11-30-09
Louie Freeh's Thugs Manipulate Murder of Four Police Officers To Intimidate Members of Congress to Support More Troops for Afghanistan
The Rothschilds/Rockefellers are doing everything in their power to get members of Congress to vote to pay for sending more troops to Afghanistan. Why? Destroy the dollar.
Logic dictates the bad guys, the Rothschilds/Rockefellers, are working a concerted four point plan to get members of the US Congress to vote for sending more troops to Afghanistan. Just like the bad guys killed people in the vicinity of Washington DC in 2002, known as the DC sniper murders, to intimidate members of Congress to vote in favor of invading Afghanistan and Iraq, the bad guys have ordered Louie Freeh's thugs to manipulate people to kill four police officers in Parkland, Washington while debate goes on as to sending more troops to Afghanistan. Earlier this month, Louie Freeh's thugs manipulated Nidal Malik Hasan to go on a shooting spree known as the Ft. Hood massacre in which 13 people were killed. Also this weekend Louie Freeh's thugs manipulated a gunman to murder four in Jupiter Florida. These shootings are manipulated, not random shootings without a political motive, but deliberate well planned manipulations for the motive of influencing members of Congress to vote in favor of sending more troops to Afghanistan. We can expect the treasonous Louie Freeh to continue to make war on America by manipulating shootings, one after another, until more US troops are sent to Afghanistan. The media are calling all of Louie Freeh's manipulated shootings in the USA terrorists acts for the purpose of justifying Obama's so called war on terror in Afghanistan. Just as 911 was Rothschild/Rockefeller planned and implemented, the shootings are Rothschild/Rockefeller planned and implemented, both having the same motive, destruction of the US dollar.
The Rothschilds/Rockefellers ordered the New York Times to write an article on bin Laden while Congress is debating whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan as a second part of their plan to intimidate members of Congress to vote in favor of sending more troops to Afghanistan.
The New York Times knows 911 did not happen the way the 911 Commission said it happened and the New York Times knows bin Laden has been dead since October 2001, but the New York Times willingly makes war on the United States when they write this article on bin Laden knowing full well they publish it to influence Americans think the USA is under terrorist attack today, when we are not, and the remedy is for Americans to support the escalation of war in Afghanistan.
A third part of the Rothschild/Rockefeller plan to intimidate members of Congress to vote to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending more troops there is to get their closet zioni$t, "Jewish Roots" Ahmadinejad to announce while Congress is debating whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan that Iran Approves Building 10 Uranium Enrichment Sites In Defiance Of UN Demands.
It is clear Ahmadinejad is a closet zioni$t because this provocative uranium enrichment announcement and Ahmadinejad's trip to Latin America hurt Iran immensely in the world of public opinion and his mouth and actions could lead to Iran getting nuked in which thousands or even millions of Iranians are killed. Only a president of Iran who hates Iran would take such a stupid trip and make such a stupid announcement. So obviously the Rothschilds/Rockefellers have Ahmadinejad in their pocket and they timed his trip to Latin America and Ahmadinejad's uranium announcement to coincide with the US Congress voting on escalation of war in Afghanistan. Congress and the American people are being made to think the only way to stop Ahmadinejad is to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan. Actually the best way to stop Ahmadinejad is for Iran to realize he is making war on Iran, that Ahmadinejad is a zioni$t, and execute him for treason.
A fourth part of the Rothschild/Rockefeller plan to escalate war in Afghanistan and get Congress to approve sending more troops there is to order Obama is make a speech ion favor of sending more troops to Afghanistan. Of course Obama would not be president if it were not for the economic meltdown they and Bernanke manipulated.
So what is the Rothschild/Rockefeller motive for expanding the war in Afghanistan. The USA will have to borrow every penny to expand the war in Afghanistan. FROM THEM, the Rothschilds/Rockefellers. 911 and the escalation of the Afghanistan war is about borrowing money from the Rothschilds/Rockefellers. The Rothschilds/Rockefellers are lending the United States into slavery.
The Rothschils/Rockefellers plan to intimidate members of Congress to vote to send more troops to Afghanistan consists of four parts. Direct Louie Freeh to manipulate shootings and label them terrorists attacks. Direct the New York Times to write about bin Laden. Direct closet zioni$t Ahmadinejad to announce an expansion of uranium enrichment. Direct Barack Obama to announce he is sending more troops to Afghanistan.
