This is a repost of Hamilton Nolan's article of the same title on Gawker (not a lot of crossover in audiences, I'm thinking). Nolan has long cataloged the crimes of corporate and individual overlords and the economic and security losses sustained by the working people of America. We picked this article in particular for the…
mysterious middle of the night drive-by shootings at a bunch of different military installations in and around northern virginia. from the washington post at the time the incidents began the night of october 16th or early the next morning. the first target was the national museum of the marine corps in the federal triangle, then the pentagon, a u.s. marine recruiting center, then the marine corps museum again and a coast guard recruiting center. it was really strange. it was mysterious, it was scary. nobody knew who was doing it or why. and at the time in the coverage you could sort of tell that nobody ever expected to identify a suspect in all of those shootings of all of those military facilities. snipers can be notoriously difficult to find, as gun crimes go. but they did know that all of those shots fired at all those military institutions, all of those shots that hit all of those different buildings, they had all been fired from the same weapon, and that clue was apparently enou
shootings. mysterious middle of the night drive-by shootings at a bunch of different military installations in and around northern virginia. from the washington post at the time the incidents began the night of october 16th or early the next morning. the first target was the national museum of the marine corps in the federal triangle, then the pentagon, a u.s. marine recruiting center, then the marine corps museum again and a coast guard recruiting center. it was really strange. it was mysterious, it was scary. nobody knew who was doing it or why. and at the time in the coverage you could sort of tell that nobody ever expected to identify a suspect in all of those shootings of all of those military facilities. snipers can be notoriously difficult to find, as gun crimes go. but they did know that all of those shots fired at all those military institutions, all of those shots that hit all of those different buildings, they had all been fired from the same weapon, and that clue was appa