashed out with words, branding the killer an unmanly coward who won't get away. "We will catch you, there is no question," Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening said. "You have got to understand that. That's why we're saying turn yourself in. Stop this insane killing." Flanked by an impressive array of top cops from half the Eastern seaboard, the governor jeered at the sniper."We're talking about a person here who is basically a coward,"

But officials had little more than tough words to use against the sharpshooter who began picking off suburbanites in parking lots and gas stations. In every case, the sniper opened fire unseen and vanished like a malevolent specter. Cops ran down 1,400 credible phone tips searching the apartment of a man they later cleared and returned to previous shooting scenes to take a fresh look.

Prior News Release
Police in the Washington suburb looking for two "Hispanic" men in the fatal shootings where five people were gunned down in two days "It's possible," that the suspects could be Middle Eastern.

Montgomery County Police in press conferences have described only the gender, not the race, of the two suspects, one a driver and the other the shooter. The be-on-the-lookout, or BOLO, alert that local police sent out earlier today to all law enforcement agencies also described in detail the "white box truck" used by the snipers.

The six-wheeled vehicle resembles a commercial delivery truck, police say. The cab is smaller than, and separate from, the large box-shaped cargo area, which is completely enclosed. The rear passenger side of the bumper has been damaged. And there is block-lettering on the side and rear of the truck.

A Montgomery County Police spokesman confirmed that the BOLO describes the suspects in the sniper slayings as "Hispanic."

But he cautioned that they could be another non-white race. "We do not count on them being two Hispanic males," said Officer Derek Baliles. "Appearances can be interpreted. We do not want to limit anything at all." "It's possible," he added, that the suspects could be Middle Eastern.

He also cautioned that their eyewitness account of the suspects is not solid.

Baliles says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is examining bullet fragments in two other shootings to see if they are connected to the other five, which occurred Wednesday and Thursday.

A 72-year-old man Thursday night was shot to death on a Washington street corner. And a Virginia woman this afternoon was shot in the back at a crafts store. Her condition was not immediately known. ATF ballistics experts have determined that a high-velocity rifle firing a .223-caliber bullet was used in at least four of the shootings. The bullet is used in M-16s and other rifles, and makes a large wound as it exits the body.

The police spokesman says FBI profilers will put together a "word picture" Saturday morning to try to make sense of the unusual crime and come up with a possible motive. Authorities are not ruling out terrorism.

Baliles says the Secret Service has assigned at least one agent to the case. The Office of Homeland Security and CIA are not involved, he says. The shooters took very select shots of random strangers, and appear to be trained in marksmanship. All six victims who died were killed with a single shot, some apparently shot in the head, although Baliles would not confirm that.

Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily.

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