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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...

<p>The phrase, meaning "God is Great" in Arabic, is a common Islamic prayer offered when praising God and accepting divine will.</p> <p>Harari, an Israel-raised friend of one of the victims, said he told FBI agents what he heard, but the FBI would not confirm the report.</p> <p>A spokesman for the agency's Los Angeles bureau, Matthew McLaughlin, said five to 10 other witnesses have said they did not hear the assailant, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, say anything before he fired.</p>

A decade ago, Hesham Hadayet left behind a comfortable life and upper-class family in Egypt, gambling that a six-month tourist visa was his ticket to prosperity, American-style. From the beginning, Hadayet took chances — first as a cab driver and later with his own business. He worked illegally. He overstayed the visa and applied for asylum. He bought a limousine he didn't know how to drive. < SNIP >As investigators begin to believe that Hadayet was simply an overstressed man who snapped, Hadayet's family refuses to accept any conclusion beyond the fact that Hadayet is dead.

<p>The latest statements from the Federal Bureau of Investigation insist that although Egyptian immigrant Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet went to the El-Al Airline ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport intending to kill people, "his motive remains unclear." The response thus far in the United States and abroad to these July Fourth killings is reminiscent of the tale of the five blind men and the elephant, each man groping a different part of the animal and insisting on a different beast.</p>

<p>Suicide hasn't been ruled out as a motive for an Irvine man's Fourth of July outburst that left him and two others dead.</p> <p>In the year before he gunned down two people and injured three others at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, Irvine limousine driver Hesham Mohamed Hadayet told a client that he was nearly broke and needed money.</p>

FONT face="Courier, Times New Roman"> Friday, July 5, 2002Report Links LAX Shooter to Egyptian Jihad Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who killed two people Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport, was a radical Muslim extremist involved in terrorism, the respected Israeli intelligence Web site DEBKA.com reported today. "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 and Ramzi Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first attack on the New York World Trade...

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...

The Egyptian-born gunman who shot dead two people at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles airport had been trying to force a neighbour to take down an American flag raised after September 11, it emerged yesterday.The US authorities yesterday identified the man as Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old limousine driver who was killed by Israeli security agents during the attack. The facts have heightened suspicions that the shootings were a terrorist attack timed to coincide with America's Fourth of July celebrations.The FBI was last night trying to determine whether Hadayet was acting alone. Egyptian Islamic groups said he...

<p>New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly says the Fourth of July incident at Los Angeles International Airport, in which an Egyptian man shot and killed two persons at the ticket counter of Israel's El Al airline, "could very well" have been an act of terrorism.</p>

<p>The man who killed two persons at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4 gained legal residence in the United States through a limited amnesty program that has since expired but that President Bush and Democrats in Congress want to reopen.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON – The Egyptian immigrant who launched the deadly attack at LAX on the Fourth of July was able to use a since-expired provision of immigration law and remain in the United States while his green card was being processed, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said Tuesday.</p>

Israel calls it 'an act of terrorism' Was LAX gunman trying to kill Peres granddaughter? By Published 7/5/02 12:30:00 PM Hesham Mohamed Hadayet LOS ANGELES -- Israel calls the shooting at Los Angeles International Airport a terrorist event but U.S. investigators say they are unsure. Egypitan limousine driver Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, began shooting people in front of the El Al airline ticket counter yesterday. A security guard shot and killed Hadayet. A drivers licence found by police listed his birthday as July 4, 1961, as well as a second birthdate. Los Angeles Police and the F.B.I. are searching...

<p>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.</p>

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....

Terror & Denial [at LAX] by Daniel Pipes New York Post July 9, 2002 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/431 http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/52004.htm 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 -...

Hadayat met al-Qaida's No. 2 man twice Airport terrorist linked to al-Zawahiri, Egyptian Islamic Jihad While the FBI is still debating whether Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, the Egyptian who shot up an El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, was a terrorist, an Arabic newspaper in London reports he met twice with Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant and a leader of the Egyptian Jihad Islami terror group. The Arabic London-based Al Hayat reported Sunday that Hadayat was a member of the Egyptian Jihad Islami and met al-Zawahiri twice in California – once in 1995 and again...

With rumors swirling of a possible link to the al-Qaida terrorist network, the FBI insisted Monday that investigators still don't know why Hesham Mohamed Hadayet went on an Independence Day shooting rampage at LAX. ONLINE EXTRA Recent stories on the shooting at LAX:• Outpouring of grief for 2 shot to death in LAX attack• Arab-Americans fear backlash• Jewish leaders urge calm• Airport security to be boosted• Victims mourned across Valley• LAX shooter full of anger• Local man slain, father of eight• El Al security tops in industry• 3 dead at LAX IN MEMORY Memorial funds have been created to...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The FBI appeared on Tuesday to be moving closer to establishing a motive for an Egyptian limousine driver's deadly July 4 shooting at Los Angeles airport, saying investigators may have "significant developments" in the case later in the week.A Muslim community leader helping authorities dig up information about Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 46, said the FBI was preparing a first-round analysis of the information gleaned from early interviews and evidence."That's where they put all the pieces together and look into the totality," Salam al Marayati, director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, told Reuters. "It should...

