Uploaded September 2010 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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UPDATE: James Jay Lee has been shot and killed by a police sniper. All hostages have been freed and the situation is now resolved. The explosives Lee had strapped to his chest were indeed explosive and did indeed explode although the resulting explosion was described as a "pop" and a little puff of smoke.

Apparently practically all of the links I've provided to the actual source pages are now down or are overrun by crazy amounts of traffic so I will provide a screenshot of some of the original links right above each one...

His myspace page...
i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/ogjimkenobi/lee.jpg
i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/ogjimkenobi/lee2.jpg
myspace.com/worldguardian

His list of demands...

i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/ogjimkenobi/demands.jpg
i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/ogjimkenobi/demands2.jpg
i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/ogjimkenobi/demands2d.jpg

savetheplanetprotest.com

Washington post article...

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/01/AR2010090103911.html?hpid=topnews