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    7 dead, including gunman, in shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple

    Aug 05, 2012

    7 dead, including gunman, in shooting at Wis. Sikh temple

    By Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY Updated 27m ago

    Police and fire departments are handling a shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., south of Milwaukee, where at least seven people, including the gunman, are dead, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and other news organizations. At least three people, including a police officer who exchanged shots with the suspect, have been injured and taken to a hospital.

    Update at 3:30 p.m. ET:

    The shooter was a white male in his 30s, Ven Boba Ri, one of the temple's committee members, tells the Journal-Sentinel.

    "It's pretty much a hate crime," he tells the news organization. "It's not an insider."

    The incident unfolded, Ri told the Journal-Sentinel, after the shooter walked up to a priest who was standing outside and shot him. The shooter then went inside and began firing at others, according to Ri.

    Police so far have not indicated any known motive.

    Update at 3:18 p.m. ET:

    The Indian Embassy reports that it is monitoring the situation and that it is in touch with the National Security Council over the incident, CNN is reporting. President Obama, who the White House reports touched down in Washington via the Marine One helicopter about 40 minutes ago, has been informed of the situation, CNN also reports.

    About an hour ago, a Facebook page encouraging members of the public to pray for the victims of the Sikh temple shooting was launched.

    Update at 2:45 p.m. ET:

    Seven people have died in the shooting incident Sunday at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt tells reporters. One of those was the shooter, he said.

    Wentlandt said that in light of the chaos of the incident, he is acting as public information officer for the Oak Creek Police Department. He called the scene "an ongoing and very fluid situation."

    Four of the deceased are inside the temple and three deceased are outside, including the shooter, he said.

    About 10:25 a.m. CT, Oak Creek police received multiple calls about the shooting. A 20-year law enforcement veteran arrived at the scene and exchanged multiple rounds with the officer, Wentlandt said. The officer was shot multiple times and is in surgery. His condition is not known. The shooter is "down at the scene and is presumed deceased," Wentlandt said.

    Although early reports from witnesses suggested there may have been more than one shooter, Wentlandt said officers had not identified any other gunmen.

    Update at 2:28 p.m. ET:

    The four shot include a police officer, who is expected to survive, and the shooter, police have told TMJ4 in Milwaukee.

    Members of the police SWAT team have begun removing the injured from the temple's prayer room, the Journal-Sentinel reports. Among those shot was Satwant Kaleka, president of the temple, Greenfield (Wis.) Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt told the news organization.

    Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee issued a release at 12:40 p.m. local time indicating that the facility was treating three patients with gunshot wounds. All are male and all are critical, according to the Froedtert statement. One was in surgery, according to the hospital.

    People with family members in the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., wait for more information after a shooting Sunday.
    CAPTIONBy Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

    Original posts by Natalie DiBlasio, USA TODAY:

    At least two people have been wounded in a shooting incident at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., just south of Milwaukee, local police said today.

    In a brief press conference at the scene, Oak Creek police said at least one officer was shot multiple times but was "expected to survive." Police said one suspect was shot and is down. It was not clear how many other people were wounded or if there are other suspects, police said.

    The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that a SWAT team went into the building and brought out an undetermined number of injured people. AP says there are more than a dozen ambulances parked outside the temple, and that police have corralled media and a handful of bystanders to an area near the temple.

    Sikhism is a religion founded in the 15th century by Guru Nanak Dev in the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan. It is among the largest organized religions in the world, with more than 20 million Sikhs worldwide.

    People inside the temple are using cellphones to call people outside, asking for help, says temple committee member Ven Boba Ri, who is outside of the temple, the Journal-Sentinel reports.

    Update at 2:16 p.m.: Lee Biblo, chief medical officer at Froedtert Hospital, tells CNN that the injured are all adults, all male and all in critical condition.

    Update at 1:59 p.m. ET: The police cannot give a victim count or a suspect count.

    A police officer on the scene says that one officer was shot multiple times and one suspect was shot and is down. A police officer will give another update at 1:30 CT.

    Update at 1:51 p.m. ET: Sukhwindar Nagr says he called his brother-in-law's phone and a priest at the temple answered, telling him that his brother-in-law had been shot, along with three priests.

    Nagr says the priest also said women and children were hiding in closets at the temple.

    Update at 1:38 p.m. ET: There are more than a dozen ambulances parked outside the temple, and police have corralled media and a handful of bystanders to an area near the temple, AP reports.

