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Operation Rescue: Tiller 'Reaped What He Sowed'

Founder says pro-life movement not guilty in doctor's death

By Jess Kilby, Newser User

Posted Jun 1, 2009 10:20 PM CDT

(Newser) – The head of a national anti-abortion ground based in Wichita, Kansas said yesterday that his organization was not responsible for the death of Dr. George Tiller, Gawker reports. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry immediately went on to say Tiller “was a mass-murderer and, horrifically, he reaped what he sowed," and then invited members of the National Press Club out for beer and wings.

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Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, center right, holds a news conference outside the gates of Notre Dame during graduation ceremonies with Barack Obama in South Bend, Ind., May 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Eric Y. Exit)

Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, June 1, 2009, on the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas on Sunday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Nwambe

Jun 2, 2009 11:12 AM CDT

Taken from damn Wikipedia, it's that obvious: Eighteen years after the slaying, Arnold Beverly claimed that, "wearing a green (camouflage) army jacket", he had run across the street and shot Daniel Faulkner as part of a contract killing because Faulkner was interfering with graft and payoff to corrupt police.[43] Private investigator George Newman claimed in 2001 that Chobert had recanted his testimony.[44] Cynthia White either died in 1992 or disappeared,[45] and it was subsequently alleged that she falsified her testimony.[46] Kenneth Pate, a stepbrother of Priscilla Durham who was imprisoned with Abu-Jamal on other charges, has since claimed that Durham admitted to not hearing the hospital confession.[47] The hospital doctors have claimed that Abu-Jamal was not capable of making such a dramatic bedside confession at that time.[8] In his version of events, detailed in a sworn statement almost 20 years afterwards, Abu-Jamal claimed that he was sitting in his cab across the street when he heard shouting, then saw a police vehicle, then heard the sound of gunshots. Upon seeing his brother appearing disoriented across the street, Abu-Jamal ran to him from the parking lot and was shot by a police officer. The statement fails to explain the gun that was found near Abu-Jamal at the crime scene nor the corresponding firearms shoulder holster he was found to be wearing at the time of his arrest.[48] William Cook did not testify or make any statement until 2001 when he claimed that he had not seen who had shot Faulkner.[49]

Doctor-Zaius

Jun 2, 2009 11:06 AM CDT

I wonder what would happen if Mr. Terry started reaping what he has sown.

Doctor-Zaius

Jun 2, 2009 11:05 AM CDT

She's not that smart to make it up. She heard it from someone else who made it up.

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Operation Rescue: Tiller 'Reaped What He Sowed'