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Interrogate alqaida sniper { October 18 2002 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,814460,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,814460,00.html Al-Qaida detainees to be questioned over sniper Oliver Burkeman in New York Friday October 18, 2002 The Guardian Investigators hunting the Washington sniper are preparing to interrogate al-Qaida detainees at Guantanamo Bay, intelligence officials said yesterday, in the first indication that the US authorities are seriously considering a terrorist connection to the unsolved string of murders. The FBI plans to pass news of the shootings to suspected terrorists held in Cuba and elsewhere, less in the hope that they will be responsive than that they will discuss it with their fellow inmates in their cells, which are bugged. "We would be criticised if we didn't," CNN quoted one unnamed FBI source as saying. But the source stressed that there was no evidence of an al-Qaida link. The fact that nobody had claimed responsibility for the killings did not fit the conventional terrorist pattern, the FBI said. It also pointed out that writing, "Dear policeman, I am God" on a tarot card, as the sniper, or perhaps a hoaxer, reportedly did, would be unthinkably blasphemous for an Islamist fundamentalist. But, as criminologists have noted, the hallmarks of non-terrorist serial killers are largely absent. For example, the victims do not belong to any one category of person and their possessions or body parts have not been kept as trophies. Four days after the unseen sniper killed a ninth person, at the closest range yet - less than 30 yards - police spent much of yesterday trying to extinguish "unreliable" eyewitness reports. Descriptions of the sniper as being olive-skinned, or of Hispanic or Middle Eastern appearance, were not credible, they said. Nor was one witness's account of having seen the gunman race away in a "cream-coloured" van. Some of the misinformation, it emerged, had come from a man who later confessed to police that he had been misleading them. He had been inside the branch of Home Depot near which Linda Franklin, 47, an FBI worker, was shot dead on Monday evening, and had seen nothing. A Pentagon spokesman was guarded on the question of FBI interrogators visiting Guantanamo Bay, saying it could not discuss specifics.

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