Saturday, July 06, 2002 "READ KORAN": That's the bumper sticker long affixed to Hesham Hadyat's front door - put there again the day of the killing (and then removed). He was angry that Old Glory was being flown from the apartment window above him after September 11. Employees say he was virulently anti-Israel. He went to LAX with the intent of killing - and somehow he missed the Delta counter and ended up at El Al. And we're supposed to think that "so far we have no indication of any type of prejudice against any particular organization or nationality." What planet are these FBI denialists on? It's irrelevant whether Hadyat was connected to official terrorist groups. In fact, if he is unconnected, his Jew-killing is more troubling. He is simply responding to the hate that the Arab and Muslim world has been stoking against Jews for decades. He needed no official instruction to tell him to kill Jews and Israelis. He wasn't poor: he was a prosperous immigrant who drove a Mercedes. The only instruction he needed was affixed to his door: "Read Koran." Why should we be surprised when, under the current circumstances and stoked by the new anti-Semitism from the Arab world and Europe, Hadyat took the Koran's injunction to kill Jews literally? And when is our government and p.c. media going to recognize we have a problem here? Can you imagine if a white supremacist had shown up at an African airline counter and killed blacks? Would anyone be "puzzled" about the motive? - 12:00:06 PM

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2002

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my guess is they don't want to get people upset about it. Not that many would, they'd just change the channel or turn the page.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2002

The part of me that likes conspiracies is whispering that the shooter was meant to be a distraction while other terrorists carried out a larger plot, which was, hopefully, bungled.

The more logical part of me is whispering that this guy was just another nut with a gun who flipped out.

The truth? I don't think we're going to know for awhile, yet.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2002

if ever...

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2002