FEBRUARY 18 The man suspected of intentionally crashing an airplane into a Texas office building today appears to have posted a lengthy online diatribe attacking the Internal Revenue Service and declaring that, I know I m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand.
The six-page manifesto, which you ll find here, is dated 2/18/10 and is signed Joe Stack (1956-2010). Andrew Joseph Stack, 53, has been identified as the man who flew a small plane into an Austin building housing IRS offices. The statement was uploaded to the front page of a web site that was registered in 2003 by a Joe Stack, who listed an address in San Marcos, Texas, which is about 35 miles south of Austin.
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I confess that, even given the grim excesses of this plague-ridden year, I didn t expect an American suicide bomber on Christmas Day. Officials are being very delicate about calling Anthony Quinn Warner, identified through bits of himself found at the scene on Sunday as the man who detonated a recreational vehicle on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville, a terrorist. Thanks to some alert and very brave police work, and for reasons that remain vague, and therefore extraordinarily pliable to a fevered public imagination, Warner killed only himself. From
While acquaintances on Sunday described Tony Warner as a self-employed computer guru and a homebody who tended to his pets and kept to himself police officers on the scene before the bomb exploded recalled a strange recording emanating from the RV. In between a digitized female voice giving warnings to evacuate the area, there was music, the officers said. Downtown, a wistful 1964 song by Petula Cl
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