Virginia investigators believe the skeletal remains of a blond female clothed in black that were found today are those of missing Virginia Tech college student Morgan Harrington.
While it is currently anyone’s guess as to why a 43-year-old “armed to the teeth” former Virginia man would be wandering around a Sommerset, New Jersey strip mall at 4 AM, hopefully the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) will soon have some answers. Evidently Lloyd R. Woodson got the attention of a store clerk as he loitered near the store, perhaps, in the clerk’s mind, casing the store for a robbery.
While many Americans busied themselves as they awaited the results of the dramatic Massachusetts senate race to replace recently deceased Ted Kennedy, a far more deadly drama was being played out in rural Appomattox, Virginia. Christopher Speight, a 39-year-old sometimes uniformed security guard was busying himself by killing eight people, to include the four who shared his deceased mother’s house with him.
Oct. 7: A detective says he found DNA from missing British girl Madeleine McCann on a resort beach. MSNBC analyst Clint Van Zandt explains why this may not be a trustworthy development.
Some trace the genesis of suicidal attacks by terrorists back to the 11th century assassins. Others, at least prior to the events of 9/11/01, recall the 2500 Japanese Navy “Kamikaze” or “divine wind” pilots who died in suicide attacks during WWII. The concept of suicidal attacks as a military weapon had been part of Japanese culture long before WWII, this as expressed in the code of the Samurai and the Bushido.
In the middle of the terrible tragedy that struck Haiti this week in the form of a 7.5 earthquake, one that basically leveled the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, millions of people are now homeless, injured, trapped under the mountains of rubble, or dead.
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab is the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day as it landed in Detroit, MI. By some standards he was both an unlikely as well as an obvious target for recruitment by radical Islamic fundamentalists.
As in the case of kidnapped 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart who was taken from her home in Salt Lake City, or 11-year-old Polly Klaas who was kidnapped from her own California bedroom, it was 11-year-old Sarah Foxwell’s 6-year-old sister who witnessed Sarah’s kidnapping from their own Maryland bedroom on the night of December 23, 2009.
A lone 23-year-old Nigerian tried to destroy Christmas for 289 fellow passengers and crew aboard an airline flight from Nigeria to Detroit when he attempted to ignite an incendiary device he had concealed on his body, this as the plane approached the runway to touchdown in Detroit.
While police in West Valley City, Utah, continue to press their investigation into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of 28-year-old mother of two, Susan Powell, there are also striking similarities between this case and that of other missing women that make us question their possible common fate.
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