    Update at 1:25 p.m. ET: Two men have been admitted to Froedtert hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. One is in critical condition in the surgical intensive care unit; the other has been sent to an operating room, CNN reports.

    Update at 1:23 p.m. ET: Fran McLaughlin, spokeswoman for the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department, says a call came in at 10:26 a.m. CT. She says officers are at the scene but she has no other information to report, AP reports.

    Update at 1:13 p.m. ET: Two shooters are possibly still inside with children as hostages, according to someone who sent a text message to a Journal Sentinel reporter, the Journal-Sentinel reports.

    CNN is reporting that the shooter is at large.

    Update at 1:07 p.m. ET: Reports of 20 to 30 shot at Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, possible hostages, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

    There are reports that the head priest was locked inside a restroom with a cell phone and said there were as many as 30 victims in temple, the Journal-Sentinel reports.

    As of about noon, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office said it had not been called to the scene.

    Meanwhile, Brookfield police officers were dispatched to the Sikh Temple at 3675 N. Calhoun Road as a precaution in the aftermath of the Oak Creek shooting.

    At least three squads were at the temple in Waukesha County.

    Original post: The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinelis reporting that multiple people, an undetermined number between 8 and 20, have been injured in a shooting incident at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., just south of Milwaukee.

    The shooting took place around 11 a.m. local time at the Sikh Temple, 7512 S. Howell Ave., in Oak Creek.

    Oak Creek police, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies have responded.

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    Wisconsin Sikh temple gunman identified as Wade Michael Page, 40

    Wisconsin Sikh temple gunman identified as Wade Michael Page, 40

    Reuters – 14 mins ago.. .

    OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The man who opened fire at a Sikh temple on Sunday, killing six members of the congregation, was officially identified as Wade Michael Page, 40, a former member of the military, Oak Creek, Wisconsin Police Chief John Edwards said.

    Edwards told a news briefing on Monday that Page was in the military from 1992 to 1998 and was ineligible for reenlistment. Military sources had said earlier on Monday that Page was last stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as a psychological operations specialist and Hawk Missile System repairman.

    Page was shot dead by a police officer after he killed one female and five male members of a Sikh congregation. The victims ranged in age from 39 to 84, Edwards said.

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    Bachmann, Tea Party — Media Rounds Up Suspects in Sikh Temple Shooting
    posted on August 6, 2012 by Tad Cronn


    See the most recent update at the end of this article.

    When a gunman burst into a Milwaukee Sikh temple on Sunday, he killed at least six people and wounded three others, terrorizing a quiet community that had been gathering for weekend religious services.

    Once it was announced that the shooter was a bald white male with tattoos, the liberals’ latest witch hunt began.

    The media picked up on one witness’s comment that the shooting was a hate crime and ran with it.

    On Twitter, messages began flying that blamed conservatives, the Tea Party and Michele Bachmann for the shootings.

    “Michele Bachmann must be so proud of her anti-Muslim sermons. Finally, someone took her message seriously in Wisconsin this morning,” said one Twit named @SaberGato, who used the tagline “TeaPartyIsTheKKK.”

    “Michele Bachmann invents Islamophobic conspiracy and someone shoots up a temple. Is she happy now?” wrote fellow Twit @jc_currin.

    Many in the Twitter set seemed not to realize that Sikhs are not Muslim. Sikhs in fact practice Sikhism, a religion that originated in 15th century Punjab. Sikhs believe in one supreme God, universal brotherhood and the inherent equality of all mankind. They follow the teachings of their gurus.

    Sikhs are almost diametrically removed from Islam, which demands adherents conquer, dominate and kill infidels. However, because the men wear turbans and the women head scarves, they fit into the Hollywood-projected image of what Muslims look like.

    (Bachmann for her part ignored the latest frame job and tweeted her prayers for the victims of the shooter.)

    When the FBI took over the case and labeled it an investigation of “domestic terrorism,” it was plain where the narrative was going.

    Despite the investigators keeping mum about the suspect’s identity, ABC reported “sources” attributing the killings to a “white supremacist” or “skinhead.”

    Fox reported “sources” that said the suspect had military training.

    Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, the federal government has been looking for home-grown, right-wing, preferably Christian, terrorists to fight. In April 2009, just a few months into Obama’s term, DHS issued a report warning about “rising right-wing extremism,” even though there were no such incidents at the time. The report stirred up a lot of controversy for labeling military veterans as potential terrorists.

