New Terrorist Attack (sort of)

[Geel_jire]

(CNN) -- An Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, officials said.

 

Federal authorities identified the pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 as Joseph Andrew Stack, 53.

 

Two people were injured and one person was missing, local officials said. There were no reported deaths.

 

A message on a Web site registered to Stack appears to be a suicide note.

 

"If you're reading this, you're no doubt asking yourself, 'Why did this have to happen?' " the message says. "The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time."

 

In the lengthy, rambling message, the writer rails against the government and, particularly, the IRS. See text of the note (PDF)

 

The building into which the airplane crashed is a federal IRS center with 199 employees.

 

Austin (Texas)

Accidents and Disasters

"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different," the online message says. "I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."

 

Two people were transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge, said hospital spokeswoman Matilda Sanchez. She could not provide additional information.

 

University Medical Center Brackenridge is the only Level 1 trauma center for adults in Austin.

 

St. David's Medical Center, the other major hospital in the area, said it had not received any patients.

 

Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell said one person remained unaccounted for Thursday afternoon.

 

Witnesses described an infernal scene that shook nearby buildings and sent fire and smoke bellowing into the sky.

 

"I just saw smoke and flames," said CNN iReporter Mike Ernest. "I could not believe what I was seeing. It was just smoke and flames everywhere."

 

The crash occurred around 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET).

 

Firefighters used two ladder trucks and other equipment to hose down the blaze at the Echelon office building, which police said is in the 9400 block of Research Boulevard.

 

The flames seemed mostly extinguished about 75 minutes later.

 

The FAA said preliminary information indicated the plane departed Georgetown Municipal Airport north of Austin about 9:40 a.m. CT.

 

Jack Lillis, an attendant at Georgetown airport, said initial indications are that the flight originated there but there were conflicting reports and he could not verify that information.

 

The pilot evidently did not file a flight plan, the FAA said. No flight plan was required because flights Thursday morning were under visual flight rules, or VFR, because of clear weather.

 

Leffingwell downplayed any possible terrorism links to the crash.

 

"It is an isolated incident," the mayor said. "The people of Austin, the people of the nation, are in no danger whatsoever."

 

He added that "there is evidence that the gas tank was just about full. ... That amount of gasoline ... can do a lot of damage."

 

Two F-16 fighter jets were sent from Houston as a precaution, but federal authorities said preliminary information did not indicate any terrorist connection to the crash.

 

"We do not yet know the cause of the plane crash," the Department of Homeland Security said in a release.

"At this time, we have no reason to believe there is a nexus to terrorist activity.

We continue to gather more information, and are aware there is additional information about the pilot's history."

[Geel_jire]

Now the mayor of houstan, the department of Homeland security and the manistream news. are trying to aviod using the magic word 'Terrorism' I guess that only applies if you are a muslim.

 

lets review this F'ed up scanario

 

• Suicide Note
• 200 Innocent civilians
• intention to cause widepsread terror and panic
• using an airoplance as a projectile aimed at a public building

so why doesnt this qualify as terrorism ?

[Che -Guevara]

In the strict sense of the word, it is terrorism but politically, this is not terrorism.

[xiinfaniin]

In America, only muslims are capable of commiting terror act

[Che -Guevara]

^All the more reason, we need to arrest Xiin

[xiinfaniin]

^^I know but fortunately the place has its positive too

[Khayr]

This just in.....

 

Joseph Andrew Stack, 53 informed family and friends just this past week, that they should start calling him "Yusuf" instead of Joseph.Such a drastic name change is often a sign of conversion to Izzlam.

 

and this just in....

 

because of new found information about the named individual, homeland security has upped the level to orange.

 

 

From Fox News

[xiinfaniin]

^^

 

This is how FoxNews reported the story:

Texas Small Plane Crash Might Be Intentional Act, Officials Say

[Qorax]

Originally posted by Che -Guevara:

In the strict sense of the word, it is terrorism but politically, this is not terrorism.

Sax weeye Che G. sow sheekadu la toosiyaana banaan la jifiyaana banaan ma ahan.