Haunting messages snatched from gunman's safe - NYPOST.com

Image by SearchNetMedia via FlickrHaunting messages snatched from gunman's safe - NYPOST.com

The crackpot gunman charged in the frenzied ambush of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday had stashed handwritten messages in his basement safe bearing the chilling words: "Gifford," "My assassination" and "I planned ahead," authorities said yesterday.

Accused killer Jared Lee Loughner, 22, signed at least one of the pieces of paper, which he put in a single envelope and placed in the safe at his parents' modest one-story home in the northwest section of the city, according to charges filed yesterday in federal court in Phoenix.

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CHILLING: Jared Lee Loughner had a letter from Rep. Giffords thanking him for attending a 2007 event. His stash of notes also included one saying, "My assassination."

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