FBI: LA Airport gunman was an Egyptian-born resident of Irving, California

Ha'aretz ^ | July 5th 2002 | News Agencies

[ChicagoRepublican]

According to the ticker on top of Ha'aretz the FBI is reporting that the LA Airport gunman was an Egyptian-born resident of Irving, California.

[doug from upland]

Irvine is an Orange County city near Santa Ana and Tustin.

[per loin]

Somebody wake Cavuto and have him begin his apologies.

[cactusSharp]

said on CNN just now he is 41 not 52 and also the
FBI will have a picture to show anyone who knows him
He has here since '91 and little else is known of him

[cmsgop]

My Parents live in Irvine, It's Full Of Arabs

[lewislynn]

Irvine is an Orange County city near Santa Ana and Tustin.

Believe it or not, when I lived in Orange County (1960's) Irvine was a ranch.

[timestax]

Somebody wake Cavuto and have him begin his apologies. 3 posted on 7/4/02 11:07 PM Pacific by per loin [

DITTO !!

[seeker41]

Guess what, there are a million more of "hims" here in the USA. You cannot trust these people, just b/c they live here double digit years means nothing.

[newsperson999]

notice how they only release this after the 4th is over..we wouldn't want to scare people now would we..it only took them 9 hours to tell us he was an Arab...I'm sorry but those "news" conferences they had were a joke. The sad thing is besides news junkies like us the average american believed them when they said they didn't know...sad sad sad

[College Repub]

They knew who he was from AT LEAST the time when Peres was saying it was terrorism. He (Peres) wouldn't risk saying something like that unless he knew for sure...

[seeker41]

Of course they knew, had to wait for the festivites of the 4th to be over before they told us. Scumbags.

[bok]

The Ret military officer Cowan? on fox news went on and on about him possibly being a white supremacist.

[Mo1]

He (Peres) wouldn't risk saying something like that unless he knew for sure...

I would tend to agree with you .. but then I have to ask .. how the heck did he know

I mean he came out pretty fast with his comments

[Grampa Dave]

The Israeli Shin Bet is calling it an act of terrorism: (Shin Bet believes shooting is terrorist!)

There had been no intelligence warning of an attack by any organization on an Israeli target in the U.S., but the way in which the attack took place, its location and timing, seemed to point to terrorism. Unless proved otherwise, that is how the Shin Bet decided to regard it.

[per loin]

Was that the jerk who kept calling it a random act of violence, or a possible suicide?

[College Repub]

He knew from what ELAL told him or maybe what FBI told him. Israel could care less about political correctedness or attempting to maintain it on July 4th. So he came out and said what most of us already knew was probably the case anyway.

[John H K]

Guess what, there are a million more of "hims" here in the USA. You cannot trust these people, just b/c they live here double digit years means nothing.

You mean John Hinckley Jr., The guy in the clock tower at the University of Texas, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, James Huberty?

[Vidalia]

My Parents live in Irvine, It's Full Of Arabs."

You mean CRABS???

[The Great Satan]

Guess what, there are a million more of "hims" here in the USA.

You exaggerate. Only about 5-10% of muslims are actively involved in Jihad organizations. There are no more than 50-100,000 of these fellows running around -- 200,000, tops.

[patriciaruth]

Yes, the news conferences were a joke. The only excuse I can come up with is that maybe the FBI didn't want his friends alerted early that they were looking for him.