An Arab, you say? July 8, 2002 An Arab, you say? During the early hours after Thursday's shooting at the El Al ticket counter at L.A. International Airport, we kept waiting for a journalist at the scene to ask one of the obvious questions about the attacker: What's his nationality? Yet we never heard the subject come up. It's as if Americans are so worried about uttering an ethnic slur or stereotype that even a perfectly reasonable inquiry is considered beyond the pale. Who has attacked El Al Airlines in the past? Arab terrorists, and yet more Arab terrorists. So...