Posted by
Bruce Armstrong on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:34:40 PM
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said there was "no apparent pattern" in the aftermath of an Afghan man's SUV rampage through the streets of San Francisco yesterday, resulting in one dead and more than a dozen injured.
Yet, as postings at
Michelle Malkin and
Hugh Hewitt point out, many if not most of the casualties occurred in the immediate vicinity of Jewish-oriented facilities and neighborhoods. One of the most-seen photographs of the aftermath is of a
pile of bloody rags on the sidewalk outside the Jewish Community Center on the corner of Presidio and California Streets.
Little Green Footballs reports that Omeed Aziz Popal, the 29-year-old Afghan killer driver, proclaimed himself a terrorist. LGF also speculates that Popal's attacks may have been in retaliation for a recent accident outside his mosque, in which an elderly man hit 11 people in a group outside the Abu Bakr Siddiq mosque.
We shouldn't be surprised by Mayor Newsom's comments, I guess. He's just a typical knee-jerk liberal, and this incident didn't fit into his liberal mindset of Israel/Jews/Christians/America bad, gays/Muslims/terrorists good. There is no doubt in my mind that if this has been a white man running down a number of blacks and Muslims with an SUV, Mayor Newsom would have been screaming "Racism!" and "Hate crime!" at the top of his moonbat lungs.
Frankly, this is the type of terrorist incident that worries me more than a larger 9/11 or 7/7 type of incident. There is no pre-incident conspiracy here, no money transfers or travel patterns or communications to monitor or track. There is no group of people plotting together, with the chance that one will get picked up or turn on the group. The San Francisco attack, along with the Seattle attack and the UNC attack, were carried out by one individual - almost impossible to prevent. I'm certain today that people near Jewish Community Centers across the country are being a bit more vigilant today.