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Post by dgriffin on Apr 30, 2009 14:39:10 GMT -5
 Car hits crowd watching Dutch queen, kills 5APELDOORN, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch driver careened through police barriers and plowed into a crowd of merrymakers cheering their popular queen Thursday, in a premeditated assault on the royal family that killed five bystanders and injured 12, authorities said. The speeding car, already dented apparently from catapulting bystanders into the air, passed within a few meters (yards) of the open-topped bus carrying Queen Beatrix and her family down a parade route, then smashed into a stone monument. "I think that it has become clear that this happened with premeditation," Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said. The driver, whose name was not released, "is formally suspected of ... an attack on members of the royal house and manslaughter or murder," Goossens said, and he could face life in prison. The motive for the attack was unclear. Dutch media, citing neighbors, said the assailant recently was fired from his job and was to be evicted from his home. Police identified him as a 38-year-old Dutch man with no history of mental illness or police record, but they would not release his name.www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilgyK22JkrE2dgeitbQ9O52O8OXAD97SVC980I wonder why they won't release his name. "Dutch man" refers only to his citizenship. |
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Post by frankcor on Apr 30, 2009 17:16:55 GMT -5
We need to move immediately to ban assault cars.
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 30, 2009 20:50:19 GMT -5
... and here's how you tell if it's an Assault Car:
1. It has bumpers.
2. It goes faster than a police car.
3. It goes faster than a politician's car.
4. It uses more gas than a morally sound, environmentally sensitive, politically aware driver should.
5. It has Ron Paul stickers on its illegal bumpers.
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Post by Ralph on May 1, 2009 0:43:50 GMT -5
But....... ..........was he wearing a Kufi?  |
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Post by dgriffin on May 1, 2009 11:50:49 GMT -5
Radio Nederlands Worldwide"On Friday morning it was announced that the man who deliberately drove his car at speed through the crowd of spectators had died in hospital during the night. He was named as Karst Tates, an unemployed security guard from Huissen, a village near Arnhem in the east of the Netherlands. His neighbours say he was made redundant a few months ago. They describe him as a quiet, withdrawn person. His motive for carrying out the attack remains a mystery. On Thursday the public prosecutor said the man told police that the target of the attack was the royal family. The public prosecutor ruled out any terrorist motive and the authorities believe the man was acting alone. The mayor of Apeldoorn, Fred de Graaf, has announced that an investigation will be launched into the security provisions surrounding the royal visit." www.radionetherlands.nl/news/zijlijn/6283185/Queens-Day-attack-death-toll-rises
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Post by Disgusted-Daily on May 3, 2009 0:26:52 GMT -5
But....... ..........was he wearing a Kufi? If he was it wasn't the new Kevlar lined model since his melon was bleeding when they pulled him out of the car. What a waste of a Kufi!  |
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