| February 9, 2004 | - The Ohio
sniper continued to shoot at cars.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 24, 2004 | - A sniper was still shooting cars in Ohio.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 2, 2003 | - Newly released files suggested that the Mexican government used at least 360 snipers in a massacre of protesters on October 2, 1968.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 2, 2003 | - An Israeli commission of inquiry concluded that police used excessive force in putting down a riot by Israeli Arabs three years ago in which 13 people were killed.
The commission suggested that the police stop using snipers armed with rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse Arab crowds.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 15, 2003 | - A sniper was on the loose in West Virginia.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| June 17, 2003 | - Palestinian snipers killed a seven-year-old Israeli girl and wounded her five-year-old sister and her father;
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 29, 2002 | -
Police arrested a Gulf War veteran and his teenage Jamaican sidekick in the Washington sniper case, ending a media frenzy that included a request by CNN to interview actors from the CBS series “Crime Scene Investigation.” Lengthy footage was broadcast of a tree stump being dug up and hauled away.
Experts and profilers who had spent untold hours on television speculating about the killer were forced to admit that their prophecies had been worthless.
“My predictions were not that close,” one expert said.
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| October 22, 2002 | -
The Pentagon deployed spy planes in an attempt to catch the Washington-area sniper, and the White House requested a study of “ballistic fingerprinting” technology that can tie bullets and shell casings to the gun that fired them, though the gun lobby is expected to veto any such policy.
“These are acts of a depraved killer who has broken and will continue to break laws,” said Ari Fleischer, the President's spokesman.
“And so the question is not new laws; the question is the actions here represent values in our society.” The judge in Miami who tried Alex and Derek King threw out their convictions in the murder of their father and said that their right to due process was violated by the district attorney's “bizarre” prosecution of the case.
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| October 15, 2002 | -
The Washington sniper continued to shoot people and broadened his targets to include children, and he left a tarot “death card” at the scene of one shooting on which he wrote: “Dear Policeman, I am God.” The American Tarot Association posted a list of “fast facts” on its website about the death card and said that the killer obviously knows nothing at all about tarot.
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| August 13, 2002 | -
Anthony Zinni, the former American general, visited Indonesia and met with Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the minister for security affairs, about the separatist fighting in Aceh and said: “I think all sides are convinced that the way to peace is through dialogue.” An American soldier was shot by a sniper in Afghanistan.
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| April 16, 2002 | -
A monk was shot at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem when he went outside to get food delivered by Israeli soldiers; the Israeli army claimed that Palestinian soldiers inside the church had shot the monk but later admitted off the record that it was an Israeli sniper.
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| April 2, 2002 | -
Palestinian men and boys were rounded up, water mains and buildings and cars were destroyed, civilians and at least one American journalist were shot by snipers.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was angry about a fact-finding mission led by former senator George Mitchell; he said that allowing such an investigation into the causes of the recent Intifada was an “historic mistake” because “no one has the right, no one, to put Israel on trial before the world.” A Palestinian
sniper shot and killed a ten-month-old Israeli girl in Hebron as she lay in her stroller; Israeli troops then shelled a nearby Palestinian neighborhood and other targets, including Yasir Arafat's home.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
New York
police
snipers were mobilized after two men from Pennsylvania, Michael Lewis and Eric “Black Hole” Storm, told officials that twenty members of a “survivor” cult were planning to commit suicide by drinking poisoned juice on the steps of City Hall; no one showed up, and the two men were taken away to the Bellevue psychiatric ward.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
Israeli
snipers shot and killed more unarmed Palestinian
demonstrators.
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