Enter The Osama bin Laden Question
Suzanne Jovin, Class of 1999, was in her senior year at Yale.
She was politically active and by all accounts, an avid supporter of what might be called 'the Hillarycrat wing' of the Democratic Party. Like other students majoring in political science, she was required to take a Senior Seminar. And as it happened, the lecturer who led her seminar was also the instructor she chose to oversee and grade her senior thesis, something which is required for almost all majors at Yale College. She was one of six seniors which this instructor had on his list for approval.
She was working on her "senior thesis" in the days leading to up her murder, and she had completed a revised draft of this academically important essay earlier in the day of December 4th. Furthermore, she had delivered it to the office of her thesis advisor, James Van De Velde, a lecturer in political science and himself a graduate of Yale College.
The subject of the research report she was doing was one very charismatic Islamic fundamentalist leader -- Osama bin Laden.
Despite the obvious importance of this research paper to possible understandings of her murder, especially after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole and the events of 2001, law enforcement authorities have been adamantly positioned against releasing it to the media or to the general public. Freedom of Information actions to force the New Haven Police Department to release the revised essay have failed on technicalities.
Earlier today, a contact at the New Haven Register, the only daily paper in central southern Connecticut, confirmed for the record that the local office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been almost completely uncooperative with the media. "They tell us nothing, basically," is what this veteran crime reporter said, about their coverage of the Jovin case.
However, a source close to the investigation who is not associated with the Famous But Incompetent ones, recently divulged the following piece of information -- a section of Suzanne Jovin's political sciene essay touched on the subject which has bedevilled investigators into the Al Qaeda's operations on U.S. soil -- that is specifically, the concept that their operatives might obtain crop-duster aircraft for the purpose of a suicide air-crash, or for the purpose of releasing some kind of a toxic chemical cloud over a populated area.
What was it that got Suzanne Jovin killed in 1998 ?? Was it that she was researching Osama bin Laden at all, or that she had somehow managed to 'connect some dots' about what Al Qaeda might want to do at some point in the future ??
The image which displays below shows another view of the intersection of East Rock Road and Edgehill, this part being directly across from the site where she was found bleeding to death.
