'This decision was yours. You forced me into a corner'
AS soon as he had shot dead his first victims at 7.15am - and two hours before the massacre of 30 more at Virginia Tech - Cho Seung-Hui calmly ran a diabolical errand.
Leaving the bodies of Emily Hilscher and Ryan Clark, he returned to his room a short walk away. Once there, he stared into a camcorder to record the last of the QuickTime video clips that the world would watch in stunned horror 48 hours later, and downloaded all 27 files - 10 minutes of enraged and expletive-filled rantings against the rich and powerful - on to a DVD.
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