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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (980)	10/23/2001 11:47:36 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 1397

Re: 10/23/01 - New Haven Register: Ex-Yale lecturer says he foresaw attacks Ex-Yale lecturer says he foresaw attacks Randall Beach, Register Staff October 23, 2001 NEW HAVEN — Former Yale political science lecturer James Van de Velde says he knew years ago that terrorists were capable of attacking America, but virtually nobody paid attention to his warnings. Van de Velde, who police maintain is a suspect in the murder three years ago of Yale student Suzanne Jovin, also says his "politically incorrect" views made it easier for his Yale colleagues to "abandon" him. Police have never charged Van de Velde and he maintains his innocence. In an e-mail to the New Haven Register and a longer op-ed piece in the Yale Daily News Monday, Van de Velde noted he led his students through terrorist scenarios which now seem all too familiar. Van de Velde, who was Jovin's thesis adviser, also noted she wrote her senior essay on Osama bin Laden, the wealthy Saudi terrorist now being pursued by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The Bush administration believes he is behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Van de Velde described her essay as "thoughtful and farsighted." "She noted with alarm his 'fatwah' to murder Americans everywhere - not just soldiers abroad," Van de Velde said. He added, "It is profoundly sad that she is dead." Jovin was found lying near the corner of Edgehill and East Rock roads, the victim of multiple stabbings. Police continue to investigate the Dec. 4, 1998, murder but there have been no arrests. Yale officials did not permit Van de Velde to teach classes during the spring semester following the murder, saying his presence in class would be a "distraction" to students because police had listed him as a murder suspect. The officials subsequently did not renew his one-year contract. Van de Velde now works at the Pentagon, doing strictly classified duties. He was formerly a Naval intelligence officer. He said Yale faculty members "excoriated me for challenging my 1998 political science class to consider how terrorists might attempt to inflict massive damage on U.S. citizens and infrastructure. This was just a few months before the first such terrorists were, in fact, to arrive in the United States to plan their operation." Van de Velde also noted his class devised a chemical weapon attack using a crop duster, "a scenario we know today was considered by those who perpetrated the World Trade Center attack." Van de Velde added, "It is ironic that the Yale faculty is so naïve of the world that it disparaged my teaching and that my life was destroyed, in part, because of my prescience." Yale spokesman Tom Conroy replied, "There is a great deal of discussion on campus about the terrorist attacks and many different viewpoints have been expressed." He declined to comment further. ©New Haven Register 2001 zwire.com