Posted on 07/04/2002 11:06:04 PM PDT by 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.
I can't add anything to that. Thank you sir. zip
That hasn't been forgotten. I called them accessories then and I call them that now. The point is his wife went home 10 days before his murder spree and that indicates premeditation. Now matter how I view it it keeps coming out terrorist attack.
Exactly right. Another problem I have is the refusal of our Muslim "friends" to denounce acts of terrorism by extremist muslims. The only official statement by an Islamic Government and Cleric denouncing the attack of 9/11 was made by the Turkish Government AND the cleric spokemen immediately following the terrorist attack.NO other statements condemning the attacks were made by other arab governments. period.
I call them executed by lethal injection.
The Egyptian complained that an American flew an American flag on American soil after 9-11 and he killed civilians on American soil. The Florida kid praised a foreign person who had caused the deaths of several thousand American civilians on American soil before recklessly endangering American lives by flying into an American building. These are the acts of terrorists. Petty ones and idiots, but terrorists none the less. Richard Reid, who never got his shoe lit, is also a terrorist.
The guys in Texas were racists. And the kids at Columbine were simply killers with no political statements to make beyond their own small grievance that Life didn't bow down to them.
You're right, and though I don't regret anything in the present, if I could go back there to that time (1960's) I would.
Wonder if God will allow them to hit NYC again....
Wonder if God will allow them to hit only presumptuous sows who live in California next.....
5 July: 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 New York World Trade Center in 1993.
Hadayat is also believed to have abetted a previous, contrived airline disaster: On October 31, 1999, an Egyptair Boeing 767 Flight 990, which also took off from Los Angeles airport for Kennedy, New York. After Kennedy, the plane bound for Cairo plunged into the Atlantic off the Nantucket Island, Mass. coast, killing all 217 passengers and crew. In a special probe, the US National Transportation Safety Board found that the 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!”
The report held back from referring more directly to the Egyptian copilot’s responsibility for the crash. Our sources affirm that Hadayat, who lived in Irvine, California, 70 km south of Los Angeles, knew Batouty well. There are also indications that, in the years 1998 and 1999, Hadayat was in touch with a group of high Egyptian air force officers and helicopter pilots posted at the time at Edwards Base north of Los Angeles.
They were there to learn how to install command and control centers in Egypt’s air defense systems, operate anti-air missile batteries and fly Apache gunships. Most of those officers were on the doomed Egyptian airliner after completing their courses. Although the long-delayed US Transportation Board report never referred to the presence of this high-ranking Egyptian air force delegation on the flight, DEBKAfile ’s Washington sources reported at the time that most of the investigators were satisfied that Batouty could not have seized control of the Boeing 767 without the aid – certainly the compliance - of those officers.
Two years ago, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak exerted all his influence on President Clinton to keep the federal board’s findings out of its published report and, above all, the fact that a group of Egyptian air force officers was on the plane. He warned that citing the Egyptian copilot as deliberately causing the crash would have a negative effect on Egyptian-US relations.
The report therefore fell short of clear conclusions. Hadayat’s murderous attack on El Al flight 106 passengers points back to the Egyptair 990 disaster of 1999, reviving the many questions left open by that earlier, half stifled inquiry, which carefully stepped round any suggestion of terrorism. It also raises the question of how many sleeper cells the Egyptian Jihad, al Qaeda’s primary operational arm, maintains in American cities.
Hadayat struck the El Al ticket line on his 42nd birthday. The initial FBI inquiry found through records of his fingerprints at the Department of Motor Vehicles, which issued him with a limousine license, that he was married with at least one child, and had lived in Irvine for the last two years, working on a green card.
Since the attack, the possibility that he arrived in America as a sleeper terrorist must be seriously addressed. US investigators realize he was not a lone operative and are seeking his accomplices in such matters as setting up the hit, providing the guns he carried and intelligence on the security situation at the Tom Brady terminal.
DEBKAfile’s Middle East intelligence sources report that early Friday, Egyptian intelligence officers picked up Hadayat’s relatives and associates in Cairo, to try and trace the identities of his fellows in the American Jihad cell.
A photograph issued by the FBI July 5, 2002 shows
a man identified as Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who
opened fire and killed two people at the ticket counter
of Israel's El Al airlines at Los Angeles International
Airport on July 4. Hadayet, 41, an Egyptian native,
was a resident in the United States since 1992.
(FBI via Reuters)
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