Mohammed Taheriazar entered a guilty plea on nine counts of attempted murder. He was charged with nine counts each of attempted murder and nine counts of felonious assault following the attack on March 6, 2006 in which he drove his SUV through the crowds on the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus. It's nice to see the headline convey all the needed details. The prosecutors dropped the assault charges as part of the plea deal.
Sadly, some media outlets still prefer obfuscating those details (including the aforementioned News and Observer piece). Taheriazar admitted that the reason he attacked was to avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world. Too bad he failed to note that the culprits in most of those attacks on Muslims were their fellow Muslims who considered the victims to be inferior or not sufficiently Islamist enough for their liking.
The judge separated the guilty pleas from the sentencing because of the repeated bizarre antics Taheriazar exhibited in court. Sentencing will be August 26.
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