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Los Angeles airport shooting kills 3 (A look back to 2002)
CNN.com ^ | July 5, 2002 | Charles Feldman

Posted on 02/18/2007 7:18:00 PM PST by Red6

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A gunman opened fire Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport while standing in line at the ticket counter of Israel's El Al Airlines, officials said, killing two and wounding four others before an airline security officer shot him dead.

Authorities identified the gunman as 41-year-old Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who came to the United States from Egypt in 1992 and had been living in Irvine, California, for the last two years.

Hadayet was not a U.S. citizen

(Excerpt) Read more at archives.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: elalairlines; gwot; islam; muslim; terrorism
A few days ago I posted a thread reference the self censorship of our media when it comes to topics reference the “Religion of Peace”.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785375/posts

That evening eventually some media outlets did feel compelled to mention that the Utah shooter was Muslim (In a reactionary effort after this detail was spreading anyway on the WWW). It was interesting to see how the reporting bias aimed to achieve two things:

1. Rationalize his behavior.
2. Disconnect the fact that he was from the "Religion of Peace" from his actions.

I thought to myself, maybe this is just coincidence and I'm reading too much into it. Interestingly though, this was not the only case.

Within this article from CNN, find a reference to his religion? http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/07/04/la.airport.shooting/

Interesting isn't it? If you’re a manager or even a parent, you learn that attempts to skew perception are often not in the form of lies, but rather come in the form of incomplete information, where through the intentional omittance of critical information you are to be led to believe a certain thing someone wants you to believe.

1 posted on 02/18/2007 7:18:03 PM PST by Red6
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To: Red6

El Al employee, religious Jew killed in LA airport shooting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/711512/posts

Shooting at LA airport El Al counter ruled terrorist act
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891588/posts

Financial problems with El Al could be LA gunman's motive: family
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/711709/posts

El Al employee, religious Jew killed in LA airport shooting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/711512/posts


2 posted on 02/18/2007 9:35:41 PM PST by endthematrix (Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
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To: endthematrix
You make my point.

Of the four links to news articles only one had the word "Muslim" in it. The French paper that did mention the word Muslim stated: "We are sure that he had no connection with extremist organizations. He is a pious Muslim but he is not at all extremist." Again, they only mentioned the religion in a context to be apologetic.

When doing word searches for "Muslim, Moslem, Islam, Koran, Mohamed" you will come up empty handed. Coincidence? Let me ask you this. If Churches are lit on fire how long did it take the media to draw conclusions and connections to racist motives? Why is it that the MSM avoids ANY connection with these acts of Muslims and the "Religion of Peace however"? When the US went to war with Iraq, how long did it take the MSM to draw the conclusion that it's all about the oil? How long does the MSM take to determine all sorts of connections or motives, except of course for the religion of peace? Why the protection? Why is it taboo for the MSM to even MENTION the fact that the perpetrator of a terrorist act is Muslim?

CNN appears to be one of the worst in respect to self censorship. I don't know the root cause of this, but the fact that they do it is pretty obvious.
3 posted on 02/19/2007 6:29:16 AM PST by Red6 (Come and get it.)
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To: Red6

Do not forget, the TRAITORUS media is against us in america. THE KEY TO ALL OF THIS IS THE LAST WORD OF THE ARTICLE "HE IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE US" We have to get serious with these people living in OUR country. They are all not fun loving muslums as all the media would like you to believe they are. Take for instance the rescent mall shooting we never got the truth from the media and the story died quickly and was replaced by Anna Nicole and Brittany Spears, WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!


4 posted on 02/20/2007 7:15:53 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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