Last week, Seattle shooter Naveed Afzal Haq wanted to plead guilty to murdering one woman and wounding five others at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
The self-described "angry Muslim" has changed his mind.
SEATTLE (AP) -- A man accused of storming Seattle's Jewish Federation offices, killing one woman and wounding five others in a fit of rage over U.S. foreign policy, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and other charges.
Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, had indicated in court last week that he wanted to plead guilty, but a judge continued his arraignment to give his lawyers time to determine whether their client was competent.
On Tuesday, defense attorneys said they had met with Haq for nine hours during the past week and found no indication that he would be incapable of assisting in his own defense.
Haq faces either life in prison or execution if convicted in the death of Pamela Waechter, 58, director of the Jewish charity's annual fundraising campaign.
...Haq pleaded not guilty to five counts of attempted first-degree murder in the July 28 shooting at the federation's downtown offices.
Five women were wounded by gunfire, including one who was 17 weeks pregnant and three who required lifesaving surgery.
Haq fired at the pregnant woman's abdomen, but the bullet hit her raised arm, Seattle Police Detective Dana Duffy said in a probable cause statement filed with charging documents. The woman crawled back to her desk and called 911, defying the gunman's warning that no one call authorities.
Haq eventually got on the phone with the 911 operator and said he was upset about the war in Iraq and U.S. support of Israel, and asked the operator to patch him through to CNN, Duffy said.
He later agreed to surrender, put his two guns down and walked out, hands on his head.
...Haq also pleaded not guilty to a first-degree kidnapping charge that accuses him of briefly holding a teenage girl hostage, first-degree burglary for entering a locked facility to commit a crime, and malicious harassment under the state's hate-crime law.
What a difference a few days makes.
Suddenly, Haq is not guilty of the crimes.
I guess he's not guilty in that Andrea Yates sort of way.
The lack of media attention that the Haq story receives disturbs me.
If a Jew had gone into an Islamic center, opened fire on defenseless women, killed one and wounded five others, the media would be all over it. There would be rioting and demonstrations all over the world.
If a Jew cited anger over Hezbollah and the situation in the Middle East as his motive for shooting up innocents, the outrage would be deafening and unceasing.
Michael Isikoff's fake story about the Koran in the Gitmo toilet sparked such a reaction. His fabricated stuff got the spotlight for days and days; but the Haq real deal case barely gets mentioned.
Here is a real story and it's getting scant attention. It's a glaring double standard.
The lib media's agenda is once again exposed. They refuse to acknowledge the murderous mentality of our enemies and their
sympathizers.
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