4 Cops Shot At Forza Coffee Shop In Parkland, Washington
digg stumble reddit del.ico.us
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/29/multiple-police-officers-_n_373119.html
GENE JOHNSON | 11/29/09 07:59 PM |
PARKLAND, Wash. — One of four police officers killed in an ambush at a coffee house Sunday fought with the gunman and may have wounded him before the officer died just outside the doorway, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told reporters that investigators were asking area medical providers to report any people wounded by gunshots.
Troyer said investigators believe two of the officers were shot dead while sitting in the shop, and a third was killed after standing up. The fourth apparently struggled with the gunman out the doorway and "gave up a good fight," getting off a few shots before he was either shot there or succumbed to earlier wounds.
"We believe there was a struggle, a commotion, a fight ... that he fought the guy all the way out the door," Troyer said.
He added, "We hope that he hit him."
The gunman burst into the coffee house Sunday morning and opened fire on the officers as they sat working on their laptops, killing the three men and one woman in what Troyer described as a targeted ambush.
Troyer said officers were looking for one male suspect who fled the scene and haven't ruled out an accomplice, possibly a getaway driver.
Troyer said investigators determined that a hoax call from a person in nearby Tacoma led officers to believe the gunman was on foot and still near the coffee shop. A number of officers spent part of the afternoon carefully searching buildings close by.
Story continues below
Troyer said the attack was clearly targeted at the officers, not a robbery gone bad.
"This was more of an execution. Walk in with the specific mindset to shoot police officers," he said.
Troyer said the officers – all from the Lakewood Police Department – were catching up on paperwork at the beginning of their shifts when they were attacked at 8:15 a.m. Sunday.
"There were marked patrol cars outside and they were all in uniform," Troyer said.
With no known suspects, there was no indication of any connection with the Halloween night shooting of a Seattle police officer. The suspect in that shooting remains hospitalized.
"We won't know if it's a copycat effect or what it was until we get the case solved," Troyer said. "We don't even have a suspect ID right now."
Lakewood Mayor Douglas Richardson said the names of the victims would be released as soon as extended family members were notified.
In a statement, Richardson said the officers, part of the city's 100-member police force, had been with the department since it was organized five years ago. He called the crime "our most tragic event in Lakewood's 14 years as a city."
Troyer estimated that a couple of hundred officers from the Washington State Patrol and multiple surrounding police agencies in the area were at the crime scene, with some coming on their own time.
"We have no motive at all," Troyer said. "I don't think when we find out what it is, it will be anything that makes any sense or be worth it."
Two employees and a few other customers were in the shop during the attack. All are being interviewed by the Pierce County Sheriff's investigators.
"Some are in shock. They are very upset," Troyer said. "They are the ones who are going to put together for us how this happened."
The Forza Coffee Shop, part of a popular local chain, is on a side street near McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma, about 35 miles south of Seattle. The shop is in a small retail center alongside two restaurants, a cigar store and a nail salon.
Brad Carpenter, founder and owner of Forza Coffee, said his staff was OK and being interviewed by police, and that his main concern was for the families of the police officers.
"I'm a retired police officer, so this really hits close to home for me," said Carpenter, of nearby Gig Harbor.
Troyer said the Lakewood officers were two blocks outside their jurisdiction, and the coffee shop was a popular place for officers from surrounding jurisdictions to meet and share information.
Streets around the coffee shop were blocked off late Sunday morning, and a police helicopter hovered over a large crowd of investigators. TV video showed police taking possession of a pickup truck parked in a grocery store in Parkland.
"We are looking at some people. We are looking at some cars. We are looking at some residences," Troyer said.
Troyer said investigators were checking surveillance video from multiple sources, trying to identify a possible getaway car.
Dave Gabrielson, a clerk at Foot Mart about a block away from the coffee shop, told the newspaper all was quiet when he opened the store at 8 a.m. About 30 minutes later, "All of a sudden a million cops were zooming up and down the road," Gabrielson said.
He said he saw officers bring a police dog into a nearby apartment complex.
