One of Taheri-azar's letters explaining how the Qur'an made him want to commit murder

This report makes no mention of Taheri-azar's jihadist motivation, which [1] he himself made abundantly clear. "Driver pleads guilty to attempted murder," by Jesse James DeConto for the [2] Raleigh News & Observer, August 12 (thanks to [3] Paul):

HILLSBOROUGH - Mohammed Taheri-Azar pleaded guilty this morning to nine counts of attempted first-degree murder charges stemming from a March 2006 incident in which he drove a rented SUV into a crowd of people on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.

As part of a plea bargain, prosecutors dropped nine counts of aggravated felonious assault charges.

According to a plea transcript, Superior Court Judge Carl Fox indicated in a pre-trial conference with attorneys that he would be willing to consolidate the nine charges into two attempted murder charges for sentencing purposes.

Taheri-Azar will likely face 21 to 33 years in prison. Fox scheduled his sentencing for Aug. 26 at 9:30 a.m....

Taheri-azar's letters are revealing on many levels. You can read them all in pdf form [4] here, [5] here, [6] here, [7] here, and [8] here.