Kind of interesting that this morning I did a blog-post on Al Qaeda ordering lone-wolf attacks and how an action like that can close down a city....now D.C. is getting parts shut down and even Congress has closed and there is talk of cancelling Major League Baseball tonight.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As many as two gunmen opened fire Monday morning inside the Washington Navy Yard, killing at least 12 people in an attack on office workers at the heavily secured military installation in the heart of the nation's capital, authorities said.
One gunman was dead, and police hunted for a second possible attacker who may have been disguised in a military-style uniform, police said.
Investigators said they had not established a motive for the shooting rampage, which unfolded less than four miles from the White House. As for whether it may have been a terrorist attack, Mayor Vincent Gray said: "We don't have any reason to think that at this stage."
The FBI took charge of the investigation.
President Barack Obama mourned yet another mass shooting in the U.S. that he said took the lives of American patriots. Obama promised to make sure "whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible."
The area that was targeted, known as Building 197, was part of the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which buys, builds and maintains ships, submarines and combat systems. About 3,000 people work at the headquarters, many of them civilians.
Witnesses described a gunman opening fire from a fourth-floor overlook, aiming down on people in the first-floor cafeteria. Others said a gunman fired at them in a third-floor hallway. It was not clear whether the witnesses on different floors were describing the same gunman.
Around midday, police said they were searching for two men who may have taken part in the attack — one carrying a handgun and wearing a tan Navy-style uniform and a beret, the other armed with a long gun and wearing an olive-green uniform. Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said it was unclear if the men were members of the military.
But later in the day, police said in a tweet that the man in the tan uniform had been identified and was not involved in the shooting.
It was not immediately clear whether the number of dead included a gunman.
As emergency vehicles and law enforcement officers flooded streets around the complex, a helicopter hovered overhead, nearby schools were locked down and airplanes at nearby Reagan National Airport were grounded so they would not interfere with law-enforcement choppers.
What will be the fall out if the shooters turn out to be Muslims? Will the media actually have to say "Muslim" or "Islam" when they go to describe the motive?
We know the media is hoping the shooter's name is Ben Peterson and that he is deacon at his local Lutheran church....then it would back up their worldview that, "all religions have their extremists".
And of course when the Muslim brothers in Boston killed and maimed dozens with a pressure-cooker bomb....no one blamed the pressure cooker....BUT....watch and see the Liberals start oozing at the mouth with rabies-laced foam as they speak of "another mass shooting"...and will trip over themselves to blame the guns for all this death and carnage. "If only we could outlaw guns!", they will wail!!
How ironic that the very same liberals are debating sending assault rifles to Syria so the citizens can protect themselves from the Government who is butchering them....but they want to take the assault rifles from U.S. citizens!! You can't make that one up!!!
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