Last month, Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton was shot and killed Halloween night as he was sitting in a cruiser with trainee Britt Sweeney. Sweeney was grazed in the neck.
Authorities say the man charged with that shooting also firebombed four police vehicles in October as part of a "one-man war" against law enforcement. Christopher Monfort, 41, was arrested after being wounded in a firefight with police days after the Seattle shooting. He remains hospitalized in stable condition, the hospital said Sunday.
The officers killed Sunday were a patrol squad made up of three officers and their sergeant. No threats had been made against them or other officers in the region, sheriff's officials said. Their families have been notified.
"We lost people we care about. We're working to find out who did this and deal with him." Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor told reporters at the scene.
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire said she was "shocked and horrified" by the killings.
"Our police put their lives on the line every day, and tragedies like this remind us of the risks they continually take to keep our communities safe," she said in a written statement. "My heart goes out to the family, friends and co-workers of these officers, as well as the entire law enforcement community."
At Rollies Tavern near the coffee house, the plasma TVs usually tuned to football had Northwest Cable News on. Three bar patrons live next door to the coffee house.
Jerry Arnold, 45, was in bed when he was awakened by sirens. He's lived there seven years and never seen anything close to Sunday's scene.
"I hope they get them. I can't sleep until they do," he said. "Those guys could be hiding in my backyard."
___
Associated Press Writer Rachel La Corte in Olympia and Photographer Ted S. Warren in Parkland contributed to this report.
---------------
Lawmakers raise concerns over an expanded Afghan war
ttp://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-obama-afghan30-2009nov30,0,6756058.story
Key Democrats and Republicans wonder how much longer and at what cost Americans are willing to support the war. Meanwhile, a Senate report says the U.S. let Osama bin Laden slip away in 2001.
By Greg Miller
November 30, 2009
Reporting from Washington - Days before President Obama is expected to announce his decision to send 30,000 or more additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, key lawmakers from both parties expressed deep misgivings about the cost and course of an expanded war.
The persistent skepticism from the president's own party, along with new doubts raised by Republicans who have generally supported broadening the conflict, underscores the stakes for Obama as he prepares to unveil his troop increase proposal during a speech Tuesday evening at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
The critical comments from lawmakers came amid the release of a report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that suggested the debate over sending more soldiers to Afghanistan might have been avoided if the United States hadn't missed a crucial opportunity to capture or kill Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001.
Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, appeared to embrace a proposal gaining momentum among some Democrats for a war "surtax" to help defray the costs of expanding the Afghanistan campaign.
"I think we will have to pay for it," Lugar said in an interview on CNN. "We may wish to discuss higher taxes to pay for it."
Lugar also said he believes that Americans, already faltering in their support of the war, would not be willing to sustain the military campaign beyond five more years.
Similar questions about the war plan were raised Sunday by other lawmakers, including Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), a military veteran who serves on the armed services and appropriations panels.
"What we have to have is a continually decreasing military presence in Afghanistan," Reed said, also on CNN. "Unless we're on a trajectory in which our troop levels come down, the ability of the American public to support it and financially to support it is questionable."
Lawmakers' statements add to the pressure on Obama to detail the nation's exit strategy in his West Point speech, which will be watched closely in the capitals of Afghanistan and Pakistan for signs of wavering U.S. resolve.
The cost of the war has become a central concern on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers already nervous about voter frustration with the nation's economy are locked in an intense debate over an $850-billion healthcare overhaul bill.
The war in Afghanistan has cost $243 billion since 2001, and the government estimates that the cost would rise $1 million per year for every additional U.S. soldier. At that rate, the increase Obama is expected to endorse could wipe out savings from troops withdrawn from Iraq.
Given the economic climate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said it would be "immoral" to escalate the war in Afghanistan without introducing new taxes or taking other measures to pay for it.
"No one is talking about bringing the troops home tomorrow," Sanders said in an interview on ABC's "This Week." "But if you're going to have a presence there, you just can't pass the bill on, as we did in Iraq, to our kids and our grandchildren. I think that's wrong."
A decision to send an extra 30,000 U.S. troops would fall short of the 40,000 requested by Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan. The Obama administration may seek to bridge that gap by leaning on European and other allies to expand their troop commitments. But prospects for success in doing so are uncertain at best.
