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Presents pictures and descriptions of people who were prominent in the news in 2002. Consideration of Tommy Franks, the officer in charge at the U.S. Central Command in Afghanistan; Leadership of police chief Charles Moose in the investigation of the Washington D.C. sniper attacks; Role of Hans Blix, the chief inspector who leads the United Nations weapons inspection team in Iraq; Others.

Profiles John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, the men who allegedly shot thirteen people in the sniper attacks in the Washington D.C. area. How the criminals converted a Chevy Caprice as a killing machine; Role of police chief Charles Moose from Montgomery County, Maryland in the media coverage; How Muhammed was stationed at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington; Investigation conducted by police in Maryland; Views from criminal psychiatrists about the case; Significance of a murder and robbery in Montgomery, Alabama.

Looks at how authorities tracked down and arrested alleged snipers John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. The killing spree in suburban Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia; The history and pathologies of Muhammad and Malvo; How they transformed their car into a killing chamber; Attempts by criminologists to explain the crime in light of past serial killers; Frustrations of Police Chief Charles Moose; Phone calls made by the snipers; Muhammad's .223-caliber Bushmaster assault rifle; Uncertainty of motive.

Focuses on the hunt for the sniper in the Maryland area who shot ten people seemingly at random. Efforts of police, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, prosecutors and forensics experts to capture the killer; Scarcity of evidence in the investigation; Attempts to trap the shooter on the highway; Fears of residents; Theories; Chronological account of the murders; The victims; Search for patterns and clues; Views of personality profilers; Role of Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose.

Focuses on the sniper who has terrorized the suburbs of Washington, D.C during fall 2002. Details of the shootings; Randomness of the victims' selection; Panic of residents; Efforts to understand the psychology of the serial killer; Outlook for the investigation.

Reports on efforts by police in the Washington D.C. area to catch a serial sniper. Description of the first shot fired by the sniper at a Michaels craft store in Aspen Hill, Maryland; Randomness of the crimes; Number of officials who work on the case, including from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms units; Use of software by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to create animated displays that reconstruct the crime scenes; Community reactions; Description of the crimes; Geographic profiling. INSETS: HUMAN TARGETS;SUSPECT VEHICLE.

Discusses how John Lee Malvo will be tried as an adult on charges that he helped murder fourteen people in the Washington D.C. criminal sniper case. His relationship with John Muhammed, his accomplice in the crimes; Consideration of how Malvo could face the death penalty for his role in the sniper shootings; Speculation about his confessions that on several occasions he was the triggerman; How Malvo was abandoned by his father as a young boy.

Includes letters to 'Newsweek' from readers about a variety of topics. Opinions about the criminal sniper in the Washington, D.C. area; Response to an article by Fareed Zakaria in the October 21, 2001 issue of 'Newsweek'; Public schools in the U.S.; Economic gaps in Latin America; Others.

Reports on the efforts of the law-enforcement authorities to find the sniper who has killed numerous people in the Washington D.C. area. Investigation of a white box truck near Dulles airport in Virginia; Speculation that the sniper is working for terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda; Role of the media in the coverage of the activities of the sniper.

The article focuses on the need for public utilities to enhance their physical security to deter future attacks. Topics discussed include the sniper attack at a California electrical substation in April 2013 and a directed issued by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Information is also presented on the CIP-014 standard.

The article focuses on military training operations conducted by soldiers from Bravo, Alpha, Delta, and Charlie Companies of the 413th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 95th Training Division, and 2nd Brigade at the Bellows Air Station, Honolulu, Hawaii. It mentions that the soldiers went to Bellows and undergo briefing on their mission plan before training operation. It says that they tested land navigation, assaulting insurgent headquarter, and practice on reacting with sniper fire and roadside bombs.

Profiles African American Charles Moose, Montgomery County, Maryland police chief, who headed the sniper case in Washington D.C. Impact of the case on his health; Career in law enforcement; Views on the sniper case.

Focuses on the role of the Montgomery County Department of Technology Services in ending the area sniper case in Washington, D.C. in October 3, 2002. Advantage of good police work and information technology; Flaws in the technology infrastructure used by police officers in their search for the snipers; Involvement of the Montgomery County emergency communications center in the case. INSETS: Planning ahead;Good government.

Deals with issues related to profilers and news media coverage of the sniper shootings in Washington, D.C. in October 2002. Background on profilers; Accuracy of speculations on the identity of the suspects; Implications of erroneous speculations; Views of cable news executives on their reliance on profilers and crime experts. INSET: What They Said.

Presents an article about the media coverage of the pursuit of suspects in the Washington, D.C. sniper shootings in October 2002. Reaction of Montgomery County, Maryland Police Chief Charles Moose to press releases related to the incidents; Relationship between cops and reporters; Impact of press releases on police investigations.

