The kind of equipment that they had used was evidence it was a planned, premeditated attack.

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Levin said -- Senator Levin -- I think it was a planned, premeditated attack.

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On Thursday, Mr Saleem's daughter, Shazia Khan, said she believed it was a "premeditated attack".

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In his sentencing statement, judge Lord Burns acknowledged that Hadden had not carried out "a premeditated attack".

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What I can tell you is that, as I said last week, as our Ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday and as I said the other day, based on what we know now and knew at the time, we have no evidence of a preplanned or premeditated attack.

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Mr Justice Treacy said the encounter was not premeditated but Dobson and Norris had been prepared to attack if the opportunity arose.

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There's no doubt it was premeditated, '' Tom Teves, whose 24-year-old son, Alex, died during the attack while shielding his girlfriend, told the Associated Press news agency.

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