Because of skepticism among Democrats, Obama probably will depend on support from Republicans for any expansion of the war. Senate Armed Services Committee member Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said prevailing in Afghanistan should be the nation's top priority, and he proposed trimming the healthcare bill to pay for it.
Afghanistan "is not just any place on the planet," Graham said on ABC. "This is the place where the Taliban took control after the Russians left, aligned themselves with Al Qaeda, and attacked this nation and killed 3,000 Americans."
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, ousting the Taliban and prompting Al Qaeda fighters to flee into the mountainous region along the border with Pakistan.
The report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee offers the most definitive account to date of Bin Laden's escape into Pakistan, and concludes that the United States allowed him to slip from its grasp in mid-December 2001.
Signal intercepts and other evidence confirm that Bin Laden was holed up with other Al Qaeda fighters in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, according to the report, based on a review of military histories as well as interviews with CIA and U.S. Special Operations officers involved in the battle.
Requests to send U.S. troops to seal off the border were rejected by Gen. Tommy Franks, who was then the leader of U.S. Central Command, and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Instead, fewer than 100 U.S. Special Operations troops were involved in the pursuit, working with Afghan troops poorly equipped for the job.
Franks has since questioned whether Bin Laden was truly at Tora Bora, but the Senate report says Bin Laden was among dozens of Al Qaeda fighters hiding in cave compounds there for several days.
At one point, CIA operatives picked up a radio from a dead Al Qaeda fighter. "Bin Laden's voice was often picked up, along with frequent comments about the presence of the man referred to by his followers as 'the sheikh,' " the report said.
Bin Laden eluded an intense bombing campaign and relied on a cease-fire ruse to slip across the border into Pakistan, where he is believed to be hiding still, according to the report.
"The failure to finish the job represents a lost opportunity that forever altered the course of the conflict in Afghanistan and the future of international terrorism," the report said. Bin Laden's escape was a major factor in "laying the foundation for today's protracted Afghan insurgency and inflaming the internal strife now endangering Pakistan."
greg.miller@latimes.com
---------------------
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/b/osama_bin_laden/index.html
AP Photo
The first mention of Osama bin Laden in The New York Times came deep within a 1994 story on Algeria, which described him as "a wealthy Saudi financier who bankrolls Islamic militant groups from Algeria to Saudi Arabia." Two years later, the paper devoted more than 3,000 words to an article about the role of wealthy Saudi businessmen in financing terrorism that focused in large part on Mr. bin Laden. "Officials in several countries, including the United States, say Mr. Bin Laden's money, as well as money he has raised, paid for terrorist acts in Europe, Africa and the Middle East against Americans and other Westerners," the article said. Still, he remained little known to the general public until the bombings of embassies in Africa in 1998 and of the destroyer the U.S.S. Cole in 1999 established him and his group, Al Qaeda, as the preeminent terrorist threat to American interests.
By now, of course, Mr. bin Laden's life story is all too well known: his childhood in one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, his decision to join the Islamic resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; the growth of Al Qaeda; the failed American attempts to kill him in the late 1990's; his backing of a plot hatched by a lieutenant, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, that grew into the Sept. 11th attacks; his escape from Tora Bora in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan after an American invasion routed the Taliban, his protectors; his success at evading capture ever since. Mr. bin Laden is generally believed to be hiding in the wilds of the Waziristan region of Pakistan, occasionally issuing new threats against the United States. -- Sept. 10, 2007
-----------------
Iran Approves Building 10 Uranium Enrichment Sites In Defiance Of UN Demands
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/29/iran-approves-building-10_n_373081.html
ALI AKBAR DAREINI | 11/29/09 06:38 PM |
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran approved plans Sunday to build 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of U.N. demands it halt enrichment and a move that is likely to significantly heighten tensions with the West.
The decision comes only days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran over its program and demanded it halt the construction of a newly revealed enrichment facility. The West has signaled it is running out of patience with Iran's continuing enrichment and its balking at a U.N. deal aimed at ensuring Tehran cannot build a nuclear weapon in the near-term future. The U.S. and its allies have hinted at new U.N. sanctions if Iran does not respond.
The White House said the move "would be yet another serious violation of Iran's clear obligations under multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions and another example of Iran choosing to isolate itself."
"Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband described Iran's move as a provocation.