    More recently, in July, a DHS study labeled people who are suspicious of centralized government and who are “reverent of individual liberty” as potential terrorists.

    With every mass shooting during the Obama years, the media have been quick to jump for any sort of a Tea Party, Christian or conservative connection.

    The shooting Sunday presents another opportunity.

    Because of the dumbing down of our education system and the general lack of knowledge of history on the part of the public, the average American these days seems to equate Nazis, the KKK and racism with conservative Christians, despite the glaring oxymoron and the historical fact that the Nazis and KKK were products of the Left, which to this day is obsessed with dividing Americans by race.

    At first blush, the description of the Sikh temple shooter sounds like the Left may have finally hit the jackpot, a bald white male with tattoos. If one or more tattoos turns out to be a white power slogan or a swastika, then it will be off to the races for the media and the Democratic Party.

    The story line will be that the shooter was a right-wing extremist Islamophobe, because the Left can’t tell the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim, and it thinks we can’t either. Count on multiple calls for new gun restrictions.

    The shooter also clearly wasn’t a Christian no matter what he may have called himself in life, but if he ever so much as set foot on church property, count on Christians’ good name being dragged through the mud again.

    Reasonable people won’t fall for it, and some of those who do will eventually realize the truth, but among the dim lights of the Left, the story will likely take root.

    Here we go again.

    ———————

    Update, Aug. 6, 9 a.m. Pacific time — The story is unfolding as expected. The suspect has been identified as 40-year-old Army veteran Wade Michael Page, a former psychological operations specialist. (Interesting how our recent shooters had jobs that involve messing with people’s brains.)

    Page is being described by the Left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center as a “frustrated neo-Nazi” with a 9-11 tattoo, who was in a racist metal band.

    On cue, the chairman of the 1,295-member U.S. Conference of Mayors, named Michael Nutter (what are the odds?), called for more gun laws to stop the violence. Perhaps someone should point out to Nutter that the violence was already stopped by a police officer with a gun.

    On social media, the Twits were at it, blaming everybody on the Right from Michele Bachmann to Fox News for the shootings.

    “It may be time for Fed law enforcement to look at those who may use speech to incite violence, ie, Michele Bachmann, Limbaugh, Fox, Beck,” wrote Twitter user @Voter99percent.

    Read more: Bachmann, Tea Party -- Media Rounds Up Suspects in Sikh Temple Shooting - Godfather Politics



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    Wisconsin Sikh temple gunman had 'white power links'

    6 August 2012 Last updated at 13:55 ET

    Wisconsin Sikh temple gunman had 'white power links'

    Wade Michael Page was discharged from the US Army after demotion

    US authorities have said they are investigating reports that a gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin had white supremacist links.

    Wade Michael Page, 40, who was gunned down by police during the attack near Milwaukee, reportedly performed in a far-right music group.

    Five men and a woman died in the shooting. Three others including a policeman remain in critical condition.

    The FBI is treating the attack as a possible domestic terrorism case.

    Police chief John Edwards said they believe Page was the only shooter.

    'Frustrated neo-Nazi'

    American Sikhs have reported being targeted since the 9/11 attacks, because they are mistaken for Muslims as a result of wearing turbans and beards.

    The six fatalities in Sunday morning's attack at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin were aged between 39 and 84.

    Four people were found dead inside the building, and two outside. Page was also killed outside the temple.

    Chief Edwards said police officer Lieutenant Brian Murphy, 51, had been tending to a victim at the scene when he was "ambushed" by the gunman.

    The faith has about 27m followers worldwide. There are up to 500,000 Sikhs in the US, where they have sometimes been confused with Muslims
    In Sept 2001, an Arizona gas station owner, Balbir Singh Sodhi, was shot dead by a man said to be seeking revenge on Muslims for 9/11

    Lt Murphy was shot eight or nine times at "very close range", but was expected to recover.

    Page also fired at a police car and ignored orders to drop his weapon, before he was shot dead by police.

    A civil rights group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, has described Page as a "frustrated neo-Nazi".

    The organisation said that in 2010, Page told a white supremacist website that he had been part of the white-power music scene since 2000.

    He left his native Colorado and joined a skinhead band, End Apathy, in 2005, the civil rights organisation said.


