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Killers from China: What Did Michael Sneed Say?

Ms Sneed Misleads

Michael Sneed and the Chicago Sun-Times may want people to forget their exclusive report on the identity of the Virginia Tech gunman: "a Chinese national" who "arrived in San Francisco on a United Airlines flight on Aug. 7, 2006, on a visa issued in Shanghai".  Follow this link you will get a sanitised version.  But the Google's cache of that URL records what Ms Sneed actually reported:-

Here on visa? The shooting rampage ...
April 17, 2007
BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist

Sneed hears authorities were investigating whether the gunman who killed 32 people in a rampage on the Virginia Tech campus was a Chinese national who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa.

The 25-year-old man being investigated for the deadliest college carnage in U.S. history reportedly arrived in San Francisco on a United Airlines flight on Aug. 7, 2006, on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Investigators had not linked him to any terrorist groups, the source added ...

A screenshot of Google's cache:-

Michael Sneed, Virginia Tech Gunman, Chinese National from Shanghai

Link:
What did they say that the Virginia Tech shooter was Chinese? - ESWN's translation

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her email: msneed@suntimes.com

that bloody stupid whore

Let's play devil's advocate. Richard Spencer of the British Telegraph wrote:-

"... But I would like briefly to defend the indefensible - namely, the original naming of the wrong China connection in the Chicago Sun-Times. Of course, if it was just a mistake, then it was a mistake, and if it was just made up - that's pretty rare, actually - it's worse than a mistake.

But what the Sun-Times columnist actually said was that police were investigating the possibility that the shooter was Chinese.
Given that the authorities don't really seem to have been on the ball on the case, that might at one stage have been true ..."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/richardspencer/apr2007/shootings.htm

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