It was reportedly scrawled in red ink on the arm of the Virginia Tech gunman after his shooting rampage that left him and 32 others dead. It was written on an overnight postage Seung-Hui Cho sent between the two shootings. And a variation of it appeared on a file contained in the package sent to NBC that included Cho's rambling, hate-filled video, incoherent written messages and photos.
While there's no clear explanation of its meaning, the Internet is abuzz with speculation about the meaning of the phrase "Ismail Ax" on Cho's arm, "A. Ishmael" on the package and "axishmiel" on the file.
Bloggers and online discussions offer theories on what the words might mean. They have created anagrams, cited poems, books and religious teachings, and floated the suggestion that the phrase was simply 23-year-old English major's name for himself.
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any guesses what it might mean?
it sounds to me like something out of an RPG game o_O
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there goes my theory :S
http://www.gwn.com/news/
story.php/id/12287/
No_Games_Found_in_Shooters_
Dorm_at_Virginia_Tech.html
one of the characters in the book called Moby Dick is called Ishmael.
yup that's true .. that's one of the theories presented in the article .. click on the continue reading link if you're interested :)
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