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To: tigerman77 who wrote (1930)	10/24/2002 1:32:35 AM
From: LTK007	Respond to of 2746

well(from latest news) amazingly odds increasing this is terrorist linked <<Sniper Investigators Issue Arrest Warrant 22 minutes ago By Mark Wilkinson ROCKVILLE, Md. (Reuters) - Police hunting a sniper who has killed 10 people in the Washington area and wounded three issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for an "armed and dangerous" man they said could help their investigation. "A federal arrest warrant has been issued for John Allen Mohammed, also known as John Allen Williams, a black male, 42," Montgomery County police chief Charles Moose told reporters. He said Mohammed was charged with federal firearms laws not related to the spate of sniper killings that started on Oct. 2 and have spread fear throughout the Washington metropolitan area. "We believe that Mr. Mohammed may have information material to our investigation," Moose said, adding that Mohammed could be traveling with an unidentified juvenile. "He should be considered armed and dangerous," Moose said, describing Mohammed as 6 feet 1 inch and 180 pounds. Television networks reported earlier that the juvenile was Mohammed's stepson, a 17-year-old Jamaican national. They said police believed the two men were traveling in a 1990 Chevrolet Caprice automobile with the New Jersey registration number NDA 21Z. The networks said Mohammed had served in the military at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma in Washington state. FBI (news - web sites) agents searched a property in Tacoma with metal detectors in an operation local media said was related to the search for the sniper. They also made inquiries about two unnamed people in another Washington state city, Bellingham, on Wednesday, city mayor Mark Asmundson said, identifying one of them as a foreign national. He said the agents visited a school in the city. At the news conference Moose made fresh, cryptic references to efforts to communicate with the sniper. "You asked us to say 'we have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose'. We understand that hearing us say this is important to you," Moose said. "However we want you to know how difficult it has been to understand what you want ... "Our word is our bond, if we can establish communications with you, we can offer other means of addressing what you have asked for. Let's talk directly. We have an answer for you about your options. We are waiting for you to contact us," the police chief said. The issuing of the warrant and the searches in Washington state appeared to mark a breakthrough in the case which has been marked by a lack of reliable witnesses or other evidence. The sniper has shot his victims with a single bullet, usually from a distance, and has dodged police dragnets set up within minutes of the attacks. Earlier Wednesday police confirmed that a bus driver shot and killed Tuesday in the Montgomery County district of Aspen Hill was the latest victim of the sniper. As part of the search in Tacoma, agents marked the yard off in narrow strips and painstakingly combed the soil and a large tree stump, apparently for bullets and metal fragments. At a news conference outside the duplex, FBI spokeswoman Melissa Mallon declined to say what agents were looking for or whether the search was connected to the sniper. "Right now we're at the house. It is a consensual search and we are conducting a search of the outside perimeter of the house," she said Tensions ran high at schools around the nation's capital on Wednesday, a day after police disclosed a chilling message from the sniper warning, "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time." In Washington's Maryland suburbs where six of the sniper killings occurred and a 13-year-old boy was critically wounded entering his school, schools continued to keep students indoors three weeks after the start of the shooting spree that has convulsed the U.S. capital region. A White House spokesman said the federal government was giving schools in the region $600,000 to strengthen security during the hunt for the sniper. According to reports, investigators found a letter several pages long near the site of Tuesday's shooting that renewed earlier demands for $10 million to be put into a bank account. Moose said a previous letter, found last weekend, included the threat to children. The Washington Post said the angry letter was found tacked to a tree behind an Ashland, Virginia, restaurant where a 37-year-old man was wounded on Saturday, about 85 miles south of Washington. The letter berated police as incompetent and listed six calls to the sniper task force that had been "ignored," the newspaper reported. The letter reportedly said "five people had to die" because of the mishandled calls. Michael Bouchard of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said authorities wanted to "develop some trust with this person." "We are trying to open a dialogue. Any time there's a dialogue, we're hoping to resolve this peacefully," he said. President Bush (news - web sites) said on Wednesday he was praying for a quick end to the killing spree and offered full government resources to help catch the "ruthless" killer.