"This epitomizes the fundamental problem that we face with Iran," he said. "We have stated over and again that we recognize Iran's right to a civilian nuclear program, but they must restore international confidence in their intentions. Instead of engaging with us Iran chooses to provoke and dissemble."
On Friday, the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency issued a strong rebuke of Iran over enrichment, infuriating Tehran. Parliament speaker Ali Larijani threatened on Sunday to reduce cooperation with the IAEA.
"Should the West continue to pressure us, the legislature can reconsider the level of Iran's cooperation with the IAEA," Larijani told parliament in a speech carried live on state radio.
Story continues below
Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also Iran's nuclear chief, said Sunday's decision was "a firm message" in response to the IAEA. He told state TV that the agency's censure was a challenge aimed at "measuring the resistance of the Iranian nation."
Any new enrichment plants would take years to build and stock with centrifuges. But the ambitious plans were a bold show by Iran that it is willing to risk further sanctions and won't back down amid a deadlock in negotiation attempts.
Iran currently has one operating enrichment facility, at the central town of Natanz, which has churned out around 1,500 kilograms (3,300 pounds) of low-enriched uranium over the past years – enough to build a nuclear weapon if Iran enriches it to a higher level. Iran says it has no intention of doing so, insisting its nuclear program aims only to generate electricity.
The revelation of a second, previously unannounced facility, under construction for years at Fordo near the holy of Qom, raised accusations from the United States and its allies that Iran was trying expand enrichment in secret out of inspectors' sight. Iran denied the claim.
On Sunday, a Cabinet meeting headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to begin building five uranium enrichment plants at sites that have already been studied and propose five other locations for future construction within two months, the state news agency IRNA reported. All would be at the same scale as Natanz.
The new sites are to be built inside mountains to protect them from possible attacks, said Salehi, Iran's nuclear chief. They will also use a new generation of more efficient and more productive centrifuges that Iran has been working to construct, he and Ahmadinejad said.
In Vienna, spokeswoman Gillian Tudor said the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency would have no comment on Tehran's announcement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for "a concentration of sanctions and pressure on the Iranian regime, which is vulnerable economically" to rein in its nuclear ambitions. Israel has not ruled out military strikes against Iranian nuclear sites if its program is not stopped.
The IAEA censure against Iran on Friday was seen as a show of international unity behind demands that Tehran rein in its nuclear program – though there does not yet appear to be consensus on imposing sanctions.
The IAEA resolution criticized Iran for secretly building the Fordo site and defying the U.N. Security Council call for a suspension of enrichment.
It noted that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei cannot confirm that Tehran's nuclear program is exclusively geared toward peaceful uses, and expressed "serious concern" that Iran's stonewalling of an agency probe means "the possibility of military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program" cannot be excluded.
The U.N. seeks to stop Iran's enrichment, because the process can be used to produce either fuel for a reactor or a warhead. In the process, uranium gas is spun in centrifuges to be purified – to a low degree for fuel, to a higher level for a bomb. Iran denies U.S. claims that it secretly aims to produce a nuclear weapon.
The United States and the top powers at the U.N. have been focused on winning Iran's acceptance of a deal under which it would ship abroad most of its low-enriched uranium stocks to be processed into fuel rods for a research reactor in Tehran. The move would leave Iran – at least temporarily – without enough uranium to produce a bomb.
But Iran has balked, presenting a counter-proposal with various changes. The West has demanded it accept the proposal as is.
In the wake of the IAEA rebuke, Iran has sought to signal that it can lash back if pushed. On Saturday, one hard-line lawmaker warned that parliament might withdraw the country from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and stop all U.N. inspections – a move that would sharply escalate the standoff with the West and cut off the U.N.'s only eyes on Iran's nuclear program.
But parliament took a lesser step on Sunday: 226 of the 290 lawmakers signed a letter urging the government to prepare a plan to reduce Tehran's cooperation with the IAEA in response to its resolution.
Iran touted the expansion of enrichment as necessary for its plans to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity through multiple nuclear power plants in the next 20 years.
Ahmadinejad said 500,000 centrifuges will be needed in the new plants to produce between 250 to 300 tons of fuel annually, IRNA reported. About 8,600 centrifuges have been set up in Natanz, but only about 4,000 are actively enriching uranium, according to the IAEA. The facility will eventually house 54,000 centrifuges. The Fordo site is smaller, built for nearly 3,000 centrifuges.
