Gunman in Black Combat Gear Kills 10+ at German School

[Gouda]

At least 10 killed in German school shooting

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_ ... ool_attack

WINNENDEN, Germany – A gunman opened fire randomly at a high school in southern Germany on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring others before fleeing the scene, police said.

Germany's n-tv reported that police said the suspect was dressed in a black combat uniform.

Regional police spokesman Klaus Hinderer said students were among the 10 killed, but he had no further details.

The shooter entered Albertville high school in Winnenden at 9:30 a.m. and opened fire, shooting at random, before fleeing, police said.

Police warned area residents not to pick up anyone in their cars as they searched for the suspect, described by Germany's N24 television as a 17-year-old former student who was known to police.

Hinderer could not confirm media reports that the shooter was a former student at the school.

Hinderer said the suspect fled toward the center of Winnenden, a town of 28,000, Hinderer said. The school was evacuated.

About 1,000 children attend the school, located in a suburb some 12 miles (20 kilometers) northeast of Stuttgart.

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Students killed in German school shooting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ma ... l-shooting

Ten confirmed dead and several wounded by gunman reportedly wearing combat fatigues

"We have to anticipate a death toll in double digits," said a spokeswoman for the Stuttgart authorities. Asked whether the dead were students or teachers, she said: "It's pupils."

[Gouda]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 12,00.html

A gunman clad in a dark combat outfit has killed at least 10 pupils at a secondary school in the town of Winnenden in southern Germany. Unconfirmed reports say he is a 17-year-old former pupil, and that he has been arrested.

(...)

The school and parts of the city have been cordoned off by police. The attacker is believed to have started shooting in the school at around 9:30 a.m.

[Fat Lady Singing]

I'm sure it's only a coincidence that there was also a horrible shooting spree at almost the same time in Alabama. http://tinyurl.com/ce5c25

A terrible coincidence, but it has to be just that, right?

Seems like there have been a rash of folks flipping out and killing their families and going on rampages recently (Cleveland last week, for instance). Then again, it always seems like there's a rash of folks flipping out and going on rampages, anymore. These waves almost don't merit that much attention at this point, which indicates to me that there probably should be more attention focused on the phenomenon.

[RocketMan]

These waves almost don't merit that much attention at this point, which indicates to me that there probably should be more attention focused on the phenomenon.

That strikes me as a very acute observation.

[Gouda]

1:27 p.m. : The death toll increases to 16. Police announce that 17-year-old Tim K. has been shot.

1:59 p.m. : At a press conference in Winnenden, the investigators announce that Tim K. graduated from the Albertville Secondary School in 2007. Helmut Rau, the state's minister of education, says that the young man was "never conspicuous" at the school and began a vocational training program after graduating. According to Rau, Tim K. had apparently had a "double identity."

4:30 p.m. : As SPIEGEL later learns, the police search for bullet casings on a street near a DPD parcel distribution center in the Wendlingen industrial zone.

5:20 p.m. : A police spokeswoman announces that the police have learned from the latest information available that the Winnenden school killer apparently committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 80,00.html

More context on the "double identity" thing:

Teenager 'Inconspicuous', 'Frustrated'

The teenager, who has been named as Tim K.*, was described by teachers as inconspicuous. He had left the school last year after obtaining his secondary school certificate, and had begun an apprenticeship. "He evidently had a double identity," said Helmut Rau, the education minister of the southern state of Baden-Württemberg

One former classmate told SPIEGEL ONLINE that K., an only child, had been "deeply frustrated." But his motive remains unknown.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 12,00.html

[esotericmetal]

I'm sure it's only a coincidence that there was also a horrible shooting spree at almost the same time in Alabama. http://tinyurl.com/ce5c25

A terrible coincidence, but it has to be just that, right?

I wonder if the fact that it was a full moon last night is a coincidence as well.

V-tech happened on April 16th, with a new moon on the 17th.

Columbine happened on April 20th, which also happens to be Hitlers birthday, as well as the world's stoners day (4/20).

3 scenarios i can think of:
- Gladio style psyop to terrorize the population into thinking they need more law enforcement.
- Some kind of blood ritual (assuming the PTB have occult leanings)
- A natural phenomena of surges in violence during certain astrological events.

None of these scenarios are mutually exclusive and could definitely be a combination of the three.

[Joe Hillshoist]

every day is world stoners day.

[Gouda]

The 17-year-old then fled the Albertville-Realschule and went to a nearby psychiatric clinic where he shot dead a member of staff and stole a Volkswagen Sharan car.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/world/03/11/ ... -bloodbath

The staff member was the clinic's gardener, according to Spiegel:

9.35 a.m.: (...) Tim K. escapes from the school, flees over the grounds and shoots a gardener at a nearby psychiatric and neurological clinic.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 80,00.html

He was "never conspicuous", Baden Württemberg's education minister, Helmut Rau, said today. The youth had "never in any way" stood out, said Rau, adding that the boy must have had a "split personality" to commit such an atrocity.
...

Kiesl twice awarded Kretschmer prizes for his sporting achievements, and said his father was a well respected businessman. "I can't understand what could have brought this young man to do such a thing," said Kiesl.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ma ... er-profile

Added on edit(s):

Investigator Siegfried Mahler said authorities had learned that the suspect was treated for depression in 2008, with five visits to a psychiatrist between April and September at an area clinic. He was supposed to continue the treatment at another clinic, but apparently did not show up, Mahler said.

LINK

OK guys, which clinic? Might that be the same psychiatric clinic where he just happened to pass by and kill .... the gardener? Why doesn't the media ask or look into this obvious question? And why did I just ask the preceding question?

