BREAKING: Shooting at LAX, several possibly injured.

ABC News Special Report | 07/04/02 | Sonserae

[sonserae]

Shooting at LAX, several injured....

[Dog]

Mayor of LA just told us nothing to see here folks move along......go enjoy the holiday .....what a damn joke!!

[undergroundwarrior]

The mayor does not want to tell us anything. "Appears this was an isolated incident". What happened to the other suspects???

Haven't they identified the shooter yet??? Why won't they say anything about his ethnicity???

[Mo1]

KABC saying that 2 small girls were trapped beneath plane and crowd lifted it up to extract them......

Oh my goodness .. prayers for those small girls

[Inspectorette]

Why is that witch Diane Watson there? Is she gonna sound off? Gawd, I hope not!!

[self_evident]

There's been a consistent problem with officials saying "no indications this was ______" morphing into "_____ has been ruled out" when quoted by the media. And then if it DOES turn out to be _____, then people frantically whine that "the gubbmint said that ____ was ruled out!"

But this has been going on for years. It's purposeful in my opinion. They say "no evidence of terrorism" when they have no evidence of anything. I think they are trying to see if it will stick, and are willing to use the natural tendencies of the media to that end.

[Skel]

The mayor has no information about anything........why is he on camera?
He wants to be the Gov some time in the future.

[cake_crumb]

Could it be a terrorist, or a terrorist wannbe??

IS THIS THE BEST YOU GUYS CAN DO GUYS, after losing your dirty bombs, and your C4, and your ambulances??

A$$holes. HERE...you do not stand a chance.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Nothing here, people. Light your vigil candles and work harder on your peace quilts. If you see us in gas masks, do not panic. Now go out and make it a good day!

[JavaTheHutt]

MSNBC is obviously consistent with their ratings...which is dead last.

Yes, and the normally intelligent Neil Cavuto on Fox is displaying a rather dim bulb today by arguing with everyone he can speak with about wether this is an act of terrorism or not.

Hey Neil, the motive behind the attack may be up for debate, but the attack itself, without doubt, was an act of terrorism! Somebody please give Neil some assistance, his head seems to be rigidly lodged within his 5th point of contact.

[PJeffQ]

They brought up the Atlanta bombing in their 4th of July coverage from Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta on FNC earlier... didnt mention Jewell... mentioned Army of God right wing extremist who was never found (didnt mention Rudolph either).

[hole_n_one]

[Timesink]

Witness just said it was an arabic guy !!!

There's little evidence that is less reliable than that of a person jumping into panic mode during a sudden dangerous event. That "Arabic-looking guy" could have been Mexican for all we know.

I'll wait for the autopsy photos.

In any case, if this IS terrorism, it's just more terrorism against Israel IMHO rather than against America; the shooter just happened to live in the US and was too broke or lazy to go to Israel himself, so he just went for the most convenient target.

[Brad’s Gramma]

No

[debg]

"various weapons there"

[Aquinasfan]

Excellent summary.

You knew it was going to be like that, didn't you? This country needs an enema!

[self_evident]

Good example is flight 587.

Another example was the shoe bomber. In that case it didn't stick, but reduced the impact.

[OXENinFLA]

And why can't he give ANY details.!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GeneD]

WILL THE IDIOCY NEVER CEASE?

A second witness, identified as Josef Bootski, told CNN the gunman was shouting, "Artie took my job, Artie took my job" before he started shooting.

FROM "TIMES STAFF WRITER" MARK LAUTER'S DISPATCH ON LATIMES.COM.

[AnAmericanMother]

So relieved to see that that lady cop HAS a right arm! (I was wondering the same thing the others were.) Whew!