___
Associated Press writers George Jahn in Vienna and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
------------------------
Paul Merhige Wanted: Man Accused Of Gunning Down Family, Executing Girl During Thanksgiving Visit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/28/paul-merhige-wanted-man-a_n_372789.ht
First Posted: 11-28-09 04:17 PM | Updated: 11-28-09 04:42 PM
JUPITER, Fla. -- Authorities in Florida were searching Saturday for a man police said opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner and killed four people, including his pregnant sister and a 6-year-old cousin who was sleeping in her bed.
There had been "ongoing resentment" in the family, but investigators weren't sure what specifically prompted the shooting, officials said. Police were looking for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, of Miami. He was believed to be driving a royal blue 2007 Toyota Camry with a rear spoiler and Florida license plate.
Authorities in Michigan, including the Birmingham Police Department, were alerted of the search because Merhige had sought help from a Detroit-area physician in the past year, Jupiter Police Sgt. Scott Pascarella said. He did not know why Merhige had contacted a physician there.
Merhige is also accused of gunning down his pregnant sister's twin and his 79-year-old aunt.
"What led to this incident, we're not quite sure," Pascarella said. "It did not appear there was any altercation prior to this shooting."
Pascarella said Merhige left briefly before returning to the home where 17 relatives had gathered in Jupiter, a small beach town about 90 miles north of Miami. The town is known as a home to celebrities including Michael Jordan and Burt Reynolds.
Pascarella said police first received a 911 call from a neighbor, then another from someone inside the home. The residence, in a well-kept new subdivision with brick-paved driveways, is owned by local TV videojournalist Jim Sitton and his wife. The home was surrounded Friday by yellow crime scene tape and police crime unit vans.
Sitton recounted the shooting to WPTV:
When asked about the alleged gunman Sitton said, "I haven't seen him in like 15 years, he had his issues in the past and when I heard 'Oh Paul's coming,' I thought 'Okay, I haven't heard any bad stuff in 5 or 10 years,' and I thought 'maybe he's getting better,' and a red flag did not go off. He sat two people down from me I talked to him, there were no red flags he wasn't moody, it was just completely out of the blue. The way I understand it he is evil and darkness hates the light and he saw the light from the twins singing Via Dolorosa and we were praising God and thanking God for Thanksgiving and my little girl was preaching."
Story continues below
"I learned yesterday that... Paul told my father-in-law 'I've been waiting 18 years to do this, or 20 years to do this.' He meant he's been waiting 20 years to to kill his family."
Sitton's daughter Makayla had gone to bed before the rampage, police said.
"God packed a lot of sweetness into that little body," Sitton said. "She's just our life. I don't know how we are ever going to recover."
Sitton told local media that his daughter was supposed to perform in a holiday production of "The Nutcracker." The Florida Classical Ballet Theatre had two shows Friday.
"Makayla was part of our family, and as one of the youngest dancers, she was to be one of Mother Ginger's Children," artistic director Colleen Smith said. "She was a beautiful, dear girl. She was a beam."
The other victims were Merhige's twin sisters, Carla Merhige and Lisa Knight, and an aunt, Raymonde Joseph. Merhige's brother-in-law Patrick Knight was in critical but stable condition at a local hospital. Another man, Clifford Gebara, 52, was grazed by a bullet.
Carla Merhige was a real estate agent in Miami.
"She was a wonderful agent," said Joanna Sherman, a manager at Coldwell Banker Residential real estate. "She was very active in the community and in charities. She was just a genuine, beautiful individual. She always had a smile for everybody."
Neighbors in the Palm Beach County community were shocked as police processed the home.
"Our kids walk the streets by themselves," said Nicole Kemp, 67, who did not know any of the victims. "I thought it was the safest place to live. I guess it doesn't matter, if there's a maniac here."
___
Associated Press writers Suzette Laboy, Sarah Larimer and Tamara Lush in Miami contributed to this report.
