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The L.A. shooting coverage reports that the subject of a nationwide manhunt, Buford Furrow, materialized yesterday morning unarmed at the FBI's offices in Las Vegas, and surrendered, telling agents he was the shooter (in fact, say the papers, he confessed to murdering children at the center, but none of those shot there have died) and that his purpose in committing the crime was to issue "a wake-up call" for America to start killing Jews.
As newspaper headlines around the world were dominated by the bomb attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, a Monday op-ed piece in Nairobi's Daily Nation called the incident "a wake-up call."
However, the federal government, which has often acted as if federal employees were costs to be cut rather than assets to be valued, has only recently received its wake-up call.
He told investigators "he wanted this to be a wake-up call to America to kill Jews."
In other cases, incidents at other organizations had served as a "wake-up call."