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Police Destroy Bombs From Discovery Gunman's Home

(Sept. 3) -- Authorities in suburban Washington have found four more explosive devices inside the house where they believe James J. Lee, the suspect in the Discovery Channel hostage situation, lived. A police bomb squad safely detonated the devices. Investigators have also released audio recordings of a SWAT team member...

Gunman Carefully Planned Attack on Discovery Channel

(Sept. 2) -- The attacker who held three employees hostage at the Discovery Communications headquarters before being shot to death by police told an NBC producer during the siege that he had spent about a month planning the attack. "I did a lot of research. I had to experiment," James J. Lee told the producer, according...

Discovery Channel Gunman Took Call From NBC News During Hostage Situation

(Sept. 2) -- Apparently he was not too busy to pick up the phone. In the midst of Wednesday's tense Discovery Channel hostage situation -- during which an armed suspect identified as James J. Lee held three men at the network's Silver Spring, Md., headquarters for several hours before police fatally shot him around 5...

Opinion: It Must Be Al Gore's Fault

(Sept. 1) -- When news reports surfaced that James J. Lee -- the now-dead Discovery network hostage-taking suspect -- had apparently written a rambling, repetitive and just plain crazy manifesto, it wasn't much of a stretch to predict that someone would try to draw a connection between his actions and environmentalists. Or...

Discovery Channel Gunman's YouTube Clip Surfaces

(Sept. 1) -- Was it an anthem or an omen? As details about the life of James J. Lee, the man who was killed by police Wednesday after allegedly taking hostages at a building owned by the Discovery Channel, have continued to surface, a YouTube video that the environmental activist posted in 2008 was uncovered. Set to...

Background on james j lee

The Discovery Communications headquarters hostage crisis occurred on September 1, 2010 at the headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, when 43-year-old James Lee, armed with two starter pistols and an explosive device, took three people hostage in the building's lobby.

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