Watch
-------------
Maurice Clemmons Hurt: Police Say Suspect In Ambush That Killed 4 Cops May Be Dead (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/30/maurice-clemmons-hurt-pol_n_373561.html
First Posted: 11-30-09 07:59 AM | Updated: 11-30-09 09:46 AM
SEATTLE (AP)� A suspect in the slaying of four police officers who were gunned down in a suburban coffee shop was surrounded by police at a Seattle house early Monday, wounded and possibly dead, police said.
Negotiators were trying to communicate with Maurice Clemmons, 37, using loudspeakers, explosions and even a robot to try to prod him from hiding. At one point, gunshots rang through the neighborhood, about 30 miles from the original crime scene.
"We have determined that in fact he has been shot," said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff. "He may be deceased from his gunshot wound."
Clemmons, who has a long criminal history � including a long prison sentence commuted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee nearly a decade ago � became the prime target Sunday in the search for the killer of Lakewood police Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and Officers Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42.
Authorities had speculated early Sunday that the gunman might have been wounded at the coffee shop by one of his victims. Troyer said interviews with others detained in the investigation confirmed that theory.
Police surrounded the house late Sunday, and a negotiator used a loudspeaker early Monday to call him out by name, saying: "Mr. Clemmons, I'd like to get you out of there safely. I can tell you this, we are not going away."
Any response from inside the house was inaudible from the vantage of a photographer for The Associated Press. But shortly thereafter, police began using sirens outside the house, and there were several loud bangs before the negotiator resumed speaking, saying: "This is one of the toughest decisions you'll make in your life, but you need to man up."
By 3 a.m. Pacific time, the loudspeakers and explosions had fallen silent. Seattle Police spokesman Jeff Kappel said Clemmons has never responded.
Story continues below
Clemmons is believed to have been in the area of the coffee shop around the time of the shooting, but Troyer declined to say what evidence might link him to the shooting.
Investigators say they know of no reason that Clemmons or anyone else might have had to open fire on the four as they sat working on their laptops early Sunday morning, catching up on paperwork at the beginning of their shifts.
"We're going to be surprised if there is a motive worth mentioning," said Troyer, who sketched out a scene of controlled and deliberate carnage that spared the employees and other customers at the coffee shop in suburban Parkland, about 35 miles south of Seattle.
"He was very versed with the weapon," Troyer said. "This wasn't something where the windows were shot up and there bullets sprayed around the place. The bullets hit their targets."
Officer Richards' sister-in-law, Melanie Burwell, called the shooting "senseless."
"He didn't have a mean bone in his body," she said. "If there were more people in the world like Greg, things like this wouldn't happen.
Clemmons has an extensive violent criminal history from Arkansas. He was also recently charged in Washington state with assaulting a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child. Using a bail bondsman, he posted $150,000 � only $15,000 of his own money � and was released from jail last week.
Documents related to the pending charges in Washington state indicate an unstable and volatile personality. In one instance, he is accused of punching a sheriff's deputy in the face, The Seattle Times reported. In another, he is accused of gathering his wife and young relatives and forcing them to undress, according to a Pierce County sheriff's report.
"The whole time Clemmons kept saying things like trust him, the world is going to end soon, and that he was Jesus," the report said.
Troyer said investigators believe two of the officers were killed while sitting in the shop, and a third was shot dead after standing up. The fourth apparently "gave up a good fight."
"We believe there was a struggle, a commotion, a fight ... that he fought the guy all the way out the door," Troyer said.
In 1989, Clemmons, then 17, was convicted in Little Rock for aggravated robbery. He was paroled in 2000 after Huckabee commuted a 95-year prison sentence.
Huckabee, who was criticized during his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 for granting many clemencies and commutations, cited Clemmons' youth. Clemmons later violated his parole, was returned to prison and released in 2004.
On Sunday, Huckabee issued this statement on his Web site: "Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington state."
There was no indication of any connection between Sunday's killings and the Halloween night shooting of a Seattle police officer.
Authorities say the man charged with that shooting also firebombed four police vehicles in October as part of a "one-man war" against law enforcement. Christopher Monfort, 41, was arrested after being wounded in a firefight with police days after the Seattle shooting.
The officers killed Sunday had received no threats, sheriff's officials said.
"We won't know if it's a copycat effect or what it was until we get the case solved," Troyer said.
