Well armed man attack pentagon police officers

[FranciscoG]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_486578.html


Friday, 6:50 AM ET -- Official: Pentagon shooter was well armed. WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - The well-dressed gunman mortally wounded after firing at and injuring two Pentagon police officers was armed with two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and carried several magazines of ammunition, the chief of the Pentagon police said Friday.

Chief Richard Keevill said the shooter, identified as John Patrick Bedell of Hollister, Calif., spent the last several weeks driving from the West Coast. Police found his car in a local parking garage. Keevill said authorities found more ammunition in his vehicle.

Bedell, 36, died Thursday night from head wounds received in a volley of fire with police. Keevill said the two injured officers and another officer who came to their assistance fired upon Bedell at the subway entrance into the massive Defense Department building in Arlington, Va.

"He came here from California," Keevill said. "We were able to identify certain locations that he spent that last several weeks making his way form the West coast to the East coast."

Noting that Bedell was wearing a suit, Keevill said: "There was no indication based on the way he was dressed that he had hostile intent."

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The exchange of fire lasted less than a minute, Keevill said. Bedell was not wearing body armor, he added.

The two officers injured have been released from the hospital. One suffered a thigh wound and the other was hit in the shoulder. Keevill said both were superficial injuries.

Keevill said he did not know the shooter's motive.

"I have no idea what his intentions were," he said.

Friday, 1:25 AM ET -- Official: Shooting suspect may have had 9/11 conspiracy Associated Press - There are emerging signs that the suspect in a Pentagon subway station shooting may have harbored resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The suspect, John Patrick Bedell, died after exchanging gunfire with two police officers.

In an Internet posting, a user named JPatrickBedell wrote he was determined to see justice for the 1991 death of a Marine in California. The death was ruled a suicide but has long been the source of coverup theories. The writer said the case would be a step toward revealing the truth behind 9/11.

The user also railed against enforcement of marijuana laws.

The screen name can be linked to the suspect in Thursday's attack through documents about a marijuana arrest that were posted on the site, which match the date of birth of the shooter and official court records available online.

Friday, 12:34 AM ET -- Suspect dies. J. Patrick Bedell has died, according to KFI News. The Pentagon shooting suspect suffered injuries described as "critical" by the chief of Pentagon Police.

[FranciscoG]

Another anti-government nut...

[Ernst]

Poorly planned assault. Clearly he was not playing with a full deck.

So let me ask you, is everyone who is anti-government a nut?

[FranciscoG]

Poorly planned assault. Clearly he was not playing with a full deck.

So let me ask you, is everyone who is anti-government a nut?

Tell me if someone has these reported view, I did not write the article, what would you call them?

¨ Shooting suspect may have had 9/11 conspiracy Associated Press - There are emerging signs that the suspect in a Pentagon subway station shooting may have harbored resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.¨

IMO, If you resent the military and want to kill due to that resentment you are anti-government.

[Kratos]

Another anti-government nut...

repost, I posted this story last night.

[FranciscoG]

Your thread are on ignor list. Feel free to add me to yours if you don´t like it.

[Kratos]

watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/user/jpbedell2006
it doesn't make any sense

He attempted to devise a subversive marijuana-based monetary system based on his ideas of Information Currency. He started with a 16-plant growing operation on his balcony in Irving, CA. If you notice his crazy video on info currency also has 16 units. Units of what, information currency of course. What's the motivation for buying IC, verifrication certificates, to prove you bought the IC.
The Information Currency, the DNA USB drive, and obsession with obscure economic theorists. He was operating on a whole other level of crazy.

He should have been in a hospital.

[Kratos]

Your thread are on ignor list. Feel free to add me to yours if you don´t like it.

that's ok, I'm not an infant and you don't pose a challenge

[FranciscoG]

Neat. Waiting for you to hijack the thread and make it out to be some anti-white crap because the terrorist is white.

[Kratos]

Neat. Waiting for you to hijack the thread and make it out to be some anti-white crap because the terrorist is white.

Not planning on it. I see no race issue in what happend here. Feel bad for the officers injured.

[Ernst]

Tell me if someone has these reported view, I did not write the article, what would you call them?

¨ Shooting suspect may have had 9/11 conspiracy Associated Press - There are emerging signs that the suspect in a Pentagon subway station shooting may have harbored resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.¨

IMO, If you resent the military and want to kill due to that resentment you are anti-government.

This guy was not just crazy, but given his plan of attack also blindingly stupid. While I'm not an idiot or a lunatic, I think any intelligent person will at least question authority.

[Kratos]

I'm wondering how bat-shit you have to be, before it's no longer a terrorist attack? I mean clearly by definition it is a terrorist attack. If a mental patient escapes from the hospital and starts shooting at the white house from 2 miles away with a pistol, because the president speaks to him in his head and he wants to stop the voices, is that terrorism?

http://mediaelites.com/2010/03/05/j-...-on-wikipedia/

All terrorists are crazy...but taking on the pentagon via the most secure point with a 9mm?

[Kratos]

Monaco, a friend of Bedell’s parents whose own children grew up in Hollister, Calif., with Bedell, said that the younger Bedell had recently been living with his parents in one of the on-again, off-again cycles in which the 36-year-old man returned home. But within the past month, Monaco said Bedell’s parents had filed a missing person report on their son when he said he was taking off on a car trip and dropped out of contact.

