European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 22 2007 stars and stripes Page 15 families face funerals amid a tech probe by Allen g Breed the associated press Blacksburg a investigators pressed ahead saturday with their search for Virginia tech shooter seun Hui chos motives even As More of his Vic Tims families prepared for memo rial services authorities sought chos cell phone records on the Chance he warned someone about what would become the nations worst mass shooting in modern history police also continued their Hunt for a connection Between Cho and Emily Hilscher one of the two victims wiled at West am Bler Johnston Hall seeking search warrants for the students Virginia tech email accounts another affidavit sought chos records from the student health Center and police obtained his medical and counselling files the contents of the warrant affidavits were first reported by Abc new com meanwhile friends and rela Tives of Hilscher and Ryan Clark the other student killed at the Donn were to memorialize them saturday at services in Virginia and Georgia services also were set for Reema Samaha one of 30 students Cho killed at Norris Hall a classroom building the family of Cho who commit Ted suicide slipped Back from the spotlight a Day after issuing a pow Erful statement apologizing for his actions Eunkyung Cho said she and her parents Are living a night Mare we Are humbled by this dark Ness she wrote in a statement is sued Friday to the associated press it was the chos first Public com ment since mondays massacre i actually feel sympathy to wards their family said Virginia tech freshman Andrea Hacker 19 a lot of people Are probably looking Down on them now but they have no reason to if s got to be tragic for them As Well there going through just As much grief As we Are plus the added pressure of having a brother do this the family statement was is sued during a statewide Day of mourning for the victims silence fell across 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dead it was written on an overnight mailing seun Hui Cho sent be tween the two shootings and a variation of it appeared on a file contained in the package sent to Abc television that included chos rambling hat filled video incoherent written messages and photos while there is no Clear explanation of its meaning the internet is Abuzz with speculation about the meaning of the phrase Ismail a on chos Arm a Ishmael on the package and a Ishmiel on the file bloggers and online discus Sions offer theories on what the words might mean they have created anagrams cited poems books and religious teachings and floated the suggestion that the phrase was simply the 23yearold English students name for himself the most prominent discussions involve references to Muslim religious texts in which god asks Abra Ham to slay his son Ishmael in order to prove his loyalty to him but making that link is not intellectually honest Given chos background said Omid Safi a pro Fessor of islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill if you watch the video from the shooter he very specifically talks about himself in Christian terms Safi said adding that chos references to Jesus Christ and being impaled upon a Cross Are not words any Muslim would Ever use Cho a sullen loner who often re fused attempts to communicate with others used the religious references to blame his actions on those who had bullied him grow ing up speculated Thomas c Brown founder of the broken toy project an anti bullying awareness
