[AmericanInTokyo]

The newspapers around the world, particularly in the Arab world, are breaking with the story of the reported American citizen, Ahmad (Ahmed) Hijazi (with a number of aliases) who reportedly was in the car with five others, which was obliterated by CIA drone in Yemen east of Saana, in the desert. Other web reports show Hijazi was a fugitive and was also an al-Qaeda trained terrorist, and to top this off, WAS AN AMERICAN-CITIZEN & COLLEGE STUDENT IN LIBERAL CALIFORNIA.

Anyone care to theorize that there are even MORE California-nurtured "Johnny Jihads" out there?

[Ben Hecks]

Be back later bump.

[LoneGOPinCT]

He was a typical California student.

In more ways than one. One less piece of $hit littering the landscape.

[Roscoe]

Was he driving?

[Travis McGee]

DEPORT THE MUSLIM TERRORISTS!

[aShepard]

His face is familiar, but I cannot remember anything about him,” said Ayad Alqazzaz, who taught a sociology class taken by Hijazi in the 1989 winter inter-session

Ah, another Kalifornia rag-head teaching the religion of peace!

[xm177e2]

We just killed an American citizen!

This is terrible! We're going to have to put up with whining from the lefties for days...

[Ranger]

Important. I need some memory help. The husband and wife that owned the apartment/condo in Malaysia that the important terrorist meeting occurred in. I can't remember their names, but if memory serves they were both students at Cal. State in Sacremento. Could someone with a better memory for names try to track this group down and see if there is a cross over in time with this guy? Also they were the sponsor into the U.S. of the 20th hijacker that was nabbed and on trial up in Minnesota. I did a lot of research of them last summer and posted the findings on FR, but can't seem to reference it now.

[Pagey]

Mohamed Hamada, president of the Sac State Muslim Student Association said "Mosques don’t send people to other countries"

No, but Muslims do 'Talk' on the property of a mosque and it sure isn't beyond the realm of possibility,Mr. Hamada, that since the Taliban were in Afghanistan,that he heard/learned he could find funding for terrorism to begin his Jihad there, you freaking dope. How many more are Walking among us,in Colleges,in Supermarkets and at the Car-wash,huh? Too G.D. many is my reply. Not enough people talk about the possibility of those numbers......

[aristeides]

He was a typical California student.

LOL!

[Revolting cat!]

"a typical American."

A typical American? Named Ahmad (Ahmed) Hijazi? I don't think so! Real Americans have names like Mario Puzo, Jesus Gonzalez, Ted Kaczynski, Elvis Stojko, Rudy Giuliani, Geraldo Rivera, Steve Wozniak, Jean-Louis Gassee, shall I continue?

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

This should happen to anyone who's on the wrong side of us.EAT A MISSLE!

[tutstar]

I don't think there would be much theorizing to do, it is probably fact.

[rstevens]

Ironically, they didn't need a body bag for him. There wasn't nothing left of him but a stain on the road.

He was sentenced in 2000 to death. Execution took place last week.

[MattAMiller]

Ah my Alma Mater.

Sac State is the same place that booed that twit newspaper publisher off the stage when she suggested that the media should be reporting Special Forces movements. It isn't that bad.

There is a very large Muslim student population there. But this is true of most state scools. Blame the laws that let them in and let them into the country and attend college on the tax payers dime.

[pabianice]

He returned in the fall, took 15 units, withdrew from one class and finished the semester with a 1.65 grade point average. That fall marked the end of the 21-year-old’s studies at Sac State and, like so many other students, he faded into oblivion without appearing in the college yearbook or in the alumni directory...

Before PC, it was called "flunking-out."

[Libertina]

LOLOL A typical California college student...who finished with a 1.65 grade point average. Sheesh

[MissAmericanPie]

He was a typical California student. A typical American. Ain't that a kick in the head.

What was he doing free as a bird and in a car that was blown up if he had been captured and sentenced to die?

[ApesForEvolution]

Bye-bye Johnnie Hijazi....BOOM!!

[AmericanInTokyo]

From Middle East Online just a short time ago....INTERESTING back tracking by the US Goverment over "Hijazi". Now they cannot confirm much further about him, and the seem to be a bit cagey about the information. Interesting read:

"Boston Yemeni Killed in Missile Strike (Is) US National US officials confirm Ahmad Hijazi killed in CIA-led missile strike against al-Qaeda members in Yemen is US national. WASHINGTON - One of six people killed in Yemen in a CIA-led missile strike against suspected al-Qaeda members was a US citizen, The Washington Post said Friday quoting a senior US officials. Identified as Ahmad Hijazi, the US national was not born in the United States but resided here for an unknown time. He was also a citizen of an unidentified Middle Eastern country, said the official who was not named. On Thursday, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said he was not yet able to confirm the report out of Yemen. "We don't have enough information to determine whether this name is a particular American or not," he said. (But) Yemeni security sources on Thursday had identified Hijazi as one of the six men killed when the vehicle they were travelling in exploded in eastern Yemen on Sunday, in an operation attributed to the Central Intelligence Agency. The man was described as the leader of a group of six suspected Al-Qaeda associates arrested near Buffalo, New York, in September, CBS News reported. The vehicle was reportedly destroyed by a missile fired by a pilotless CIA drone aircraft that had been tracking it, according to media reports that were later implicitly confirmed by US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. The State Department said it had indefinitely closed the US embassy in Sanaa, fearing reports of Washington's involvement in the missile strike may spark retaliatory attacks. The Yemeni sources said Hijazi and the other five were "dangerous elements" of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network wanted for "involvement in terrorist acts that harmed the national interests of Yemen." The highest-ranking of the six, Ali Qaeda Sunian al-Harithi, also known as Abu Ali, was main instigator of the terrorist acts, the sources said. US defense officials on Monday named Harithi as a key planner of the suicide attack on the USS Cole in October 2000 in the Yemeni port city of Aden that left 17 American sailors dead.