US Army veteran turned White Supremacist Named as the Shooter

[Irfan Baloch]

US Army veteran turned White Supremacist Named as the Shooter

Oak Creek, Wisconsin (CNN) -- The man who shot six people to death and wounded three others during a rampage at a Sikh temple in a Milwaukee suburb was an Army veteran who may have been a white supremacist, according to a law enforcement source involved in the investigation.

Law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation named him Monday as Wade Michael Page, 40. One law enforcement official said he owned the gun used in the shooting legally.

He had apparently served on active duty, a U.S. official familiar with his record said. The source declined to give further details.

The officials asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak on the record about the shooting investigation. A police officer responding to the attack shot and killed the gunman, police said.

Sources name alleged gunman in Wisconsin temple shooting - CNN.com


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so there you have it guys
the cat is out of the bag. it was one of their own after all. trained to kill and couldn't just kick the habit (of killing innocent civilians.)

May he rot in hell

a request to my Indian members is that next time be mindful when you make your thoughtless remarks over Afghan civilian deaths at the hands of these thugs.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Wow, this is f***ed up and sad..

 

[majja gamma]

they will probably say that he had a nervous breakdown...of he had a fight with his girlfriend...whom he found cheating with his indian neighbour and caught in bed with him....that why he got angry and though sikhs and hindus are same country men...he went after them.....

they are already calling him a gunman on american media tv channels......since he dosent comes from middleeast or greater middleeast i.e afghanistan and Pakistan.....they wont call him a terrorist.........that is a registered trademark they use for muslims and to sell fear to the american public...that whoo whoo whoo terrorists are coming....elect us..give us your tax money..we will go on and wage a war and kill them before they come here in america and then haunt you.....this is their state of mind........ordinary american cant even locate iran on map........videos on you tube are evident of it.

the comments made by americans on ******** reflect their upbringing and state of minds.....the most bizarre and sickest comments that are made on ******** come from americans......they wont even spare if kids if they are killed in car accident.....this is their pass time.....enjoying and laughing on miseries of others..

 

[Solomon2]

trained to kill and couldn't just kick the habit (of killing innocent civilians.)

A calumny. U.S. troops are trained to distinguish between combatants and civilians. Note that the story behind this guy is that he was given a dishonorable discharge in 1998, long before the WoT.

Before 9/11 - even after the attempted bombing of the WTC in 1993 - these were the main guys we Americans considered we had to beware of. Looks like we're headed back to the norm, now.

 

[manojb]

He is neo-nazi, he has punk band 'end apathy'. Google it , his myspace web page has pics with nazi flags...

 

[Safriz]

A calumny. U.S. troops are trained to distinguish between combatants and civilians. Note that the story behind this guy is that he was given a dishonorable discharge in 1998, long before the WoT.

Before 9/11 - even after the attempted bombing of the WTC in 1993 - these were the main guys we Americans considered we had to beware of. Looks like we're headed back to the norm, now.

In that case they are not trained well.....as they suck at preventing civilian casualties....all the way to the top ranks.

About this guy.....why would he kill people he doesnt even know?

 

[anon45]

A reminder that 1 bigot does not represent America.

The Police officers who put their lives on the line in a very real fashion and sustained multiple injuries in order to bring down the shooter are also American.

Response to Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting reaffirms American values - baltimoresun.com

Sunday's mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin carried a depressing familiarity. Every few weeks in America, people somewhere are shot en masse, a gunman is captured or killed, and the debate over gun control flourishes on opinion pages. But this shooting was different. It posed a question to the core American values: do we stand up for the safety of our religious minorities with the same vigor as we do for the mainstream population?

The question was valiantly answered by the heroic act of the two police officers who did not hesitate to risk their own lives in order to save the lives of others — in this case Sikhs, who are often mistaken for Muslims. They stood up to protect a Sikh congregation with the same vigor as was displayed for the victims of previous mass shootings.

For many Americans, embracing diversity of race, gender, and religion is second nature. We take it for granted. But as a naturalized Muslim citizen, I wonder if a similar tragedy occurred against a minority in my homeland of Pakistan, would the authorities act so vigorously?



Sadly, I don't have to wonder. On May 28th 2010, four gunmen entered two mosques in Pakistan and started shooting at a slew of worshipers belonging to the members of my community, the Ahmadiyya Muslims (which the Pakistani government classifies as a religious minority). This is where the curves of the Pakistani and American authorities' response begin to diverge.

