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week in both The Washington Post and The New
York Times, based on an interview with an
Arlington, Va., man who said he met a man at the
• Falls Church, Va., Home Depot.
Glen Guymon said he and the witness started
talking when police ordered them inside after the
shooting. Guymon said the witness told him he
saw a man in the parking lot standing behind a
cream-colored Chevy Astro van.
“There was a woman walking out to her car, he
said she was with a guy,” Guymon told the Times
of the man’s account. “The guy behind the van
lifted up a rifle and shot her, then got in the car and
drove off. He was probably about 50 feet away
from where he shot her.”
Reached at home Thursday, Guymon told The
Associated Press: “I'm shocked he was lying
because he had a very detailed story. The guy
sounded credible. He didn’t sound like he was
making it up.”
Moose said the witness’ description to police of
the shooter’s AK-74 assault rifle is also bogus. But
investigators cautioned that they still believe the
sniper is using one of a family of more than 30
similar assault-type weapons capable of firing a
.223-caliber bullet.
“The message we’re trying to say is please
keep an open mind,” Moose said. “People saw a
description of a weapon over the last day and a
half and we’re convinced they eliminated people
they know because they say, ‘Their gun is not the
weapon I saw in the paper.’”
Moose said the disclosure of the fake story,
coming a day after investigators said they were
unable to draw a composite sketch, was hardly a
setback. He said investigators were still chasing
leads and he stood by previous composite draw
ings of vehicles witnesses reported seeing leaving
the attacks: a white box truck and a Chevrolet
Astro van or Ford Econoline van.
Since Oct. 2, there have been 1 1 shootings in
Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., that
have left nine people dead and two wounded. One
of the wounded, a 13-year-old boy shot outside his
school in Bowie, Md., was upgraded Thursday
from critical to serious condition. The other
wounded person, a woman in Virginia, was
released from a hospital last week.
The victims were men and women of varying
ages and ethnic backgrounds, each hit with a sin
gle bullet while going about everyday activities. A
tarot death caai left at one scene was inscribed:
“Dear Policeman, I am God.”
Law enforcement sources said the investigation
by federal, state and local authorities has led to
information about a number of people with high-
powered guns, both legally and illegally owned.
A firearms safety instructor said the FBI has
been asking registered owners of .223-caliber
guns to bring them in for ballistic fingerprinting.
“They’re looking for suspects,” said Mike
Heffernan, owner of Self Defense Technologies in
Kensington. “They’re looking at people who have
a background in firearms, possess .223 weapons,
and have the capability of using them.”
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negotiators say they reached a tentative
agreement on a $100 billion terrorism insur
ance package that lawmakers hope will stim
ulate the economy and help cover the cost of
insurance against future terrorist attacks.
But final passage of the legislation is still
not assured. It has not been formally
approved by a Senate-House conference
where some members continue to have
reservations about parts of the package. And
then it must still be approved by both the full
Senate and House, which has recessed until
after the Nov. 5 election.
Some GOP lawmakers in the House
wanted a provision included to limit law
suits against companies struck by terrorists.
There also continues to be disagreement
over whether.insurance companies must pay
back the government for any economic
bailouts prompted by an attack.
Several House-Senate compromises —
including a bankruptcy reform bill and an
agreement on forming a commission to
investigate the government’s failure to pre
dict the Sept. 1 1 attacks — have never made
it through Congress, although lawmakers
announced settlements.
On the terrorism insurance measure “we
believe we’ve got an agreement,” Sen.
Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., one of the chief
Senate negotiators, said Thursday. “We obvi
ously depend upon other people signing on it
to confirm it. I think that’s going to happen.”
House Financial Services Committee
Chairman Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, also
was optimistic.
“As in any conference agreement, every
one must compromise and that is what we
have done here. The U.S. economy must
come before our individual preferences in
the legislation, and today we have put the
nation’s workers first,” said Oxley.
A Senate Democratic source, speaking on
conditions of anonymity, said the agreement
was on a three-year, $100 billion package that
would have the government cover 90 perc® 1
of all terror losses after insurance compand
pay an initial amount of $10 billion.
The GOP-controIled House and
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different versions of legislation, wine
would protect the insurance industry fr 0111
calamitous losses in the event ofanotherier
rorist attack by requiring the governmenttc
pick up some of the losses.
Many insurers, who faced record pay oUls
after Sept. I 1, limited or dropped coverage
for casualty and property losses due to W
rorism. But with most lenders requiring
insurance to finance real estate > plant expan
sion and other construction projects. indn s
try representatives have warned of damage
to the economy.
Lawmakers said they would release
details of the agreement later. While there
was agreement on the broad outline n 1
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