Google-Inspired Paranoia
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.
There are about four last names on the entire Korean Peninsula.
Yea, I turned up quite a number of those via google. The one above just happened to be the first.
And let’s remember that “last names” come first in Korean, so this is the equivelant of wondering if Bob Smith has any connection to Bob Oppenhiemer.