Pentagon gunman was 9/11 swindling idealist behaving alone, contend officials World headlines

A gunman shot dual Pentagon military officers at a security check outward the construction in Arlington, Virginia. John Patrick Bedell died in sanatorium after officers returned fire. Photograph: Mike Theiler/EPA

The gunman killed in an dispute on the Pentagon last night was behaving alone and was not continuous to any militant plot, officials pronounced as reports emerged that he was a 9/11 swindling idealist who grew pot at his home.

John Patrick Bedell, 36, from California, wrote on the internet about supervision conspiracies in the eleven Sep 2001 militant attacks, "institutionalised assault of government" and alternative theories.

According to media reports, Bedell was arrested in 2006 when military detected a large series of pot plants at his California home.

Yesterday evening, according to officials, Bedell approached a bustling opening to the Pentagon, one of the majority heavily rhythmical buildings in the world. Wearing a fit and ease in demeanour, he reached in to his coupler as if to lift out his marker card, but drew out a 9mm pistol and non-stop fire.

Two officers were shot, one in the leg, an additional in the shoulder, and they and a third military officer non-stop fire. Bedell was struck in the head and died after in hospital.

Surveillance video confirms Bedell acted alone, the Pentagon military chief, Richard Keevill, pronounced today.

"There is no denote at this point that there is any made at home or general militant sequence to this is at all," he told reporters, describing Bedell as "a singular particular who had issues".

Keevill pronounced Bedell, a well-educated program developer, had driven from California, and in his vehicle, found by military nearby the Pentagon, investigators detected some-more ammunition.

Keevill declined to assume about a motive, but in internet papers Bedell rants about skill rights and his speculation that a rapist organization has taken over the US government.

"This organisation, similar to so most ruthless governments via history, would see the scapegoat of thousands of the citizens, in an eventuality such as the Sep eleven attacks, as a small cost in sequence to continue the barbarous control," he wrote in a post in 2006.

"This pick up of gangsters would find it in their seductiveness to sustain dispute and beginner wars via the world, in sequence to obstruct courtesy from their bungle and criminality. The loyal inlet of such a system of administration would find the clearest countenance in the eerie assault now ongoing in Iraq."

The sharpened came 3 weeks after Joseph Stack, a discontented program operative with clever anti-tax leanings, flew his craft in to an bureau of the US taxation management in Texas. Stack and an worker of the IRS were killed.