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Judicial Watch today said that "the Bush administration is continuing a practice of providing the American public with false and misleading information concerning Islamist terror plans and attacks against the United States." It urged that Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller be fired.

And that, coincidentally, a fellow named Larry Klayman be immediately appointed as Attorney General...

Judicial Watch today said that "the Bush administration is continuing a practice of providing the American public with false and misleading information concerning Islamist terror plans and attacks against the United States." It urged that Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller be fired.

My opinion is that if the best the "terrorists" can muster is a guy with a couple handguns and a knife, then Mueller and Ashcroft must be doing something right, LOL.

On October 31, 1999, an Egyptair Boeing 767 Flight 990...copilot Gameel el-Batouty was at the controls when the plane went into its dive. His voice was recorded shouting, 'I put my faith in Allah!...Hadayat, who lived in Irvine, California, 70 km south of Los Angeles, knew Batouty well.

Putting aside Debka and Larry Klayman, could Hadayat have known el-Batouty through the Islamic Center of Southern California?

Per CNN article "NTSB: Last seconds of data pulled from EgyptAir flight recorder", November 18, 1999:

U.S. linguists, officials said, also disagree over how to interpret the words on the tape and what significance to give them -- whether the remark "Tawakilt ala Allah," translated as "I put my faith in the hands of God," is significant to the cause of the crash or not.

Dr. Maher Hathout, the imam who presided over a prayer service for el-Batouty at the Islamic Center in Los Angeles, said, "We Muslims say that statement umpteen times a day, particularly in times of danger."

"This is our gate to Islam to say these words, and we'd like it to be the last words we say in our lives," Hathout said. "This means that the person is religiously conscious and if he is so, he will never commit suicide because suicide is a major sin in Islam."

Hathout, whose cousin and in-law were killed in the crash, said he last spoke with el-Batouty about three months ago and added that the pilot never came across as someone who would "do anything crazy."

Maher Hathout and his brother, Hassan, are Egyptian-born doctors who are leaders at the Islamic center. Hassan wrote a book entitled “The Memoirs of a Physician in Palestine.” Both are popular on the Islamic lecture circuit. I believe Hassan is the one who appeared on Dr. Laura’s show to defend Islam shortly after the 9/11 attacks.