Profiles the two suspects in the criminal sniper case in the Washington D.C. area, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. Relationship between the two men; Views from criminologist James Alan Fox; How Muhammad needed control in his life; Consideration of how Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam; Evidence that Malvo entered the U.S. illegally.

Profiles John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, who allegedly killed 10 people in the Washington D.C. area during the fall of 2002. Efforts made by Muhammad to portray his relationship with Malvo as that of father and son; Capture of the pair in a parking lot outside Washington state; Biographical information; Speculation as to the alleged shooters' motives. INSET: The Malvo Connection.

Discusses the shootings by a criminal sniper in the Washington, D.C. area. Description of the attack on a 13-year-old at the Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland; Efforts to find the sniper; Description of the victims, including program analyst Jim Martin, landscaper James 'Sonny' Buchanan, cab driver Premkumar Walekar, Salvadoran immigrant Sarah Ramos, nanny Lori Lewis Rivera, retired carpenter Pascal Charlot, and an unidentified woman at a Michaels crafts store near Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Solving a case like the October 2002 sniper shootings around Washington, D.C., hinges heavily on firearms identification. How do examiners match evidence to a gun? If a gun is recovered, a forensic scientist test-fires it to determine the markings it leaves on bullets and cartridge casings. The examiner then compares these under a microscope with the caliber (diameter), rifling pattern (series of grooves), and impressions and striations (microscopic marks left by unique imperfections in a gun's firing pin and barrel) on the bullets and casings found at the crime scene. If test-fires don't match, or if no gun is found, the examiner will measure the rifling patterns on the recovered ammunition and compare them with the General Rifling Characteristics database to see which gun models might match. The problem in some cases, however, is that "20 to 150 brands of firearms could leave the same rifling pattern," says Scott Doyle, forensic specialist for the Kentucky State Police in Louisville.If the examiner needs to go to the next level, he can take photographs of the impressions and striations and send them online to the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), overseen by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sniper shootings have raised debate over whether the ATF should turn NIBIN into a national ballistic-fingerprint system. Firearms manufacturers would be required to test-fire every new gun and enter images into NIBIN. The system would help but would not be a panacea. The marks from a gun can change if the barrel rusts over time; criminals can tamper with the barrel, too, says Robert Shem, chief examiner for the Alaska Crime Lab in Anchorage. "You will always need a human expert, comparing evidence under a microscope, to say 'Yes, this bullet came from that gun."

Offers world news briefs for November 18, 2002. Idea that the laptop computer used by Washington, D.C. area sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo contains incriminating evidence; Number of terrorist threats the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation received since the September 11 attacks; Outlook for France to agree on the U.S. resolution for Iraq; Others.

Reports on the sniper shootings in Maryland and the suspects, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. Indication that there is a witness in the shooting of Benny Oberoi in Silver Spring, who saw a Chevrolet Caprice automobile; Investigation into the killings, including that of Paul LaRuffa in Clinton, which occurred near the home of Muhammad's ex-wife Mildred; Background on Muhammad, who abducted his children during a custody battle, and a possible link to terrorism.

Presents pictures and information about the victims who were killed or injured by the criminal sniper in Washington, D.C. Deaths of James Martin and Sarah Ramos; Others.

Traces the journeys of John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, the two men suspected to be the criminal snipers who shot thirteen people in the Washington D.C. area. How Muhammad illegally obtained the rifle in Tacoma, Washington; Involvement of the two men in a liquor store shooting in Montgomery, Alabama; Consideration that Muhammad was stationed at Fort Lewis in Tacoma.

Presents information about the evidence gathered from the case of the criminal snipers in the Washington, D.C area. Speculation that a Chevy Caprice was converted into a mobile killing machine; Recovery of a bullet casing at one of the crime scenes; Research from the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms about the recovered bullets.

Presents a timeline of the alleged snipers John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. Their troubled past; Their journey across the U.S.; The clues that led to their arrest in Frederick, Maryland on October 24, 2002.

Presents an overview of the police investigation into the sniper who wounded two and killed eight persons in the Washington, D.C. area. Type of bullet and rifle thought to have been used in the attacks; Use of bullet casings to identify the weapon; Chronological account of the attacks; Method of geographic profiling to narrow down the criminal's base of operations; How the rifle works; Possible use of a scope.

Presents the short story `Blue Sky Blue,' by Miles Wilson about a university professor who successfully ends the shooting spree of a mad sniper on a tower above school grounds.

Presents the efforts of the Suffolk County Police Department in Suffolk County, New York State in solving a sniper serial case in their jurisdiction. Strategies implemented by each division of the agency to solve the sniper problem; Increasing patrol activity; Information gathering by the detective division; Support services; Investigation of sniper attacks; Arrest and conviction of the sniper.