___
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Gene Johnson in Parkland, Rachel La Corte in Tacoma, George Tibbits in Seattle, Jill Zeman Bleed in Little Rock, Ark., and photographers Elaine Thompson in Seattle and Ted S. Warren in Parkland.
---------------
Maurice Clemmons Killed: Suspect In Seattle Officer Killings Is Fatally Shot
ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/01/maurice-clemmons-killed-s_n_374951.html
GENE JOHNSON | 12/ 1/09 07:34 AM |
SEATTLE — The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by Seattle police early Tuesday, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Maurice Clemmons was shot to death in a working-class south Seattle neighborhood after police tracked him down using possible hiding spots supplied by Pierce County investigators, said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the county sheriff.
Authorities suspect Clemmons, 37, of killing the four Lakewood officers at a coffee shop Sunday morning in Parkland, a Tacoma suburb about 35 miles south of Seattle.
Police said they aren't sure what prompted Clemmons to shoot the officers as they did paperwork on their laptops. Clemmons was described as increasingly erratic in the past few months and had been arrested earlier this year on charges that he punched a sheriff's deputy in the face.
At the scene, a couple of dozen police officers milled around, shaking hands and patting each other on the back after one of the largest manhunts in the region's history.
Clemmons had stayed on the run for nearly two days with help from a network of friends and family who gave him places to stay, medical aid, rides and money, police said. On Monday, officers detained a sister of Clemmons who they think treated the 37-year-old suspect's gunshot wound.
"We believe she drove him up to Seattle and bandaged him up," Troyer said.
Police believe people close to Clemmons have misled officers, and Troyer said anyone helping him could face charges. Clemmons' sister wasn't in custody late Monday, and her name wasn't released.
Story continues below
Authorities said the gunman singled out the Lakewood officers and spared employees and other customers at the coffee shop. He then fled, but not before he was apparently shot in the torso by one of the dying officers.
Killed were Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and Officers Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42.
Troyer told the Tacoma News-Tribune that Clemmons indicated the night before the shooting "that he was going to shoot police and watch the news."
Police surrounded a house in a Seattle neighborhood late Sunday following a tip Clemmons had been dropped off there. After an all-night siege, a SWAT team entered the home and found it empty. But police said Clemmons had been there.
Police frantically chased leads on Monday, searching multiple spots in the Seattle and Tacoma area and at one point cordoning off a park where people thought they saw Clemmons.
Authorities found a handgun carried by the killer, along with a pickup truck belonging to the suspect with blood stains inside. They posted a $125,000 reward for information leading to Clemmons' arrest and alerted hospitals to be on the lookout for a man seeking treatment for gunshot wounds.
"We need to get him into custody and we need to end this," Troyer said Monday night.
Authorities in two states were criticized amid revelations that Clemmons was allowed to walk the streets despite a teenage crime spree in Arkansas that landed him an 108-year prison sentence. He was released early after then-Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted his sentence.
Huckabee cited Clemmons' youth in granting the request. But Clemmons quickly reverted to his criminal past, violated his parole and was returned to prison. He was released again in 2004.
"This guy should have never been on the street," said Brian D. Wurts, president of the police union in Lakewood. "Our elected officials need to find out why these people are out."
Huckabee said on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday night that Clemmons was allowed back on the street because prosecutors failed to file paperwork in time.
Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley, whose office opposed Clemmons' parole in 2000 and 2004, said Huckabee's comments were "red herrings."
"My word to Mr. Huckabee is man up and own what you did," Jegley said.
Clemmons was charged in Washington state earlier this year with assaulting a police officer and raping a child, and investigators in the sex case said he was motivated by visions that he was Jesus Christ and that the world was on the verge of the apocalypse.
But he was released from jail after posting bail with the assistance of Jail Sucks Bail Bonds.
Documents related to those charges indicate a volatile personality. In one instance, he is accused of gathering his wife and young relatives and forcing them to undress.
"The whole time Clemmons kept saying things like trust him, the world is going to end soon, and that he was Jesus," a Pierce County sheriff's report said.
___
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Manuel Valdes in Seattle, Rachel La Corte in Tacoma, George Tibbits in Seattle, Andrew DeMillo and Jill Zeman Bleed in Little Rock, Ark., and photographers Elaine Thompson in Seattle and Ted S. Warren in Parkland, Wash.