FBI Investigates: Who is Targeting U.S. Military Installations in N. Virginia?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The same gun was used to shoot at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Northern Virginia earlier this month, the FBI said Tuesday.
A third military office — a Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly, Va., outside Washington — was shot at overnight Monday; Marines who work there discovered the shooting Tuesday morning, the FBI said. Investigators are conducting ballistics tests to determine whether the recruiting station shooting is related to the previous incidents.
No one was injured in any of the shootings.
Investigators haven’t determined a motive or identified a suspect, said Lindsay Godwin, spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington field office.
Though all three shootings have targeted offices with links to the military, Godwin said the FBI has not issued any specific advisories or warnings to recruiting stations or other military buildings.
Early on Oct. 19 shots were fired overnight into two windows at the sprawling Defense Department across the Potomac River in suburban Virginia. Two days earlier, bullet holes were discovered in the windows at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va., 30 miles south of the Pentagon.
Federal investigators were at the recruiting station in Chantilly Tuesday, “trying to link anything they can to what has already been proven,” Godwin said.
The FBI declined to identify the type of weapon or ammunition used in the first two shootings in order to avoid compromising its investigation.
Marine Museum officials said that building had been hit by at least 10 rounds. Gwenn Adams, a museum spokeswoman, said last week that officials at the museum, which is associated with the Quantico Marine Base, did not receive any threats or warnings before the shooting.
On the morning of the Pentagon shooting security officers heard five to seven shots about 4:55 near the south parking lot. Bullet fragments were later found lodged in two windows of unoccupied offices on the third and fourth floor.
The civilian Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s director, Steven Calvery, said last week that the Pentagon shooting appeared to be “a random event” involving a high-velocity rifle.
On Tuesday, protection agency spokesman Chris Layman said that initial description was preliminary, though officials still don’t believe there is a specific threat against the Pentagon.
“We are still trying to pursue as many leads as possible,” Layman said, adding that he did not have any details on the type of gun used.
Virginia authorities in Fairfax and Prince William counties, along with the Pentagon police, joined in the investigation.
On the evening of March 4, a Hollister, Calif., man with a history of severe psychiatric problems opened fire at a Pentagon security checkpoint. John Patrick Bedell, 36, wounded two police officers before he was shot by police. Bedell died hours later.
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Posted on October 28, 2010 at 11:00pmobamaworshipper-ed-hemmroid-shultz………………did it
Report Post »vegtech
Posted on October 28, 2010 at 7:18amOBAMA MACHINE has been looking for a way to ignite further reasons to legislate Amendment 2 and gun control. I say this is just the beginning of their insightful attempts to do just that. They are going to find a “TEA PARTY MEMBER” as the shooter/’s and hang more reason for government intervention. Watch!
Report Post »sdparker
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 7:50pmThe brand of company our current president keeps, would be a good place to start.
Report Post »Billsocal
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 7:30pmSmells like Nazi Germany and the SA (Brownshirts). If they were really smart they would be using different caliber rifles or guns to hide who did. It would make harder for the FBI and NCIS to investogate the case. Yes there is a real life Naval Criminal Investigation Service. You can tell these people aren’t overly smart. A combat with experience would be using different weapons all the time. It smells like the Reichstag fire under Hitler.
Report Post »George Washington
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 2:41pmO come now. Use your heads besides using it as a hat rack. The answer is plain as day. I will spell it out. Since the shooter is shooting out windows, the perpetrator must be a replacement window salesperson.
Report Post »OBAMAWORSHIOER
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:52amNOT a random thing. Ever hear of testing your enemies reaction time and scope of the reaction? And the reaction of the public. Remember our goal is to keep continious war going.
Report Post »loweralabama
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 9:35amDefinitely a leftist. People on the right respect and are proud of the military and those wearing the uniform. Our great nation is being attacked from within by those that would destroy it. Not going to happen. To those in the military, thank you and keep your powder dry. The citizens of this republic are determined to take our country back. If we don’t succeed, we may have to ask you for help.
Report Post »robert5635
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 7:50amI‘ll bet they ’find out who did it’ just in time to publish before final voting starts. Just to influence the elections. Probably is some right-winger, cause haven’t heard any left-wingers get on target lately in the debates, they’re still too worried about getting their mainstay high (mary-jane) legalized, so their bodies can float off in nothing-ness just like the shock absorber in their skull.
Report Post »casey1
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 7:30amBREAKING NEWS FROM CNN: Glen Beck did it
Report Post »Thomas Morato
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 7:10amMore wasted tax dollars… why can’t the FBI do some real investigation, like find Obama’s allusive LFBC?
Report Post »Matty1631
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 5:29amFolks this is obviously someone on the left, most likely one of these elmo loving union kindergarten teachers.
Everyone knows that Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Woodrow Wilson, George Soros, the SEIU, and the teachers unions are conspiring to bomb the pentagon.
