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Airport slayings intensify debate (Does anybody at USA TODAY have a clue?)
USA Today ^ | 07/05/2002 - Updated 02:29 AM ET | Scott Bowles

Posted on 07/05/2002 12:24:53 AM PDT by self_evident

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:39:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

LOS ANGELES

(Excerpt) Read more at usatoday.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: terrorism
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To: GaryMontana
Folks this kind of propaganda has been pushed down Americans throats for years.When will we learn that : "The Mainstream Media" is not of friend of America.
Between "The Mainstream Media" and the Liberal Establishment that has taken over our education system America is doomed for one failure after the other if we dont correct these two problems along with imigration.
You often hear of what our founding fathers would think if they could come back,I wonder what my own father would think if he came back and he died in 1972.
Wake up America it is time to cast these demons out!
22 posted on 07/05/2002 4:35:57 AM PDT by gunnedah
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To: Kalashnikov_68
They can say whatever the hell they want but all people need to do is read "Mohamed" + "Shooting Rampage" + "Israeli Airlines" + "Three Dead, Many Injured" = TERRORISM.

Come on NOW! That wasn't TERRORISM! The FBI said so!
Don't you know that Arab and Arabs use El Al Israel Airlines every day around the world! LOL </sarcasm off>


Bob
Delaware Bay Waterfowler
23 posted on 07/05/2002 4:58:06 AM PDT by Mr Fowl
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To: self_evident
The United States is chock full of misfit 3rd worlders who are working here on green cards, whose labor is not needed and who hate the USA....Who are here only for the money.
24 posted on 07/05/2002 5:12:38 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Cachelot
        Look what this kook had to say >>>>>>>>

 

 

ISRAELIS JUMP THE GUN
by Justin Raimondo
July 5, 2002

The news of the shooting at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport had barely gotten out over the wires before the Israeli government was already characterizing it as a terrorist action – in spite of initial reports that the shooter may have been a disgruntled former employee. This also contradicts the statements of local, state, and federal officials, who say there is no evidence that this was a terrorist operation. At this moment [Thursday, 7:44 p.m.], Matt Drudge is running the following squib:

"Argument between two people that spun out of control; A Mexicana supervisor had overheard the gunman having a heated argument at the El Al counter, apparently involving his documentation. Soon afterward, the shooting started..."

Terrorism? We don't know yet. But that didn't stop Foreign Minister Shimon Peres from vowing that Israel would "track down" the perpetrators. A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry said Peres "is certain that Israeli and American security forces will succeed in searching for and capturing the organizers (of the attack)." The Israeli Transport Minister laid responsibility for the attack on "organizations, primarily extremist Islamic organizations," that "are planning to hit Israeli targets outside (the Jewish state). And an airport is a preferred target."

All this before the assailant, who was killed along with two others in the incident, has even been identified.

How do they know it's terrorism?

We don't yet know the motives of the gunman. We don't have enough information to determine whether this was an isolated shooting, perhaps the result of a personal grudge – perhaps just the random act of a lone nut – or a terrorist operation organized by Islamist radicals. But the Israelis seem to have already made up their minds.

To call this "jumping the gun" is being charitable: wishful thinking is more like it – and it is positively ghoulish.

25 posted on 07/05/2002 5:14:44 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: self_evident
as Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, a Egyptian

And with that middle name - mohamed - it's a good bet the fellow was a moslem.

My, my, my. The religion of peace, love, tolerance, generosity, friendship, rape, pedophilia, murder, kindness, spousal abuse, sodomy, and child rape is at it again.

The solution to this problem is clear. We must strip search more 80 year old White women!

26 posted on 07/05/2002 5:23:16 AM PDT by neutrino
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To: self_evident
This is a Gannett paper. These are the same people who make their reporters do things like talk to atheists when they do a story on Christmas.
27 posted on 07/05/2002 5:25:15 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: bybybill
Why can`t you wait, at least till the sun comes up, and the FBI learns a little bit more about this SOB and what really happened, before you make your judgement?

This is, prima facia, terrorism. The fact that it was an Egyptian gunning down Israelis at the ticket counter of the Israeli airline tell us that. The burden is now on those who say it wasn't terrorism to prove that it wasn't.

28 posted on 07/05/2002 5:45:26 AM PDT by Gee Wally
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To: self_evident
It's not just USA Today. I've been listening to Fox, CNN, etc., etc. ALL of the FBI, LAPD, and other offical spokesmen are trying to downplay any link to terrorism. F**k 'em all. Let's see, here was an Egyptian national, randomly shooting what he figured were Jews at the El Al ticket counter on the 4th of July. Yet we have these idiot spokesmen stating that there are no indications that this is a terrorist act?

You don't need a network to commit a terrorist act. You can do it all by your lonesome, Eqyptian, Muslim self.

We are in danger of losing the war on terrorism partially because we still refuse to call a spade a spade. El Al's security program is BASED on profiling. Since they are the best in the world at it, perhaps we can toss the PC crap aside and take a clue.

29 posted on 07/05/2002 5:45:52 AM PDT by arm958
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To: self_evident
The reporter on the byline, Scott Bowles, shoudl forever be remembered for this quote: "The shooting at the El Al Israel Airlines ticket counter did not appear to be terrorism but raised new questions about security at airports."

If you ever see his byline, see him on a call in show, etc. make sure to remind him and his editor of this journalistic milestone.

30 posted on 07/05/2002 6:25:27 AM PDT by eno_
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