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There is little doubt that Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian limo driver who has lived in the U.S. for 10 years, went to the Los Angeles airport last week with the intent to kill. Especially this year, when terrorist fireworks for the Fourth of July were being imagined in every crowded place, no ordinary traveler would show up at any U.S. airport carrying two handguns, a 6-in. hunting knife and a supply of fresh ammunition. Hadayet's attack left two dead and at least three wounded before he was gunned down...
...terrifying, but was it terrorism? Was it politically motivated? Part of a well-planned conspiracy? Or was it the action of one angry man acting alone? First Hadayet killed Victoria Hen, 25, who was working at the ticket counter. Then he spun around and shot to death Jacob Aminov, a 46-year-old diamond importer and father of eight who was standing nearby, seeing off friends. This kind of attack--gunfire into an airport crowd--is one of the terror scenarios that El Al security guards train for most frequently. Almost at once, one of them tackled Hadayet with...
...Israelis, who have experienced other airport attacks, Hadayet's assault looked pretty plainly like an act of terrorism. "It was conducted in a way that reminds us of many previous attacks," says Yuval Rotem, Israel's consul general in Los Angeles. The FBI has been more cautious about categorizing the episode. Hadayet was not on any law-enforcement watch lists. At this early stage of the investigation, FBI officials speculate that he may have been depressed about personal problems. They want to know more about why police were once called to his apartment complex in Irvine, Calif., 44 miles south...
Neighbors in Irvine describe Hadayet as a quiet man who was married to an outgoing and friendly woman. "I saw about 80% more of her than I did of him," says Dan Danielewicz. "He seemed friendly, but maybe a little awkward because he wasn't as proficient at the language or not as acclimatized as the wife and kids." But Hadayet had also recently complained to the management of his apartment complex about his upstairs neighbor. After Sept. 11 the neighbor had hung a U.S. flag and a Marine Corps flag from the balcony of his apartment, above Hadayet...
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