Relief as sniper suspects held in police swoop

By James Bob Caldwell IT now seems clear that what motivated John Muhammad, and Lee Boyd Malvo was money - $10m (€10.2m) in fact.

After September 11 and the anthrax attacks, there had been speculation that terrorists were behind the wave of sniper attacks which killed 10 people in the past few weeks.

However, a letter found in a park adjacent to the scene of the tenth and final killing, threatened further violence and demanded that $10m be wired to a domestic bank account.