[mad_as_he$$]

Well Debka's reliability is sometimes questionable. Be careful treating it as the gospel.

[thegreatbeast]

A lot more must be learned before we can put this all together but you have to hand it to the Israelis: they called this terrorism while we were standing around trying to push it onto some other causal effect.
One thing in the article doesn't make sense about the Egyptian crash of 1991. A bunch of Egyptian Air Force officers are not going to join a suicide plot as suggested here. Operationally it doesn't make any sense. Why would you want to waste so many valuable assets in a single suicide mission?

[pabianice]

As of this morning, not one US Main Stream Marxist press has yet mentioned that this guy was a Muslim, as were 100% of the other airport/airplane terrorists in the US since 1982. Cowards.

[swarthyguy]

Must be a typo but wasn't the EgyptAir Suicide Crash in 1999. The assertion that the pilot had help from the egyptian military members on boards; maybe, but the copilot, a jihadi would certainly have enough reason to want to kill secularists in the Egyptian armed forces with or without the help of the passengers.

[Tacis]

But, if this guy was "connected," that makes his actions all the more curious and less likely to be terrorism. He has to have known about El Al security. He has to have known that his effect would be minimal and he has to have known that there were for more promising targets. As a limo driver in LA, he would know about and, probably, have access to Jewish weddings of the children of influential folks.

If he had been involved in the destruction of the EgyptAir flight, he would have known about far more strategic places to attack. He has to have known that what he set out to do could only add to El Al's reputation without doing it any damage.

My bet is that he was pissed about something, got some cheap s**t from a young female representing the Israelis, and went off the deep end. Again, just think of the damage he might have done with a much better planned attack. What he did makes sense from the etrrorist perspective only if he was meant to be a diversion.

[Torie]

For a secret operative, he sure seemed a bit inept, and in the larger scheme of things, went for rather small game to mark his final exit.

[quidnunc]

Radio talk-show host Michael Medved says that DEBKAfile is right about 60% of the time, but is often spectacularly wrong.

One of the perp's weapons was a .40 Glock with extra magazines.

My question: If the perp was a lone wolf how did he as an alien manage to get his hands on two handguns?

[RightWhale]

he was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad

It's a guess. DEBKA extrapolates from there.

[Sabertooth]

Worth a look... It'll be interesting to see if this DEBKA story gets confirmed elsewhere.

[pyx]

Since the attack, the possibility that he arrived in America as a sleeper terrorist must be seriously addressed.

BTTT

[ex-Texan]

What really happened to Flt. 990 ?

First report is by the man who worked for NASA and then worked as Walter Cronkite's primary source of information during the Apollo Mission. He does the physics and says the NTSB's report is bovine squat .... There is a huge cover up.

It might have to do with the flight's unscheduled stop at Edwards AFB to pick up those Egyptian Pilots.

Read Long Report Here

This is a report on the 'death of an investigation.'

Death of an investigation

Very interesting reading.