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When Your Doctor is a Muslim: Medical Terrorism Comes to America By Debbie Schlussel www.debbieschlussel.com May 17, 2007 Sometimes--so many times--diversity is not what it's cracked up to be. Just ask Joseph Applebaum. Well, you could ask him. But you won't get an answer. He's dead. And he's dead because he was a Jew, and his doctor is a Muslim and grad of "Ayman Al-Zawahiri" Medical School. But Applebaum wasn't denied treatment for being a Jew in Egypt. Or elsewhere in the Muslim world. It happened right here on U.S. soil. In Chicago. As Muslim doctors continue to flood into...

Terrorism: Three years ago, we speculated that a deadly shooting at LAX was a terrorist act. But political and cultural sensitivity caused authorities and the media to play down the terror angle. Is this happening again? [snip] But we flashed back to July 4, 2002, when an Egyptian man shot and killed two people and wounded three at an Israeli airline ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. It took a while before authorities could bring themselves to call it a terrorist act. So far, the big media have laid off Hinrichs' death. Apparently the fact that he was on...

<p>A task force of federal agents has ratcheted up a two-year-old antiterrorism investigation aimed at several Virginia-based Islamic charities suspected of diverting millions of dollars to terror network al Qaeda and other militant radicals.</p> <p>Led by agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Internal Revenue Service and the FBI, the task-force probe has targeted a number of people tied to several private companies and interrelated Islamic charities operating out of business fronts in Herndon and Falls Church.</p>

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....

(NOTE: SALIM MUWAKKIL is a senior editor at In These Times, a contributing columnist to the Chicago Tribune and a Crime and Communities Media Fellow of the Open Society Institute. This article is due to be published on 3/15). WHEN THE DEADLY TOXIN RICIN WAS FOUND February 3 in the mailroom of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), there was no change in Homeland Security colors. Although biological attacks on the apparatus of government are a veritable shortcut to domestic insecurity, they don't register on the chromatic terrorism scale. Americans have been trained to disassociate such attacks from the war...

<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>

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...

SEATTLE - NBC News is reporting that the Space Needle in Seattle - a high-profile landmark in America's Pacific Northwest - was apparently a target for al-Qaida terrorists. U.S. officials tell NBC News evidence found in Afghanistan uncovered plans to attack the high-profile Space Needle along with other monuments in Washington State, including massive hydroelectric dams, like the Grand Coulee. According to the NBC News report, plans were also found that targeted the Los Angeles International Airport for a second time. An earlier plot to bomb the airport was foiled two years ago when convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam was arrested ...

<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>

<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>

Communications intercepts by U.S. intelligence agencies indicate that the July 4th attack on El Al Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport may have been an al Qaeda dry run in preparation for a larger attack, two members of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security said Sunday. Asked on CNN's "Late Edition" whether the committee had developed any information linking LAX shooter Mohamed Hedayet to al Qaeda, ranking Democrat Jane Harman, D-Calif., described a meeting she attended at LAX last Monday, where FBI and Transportation Security Administration officials revealed that "chatter" monitored by U.S. investigators pointed to a...

[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...

A gunman who killed two people before he was shot dead by El Al security staff at Los Angeles International Airport has been identified unofficially as an Egyptian who had been resident in the United States for 10 years.US authorities were at odds with the Israeli Government, which owns El Al, over a motive for the attack on Thursday.The FBI said it was an isolated incident and it was not seeking other suspects. CNN quoted an unnamed White House source as saying, "There is no other intelligence that would speak [of terrorism] ... we don't have anything to suggest this...

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...

Now why would our F.B.I. cover up the terrorist attack at LAX? I mean they tell us we will be attacked and then we are attacked and then they say this was not a terrorist attack. Now why would our F.B.I. cover up the terrorist attack at LAX? The PEOPLE WHO WERE ATTACKED knows what it was and IT WAS a TERRORIST ATTACK. We are either being played for fools or the terrorist just maybe are within the FBI. We know the democrats are terrorist helpers so maybe just maybe the FBI HAS BEEN SUBVERTED TOO! Just a question for...

