Court dissects searches found on Naveed Haq's laptop

Naveed Haq used his computer to find the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, where he shot six people, but police say his laptop also revealed searches for public offices, mental illness Web sites and pornography.

In court on Monday, Seattle Police Detective Tim Luckie detailed the activity on Haq's computer in the days before the July 2006 shooting, which left one woman dead and five badly wounded.

King County prosecutors contend Haq's effort to find the federation and even use his computer to map it shows that he planned the deadly rampage, wanting to make a political statement against Jews and the situation in the Middle East.

But Haq's attorneys, who say the Tri-Cities man should be found insane, sought to show the Superior Court jury that such a violent act had not been on his mind.

The computer searches showed an effort to find out whether there were open seats on the Pasco City Council or the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, suggesting that in the days before the shooting, he may have been thinking about running for office.

Haq's attorneys also asked Luckie to detail the various times Haq's computer was used to access pornography Web sites -- something prosecutors had not brought up in their own questioning of the detective.

A psychiatrist who treated Haq between about 1998 and 2000 testified that a heightened sexual drive can be a symptom of a manic state.

Luckie told jurors he found computer searches related to depression and bipolar disorder and testified about two documents typed on a computer at the home of Haq's parents, where Haq spent much of his time, five days before the shooting.

One was called "Naveed's Khutbah" -- or Islamic sermon -- and compared Muslims and Jews. It described how Jews have been "an integral part of American Society since the very birth of the nation," but said they were overrepresented in American politics.

It said Muslim people "have a long way to go to get positive recognition in America" and suggested various strategies, including writing congressional delegates, giving to charities and mentoring disadvantaged youths.

The second document, titled "Sources of Muslim Anger," advocated letting the Middle East sort out its conflicts on its own and lessening the United States' dependence on foreign oil.

Luckie could not say for certain whether Haq wrote the two documents.

He also noted that nearly every computer he is asked to examine shows that pornography has been accessed.