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Pentagon Shooter Dead; Vented Online About 9/11

Man, 36, also blasted marijuana laws

By Emily Rauhala,  Newser User

Posted Mar 5, 2010 5:19 AM CST | Updated Mar 5, 2010 6:03 AM CST

(Newser) – Resentment of the US government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings and videos by John Patrick Bedell, the California man identified as the Pentagon shooter. Authorities confirmed this morning that he was killed in the attack, in which he allegedly wounded two Pentagon officers. In one Internet posting, a user named JPatrickBedell wrote that he was "determined to see that justice is served" in the 1991 death of a Marine named James Sabow, a favorite case of conspiracy theorists.

The Sabow case, he wrote, is "a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions," reports AP. He doesn't say how. Sabow's family maintains he was murdered because he was going to expose the military's role in drug smuggling in Central America. Bedell also railed against California's enforcement of marijuana laws in his postings. Some of his videos can be seen here.

Pentagon Police officers patrol a parking lot and sidewalk outside the Pentagon after the shooting.
Pentagon Police officers patrol a parking lot and sidewalk outside the Pentagon after the shooting.   (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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super_soft_wizard
Mar 5, 2010 10:57 PM CST
I remember when the right was super pissed at some memos that talked about the upsurge of internet chatter regarding home-grown terrorism... Now we've had two incidents in a month!

Great job, American Right, on seeing and responding to the threat.
Snowleopard
Mar 5, 2010 7:06 PM CST
for all of you arguing whether this guy and stacks were liberals or a conservatives, not everyone nicely into that mold. sorry.
professortech
Mar 5, 2010 5:55 PM CST
OK are we beginning to see a pattern here or what? Conservative anti-government nut jobs, rant on the internet about the various "conspiracies" out to get them and then decide to seek their retribution by committing suicide by slamming a plane into a building, staging an under gunned shootout at the pentagon,etc. etc. The longer the wacko extremist hard right wing goes on the more it resembles the wacko Islamic extremist suicide bombers.

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