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Sudden Jihad Syndrome http://cfoiblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/sudden-jihad-syndrome.html Monday, February 26, 2007 Sudden Jihad Syndrome Evidently this mental/emotional malady is on the rise: Sudden Jihad Syndrome It looks like the Muslim teen who opened fire on shoppers in a Salt Lake City mall is yet another case of “sudden jihad syndrome,” a condition in which normal-appearing American Muslims abruptly turn violent. Taken together, this and other cases add up to an invisible jihad inside America. But don’t tell that to the FBI. The politically correct bureau does everything it can to avoid recognizing the obvious Islamic factor in these heinous crimes. Sulejman Talovic, an...

Diversity immigration lottery may be canceled WASHINGTON - A House subcommittee may consider eliminating a visa lottery program that helps about 50,000 aliens enter the country each year. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has sponsored legislation that would eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, created in 1990 to increase diversity in the U.S. immigrant population. The program aims to provide nationals of countries with low U.S. immigration rates the opportunity to apply for immigrant visas. Goodlatte said the program is rife with potential fraud, saying some applicants apply repeatedly a year although the law allows applicants to apply just once a year....

Terror & Denial [at LAX] by Daniel Pipes New York Post July 9, 2002 On the 4th of July, an Egyptian immigrant to the United States who believes in wild conspiracy theories about Jews, is known for his great "hate for Israel," and has possible ties to al Qaeda, armed himself to the teeth and assaulted the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two. It is obvious why Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet targeted Jews in a highly visible place on so prominent a date: to engage in terrorism against Israel. But one important institution - the U.S....

<p>An al Qaeda suspect in custody in Belgium told American investigators he saw members of the terror organization training snipers in preparation for attacks on U.S. soil, a source told The Post last night.</p> <p>One of the planned attacks targeted U.S. senators on a golf course.</p>

<p>A strange thing often happens when the news media descend on the home of a suspect in a high-profile crime and start asking the neighbors about him. Suddenly, the suspect will seem to have been afflicted with a multiple personality disorder.</p>

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=1203Dennis Prager According to news reports, the administration, the FBI and every other relevant official agency cannot yet determine whether Hesham Mohamed Hadayet´s murderous attack on El Al Airlines customers at Los Angeles International Airport last week was an act of terrorism. They are not sure whether Hadayet´s murders were a hate crime, terrorism or an act of personal anger. They even claim not to be sure about Hadayet´s motives.   The American government sure is easily baffled. An extremist Egyptian Muslim chooses July 4th to murder Americans and Israelis who are flying from an American airport on Israel´s national...

According to news reports, the administration, the FBI and every other relevant official agency cannot yet determine whether Hesham Mohamed Hadayet´s murderous attack on El Al Airlines customers at Los Angeles International Airport last week was an act of terrorism. They are not sure whether Hadayet´s murders were a hate crime, terrorism or an act of personal anger. They even claim not to be sure about Hadayet´s motives. The American government sure is easily baffled. An extremist Egyptian Muslim chooses July 4th to murder Americans and Israelis who are flying from an American airport on Israel´s national airline -- and...

According to news reports, the administration, the FBI and every other relevant official agency cannot yet determine whether Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's murderous attack on El Al Airlines customers at Los Angeles International Airport last week was an act of terrorism. They are not sure whether Hadayet's murders were a hate crime, terrorism or an act of personal anger. They even claim not to be sure about Hadayet's motives. The American government sure is easily baffled. An extremist Egyptian Muslim chooses July 4th to murder Americans and Israelis who are flying from an American airport on Israel's national airline -- and...

LOS ANGELES - An Egyptian immigrant's deadly attack on an Israeli airline ticket counter last year has been ruled a terrorist attack related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an FBI spokesman said Friday. "Given his political views and the fact that El Al is an Israeli government-owned airline, that met the criteria for a terrorist attack," said Matthew McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Los Angeles field office of the FBI. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport's El Al ticket counter on July 4 last year, killing two people before being shot dead by an airline security...

<p>LOS ANGELES - The family of Yaakov "Jacob" Aminov, the 46-year-old diamond importer who was killed July 4 by a gunman at Los Angeles International Airport, has filed a claim seeking $30 million from the city, the family's attorney said.</p>

Now that we’ve discovered that our notorious sniper isn’t a lone, crazed, white, NRA member, we can examine the actual leading suspect, John Allen Muhammad. He was joined in his shooting spree by John Lee Malvo, an illegal alien from Jamaica, but it’s clear that Muhammad, an African-American, ex-military, convert to Islam, is the leader of the two. What stands out the most about Muhammad isn’t his race, his psychological profile, or his time spent in the military. It’s the Islam connection. Soon after Muhammad was apprehended by the police, the liberal media began downplaying his religion. They have grudgingly...