<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>

<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>

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian immigrant, was shot and killed after a shooting spree at Los Angeles International Airport. (FBI/ABCNEWS.com) Intending to Kill FBI Says Gunman Went to LAX Ready to Kill; Investigators Still Seek Motive L O S A N G E L E S, July 5 — The Egyptian immigrant who killed two people and wounded three others in a shooting at an Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport came to LAX intending to kill people, investigators believe.

CAIRO, Egypt –– Police questioned the father and wife of the Egyptian who shot two people dead at Los Angeles airport, security guards at the father's apartment building said Friday. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, opened fire in Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, killing two people at Israel's El Al ticket counter before being shot and killed by an airline guard. More...

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - Neighbors of airport gunman Hesham Mohamed Hadayet knew him as being quiet, but recalled he complained when a neighbor put up a large flag after Sept. 11. Hadayet, a 41-year-old limousine driver, was shot to death by an El Al security guard at Los Angeles International Airport after he opened fire at the Israeli airline's ticket counter on the Fourth of July, killing two people. Hadayet, an Egyptian who also went by the last name Ali, came to the United States 10 years ago. He ended up living with his wife and two sons, 8 and...

CAIRO, July 6 (AFP) - The family of the Egyptian gunman believed to have opened fire on an El Al check-in counter in Los Angeles airport said Saturday that financial problems with the Israeli airline could be behind the incident. "Egyptian security services affirmed Friday to the father of (suspected gunman) Hisham Mohammed Hadayet that the incident was due to financial problems with El Al," cousin Emad al-Omda told AFP. Al-Omda said that the Israeli airline had been late in paying for two limousines that it had rented from Hadayet's service. "We are sure that he had no connection...

Former Hadayet employee says the gunman hated Israelis Los Angeles - The Egyptian immigrant who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport drew little attention during the 10 years he lived in the United States before his attack at the El Al ticket counter.Officers went to Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's apartment in Irvine, Calif., on a domestic dispute call six years ago, but he was not prosecuted. And nothing else in Irvine police files hinted at the violence he unleashed Thursday, on his 41st birthday. The FBI said Hadayet went to the El Al counter intending to kill people,...

<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.

TEL AVIV — Executives at Israel's El Al airlines are working on the assumption that the national air carrier came under separate terrorist attacks in both Russia and the United States on July 4. In Los Angeles, two people including at least one Israeli were killed and 17 others injured by a gunman at the El Al airlines counter at the city's international airport. The gunman was killed by an El Al security officer. Also on Thursday, an El Al pilot reported that missile was fired at his passenger jet during a flight to Russia. The missile missed the...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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 to become bin Laden's right-hand man. His current whereabouts are unknown. Hadayet, 41, was shot dead by an El Al security...

<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>

LOS ANGELES, Jul 06, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- The Egyptian immigrant who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport drew little attention during the 10 years he lived in the United States. However, an INS spokesman said the man's first petition for permanent residency had been denied. The Immigration and Naturalization Service rejected Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's request to remain in the country in February 1996, INS spokesman Ron Rogers said in Saturday's Orange County Register. It wasn't clear why. The agency began deportation procedures, but in 1997, Hadayet was granted permanent residency through his wife,...

INS Denied Residency to LAX Gunman ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES- The government had started deportation proceedings in 1996 against the Egyptian immigrant who gunned down two people at Los Angeles International Airport. But the following year, he gained U.S. residency because of his wife, officials said Saturday. It wasn't clear what caused the Immigration and Naturalization Service to reject Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's first petition for permanent residency, INS spokesman Francisco Arcaute said. The deportation process was started after that rejection, then was stopped when Hadayet gained residency in 1997 through his wife, Hala, who had received an immigration visa through...

<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>

<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 -...

Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R), CA. announced on the floor this evening that the LAX shooter, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, received his US citizenship under 245I, the Legal Immigration and Family equity Act signed by President Clinton. This Act allows illegal aliens to gain citizenship while in the US illegally. Representative Rohrabacher decried 245I and stated that US citizenship applicants' should be vetted in their home country where their personal records are available. He went on to say that if the LAX murderer had been deported instead of allowed to stay in the US under 245I, his two victims would still be...

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...

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...

<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>

<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...