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Colo. Gunman May Have Had Web Page

By CHRIS ALLBRITTON
.c The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- The FBI intends to serve search warrants on America Online
to gather information on Web sites and member profiles relating to the
shooting at Columbine High School.

One of the suspected gunmen, Eric Harris, is believed to have had a Web site
filled with apocalyptic imagery, apparent bomb diagrams and song lyrics such
as ``WHAT I DON'T LIKE I WASTE.''

Denver Division spokesman for the bureau, Gary Gomez, said the FBI would
present the warrants as early as today.

Using the America Online screen name ``rebdomine'' -- possibly a word play on
the school mascot, the Rebel -- Harris apparently titled his Web page ``REB's
words of wisdom, if you don't like it, ill kill you'' and packed it with
drawings of devils, guns and pyres of skulls.

The site featured verses like: ``WHAT I DON'T SAY I DON'T DO.'' ``WHAT I
DON'T DO I DON'T LIKE.'' ``WHAT I DON'T LIKE I WASTE.''

Those lyrics and others quoted on the Web page are from various songs by the
German industrial rock band KMFDM. On its Web site, the band expressed
sympathy for the victims of the shooting.

``We are sick and appalled, as is the rest of the nation, by what took place
in Colorado yesterday,'' said Sascha K., founder of KMFDM.

At the bottom of the AOL page, Harris listed his favorite chat room: ``ich
bin ein auslander,'' pidgin German for ``I am an outsider.''

AOL spokeswoman Kim McCreery said she couldn't comment on whether this was,
in fact, Harris' account. Any content considered relevant to the school
shooting was taken down and preserved for the FBI, she said.

``Our policy in a criminal investigation is to comply with a subpoena or
search warrant as quickly as we can get the information together,'' McCreery
said. ``We'll cooperate with authorities and do what we can.''

Harris also apparently had a member profile on AOL, a self-written
description of an account holder's interests. Profiles thought to belong to
the other gunman, Dylan Klebold, also were apparently taken down.

``At this point we have no clear evidence that the people who were directly
involved posted any kind of warnings,'' McCreery said Wednesday.

Harris' alleged page was copied and posted at another Web site before it was
taken down.

While there is no way to absolutely prove these are Web pages created by
Harris, there are indications they are real.

The page included a Microsoft Word document with instructions on making
pipebombs. Microsoft Word automatically inserts the author's name in the code
of the document, which often can be read when the document is converted to
plain text.

The name listed was Wayne N. Harris, who is the father of Eric Harris,
according to the Denver Post.

The copied page could also traced back to a site called ``The Floating
Pancreas,'' another site filled with death imagery. The Floating Pancreas
listed a profile of a member going by the name ``NiggerRip'' and listing his
e-mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and included a Web page pointing back to
rebdomine's original AOL address.

The profile was created in February 1998.

Another AOL spokeswoman, Tricia Primrose, noted that hoaxes are common after
big news events. It is relatively easy to perpetrate an Internet hoax because
of free e-mail services and trial accounts on providers like AOL.

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