The 2003 West Virginia sniper attacks were a series of sniper-style shootings that took place over the course of several days in August 2003 in the U.S...
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The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002...
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The Ohio highway sniper attacks were a series of 24 sniper attacks along Interstate 270 and other nearby highways in the central part of the U.S. state...
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Look up sniper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sniper is a trained sharpshooter who operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper team to maintain...
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Lee Boyd Malvo (category People convicted of murder by Virginia)
sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia, a maximum security (level 4) prison. The D.C. sniper attacks were the last in a series of shootings...
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Marine Corps Scout Sniper School. Scout Snipers must earn the rank of Lance Corporal, be selected by their battalion to join the scout-sniper platoon, and complete...
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CNN. April 12, 2003. Archived from the original on February 3, 2007. Retrieved December 2, 2008. "Malvo Takes the Stand in Beltway Sniper Trial Fox News...
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record. In the March 3, 2003, piece "Making Sniper Suspect Talk Puts Detective in Spotlight", Blair claimed to be in Fairfax, Virginia. He described a videotape...
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Gary Gordon (category American military snipers)
his Delta Force sniper teammates Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart and Sergeant First Class Brad Halling, who were providing sniper cover from the air...
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This is a timeline of incidents in 2003 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces...
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Anthony Swofford (category American military snipers)
Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and currently teaches creative writing at West Virginia University. His first novel, Exit A, was published in January 2007....
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region. The Virginia opossum was not originally native to the West Coast of the United States. It was intentionally introduced into the West during the...
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Billy Dixon (category People from Ohio County, West Virginia)
of Honor. Dixon was born in Ohio County in the panhandle region of West Virginia, on September 25, 1850. Of European and Native American descent, he...
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Battle of Blair Mountain (category 1921 in West Virginia)
since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes...
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opposite Wesley Snipes and Ice T. She is also known for playing Anne-Marie McCoy in the 1992 horror film Candyman opposite Tony Todd and Virginia Madsen. The...
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officer to spot and fire at sniper. Officer Houston McCoy: Ascended tower to observation deck. Fired fatal shots into sniper. Officer Harold Moe: Instrumental...
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Mothman (category 1966 in West Virginia)
Mothman, in West Virginian folklore, is a humanoid creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area from November 15th, 1966, to December 15th, 1967...
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Captain John Smith, now President of Virginia Colony, sends another force of 120 men under Francis West to settle "West's Fort" in what is now the Rockett's...
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Experienced HRT operators assigned to observer/sniper teams are sent to the United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper Basic Course. After successfully completing...
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national headlines in 2003 when, under a court-ordered change of venue, the community hosted the first trial of alleged Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo for...
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XXX (2002 film) (category Films shot in West Virginia)
his true identity. Sova betrays Cage to Yorgi, so he sends his trusted sniper Kirill to kill him. While watching the pair, Kirill, who is in love with...
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Israel–Hamas war (section West Bank and Israel)
whose forces killed hundreds and injured thousands of Palestinians by sniper fire. Soon after the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis began, Hamas' military...
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to late April, and late September to late October) at Camp Dawson, West Virginia, and lasts four weeks. Eric Haney's book Inside Delta Force described...
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adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. In 1993, he played the Shakespearean actor "Mr. Fabian" in Tombstone, took a starring role in Sniper he also starred...
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Tama-Re, Egypt of the West, has that Magic Kingdom quality. In 2001, the Religious Movements Homepage Project at the University of Virginia reported on Tama-Re:...
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Thomas W. Bennett (conscientious objector) (category Military personnel from Morgantown, West Virginia)
Morgantown, West Virginia, Thomas W. Bennett was sociable and deeply religious. He was raised Southern Baptist and while a student at West Virginia University...
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Robert Byrd (category 20th-century West Virginia politicians)
politician and musician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd...
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Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia; deactivated in 2021 The original SEAL Teams were separated between West Coast (Team One) and East Coast (Team...
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M1 Garand (redirect from M1C Sniper Rifle)
the finger. Most variants of the Garand, save the sniper variants, never saw active duty. The sniper versions were modified to accept scope mounts, and...
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Outlaws MC criminal allegations and incidents (category Gangs in Virginia)
police seize a large quantity of drugs as well as weapons, including two sniper rifles. Police stated the results of the raid showed that the Outlaws and...
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