[Fat Lady Singing]

3 scenarios i can think of:
- Gladio style psyop to terrorize the population into thinking they need more law enforcement.
- Some kind of blood ritual (assuming the PTB have occult leanings)
- A natural phenomena of surges in violence during certain astrological events.

None of these scenarios are mutually exclusive and could definitely be a combination of the three.

These are good conjectures, esotericmetal. Certainly, it seems to be common wisdom that violence increases during a full moon, but I don't know if statistics bear that out. Maybe I'll give it a google later on. The psyops angle makes sense, too. Oddly enough, given as much time as I've spent reading RI, I'd never considered your other idea, some kind of blood ritual. That's really intriguing.

I think it would be interesting for the more mathematically inclined among us to plot the frequency of killing sprees in some way. Are they really increasing? Do they increase during certain times of year? Do they increase in correlation with some other variable?

And for cartographers, how about locations? Is there any pattern that comes up? I dunno, geographic features? Geologic features, perhaps (thinking of how some areas of I think it's limestone concentrations seem also to be areas of paranormal activity)? Electromagnetic properties? Ley lines?

Or how about sociological data -- is it more likely to be lower, middle, or upper class folks who spree kill? Are the towns they live in culturally similar? Do the local populations have similar demographics in some way? Does this happen in third world countries or Western countries or Asian countries (by "this" I mean specifically people snapping and killing family and/or further spree killing)? More likely to be employed or unemployed -- "going postal", i.e., workplace killings, is certainly part of the picture, but do those account for the majority?

I guess I'd like to get away from the simple psychological profiling that seems to be the way most people look at it. Everyone wants to know why a particular individual did it -- and so do I -- but I'd like to know why it's a phenomenon. It seems like looking for some kind of pattern might help reveal any sort of hidden hand, but that's just the way I naturally think. Maybe there are no real connections.

Heck, there's probably a book examining just these issues that I don't know about. If so, maybe someone can point me toward it.

[LilyPatToo]

This was tragic event and I don't in any way want to minimize it, but I was disgusted by the widely-reported comment from the Education Minister: "...the boy must have had a "split personality" to commit such an atrocity."

Lovely. Let's further stigmatize people living with DID/MPD by making an apparently completely unfounded statement about a murderer's motivation arising from the disorder.

That said, if it turns out that the young man was being treated for a dissociative disorder, then the possibility exists that he was being manipulated/mind controlled. Though in that case, I'd expect a cover-up to already have kicked in.

LilyPat

[NaturalMystik]

A few things of interest. The full moon connection. A similar event occurring at a similar time in Alabama. For some reason I've heard way more about the Germany event than the Alabama one? These things definitely reek of mind control whether intentional or otherwise.

What are these events distracting us from?

[Alfred Joe's Boy]

"German town (Winnenden) in grief, shock after school shootings"
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCr ... USLC765877

"Ala. town (Samson) stunned by gunman's terrifying ride"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... AD96SIK380

"Mother, 3 children found dead in (Conover) NC home"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD96SJ37O1

If an almost perfectly straight line is drawn on the surface of the Earth, it runs through the locations of these three events.
Other places of interest on this same straight line (according to GoogleEarth) are:
NSA Carolinas
National Security Agency
NSA Computer Exchange
NSA Limousine (whatever the hell that is)

[Fat Lady Singing]

If an almost perfectly straight line is drawn on the surface of the Earth, it runs through the locations of these three events.
Other places of interest on this same straight line (according to GoogleEarth) are:
NSA Carolinas
National Security Agency
NSA Computer Exchange
NSA Limousine (whatever the hell that is)

Well, now, *that's* interesting! Good legwork, there, AJB!

[Alfred Joe's Boy]

From Kevin's Cryptogon:
http://cryptogon.com/?p=7433
(Photos & Comments at link)

"U.S. Army Soldiers Deployed on the Streets of Samson, Alabama"
I was reading this Reuters piece about a mass shooting in Alabama when I noticed these photos:

I’m waiting for a response from the Public Affairs Office at Fort Rucker. I’ll post it below if it ever comes:

Subject: Fort Rucker Soldiers Deployed in Alabama
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:30:29 +1300
From: Kevin F
To: ruck.atzq-pao@conus.army.mil

To Whom it May Concern,

My name is Kevin Flaherty. I am the editor of a news and analysis
website called Cryptogon.

I saw Reuters photos of Fort Rucker soldiers deployed on the streets of
Samson, Alabama in the wake of a mass shooting there on 10 March 2009.

See:

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/ar ... opNews#a=8

U.S. Army soldiers from Ft. Rucker patrol the downtown area of Samson,
Alabama after a shooting spree March 10, 2009.

REUTERS/Mark Wallheiser

and

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/ar ... opNews#a=9

U.S. Army soldiers from Ft. Ruker guard a home with five bodies inside
as investigators search for clues in Samson, Alabama, March 11, 2009.

REUTERS/Mark Wallheiser

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I was wondering if you could direct me to the law (or other mechanism)
that authorizes the deployment of regular U.S. Army personnel along side
civilian law enforcement on non-federal property? This case does not
seem to fit any of the exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act. Perhaps I
am mistaken. Please clarify this issue.

What were the Fort Rucker soldiers ordered to do with regard to this
shooting incident?

The Fort Rucker soldiers appeared to be carrying sidearms. Were they, in
fact, carrying sidearms? If so, what were the rules of engagement on
this mission on 10 March 2009 in Samson, Alabama?

Thank you,
Kevin Flaherty

cryptogon.com

[starviego]

Here is video of the gunman right before he was shot. This does not look like someone who was wearing 'combat fatigues.'

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c7_1236837917