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That's what they want you to think.
Bedell was actually a CIA operative that knew the whole story.
Angry anti-gov't writing linked to Pentagon gunman
By MATT APUZZO and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers Matt Apuzzo And Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writers – 44 mins ago
WASHINGTON – A California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police drove cross-country and arrived outside the military headquarters armed with two semiautomatic weapons, authorities said Friday. Internet postings linked to the lone shooting suspect reflect long-held anti-government anger.
John Patrick Bedell, 36, pulled a handgun at a Pentagon entrance, shot two police officers and was mortally wounded in an exchange of gunfire, authorities said. The two officers were hospitalized briefly with minor injuries.
A blog connected to Bedell via the social networking site LinkedIn outlines his growing distrust of the federal government. It gives credence to the idea that a criminal enterprise run out of the government could have staged the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
It was one of several conspiracy-laden Internet postings linked to Bedell to surface since Thursday night's shooting.
Authorities said Bedell, of Hollister, Calif., had previous run-ins with the law. They found no known connection to terrorist groups or ideologies, investigators said.
The attack outside the massive Defense Department headquarters appeared to be a case of "a single individual who had issues," Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police, said Friday.
Bedell died Thursday night from head wounds. Officials said the two wounded guards were officers Jeffery Amos and Marvin Carraway, both of whom returned fire. They said a third guard they did not name also fired.
Reached by telephone, Amos declined to answer any questions about the shooting but said he was doing OK.
"I'm fine and my family is fine," he told The Associated Press. "I just thank the Lord that he shielded me when all of this took place."
Bedell drove across country, including a stop at a motel in Reno, Nevada, law enforcement officials said.
It was not immediately clear how long he stayed there, or if it was anything more than a stopover on his way to a violent end.
Hints of a deep-seated mistrust of government emerged in Internet postings linked to Bedell. A blog connected to his LinkedIn profile contained a two-part treatise on big government, including its vulnerability to being controlled by a criminal organization.
"This organization, like so many murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control," the blog post read.
Keevill described Bedell as "very well-educated" and well-dressed, wearing a suit that blended with commuters when he showed up at the Pentagon's subway entrance about 6:40 p.m. But he was concealing two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and "many magazines" of ammunition, Keevill said.
When Bedell seemed to reach into his pocket for worker identification, he was instead reaching for a gun, Keevill said.
"He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting" at point-blank range, Keevill said. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face."
Although the gunfire near the subway exit in Arlington, Va., lasted less than a minute, Keevill said, numerous shots were fired.
There was more ammunition in Bedell's car, which authorities found in a nearby mall parking garage.
"He came here from California," Keevill said. "We were able to identify certain locations that he spent that last several weeks making his way from the West coast to the East coast."
Keevill said he did not know what motivated the shooting: "I have no idea what his intentions were."
On a Wikipedia page linked to Bedell, a user by the name JPatrickBedell revealed ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces and made reference to another conspiracy theory.
JPatrickBedell wrote that he was "determined to see that justice is served" in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up. Sabow's family has maintained that he was murdered because he was about to expose covert military operations in Central America involving drug smuggling.
That posting can be linked to Bedell through court do ents matching the shooter's birth date but Keevill said Friday that authorities had not made "a final determination" that the shooter was the same Bedell.
On the Internet posting, user JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was "a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions."
That same posting railed against the government's enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author's 2006 court case in Orange County, Calif., involving allegations of cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer.
The assault at the very threshold of the Pentagon — the U.S. capital's ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 — came four months after a deadly attack on the Army's Fort Hood, Texas, post allegedly by a U.S. Army psychiatrist with radical Islamic leanings.
Hatred of the government motivated a man in Texas last month to fly a small plane into a building housing Internal Revenue Service offices, killing an IRS employee and himself.
The shooting resembled one in January in which a gunman walked up to the security entrance of a Las Vegas courthouse and opened fire with a shotgun, killing one officer and wounding another before being gunned down in return fire.
