Posted on 07/05/2002 10:51:40 AM PDT by knak
CAIRO: The father of Egyptian gunman Hisham Mohammed Hadayet who opened fire at a check-in counter of Israeli carrier El Al in Los Angeles was a general in Egypt's army, his neighbors said Friday.
The former general, Ahmad Ali Hadayet, lives in the family household in the central Abbassiya district in Cairo, an AFP reporter said.
The information was confirmed by security sources here, but the family refused to talk to reporters.
On Thursday, Hisham Hadayet opened fire at the check-in counter of Israel's national airline El Al killing a 20-year-old female clerk and a middle-aged man, before being shot dead himself by an El Al security agent.
"I have known Hisham for several years. He was a normal person, he was religious but did not go often to the mosque," one of his neighbors said, requesting anonymity.
Hadayet's wife and two children returned to Egypt in June, security sources said. They added that his wife has been questioned, without elaborating.
FBI officials said that Hadayet was on their watch list, without saying why. They added he had lived in the United States since 1992 and worked as a limousine driver.
Egyptian officials kept mum Friday after the FBI revealed one of their fellow nationals carried out the Los Angeles attack. Officials at the interior ministry refused to comment when questioned by reporters.
Lawyer Montasser al-Zayet, who defends Egyptian Islamists in court, said Hadayet was not known to be a member of any Islamist movement.
The sleepers are cracking. It won't be long before more of them implode.
Maybe they should have bumped him up to the "to do" list. Or better yet, the "done" list.
Hummm, could it be because he was a suspected al Queda sleeper agent?
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This is being stated both ways. He was on the list; he wasn't on the list.
Whatever the case, the "watch list" should be changed to a "removal list". If they are under suspicion, send them home. We are at war, or has that been forgotten?
Take a look at this. This guy was on the FBI's watch list.
The airlines have instituted an auto check on one-way cash ticket purchases. I say they should also do auto checks on female Middle-Eastern women who leave their "watch list" husbands behind to return to their country of origin. This should have been an obvious red flag to the feds to start trailing this guy like a hawk.
This explains why the Israeli intel people, Shin Bet were calling this an act by a terrorist.
Before the son of this Egyptian General stopped twiching on the floor of LAX, El Al security had sent the video tape of this scumbag to Israel's Shin Bet intel investigators via satellite. They imediately knew who he was and said that this was a terrorist act: ( Shin Bet believes shooting is terrorist [Re: LAX shooter]!link)
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