..plenty of kids radicalized enough ..
An example of this:
Documents describe accused cop killer
By GAIL CETNAR, News-Sun Staff Writer
The former Springfielder charged with murdering a California police officer was involved in peace efforts in Israel, according to recently unsealed court documents.
Andrew Hampton Mickel traveled to Israel at about Christmas 2001 as part of a peace-oriented group that acted as human shields between the Israelis and Palestinians, according to a Nov. 26 inter-office communication written by then-Springfield Police Capt. Stephen P. Moody, who became Springfield's police chief Wednesday.
Mickel, 23, reportedly was frustrated by the Israelis' ability to circumvent the effort, Moody wrote in the document released by Tehama County Superior Court in California.
Moody wrote that Mickel's parents contacted a local defense attorney after the killing of the police officer in November.
"They related that they had been in telephonic contact with their son, and he had advised then that he had shot and killed a police officer in Red Bluff," Moody wrote.
Moody's narrative was filed in the California court and was made available after a records request by the Red Bluff Daily News.
Officer David Mobilio was ambushed at about 1:30 a.m. Nov. 19 while he fueled his patrol car. He was shot twice in the left side and once at close range in the back of the head.
Mickel reportedly contacted several people after the shooting, including Washington Post reporter Lois Raimondo, who reportedly is a family friend. She is a Wittenberg University graduate.
He told her he killed the officer and he needed to be arrested so the media would report the story, Moody wrote. Mickel reportedly said he was not afraid of going to jail for the rest of his life because he was exposing the injustice of the world.
Raimondo reportedly called Mickel's parents, Stanley Mickel, a Wittenberg professor of languages, and his wife, Karen, a mathematics professor at the University of Dayton. His father checked the Web site of the Red Bluff Police Division and found the killer's profile fit his son, Moody's document stated.
Andrew Mickel also telephoned both his brothers and his parents and reportedly told his parents that what he told Raimondo was true. He did not give them specific information about how he allegedly killed Mobilio, but he told his mother he disposed of the gun before he boarded a plane east, the document stated.
A .40-caliber handgun that could have been one of four makes, including a Sig Sauer, was used to shoot Mobilio, according to a Nov. 26 statement of probable cause written by California Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Jeff Lierly. A .40-caliber Sig Sauer handgun was registered to Andrew Mickel in Washington.
Andrew Mickel, 23, is a 1998 North High School graduate who served in the U.S. Army for three years. His father said he joined the service to provide discipline in his life and excelled in the mental and physical challenges, but also was turned off by the service, according to the inter-office police document.
He graduated from the Army's Ranger school, airborne school and jungle operations training school, and he served at Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort Campbell, Ky., Moody wrote.
He then began studying creative writing at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., where he was a sophomore.
Moody's inter-office communication states Mickel's father said his son needs an opportunity to express his platform and described him as idealistic, intelligent and stubborn, with a wry sense of humor. He said his son believes "America is raping the world ... and is anti-globalization," Moody wrote.
Andrew Mickel's brother reportedly stated he "is acting as if he is in a movie and the media attention will cause the world to change."
A maroon 1992 Ford Mustang hatchback registered to Andrew Mickel in Washington potentially is linked to the crime. Two witnesses said they saw a maroon early-90s model Ford Mustang hatchback parked near the scene of the shooting at about 6:30 p.m. Nov. 18, the day before the killing, according to the probable cause statement. A cloth covered both license plates.
Another witness stated he was passed by a car with a brown cloth over the rear license plate at about 1:45 a.m. Nov. 19, about 15 minutes after the killing, according to the probable cause statement.
Andrew Mickel wrecked his car Nov. 19 in Oregon, according to a report in the Sacramento Bee. While deputies responded to the crash, a nearby resident invited Andrew Mickel in to shower and clean up. He was not arrested because deputies had no indication he was linked to a homicide, the Bee reported.
Investigators believe Mickel, who also uses the name McCrae, confessed to the murder on Nov. 25 on a San Francisco news Web site, www.indymedia.org. In one of two letters posted online, the writer identified as McCrae claims he shot and killed the officer to protest "police state tactics" and corporate irresponsibility. The writer claimed he is immune from prosecution because he incorporated himself in New Hampshire as a protest against corporations who "murder thousands of people each year" without being held accountable.
Andrew Mickel was arrested Nov. 26 at a Concord, N.H., hotel after several hours of negotiations with FBI agents and a phone interview with a Concord reporter.
He is being held without bail in a New Hampshire jail while he fights extradition. He has until Jan. 10 to file a petition contesting the validity of the California governor's warrant for his return.
He is charged with murder in California and could face the death penalty.
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