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Today I went to the residence of the man who gunned down the two innocent citizens at LAX on July 4, 2002 to see what kind of story I could bring back to Free Republic. This is my story. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet lived in a newer, tree-lined, well-maintained, family-friendly but very quiet apartment complex in Irvine, California. His apartment is on the ground floor, on the corner of the building, near the entrance to the complex. There is an apartment on top of his unit, to the side of his unit, and to the back of his unit. There was...

AIRO, July 8 — The wife of an Egyptian immigrant who fatally shot two people on the Fourth of July at Los Angeles International Airport said today that she could find no reason for the shooting. "There is no motive that would make him do such a thing," the woman, Hala el-Awadly, said in a telephone interview. "He is a quiet person who lived his life in peace. He carried no hatred for anyone, and he was never aggressive nor violent, never." American law enforcement officials have said her husband, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, went to the counter of...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The FBI appeared on Tuesday to be moving closer to establishing a motive for an Egyptian limousine driver's deadly July 4 shooting at Los Angeles airport, saying investigators may have "significant developments" in the case later in the week.A Muslim community leader helping authorities dig up information about Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 46, said the FBI was preparing a first-round analysis of the information gleaned from early interviews and evidence."That's where they put all the pieces together and look into the totality," Salam al Marayati, director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, told Reuters. "It should...

Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian immigrant, was shot and killed after a shooting spree at Los Angeles International Airport. (FBI/ABCNEWS.com) Intending to Kill FBI Says Gunman Went to LAX Ready to Kill; Investigators Still Seek Motive L O S A N G E L E S, July 5 — The Egyptian immigrant who killed two people and wounded three others in a shooting at an Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport came to LAX intending to kill people, investigators believe.

CAIRO, Egypt –– Police questioned the father and wife of the Egyptian who shot two people dead at Los Angeles airport, security guards at the father's apartment building said Friday. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, opened fire in Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, killing two people at Israel's El Al ticket counter before being shot and killed by an airline guard. More...

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - Neighbors of airport gunman Hesham Mohamed Hadayet knew him as being quiet, but recalled he complained when a neighbor put up a large flag after Sept. 11. Hadayet, a 41-year-old limousine driver, was shot to death by an El Al security guard at Los Angeles International Airport after he opened fire at the Israeli airline's ticket counter on the Fourth of July, killing two people. Hadayet, an Egyptian who also went by the last name Ali, came to the United States 10 years ago. He ended up living with his wife and two sons, 8 and...

CAIRO, July 6 (AFP) - The family of the Egyptian gunman believed to have opened fire on an El Al check-in counter in Los Angeles airport said Saturday that financial problems with the Israeli airline could be behind the incident. "Egyptian security services affirmed Friday to the father of (suspected gunman) Hisham Mohammed Hadayet that the incident was due to financial problems with El Al," cousin Emad al-Omda told AFP. Al-Omda said that the Israeli airline had been late in paying for two limousines that it had rented from Hadayet's service. "We are sure that he had no connection...

Former Hadayet employee says the gunman hated Israelis Los Angeles - The Egyptian immigrant who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport drew little attention during the 10 years he lived in the United States before his attack at the El Al ticket counter.Officers went to Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's apartment in Irvine, Calif., on a domestic dispute call six years ago, but he was not prosecuted. And nothing else in Irvine police files hinted at the violence he unleashed Thursday, on his 41st birthday. The FBI said Hadayet went to the El Al counter intending to kill people,...

<p>The phrase, meaning "God is Great" in Arabic, is a common Islamic prayer offered when praising God and accepting divine will.</p> <p>Harari, an Israel-raised friend of one of the victims, said he told FBI agents what he heard, but the FBI would not confirm the report.</p> <p>A spokesman for the agency's Los Angeles bureau, Matthew McLaughlin, said five to 10 other witnesses have said they did not hear the assailant, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, say anything before he fired.</p>

A decade ago, Hesham Hadayet left behind a comfortable life and upper-class family in Egypt, gambling that a six-month tourist visa was his ticket to prosperity, American-style. From the beginning, Hadayet took chances — first as a cab driver and later with his own business. He worked illegally. He overstayed the visa and applied for asylum. He bought a limousine he didn't know how to drive. < SNIP >As investigators begin to believe that Hadayet was simply an overstressed man who snapped, Hadayet's family refuses to accept any conclusion beyond the fact that Hadayet is dead.

