The Smoking Gun

Posting rages at IRS, claims, “I have had all I can stand”

FEBRUARY 18–The man suspected of intentionally crashing an airplane into a Texas office building today appears to have posted a lengthy online diatribe attacking the Internal Revenue Service and declaring that, “I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand.” The manifesto, which you’ll find below, is dated “2/18/10” and is signed “Joe Stack (1956-2010).” Andrew Joseph Stack, 53, has been identified as the man who flew a small plane into an Austin building housing IRS offices. The statement was uploaded to the front page of a web site that was registered in 2003 by a Joe Stack, who listed an address in San Marcos, Texas, which is about 35 miles south of Austin. The online posting is titled “Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man… take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”

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Democracy NOW!
10 February 2010

In Iraq, the US military has freed an imprisoned Iraqi journalist after almost a year and a half behind bars. Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed was seized when US and Iraqi forces raided his home in September 2008. Soldiers took his computer hard drive and cameras and led him away handcuffed and blindfolded. The US held Jassam without charge despite an Iraqi court order for his release. He is one of several Iraqi journalists jailed at length by the US without ever facing charges. Following his release earlier today, Jassam said, “How can I describe my feelings? This is like being born again.”