In Pakistan, the media broadcasted live images of the gunmen shooting at worshipers while the police stood by the sidelines. The pundits partly held the victims responsible for "provoking" the attacks by practicing their faith while reactions from Ahmadiyya Muslims went unreported. The attacks left the nation divided at best and united at worst — united in disparaging the Ahmadiyya Muslims, that is.

In America, the victims' religion had no impact on the ferocity of the response of law enforcement agencies. The police chief barred the media from broadcasting any of their tactical maneuvers while the officers promptly confronted and killed the attacker, sustaining serious injuries in the process. The media decried the attack without qualification while the Sikh community's reactions flooded the TV channels. And the country is united in expressing condolences to the victims and their families.

The police chief was right. If it was not for the gallant officers' timely intervention, many more would have perished. I believe him. Since such a timely intervention was absent from the scene on May 28th 2010, not six, but 86 Ahmadiyya Muslims were killed within a couple of hours.

Not all is rosy for American minorities. Some politicians and media personalities are actively engaged in fear mongering, mainly against American Muslims. Because some confuse them with Muslim extremists, the rhetoric has caused more than 1,000 hate crimes, including murders, against the American Sikh community since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. According to a Sikh leader in the Milwaukee area, two taxis owned by Sikh drivers were vandalized, and two Sikh men were assaulted there following9/11. American Muslims still get to face the brunt of the injury, according to Muslim civil rights organizations, with thousands of complaints filed every year.

What, then, keeps the American minorities so committed to the United States? The answer lies in the wounds of the police officers recuperating in Wisconsin's hospitals. American minorities are cognizant that no matter how much hate the bigots spew and no matter how many bullets the lunatics fire, the institutions and the Constitution of America are on their side.

Go ahead. Change the gun laws. But please, never let anyone change this American trait of standing up for the religious minorities. The story of the police officers who rushed to the temple highlights the hidden triumph in the Wisconsin tragedy.

 

[livingdead]

Irfan, your effort of linking a lone shooter (ok there might be another one) who was not in active duty in last 10 years and comparing them with those deployed in afganistan is laughable.
This is a case of pure hatred and racism, and he seemed to follow a neo nazi ideology, whether he was ex army man or civilian is of no consequence really. There might be hundreds or even thousands like him in US.

 

[Kompromat]

Ex-US soldier suspect in Sikh temple attack - Americas - Al Jazeera English

 

[EzioAltaïr]

About this guy.....why would he kill people he doesnt even know?

Same can be asked about all homicidal maniacs. Why on Earth would they kill?

There was one research that claims that every guy has a gene that curbs adrenaline when it is released (to prevent it from making you mad). Murderers seem to have a lack of that gene, which means they will murder when over-excited, angry, or scared.

Don't ask for the source, my mom told me about this, and I've no idea where she found it.

 

[Kompromat]

 

[iPhone]

I find it hard to believe that a man who served in the US army and conducted psy-ops didnot know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims. I think he certainely knew his target. He went there multiple times to scope out the area, the people he's gonna kill, the time and day at which there could be the largest gathering.

 

[Solomon2]

In that case they are not trained well.....as they suck at preventing civilian casualties....all the way to the top ranks.

I might treat such words seriously if they came from anyone BUT a Pakistani, seeing that no one was ever held to account for the crimes of 1971 in East Pakistan. You're either misinformed or deliberately holding on to untruths.

About this guy.....why would he kill people he doesnt even know?

There was obviously something wrong with him if he got a DD. With a DD he had no chance of reentering the armed forces, even after 9/11. That meant the army didn't trust him not to kill the wrong people.

The FBI has publicly stated he wasn't on their radar screen. I find that suspicious: non-profit anti-hate organizations like the Anti-Defamation League often keep track of the public movements and statements of loud white supremacists like this guy and forward their information to law-enforcement agencies. Many searching questions need to be asked here.

 

[hunter_hunted]

So he was a Supremacist but not a Terrorist . what a 'Civilized' world

 

[Solomon2]

So he was a Supremacist but not a Terrorist . what a 'Civilized' world

He was a supremacist who turned terrorist as far as I'm concerned.

I find it hard to believe that a man who served in the US army and conducted psy-ops didnot know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims.

We don't know his state of mind.