QUICK, SWEEP QUICKLY UNDER THE RUG – AT 9:07 A.M. ET:  There was a shooting last night in which two Pentagon guards were wounded, and the gunman killed.  The shooter has a curious past, as Fox reports:

Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the Californian identified as the gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers before he was mortally wounded in a hail of return fire.

The shooter's death was confirmed early Friday, hours after the Thursday evening assault, as authorities searched for a motive behind the brazen attack. The two officers, grazed by bullets, were treated in a hospital.

Other news sources, with their usual knee-jerk reactions, are assuring us that there is no link to any group, that the guy acted alone, and that we should all move along.  But there are some disturbing issues emerging, as there were in the first hours after Fort Hood:

John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was identified as the shooter. Officials said they'd found no immediate connection to terrorism but had not ruled it out.

Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was "determined to see that justice is served" in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up.

The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was "a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions."

COMMENT:  This obviously requires further investigation, and not bland reassurance.  We've been down this road before.  The guy may simply turn out to be a nutjob, but we should not assume it.

March 5, 2010