“He had gone off the deep end from what they told us last night” said Monaco, a retired teacher and supervisor in San Benito County in Central California. Monaco said he did not know what lawn enforcement agency had received the missing person report.

Monaco and his wife were with Bedells’ parents as they learned their son’s cross country trip had ended at the Pentagon where he shot and wounded two Pentagon Force Protection officers before being killed by a shot to his head.

[Kratos]

Parents of Pentagon Shooter John Patrick Bedell Warned Authorities
Parents of John Bedell worried about his stability
Updated: Friday, 05 Mar 2010, 2:41 PM EST
Published : Friday, 05 Mar 2010, 2:30 PM EST

By TRACIE CONE and BROOKE DONALD Associated Press Writer

HOLLISTER, Calif. - The Pentagon shooter had been behaving erratically, and his family feared in January that he had bought a gun, a law enforcement official said Friday.

San Benito County Sheriff Curtis Hill told the AP the parents of John Patrick Bedell filed a missing persons report and were worried about his mental stability. After reading an e-mail from their son to an acquaintance, the parents told deputies they were worried that he had purchased a gun.

Hill said that Bedell has been on the department's radar since 2003, when deputies found him walking along the side of the road. They wrote him up as a "5150" -- police code for crazy -- and took him to his parents house.

Hill said that Bedell, 36, has been at in-patient mental health institutions at least four times.

The parents reported Bedell missing on Jan. 4, one day after a Texas Highway Patrol officer stopped him for speeding in Amarillo, according to the missing person's report. Bedell told the highway patrolman he was heading for the East Coast, and the officer used Bedell's phones to call his mother, Kaye Bedell, because he seemed disheveled and out of sorts.

Kaye Bedell told the highway patrol officer in Texas that her son was fine, and the patrolman let him go with a warning. The next day, Kaye told sheriff's deputies in California that her son didn't have any reason to travel to the East Coast because he had no friends or family there and they were worried about his mental state.

The 36-year-old Bedell returned to his parent's home on January 18, telling them "not to ask any questions" about where he had been.

His father told deputies his son then left. They did not know where he had gone.

"This is, you know, Middle America," Hill said. "These parents are good folks."

Sometime afterward, Bedell drove cross-country and arrived outside the military headquarters armed with two semi-automatic weapons, authorities said Friday. Internet postings linked to the lone shooting suspect reflect long-held anti-government anger.

Bedell 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 had previous run-ins with the law. They found no known connection to terrorist groups or ideologies, investigators said.

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Associated Press writers Devlin Barrett and Matt Apuzzo in Washington D.C. and Marcus Wohlsen in San Francisco contributed to this report.

[amcon]

guy was crazy, and anti gov.... an extreamist - i will predict many more will follow him

[Kratos]

guy was crazy, and anti gov.... an extreamist - i will predict many more will follow him

I don't disagree that he was crazy.

He had an extreme view point but as a result of mental illness. He wasn't part of any group, and I don't suspect more will follow him.

For people who think he's part of some right wing movement. Why was he a registered democrat?

as far as the texas airplaine thing...right wingers don't usually include the commie creed in their suicide notes.

Not that I'm saying these are left wing motivated attacks...just that trying to pin them on either party is silly.

Bedell had no valid political platform or viewpoint.
36 years old, lives with his parents...they reported it to the police when they found a recipt for a gun...clearly if his parents wouldn't trust him with a gun or to drive across country without alearting the police, he was not too high functioning.

I have mental illness in my family, so I have a different view point.
When it comes to Bedell you can bet his parents knew they needed to hospitalize him again...but didn't want to. They didn't want to be the bad guy and put him in a place that's worse then jail to a mental patient. Except people like this are impossible to watch and keep out of trouble outside a hospital setting.


This is not terrorism, it's mental illness.

[Hard.On]

That god in his 7 week trip, he didnt have any run ins with some of the highway patrol. Some good people could have died,

[Kratos]

That god in his 7 week trip, he didnt have any run ins with some of the highway patrol. Some good people could have died,

On Jan. 3 of this year, the Texas Highway Patrol stopped Bedell near Amarillo for speeding. A patrolman said Bedell was behaving strangely, but he let him go with a warning after calling Bedell’s mother.

At 36 years old, do you think a sane person would have their mother called for a traffic stop?

He said he was heading for DC.
He does not have any friends on the East Coast.
He had not yet bought a gun.

Bedell’s family learned that he had returned to California when they discovered he had made a $600 purchase at a gun range near Sacramento on Jan. 10, Hill said. It is unknown what he bought, but the sheriff said Bedell’s parents had told authorities they were “concerned.”

Bedell returned to his parents’ home Jan. 18, telling them “not to ask any questions” about where he had been, Hill said.

On Feb. 1, Bedell was arrested in Reno after a sheriff’s deputy making a traffic stop found 2 ounces of marijuana in his Toyota sedan, according to Washoe County authorities.

He was ordered to appear in court March 2, but did not show up.


Weed and mental illness do not go well together.
Clearly some shit was rattling around in his non functioning brain for quite awhile.