    Page also tried to buy goods from the National Alliance in 2000, a US neo-Nazi organisation, reports Reuters news agency.

    'Patterns of misconduct'

    He opened fire in the temple in Oak Creek as dozens of people were preparing for a service.

    Sikhs living in the United States express their shock at the shooting in Wisconsin

    Page used a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, which was recovered at the scene and had been bought legally, authorities said.

    US officials said Page was a former US Army member who was discharged for "patterns of misconduct" after being reduced in rank from sergeant to specialist. He was declared ineligible to re-enlist.

    He was reportedly disciplined in June 1998 for being drunk on duty.

    A former psychological operations specialist and a Hawk Missile System repairman, he served in the US Army between April 1992 and October 1998, ending his career at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

    On Sunday night, the authorities searched Page's house in the town of Cudahy, a few miles from the temple.

    The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek was founded in 1997 and is said to have a congregation of about 400 worshippers.

    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is himself a Sikh, spoke of his shock on Monday at the shooting.

    Sikh activists in India have protested over the shootings
    "That this senseless act of violence should be targeted at a place of religious worship is particularly painful," Mr Singh said.

    Dozens of Sikhs have protested over the shootings in the Indian cities of New Delhi and Jammu.

    Police in New York and Chicago said they had taken additional measures to monitor Sikh temples in those cities.

    Wisconsin, which passed a law in 2011 allowing citizens to carry a concealed weapon, has some of the most permissive gun laws in the US.

    The shooting follows the massacre of 12 cinema-goers by a gunman in Colorado last month.

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    Sikh temple shooter: decorated Army veteran on watchlist for 10 years

    Sikh temple shooter: decorated Army veteran on watchlist for 10 years

    Pentagon releases military record of Wade Michael Page, a decorated Army veteran killed in a shootout with police, but is not commenting on renewed concerns about extremists in the US military.

    By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer / August 6, 2012
    The Christian Science Monitor
    Weekly Digital Edition

    A member of a racist skinhead punk band, Mr. Page, who was killed in a shootout with police, had also tried to make purchases from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization, according to Heidi Beirich, director of the the Intelligence Program at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

    "We've been tracking him for more than a decade," says Ms. Beirich.


    RELATED: 5 things to know about Sikhism

    The SPLC has long warned of the dangerous ties between white supremacist groups and the US military. "We know there have been a lot of white supremacists in the military," Beirich adds.

    The problem was a source of particular concern for the SPLC in mid-2000s, when the civil rights group warned the US military about a spate of extremist activity among US forces in 2006. At that time, the Pentagon "steadfastly denied that a problem existed and insisted that its ‘zero tolerance’ policy was sufficient to keep organized racists out of its ranks,” according to the SPLC.

    The problem was that while the US military had banned “active participation” in extremist groups, it did not specify prohibitions against, for example, posting to white supremacist social media pages.

    In November 2009, the US military changed its policy to specify that service members “must not actively advocate supremacist doctrine, ideology or causes” or “otherwise advance efforts to deprive individuals of their civil rights.”

    The new rules further specified, according to the SPLC, that active participation included recruiting, fundraising, training, or distributing supremacist material, including online posts.

    Three years earlier, in 2006, the SPLC had published “A few Bad Men,” a report noting that “large numbers” of neo-Nazi skinheads were joining the armed forces “to acquire combat and weapons training--skills that could be used to commit terrorist acts against targets in the US.”

    As evidence of the danger these groups pose, the SPLC noted in a report noted that Matt Buschbacher, a Navy SEAL, attended a 2002 conference of the National Alliance. The group’s late leader was the author of the Turner Diaries, the race war novel used by Timothy McVeigh as the blueprint for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

    Though the SPLC alerted military officials to Buschbacher’s activities, “he was allowed to complete his tour of duty in Iraq and even given an honorable discharge,” according to the SPLC.

    Page served as a psychological operations specialist in the US Army from April 1992 to October 1998. Before he left the Army at the rank of Specialist, he had received five Army Achievement Medals, two Army Good Conduct medals, and an Army Commendation Medal.

    White Supremacist groups including the National Alliance continue to have active “outreach programs” to recruit members of the US military into their organizations, says Beirich.

    “They have literally reached out to people from the military to come work for them,” Beirich adds, noting that the groups prize the fighting and training expertise that potential recruits develop in the US military.

    “It is a really scary problem,” she says. “We know this stuff goes on.”

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