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Pastimes : DC Sniper - Theories? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LPS5 who wrote (800)	10/15/2002 1:32:49 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 2746

i read that article too... <snippet> For some reason, officials and the media seem loath to tie these types of things together. For example, when Hesham Mohammed Ali Hadayet, an Egyptian living in Irvine, California, took a gun to an El Al ticket counter at LAX last July 4 and began shooting patrons before himself being brought down by airline-security guards, the initial reports and official statements said there was "no link" to terrorism. Hello? Egyptian guy shoots up Israeli airline counter — wouldn't the prudent working assumption be that it was somehow related to the current unpleasantness? Later of course, it turned out that Hadayet had a history of anti-Israeli beliefs and was sent over the edge by being confronted daily by a Marine Corps banner one of his neighbors had hung from a balcony over his apartment. He may not have been under marching orders from bin Laden, but the organizing principle of al Qaeda is to motivate people to take independent action for the cause whenever possible. Whether or not his actions were "linked" to terrorism, they were terrorism, and were intended to be so. i'm totally open to any theory at this point. and certainly not willing to discount the fact that the sniper attacks are coinciding with the new al quaeda offensive.