The subway station in Arlington is immediately adjacent to the Pentagon building, a five-sided northern Virginia colossus across the Potomac River from Washington. Since a redesign following the 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, riders take a long escalator ride to the surface from the underground station, then pass through a security check outside the doors of the building, where further security awaits.
Keevill said the gunman gave no clue to the officers at the checkpoint about what he was going to do.
"There was no distress," he said. "When he reached into his pocket, they assumed he was going to get a pass and he came up with a gun."
Ronald Domingues, 74, who lives next door to Bedell's parents in a gated golf course community in Hollister, said he doesn't know the family well. But he said Bedell sometimes lived with his parents and struck him "like a normal young man."
That's what they want you to think.
Bedell was actually a CIA operative that knew the whole story.
he couldn't have been a CIA agent.
cheney didn't out him.
Evidently, he was a right-wing extremist tea bagger, too.
Predictable.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/03...ad-to-shooting
Crazy people, you know the avg teabagger and red-state bubba, are very suggestible as to why they are losers and who they should blame.
With the Repugs and hate media fomenting violence. no surprises.
i'd say he's just a nut.
Not enough information to classify him as anything but a nut.
At least he didn't bring down the Twin Towers and murder 3000 people.
9/11 has been proven to be an inside job a long time ago.
It's a CONSPIRACY!!!
At first I thought it might have been you....
but you're here....
....anyone seen mouse lately?
Hey Galileo, do you think this shooting was an inside job, too?
This is the danger of manipulationg fears right now. Everyone has their concerns and they are legitimate. The news tells us everyday that we're headed for disaster economically, and we hear also how broken our government is. We have scandals in Charlie Rangel and filibusters with Jim Bunning. Health-Care is valuable to our long-term economic growth, but that is not the argument the President and the Democrats have made since last summer.
There are a lot of polarizing figures on the political stage. President Obama has become, to many, a socialist. That's a fear that I do not share. However, my blood boils anytime I watch Cheney booked on This Week or at a CPAC convention because of his actions in the 43rd Administration. Karl Rove is another figure.
We have to tone this down and that is why yesterday's story was so important about the RNC messages. Fear is so heightened right now that it is gasoline on the fire. Extremists can take action like this. This is the second disgruntled lone-wolf to attack our government in just the last two weeks. If the fear is rallied anymore, I fear we will see a riot infront of Goldman Sachs, or an attempt on Congress.
I have stated some of my views, but I found this last night. I put it on my facebook page and I think it is worthy advice, now, before something truly destructive takes place:
Please remember our common humanity before we tear at the fabric of our nation, our community. Do we wish to put ourselves in danger, to feel insecure in our homes, to write a chapter of history we will regret? This is not a time for hyperbole or cheap remarks or finger-pointing. It is a time to identify the problems we face, meet them head-on, and to solve it. It is a time for honest discussion not blatant attempts at discord. I beg of all of you to try and be civil wherever you go, to try and understand your fellow countrymen, and stand against those that put us in danger, no matter their creed or party. We are entrusted with American ideals--please try and protect them as you would a child. I want this nation to survive and I do not want to lower my eyes when I think back on this time.
Good thing the police officers only had minor injuries...
Sounds like it could have been Nbadan or Galileo.
I love the way the left-leaning media are presuming to know this nut's politics...it's as if they're developing some narrative.
John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?
Truther and Registered Democrat...yep, I'd say the CSM had him pegged, eh?
Christian Science () Monitor is left-leaning? What the ?
Using the term "right-wing extremist" pretty much cast the die -- for that columnist, anyway.Christian Science (
Particularly when it is known the nut is a Democrat and a Bush-hating Truther.
Conspiracy throrists are some of the dumbest people one can encounter . . .
besides foreigners opening their esl mouths about a national tragedy
Well, at least this one thinned the gene pool without causing too much harm.
lol dumbbbbb
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