The article focuses on the investigation of the killings at Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge in New Orleans, Louisiana. It states that the violence resulted to the death of three people and four wounded policemen who were all white. It says that the person responsible for the incident is Mark James Robert Essex who was a black trainee for hard-core unemployed that was shot with more than 100 slugs. It adds that Essex's mother believes that the attitude of his son was driven by racism.

The article focuses on Ranger Alexandra Steven Burke of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, who received the prestigious Top Cop award from the National Association of Police Organizations for responding a sniper incident in Glasgow, Montana on January 17, 2009. It states that Burke will be honored as the April 2012 officer of the month by the National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial Fund (NLEOMF). It says that Burke was a member of the Natural Resources Police Training program class 501.

Discusses John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, the alleged snipers in the Washington, D.C. area. Biographical information; Efforts of investigators to understand how Muhammad became a mass murderer; How Muhammad called a priest to pass on information; Murder committed by the pair in Montgomery, Alabama; Sense of fear that Muhammad struck into the suburbs of Washington; Randomness of the shootings; Efforts of the pair to contact police; Clues at the crime scenes; Arrest and capture.

Discusses the social atmosphere in Kensington, Maryland, which is where a serial sniper killed his fifth victim, a woman at a gas station. Statements from residents who are scared to go shopping; Description of other victims; How people have transformed the way they run their lives; Lack of pedestrians on the streets; Security at an elementary school; Decline of business at retail establishments.

The article discusses the October 2002 sniper shootings in Washington, D.C. The author discusses the purported reasons for the murders perpetrated by the two convicted snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. The article describes the November 10, 2009 execution of Muhammad at a Virginia prison and the reaction of some of the relatives of Muhammad's victims.

The author comments on the trial of Washington, D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad. The convicted sniper, sentenced to death for a murder in a killing spree that left 10 dead, is now on trial in Maryland. Taking the stand, Lee Boyd Malvo, Muhammad's accomplice, expressed resentment against Muhammad. Malvo hopes that testifying against Muhammad will help victims' families. Malvo's lawyers were worried at first that he was too deluded to stand trial. Determined to confront Muhammad in court to demonstrate his independence, Malvo was wary of Muhammad's emotional hold on him.

Presents notable people in 2003. Conviction of Lee Boyd Malvo for his three week sniper spree last fall in the Washington D.C. area; Recovery of Secretary of State Colin Powell after an operation to remove a cancerous prostate; Death of Hall of Fame Cleveland Brown quarterback Otto Graham; Other notable people.

Focuses on Ohio Republican Senator Mike DeWine, who is pushing for ballistic fingerprinting, a forensic technique the National Rifle Association (NRA) strongly opposes. Hunt for a sniper in Ohio; comments of DeWine, who is co-sponsoring a bill with Wisconsin Democratic Senator Herb Kohl to require gun manufacturers to keep a fingerprint signature on file for police; Advantages of such a database; Why the NRA is against the database.

Discusses the recent shootings along Ohio Interstate 270 in a semirural community of cornfields and strip malls. Connections between fourteen recent shootings in the area starting in May; The death of Gail Knisley, a passenger in a car; One incident in which a nearby school was hit causing children to be fearful; Activities of law enforcement agencies which include local police, ATF specialists and the FBI.

Reports on important life events, and deaths, of selected Americans. Pronouncement of the death sentence for John Allen Muhammad, convicted in the first trial resulting from last fall's Washington D.C. area sniper killings; Death of scholar and critic Hugh Kenner; Death of baseball pitcher Warren Spahn; Others.

Focuses on the defense of Lee Boyd Malvo who goes on trial this week in Chesapeake, Va. for his alleged role in the sniper shootings in October 2002 which killed 10 people in the Washington, D. C. area. His relationship with John Allen Muhammad, who is accused of being the mastermind of the shootings; Malvo's lawyers pursuit of an insanity defense; Issue of Malvo being a juvenile when the crimes were committed; The murder of Linda Franklin, that Malvo is charged with; The challenge of getting the death penalty; Defense argument that Muhammad controlled Malvo and indoctrinated him; The standard that must be met by the defense argument; Speculation that Fairfax County prosecutor Robert F. Horan Jr. will argue that Malvo knew what he was doing; Discussion of whether the insanity defense can be successful.

Discusses the trial against accused sniper John Allen Muhammad. Shooting spree that terrorized the Washington D.C. region; Expectation of his trial lasting six weeks; Deaths he is charged with; Strong evidence against Muhammad and his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo;.

Reports on the impact of three fatal sniper shootings in West Virginia. Background on the killings in Kanawha county which began on August 10, 2003; Victims of the sniper who were shot at convenience stores and a gas station; Indication that the shootings came from the same rifle; Investigation by a law enforcement task force that includes the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Speculation that the murders are drug-related.