But don’t take my word for it, do your own research.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 4:40amWell it’s definately is not a conserative because we support the military. Probably the same kind of nut-job that burns churches, or goes postal somewhere. I guess that we are supposed to follow those warnings, but if we follow the warnings on airline flights or the acres of land along the border thats posted then we are racist. Hmmmmmm, I smell another double standard. Just when are we supposed to report something that looks suspious any way? Lucky for them we still will because we actually CARE. Like night and day , ya think?
Report Post »Zero Tolerance
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:55pmHad to be someone from CNN or MSNBC…..Or SEIU ……Wait till they spin this one….!
The Left is ruining the Country…attempting to start Race wars….and It’ll be one of those CRAZY Right wing Radical Militia people…..or a “POSER”…..BUT they need to call it an Individual act of Violence…… NOT a Terror Attempt…..Unless the FBI “Jumped the gun and….Acted Stupidly”
Let’s have the Beer Summit first…..
( As an excuse for exempting the 2nd Amendment) An EXTREME Ban against
Assault Weapons etc…….NO AMMO AVAILABLE Now of any quality…..!
One attempt after another to create a pattern…to prove Hate on the Right ( Also known as profiling)
Breaking NEWS- FBI OK’s Profiling Militias…..
Semper-Fi…. The NEW-AMERICAN-SAVIORS
Report Post »Tony Nagy
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:50pmListen up people!…. Not only do you need the Google Crystal Ball type camera device, but you also need the new ‘Acoustic Technology Video Capture Device’…. sound is frequency’s, so place 5 of these ‘ATVCD’s a mile from the pentagon and anything out of the normal daily sounds made will be captured(Bullet shock sound wave) it will be pin-pointed immediately. The pentagon needs at least 5 UAV heli’s on stand-by if triggerd. I’d love to fly one of those, me >UAV pilot.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:01pm“FBI Investigates: Who is Targeting U.S. Military Installations in N. Virginia?”
That’s easy:
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Report Post »BarryDead
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:00pmI bet Bush did it………
Report Post »goldmankc
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:00pmthis also may be cannon fodder for gun grabbers as well.
Report Post »goldmankc
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 7:59pmanarchist tryin to start somethin. they’ll find the perp, then spin the lies
Report Post »dominke
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 7:25pmcheck out Obhama and friends
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on October 28, 2010 at 12:22pmOr supporters.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 7:20pmMaybe you might want to check with some of barry’s acquaintances!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 7:15pmBET YOU ITS SOME LEFTY ANTI-WAR abortion loving tree hugging progressive liberal with an ideolog im smarter than you complex
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 7:29pmBill aires is going back for another try… Obama’s givin his buddy another shot… get it SHOT…
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 7:40pmYou know if isn’t a flag-waving, bible-loving tea partier!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:08pmSure it is, PEACHYINGA, we conservatives are known for our violent ways. Shoot, look at the G20, oh wait,that was lefties, OK how about sanctity of life,no lefties like aborting babies, OK well look at all of us NRA members, no we use guns responsibly. Yeah, could have been the lefties.
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:20pmUNTAMEABLE-KATE: All of your reasons are good ones. But the cherry on the top is the pure disdain that the progressives have for our brave military men and women.
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:28pmA question came to mind, could this be someone who has a grudge against one specific part of the military – specifically the marines, as two places shot at were a marine recruiting station and the marine museum. Could the part of the Pentagon shot at be linked in part to the marines?
Also if there is a link, the person involved could be a relative of a fallen marine with one mega grudge or such.
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Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:48pmYou’re right Peach I forgot that one.
Report Post »...............R..U..Kidding...Me
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 10:49pmI’m thinking someone closer to Code Pink.
Report Post »FIRED UP FREE MAN !
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 11:49pmAre you free or are you not? After fighting the communists from Berlin to Vietnam, Korea to Afghanistan, and all around the world spending our blood our youth and our treasure for another people, how is it we have allowed Communism in the ranks of the Democrats. Are the Democrats so desperate for power they would associate with traitors, indeed welcome them with open arms? Forming organizations with tax payer money with the sole purpose of overthrowing the constitution forcing us to pay for our own destruction? We have got to get rid of this lose money! It’s time to turn our government back into the institution it was meant to be, not some weird kind of ATM machine. If you are a communist you are by definition ineligible to take any oath of office because no communist can say the oath with a straight face knowing that ultimately because of your beliefs, you wish the destruction of the constitution and our American way of life.
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Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 9:44amMy guess is it probably is a homosexual Muslim soldier in Obummers private Army fighting to show
Report Post »why DADT needs to be repealed and the old Articles of War restored- Drum them from the service
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OBAMAWORSHIOER
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:50amOur people are. We’re testing your reaction times and size for the big push coming in 2011.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on October 27, 2010 at 6:06pmCan’t be a right wing red neck. They missed :D
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