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One of Malvo's drawings
Hoping to shed light on what they believe was an insane mind, defense attorneys for sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo presented a judge yesterday with dozens of sketches that the teen-ager scribbled in his jail cell while awaiting trial for last fall's sniper attacks — crimes that Malvo depicted in his art as 'jihad' in America.
This from the Baltimore Sun.
Filled with rambling anti-American messages and hand-drawn images of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and a mix of characters from The Matrix movie, the drawings offer an eerie glimpse of Malvo and the possible motivation behind the sniper siege that spread terror around the nation's capital."I would take you out at your dinner table. ... You will not escape, America. Not now, not ever," Malvo wrote on one sketch, which shows the cross hairs of a rifle superimposed over a police officer. Another sketch shows cross hairs aiming at the White House. . . .
While the letters and drawings express a wide range of militant sentiments, the most recurring theme is that of jihad - or holy war - against America.
"We did not start this flame, we merely picked up the torch," he wrote on the drawing showing bin Laden near a police officer in a rifle's sights. "Ye shall all die! Every last one." . . .
And another: "I have been accused on my mission. Allah knows I'm gonna suffer now."
Posted by Robert at December 4, 2003 8:33 AM
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Somehow I think this will backfire with the jury, if not with the public.
Malvo, as apparent from the picture, is not insane in a way that would earn a trip to the sanitarium. The disease he suffers is a spiritual illness, not a mental one.
That's the illness of Islamic fanaticism combined with a fatal dose of anti-Americanism.
Posted by: Steven P. Cornett at December 4, 2003 7:16 PMExecute him, why do we need a jury of like minded people. If that was the case they all be jihadist. I do not want him lock up for life. He might have chance of early release on good behavior. Also, he will spread his anti-american, jihadist views.
Posted by: Jason Lantz at December 4, 2003 9:09 PM
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