Witnesses say they saw sniper
Francis X. Clines
New York Times
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — This time
the roving sniper left more clues,
with a number of witnesses getting a
better, more chilling glimpse of him
and his getaway van as they looked
beyond his latest victim bleeding to
death on the parking garage floor.
Law enforcement officials working
on the massive manhunt for the high
ly elusive sniper marked qualified
progress on Tuesday as they investi
gated his 11th shooting, the killing of
a 47-year-old woman here on Mon
day night.
This time, officials said, there were
more immediate witnesses than in
previous killings, and the witnesses
provided much more information,
including license plate data noted as
the gunman fled in the now familiar
light-colored van reported at his last
three slayings.
One government official described
the closest, most stark sighting yet by
a witness who reported seeing the
gunman step brazenly from his van,
about 90 feet from Linda Franklin
and her husband, Ted, as the couple
was loading shelving into their car af
ter leaving the Home Depot store
here at 9:15 Monday night.
“He had his choice and he took her,”
the official recounted of the sniper’s
taking aim, firing once and striking
Franklin in the head, killing her in
stantly in the parkinggarage. The gun
man then fled, once more successfully
eluding an intense police dragnet acti
vated soon after the shooting.
Hoping to prevent that from hap
pening again, the Pentagon on Tues
day agreed to deploy secret surveil
Task force
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solutions that have yet to be discov
ered or strategies that need to be im
proved,” Croteau said.
Associate Vice President for Insti
tutional Affairs Jan Oliver said the
task force will be examining crime
statistics, the quality of buildings in
the area and requesting public input.
The University’s Campus/Com
munity Relations Task Force, made
up of students and local citizens, will
be examining more short-term goals
for preventing future riots. The
group will be having a meeting
Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00
p.m. in the EMU Fir Room to discuss
ways of preventing Halloween riots.
The city manager’s office will also
be hosting a discussion of West Uni
versity Neighborhood disturbances
and police response at noon on
Thursday at City Hall, located at
777 Pearl Street.
Contact the reporter
atdaniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
Iraq
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Jane Cramer said attacking Iraq
because of Saddam Hussein’s al
leged connection to terrorism
wpuJd be a mistake.
“We have to evaluate what kind of
connection (Hussein) would possi
bly want,” she said.
"We have to evaluate
what kind of
connection (Hussein)
would possibly want."
Jane Cramer
Assistant professor
Cramer added it is unlikely that
al-Qaida — which is a fundamental
ist group — would support a secular
ruler like Hussein. She said al-Qaida
would love for the United States to
topple Hussein because a funda
mentalist leader would likely be
elected in his place.
Law Associate Professor Ibrahim
Gassama shared two general obser
vations he had made about
the conflict.
First, Gassama said there
is widespread consensus that Iraq
has violated international law over
many years, specifically U.N.
resolutions.
Second, Gassama said although
the Bush administration was on the
right track in seeking U.N. support,
their current policy against Iraq is
threatening peace.
Shortly after the main presenta
tions, discussion groups were held
in the EMU so teach-in attendees
could talk about issues discussed.
Many students stayed to participate
in the group discussions.
Contact the senior news reporter at
janmontry@dailyemerald.com.
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lance planes to patrol the skies over
the Washington area. The planes,
which have sophisticated sensors, will
be used to respond to future attacks.
On Tuesday morning, police con
firmed that overnight ballistics tests
had conclusively showed that
Franklin, an analyst for the FBI who
was not involved in the manhunt,
was the ninth person killed by the
roving suburban sniper.
In the two weeks of the sniper’s ter
rifying shooting spree, the slaying in
this busy suburban bedroom com
munity was the first time witnesses
said they saw the actual shooting, po
lice officials said. Witnesses offered
enough partial glimpses of the fleeing
sniper to allow a police sketch artist
to attempt a composite drawing, ac
cording to knowledgeable detectives.
“We have been receiving quite a
bit of information from witnesses,”
the Fairfax County police chief,
Thomas Manger, said at a news con
ference after a long night of inter
views by investigators who were
combing the scene.
Some bloodhounds sniffed for the
sniper’s traces in the busy cross
roads mall at Seven Corners Shop
ping Center. Others crawled in
waves on hands and knees in the
search for evidence.
“We’re confident that ultimately
that information is going to lead us
to an arrest,” Manger insisted, ex
pressing guarded optimism about
the witnesses.
“We have received license plate
information from several witness
es,” Manger said, describing this as
involving different information and
different tags.
News brief
Dow closes over 8,200
Surprisingly good earnings reports
from major banks sent stocks shoot
ing upward Tuesday, with the Dow
Jones industrial average rising 4.8
percent to 8,255.68, its highest close
since a month ago.
The Dow’s 378-point gain was its
fourth increase in as many trading
days after the index reached its low
est point in five years on Oct. 9, sug
gesting that investors may have put
a floor on the value of many stocks
despite the lack of positive news
about the economy as a whole.
The Dow’s rally marked its
largest four-day gain in percentage
terms since 1933, and added $1.14
trillion to the value of U.S. stocks,
according to the Wilshire 5000
Total Market index.
— Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe
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