Silflay Hraka

If I wrote this badly, I might be a tad on edge as well.

Via Dustbury

As the unimaginable in Blacksburg continues to unfold, stories like these help you understand what makes a person’s character.

Not only are these deaths felt by friends and family, but the world as a whole will be much less of a place without Prof. Liviu Librescu, student Ryan Clark, and educator Christopher (Jamie) Bishop. That story of the professor especially touches me, since my own father is a professor. Librescu gave the ultimate sacrifice to his students.

Of course as the hours/days/weeks pass, more stories will become known of the wonderful people that we have lost.

Humans are hardwired to see patterns, even when those patterns probably don’t exist in the first place.

Jihad Watch

Global jihad alert: “Agents from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terror network made repeated visits to South Korea recently scouting for US targets, a lawmaker said, citing a closed-door intelligence briefing to parliament.” So says AFP.

“Ham Seung-Hui, a member of the Millennium Democratic Party, said that South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) was now on anti-terrorism alert to respond to reported al-Qaeda activity in South Korea. ‘The NIS briefing said suspected al-Qaeda members had checked security of the US troops in South Korea on two or three occasions recently,’ Ham told AFP.

Any one of a number of News stories on the Virginia Tech shooter. This one’s from News10

The Virginia Tech Police Department is identifying the campus gunman as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, a student and native of South Korea. The university says he was a senior at the school. Yesterday’s shootings ended with his suicide.

I wonder when Cho Seung-Hu first got his visa.

Update: In 1992, according to Reuters.