(forward - teen had sympathy for Osama)
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Sunday January 6 4:50 PM ET
Teen Pilot in Tampa Crash Had 'Sympathy' for Osama
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Police said on Sunday the lone 15-year-old pilot who
stole a small private plane on Saturday and crashed it into a high-rise
office block in Tampa was a ''troubled'' youth who expressed sympathy for
Osama bin Laden in an apparent suicide note.
Tampa Police Chief Bennie Holder said the note was found on the body of
Charles Bishop, who was the only person killed in Saturday's incident. ``I
would characterize it as a suicide note,'' Holder told reporters in Tampa,
adding he did not view Bishop's flight as an act of terrorism.
He said Bishop's note clearly stated that he had acted alone without any
help from anyone else, and added that authorities saw no evidence he had
support from anyone else.
But Holder said that in the note Bishop expressed sympathy for bin Laden,
the Saudi-born militant the United States holds responsible for the Sept. 11
airborne assaults on New York and Washington in which 3,000 people were
killed. Holder declined to give details of the note, but said that in it,
Bishop ''expressed support for what happened on 9-11'' -- Sept. 11.
``The young man Charles Bishop is best described as a young man who had very
few friends and was very much a loner ... a troubled young man,'' Holder
said of the youth. Bishop turned up for a flight lesson at a nearby airport
on Saturday afternoon and then took off in a single-engine Cessna 172
without his flight instructor or airport clearance, flying for about 10
minutes before crashing into the 28th floor of the 42-storey Bank of America
building in downtown Tampa.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020106/ts/crash_plane_dc_14.html
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