-Caveat Lector- > Al-Hayat: LAX gunman may have met with bin Laden deputy > > By Zohar Blumenkrantz and Benny Landau, Ha'aretz > Correspondents, Ha'aretz Service and > agencies > > July 7, 2002 > > 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 official > soon after opening fire on the crowd of > people queuing at the ticket counter of Israel's national > carrier. > > The U.S. government had started deportation proceedings in > 1996 against Hadayet but he > gained U.S. residency the following year when his wife > received a valid visa, officials said > Saturday. > > It wasn't clear what caused the Immigration and > Naturalization Service to reject Hadayet's first > petition for residency and begin the deportation process, > INS spokesman Francisco Arcaute > said. > > A year later, in 1997, Hadayet was granted permanent > resident status because his wife, Hala, > had become a permanent resident, Arcaute said. The INS > allows foreign nationals to work and > live in the United States if they have a relative who is a > U.S. citizen or permanent resident. > > Hadayet's uncle, Hassan Mostaffa Mahfouz, told The > Associated Press in Egypt that Hadayet > was happy in the United States and had only about a year > remaining before he qualified for > U.S. citizenship. > > "I don't believe what happened," Mahfouz said. > > The two people killed in the attack at El Al's ticket > counter at Los Angeles International Airport > were identified as Ya'akov Aminov, 47, and El Al stewardess > Vicky Chen, both of them residents > of Los Angeles, Israel Radio reported Friday morning. > > Egypt FM surprised at furor over El Al shooting > Egypt's foreign minister expressed surprise Saturday at the > furor over a deadly attack by an > Egyptian national at Los Angeles airport, saying the motives > were still unclear and similar > incidents occurred frequently. > > Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) said > Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher > told reporters in Cairo that such incidents occur repeatedly > in the United States and other > countries and said he was surprised by the exaggeration of > this event in particular. > > "Until now, nobody knows the motives behind this incident. > We have to await the outcome of the > current investigations so that we can review them," MENA > quoted Maher as saying. > > Egypt's semi-official al-Ahram daily said Saturday that > local security authorities had no > information on record about Hadayet and there was no > evidence he had any links to extremist > activities when he lived in Egypt. > > Ex-employee tells NY Times: Hadayet 'had hate for Israel' > In an interview to The New York Times published Saturday, a > former employee of Hadayet that > he "often heard his boss express virulent anti-Israeli > sentiments." > > Hadayet "had hate for Israel, for sure," Syrian-born Abdul > Zahab told The New York Times. "He > told me that the Israelis tried to destroy the Egyptian > nation and the Egyptian population by > sending prostitutes with AIDS to Egypt. He said that the two > biggest drug dealers in New York > are Israeli." > > The FBI said Friday it had no indication suggesting that the > attack was an act of terrorism, but > said the gunman's motive was still unclear. > > "He was not on any FBI or FAA watch list," FBI agent Richard > Garcia told a news conference. > He added that authorities still had several days work to do > "to determine whether this person > acted in an act of terrorism." > > "We have not determined whether he had any anti-Israeli > views," Garcia said, adding that it was > still "very difficult to determine the exact motive" for the > shooting. > > The FBI said earlier that Hadayet apparently was not > connected to any terror organizations, and > probably acted on his own. > > * Find this article at: > > >http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=184061&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0
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