TEL AVIV — Executives at Israel's El Al airlines are working on the assumption that the national air carrier came under separate terrorist attacks in both Russia and the United States on July 4. In Los Angeles, two people including at least one Israeli were killed and 17 others injured by a gunman at the El Al airlines counter at the city's international airport. The gunman was killed by an El Al security officer. Also on Thursday, an El Al pilot reported that missile was fired at his passenger jet during a flight to Russia. The missile missed the...

FONT face="Courier, Times New Roman"> Friday, July 5, 2002Report Links LAX Shooter to Egyptian Jihad Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who killed two people Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport, was a radical Muslim extremist involved in terrorism, the respected Israeli intelligence Web site DEBKA.com reported today. "During his ten years in the United States, he was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad who maintained undercover links to the same Jihad cell in Brooklyn, New York, as the 'blind sheikh' Abdul Rahim Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first attack on the New York World Trade...

Hashem Mohamed Hadayat, 41, who gunned down Yakov Aminov, 46, and Vicky Hen, 25 – both from Los Angeles - on the 4th of July at the El Al terminal of Los Angeles, and wounded 7 others, is revealed by DEBKAfile’s intelligence and counter-terror sources as a Muslim extremist. During his ten years in the United States, he was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad who maintained undercover links to the same Jihad cell in Brooklyn, New York, as the “blind sheikh” Abdul Rahim Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first attack on the...

Hashem Mohamed Hadayat, 41, who gunned down Yakov Aminov, 46, and Vicky Hen, 25 – both from Los Angeles - on the 4th of July at the El Al terminal of Los Angeles, and wounded 7 others, is revealed by DEBKAfile’s intelligence and counter-terror sources as a Muslim extremist. During his ten years in the United States, he was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad who maintained undercover links to the same Jihad cell in Brooklyn, New York, as the “blind sheikh” Abdul Rahim Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first attack on the...

CAIRO: The father of Egyptian gunman Hisham Mohammed Hadayet who opened fire at a check-in counter of Israeli carrier El Al in Los Angeles was a general in Egypt's army, his neighbors said Friday. The former general, Ahmad Ali Hadayet, lives in the family household in the central Abbassiya district in Cairo, an AFP reporter said. The information was confirmed by security sources here, but the family refused to talk to reporters. On Thursday, Hisham Hadayet opened fire at the check-in counter of Israel's national airline El Al killing a 20-year-old female clerk and a middle-aged man, before being shot...

The Egyptian-born gunman who shot dead two people at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles airport had been trying to force a neighbour to take down an American flag raised after September 11, it emerged yesterday.The US authorities yesterday identified the man as Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old limousine driver who was killed by Israeli security agents during the attack. The facts have heightened suspicions that the shootings were a terrorist attack timed to coincide with America's Fourth of July celebrations.The FBI was last night trying to determine whether Hadayet was acting alone. Egyptian Islamic groups said he...

Authorities are investigating whether Hesham Mohammed Hadayet, the Egyptian who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport last Thursday, met in the United States with Osama bin Laden's deputy, an Arabic paper reported at the weekend. The London-based Al-Hayat said that authorities were checking whether Hadayet had met with Ayman Al-Zawahiri in 1995 and again in 1998, while the latter was head of the Al-Jihad organization in Egypt. Al-Zawahiri, who visited California in 1998, went on to become bin Laden's right-hand man. His current whereabouts are unknown. Hadayet, 41, was shot dead by an El Al security...

<p>New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly says the Fourth of July incident at Los Angeles International Airport, in which an Egyptian man shot and killed two persons at the ticket counter of Israel's El Al airline, "could very well" have been an act of terrorism.</p>

LOS ANGELES, Jul 06, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- The Egyptian immigrant who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport drew little attention during the 10 years he lived in the United States. However, an INS spokesman said the man's first petition for permanent residency had been denied. The Immigration and Naturalization Service rejected Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's request to remain in the country in February 1996, INS spokesman Ron Rogers said in Saturday's Orange County Register. It wasn't clear why. The agency began deportation procedures, but in 1997, Hadayet was granted permanent residency through his wife,...

INS Denied Residency to LAX Gunman ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES- The government had started deportation proceedings in 1996 against the Egyptian immigrant who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport. But the following year, he gained U.S. residency because of his wife, officials said Saturday. It wasn't clear what caused the Immigration and Naturalization Service to reject Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's first petition for permanent residency, INS spokesman Francisco Arcaute said. The deportation process was started after that rejection, then was stopped when Hadayet gained residency in 1997 through his wife, Hala, who had received an immigration visa through...