The very first line of defense for the U.S. homeland consists of those who issue visas (the consular division of the State Department) and those who control the borders (the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS). Trouble is, neither of those agencies has understood its security role. Their disastrous mistakes became painfully evident with two revelations last week. Had the State Department properly applied its own rules, as Joel Mowbray showed in the Oct. 28 National Review and Thursday's Post, not one of the 15 Sept. 11 hijackers whose visa forms he inspected could have legally entered the United States....

INS: System Allowed Shooter in U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) — An Egyptian immigrant who shot and killed two people July 4 at Los Angeles International Airport previously told U.S. authorities he had been falsely accused of being in a militant Egyptian group that the United States now lists as a terror group, officials said Wednesday. An Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman says a broken asylum system allowed him to remain in the country. In a March 30, 1993, interview for asylum, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet told the INS that Egyptian authorities arrested him and accused him of involvement with Al-Gamma'a al-Islamiyaa, the...

The Egyptian immigrant who killed two people and wounded several others at Los Angeles International Airport on July Fourth had admitted in 1992 to Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), officials that Egyptian authorities had accused him of being a member of a known terrorist organization, INS officials said Tuesday. Despite this information the INS failed to investigate any links Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, had to an Egyptian extremist group even as it was considering his application for political asylum, government officials said, adding that a rigorous examination of the man’s asylum application could have ended with Mr. Hadayet being deported, according...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian immigrant who killed two people at Los Angeles International Airport wasn't tied to terrorist organizations and didn't apply for asylum in the United States, his wife said Wednesday. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet opened fire at Israel's El Al ticket counter in July, killing two people before he was fatally shot by one of the airline's security guards. Hadayet's wife, Hala El-Awadly, was responding to a Wednesday report in the Los Angeles Times that quoted U.S. immigration officials as saying Hadayet applied for political asylum in 1992. The report said Egyptian authorities suspected he was affiliated...

n Egyptian immigrant who went on a July 4 shooting spree at Los Angeles International Airport told immigration officials nearly a decade ago that the Egyptian authorities had accused him of being affiliated with a known terrorist organization, officials disclosed yesterday.The Immigration and Naturalization Service failed to investigate evidence that appeared to link the immigrant, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, to an Egyptian extremist group even as the agency was considering his application for political asylum in the mid-1990's, the officials said. A rigorous examination of the asylum application could have ended with Mr. Hadayet being deported, they said.The immigration service's handling...

According to news reports, the administration, the FBI and every other relevant official agency cannot yet determine whether Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's murderous attack on El Al Airlines customers at Los Angeles International Airport last week was an act of terrorism. They are not sure whether Hadayet's murders were a hate crime, terrorism or an act of personal anger. They even claim not to be sure about Hadayet's motives. The American government sure is easily baffled. An extremist Egyptian Muslim chooses July 4th to murder Americans and Israelis who are flying from an American airport on Israel's national airline – and...

[In the interest of "fair use" two short quotes from the article are excerpted. The first illustrates the thesis suggested in the headline, the second material from the reporters' interviews that were harder to spin. Click source for full article.] ... In interviews with dozens of neighbors, business acquaintances and family members in Southern California and Cairo, the emerging consensus is that Hadayet was an ordinarily religious man with little appetite for politics, who opened fire at the Israeli El Al ticket counter following a personal agenda that died with him."If someone is going to do a terrorist act, they...

THE CAREER DIPLOMAT studied the two newspaper headlines with an intensity usually found only in safecrackers. Where average people have laugh lines, his 57-year-old patrician face had lines of earnestness--no, over-earnestness--crop circles that are mowed into human skin by a lifetime of nodding sagely across tables at others and saying, "I feel your pain." He sighed deeply and tossed the papers onto the long, mahogany table so that his subordinates could see for themselves, and the brilliant young men looked at both in perfect stillness. First, there was the New York Times: "Officials Puzzled About Motive Of Airport Gunman Who...

DEBKAfile’s Counter-Terror Sources: Hadayat Belonged to Egyptian Jihad, al Qaeda’s Operational Arm 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...