<p>July 9, 2002 -- CAIRO, Egypt - The wife of an Egyptian man who killed two people at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4th said yesterday that he's innocent - and is being accused only because he's a "victim" of anti-Arab bias.</p>

AIRO, July 8 — The wife of an Egyptian immigrant who fatally shot two people on the Fourth of July at Los Angeles International Airport said today that she could find no reason for the shooting. "There is no motive that would make him do such a thing," the woman, Hala el-Awadly, said in a telephone interview. "He is a quiet person who lived his life in peace. He carried no hatred for anyone, and he was never aggressive nor violent, never." American law enforcement officials have said her husband, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, went to the counter of...

True, we still don't know everything about Hesham Mohammed Hadayet, the murderer who shot and killed two people and wounded several others in front of the El Al counter at the Los Angeles airport. But even if we still don't have much technical information about his involvement in organized terrorism, we do know enough to make a moral judgment that should bring anyone to his senses. Israel has suffered hundreds, nay, thousands of terrorist attacks – suicide and non-suicide – over the last several months. Europe and the rest of the world have witnessed thousands of assaults against Jewish targets....

Today I went to the residence of the man who gunned down the two innocent citizens at LAX on July 4, 2002 to see what kind of story I could bring back to Free Republic. This is my story. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet lived in a newer, tree-lined, well-maintained, family-friendly but very quiet apartment complex in Irvine, California. His apartment is on the ground floor, on the corner of the building, near the entrance to the complex. There is an apartment on top of his unit, to the side of his unit, and to the back of his unit. There was...

<p>IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - The neighbors of gunman Hesham Mohamed Hadayet knew him as a quiet man with a friendly young son, but also as someone offended by a large patriotic American display.</p> <p>Hadayet, 41, who also went by the last name Ali, was shot dead by an airline security guard at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday after he opened fire at an El Al airline ticket counter, killing two people and injuring four.</p>

Al-Hayat: LAX gunman may have met with bin Laden deputy >P> The victims of Thursday's shooting attack in Los Angeles International Airport. Authorities are investigating whether Hesham Mohammed Hadayet, the Egyptian who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport last Thursday, met in the United States with Osama bin Laden's deputy, an Arabic paper reported at the weekend. The London-based Al-Hayat said that authorities were checking whether Hadayet had met with Ayman Al-Zawahiri in 1995 and again in 1998, while the latter was head of the Al-Jihad organization in Egypt. Al-Zawahiri, who visited California in 1998, went on...

Hesham Mohamed Hadayat was no stranger to El Al’s Los Angeles airport office. According to DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources, the man who murdered two Israelis on the El Al ticket line at Los Angeles airport on July 4th worked for the American Mercury ground service company from 1993 (one year after he arrived in the US) until 1998, when he left to set up his own limousine service for air passengers. Exactly what he did at Mercury is vague, but during his five years in their employ, this former bank clerk from Cairo was free to move around Los Angeles international...

The gunman who killed two Israelis during his Independence Day rampage at Los Angeles International Airport may have ties to Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man, an Arabic-language newspaper reported yesterday.Although FBI officials have yet to label Egyptian-born gunman Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's murderous attack an act of terrorism, the London-based newspaper Al Hayat reported yesterday that Hadayet may have met twice — in 1995 and 1998 — with Ayman al-Zawahiri, a key Bin Laden strategist.Al-Zawahiri, who's on the U.S. most-wanted list and is believed to be alive, visited California in 1998, when he was leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.Two...

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 and Ramzi Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first attack on the...

CAIRO, 8 July — The wife of Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian accused of attacking El Al check-in counter in Los Angeles, stated yesterday that her husband was a victim of injustice. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News, Hala Muhammad Sadek Al-Awadley emphatically denied reports that Hadayet attacked the Israeli airline’s office. In her first interview after the incident on Thursday, Hala said her husband was not in a position to carry a gun. “He was not enlisted in the Egyptian Army being the only son of his father,” she explained. Hala said she had traveled...

LA gunman had money problems, says family Cairo 07 July 2002 09:46 The family of the Egyptian gunman, who went on a shooting spree at the LA airport's El Al ticketing counter, said Saturday they believed he was motivated by financial problems with the Israeli airline, and not by politics or terrorism. In the first official Egyptian reaction to the shooting, Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher also said he believed Hisham Mohammed Hadayet, who killed two people before he was gunned down, was carrying out a personal grudge. "Egyptian security services on Friday told the father of Hisham Mohammed Hadayet...

<p>Armed guards, including undercover officers, will patrol public areas after attack at LAX's El Al site.</p> <p>Armed police officers, some working undercover, will be deployed near ticket counters and other public areas of airports nationwide in response to this week's deadly Independence Day shooting by an Irvine man at Los Angeles International Airport, federal officials said Saturday.</p>

<p>July 7, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - The special authorization that the FBI and Secret Service granted El Al security agents years ago to carry weapons while protecting passengers and planes proved rewarding Thursday in Los Angeles.</p> <p>Some Western European and Asian countries have refused repeated Israeli requests to allow armed guards on the state airline to protect passengers while on foreign soil, insisting that their own police can do the job.</p>