July 29, 2006

Seattle's Jewish Federation Center Shooting

About an hour ago a man walked into the Jewish Federation Center in downtown Seattle and started shooting.

Of course it's still too early to know why he did it (or too early to know anything, really, but newscasters don't seem to understand that....) the consensus around here (at least, I'm pretty sure it is) is that it has to do with the Middle East.

Which leads to my question: how does shooting up a Jewish center in Seattle support the Hezbollah cause? Or maybe I just don't understand how terrorists think. Which may be a good thing.

(So far two injuries confirmed, possibly three more, and the one man in custody.)

Update: 5:20: apparently, one death.
Update: 5:30: King5 tv reported that the man was Pakistani.

NOTE: I'm not saying this was a terrorist act, or that it's directly related to Hezbollah. Just that with the present state of things, it might be. Might. Or it's just another idiot going around shooting people.

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