-Caveat Lector-
From: David Bier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Spy News, Global Observer
The attached article pins it down pretty well that
Hashem Mohamed Hadayat,
who killed two persons at the Los Angeles Airport on
July 4th, was a
terrorist for Egyptian Jihad, whose leader, Dr.
Zawahiri, is also a senior
leader of Al Qaeda.. Hadayat had been working
undercover in the U.S. with
possibly one previous mission, involving the October,
1999 killing of an
Egyptian military team (that had just finished command
and control training
that would permit more effective anti-terror operations
against Egyptian
Jihad and other terrorists in Egypt), already
successfully accomplished.
Thus, the action has to be assumed a terrorist event
even though it is odd
that it occurred as a singleton event, vice part of an
orchestrated series
by Egyptian Jihad and Al Qaeda. Such a series of
attacks has been expected
during this critical U.S. holiday period but so far has
not happened even
though Al Qaeda moved about 100 fighters into the U.S.
in April, May and
June.
One must marvel at Hadayat's calmness of mind. First,
he made sure that his
family was safely in Egypt, arriving there ten days
before. Then, on
Thursday, while in the final stages of initiating an
action that most
certainly would mean his death, he took time out
(according to news reports)
to call his father in Egypt to permit his father to
extend birthday
greetings to him. His conversation with his father was
very cordial;
revealing nothing of what he intended to do a short
time later.
A dedicated, committed terrorist putting in another day
on the job.
Probably one of many undercover operatives put in place
in the U.S. by Al
Qaeda and its affiliated groups. Some of them foreign
nationals like Hadayat
and others U.S. citizens who were part of the estimated
1,000 to 2,000
"jihadists" coming from Wahhabi-financed U.S. mosques
who went to Pakistan
and then on into Afghanistan for training in the last
several years.
As I have said many times, the war on terror is going
to be a long one
fought on many fronts, one of which may be down your
street...or mine.
David Bier
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Counter Terror Sources:
Hadayat Belonged to Egyptian Jihad al Qaeda's
Operational Arm
5 July:
Hashem Mohamed Hadayat, 41, who gunned down Yakov
Aminov, 46, and Vicky Hen,
25 - both from Los Angeles - on the 4th of July at the
El Al terminal of Los
Angeles, and wounded 7 others, is revealed by
DEBKAfile's intelligence and
counter-terror sources as a Muslim extremist.
During his ten years in the United States, he was
a secret operative of
the Egyptian Jihad who maintained undercover links to
the same Jihad cell in
Brooklyn, New York, as the "blind sheikh" Abdul Rahim
Rahman and Ramzi
Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first
attack on the New
York World Trade Center in 1993.
Hadayat is also believed to have abetted a previous,
contrived airline
disaster:
On October 31, 1999, an Egyptair Boeing 767 Flight
990, which also took
off from Los Angeles airport for Kennedy, New York.
After Kennedy, the plane
bound for Cairo plunged into the Atlantic off the
Nantucket Island, Mass.
coast, killing all 217 passengers and crew. In a
special probe, the US
National Transportation Safety Board found that the
copilot Gameel
el-Batouty was at the controls when the plane went into
its dive. His voice
was recorded shouting,
"I put my faith in Allah!"
The report held back from referring more directly
to the Egyptian
copilot's responsibility for the crash.
Our sources affirm that Hadayat, who lived in Irvine,
California, 70 km
south of Los Angeles, knew Batouty well. There are also
indications that, in
the years 1998 and 1999, Hadayat was in touch with a
group of high Egyptian
air force officers and helicopter pilots posted at the
time at Edwards Base
north of Los Angeles. They were there to learn how to
install command and
control centers in Egypt's air defense systems, operate
anti-air missile
batteries and fly Apache gunships.
Most of those officers were on the doomed Egyptian
airliner after
completing their courses. Although the long-delayed US
Transportation Board
report never referred to the presence of this high-
ranking Egyptian air
force delegation on the flight, DEBKAfile 's Washington
sources reported at
the time that most of the investigators were satisfied
that Batouty could
not have seized control of the Boeing 767 without the
aid - certainly the
compliance - of those officers.
Two years ago, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak exerted
all his influence on
President Clinton to keep the federal board's findings
out of its published
report and, above all, the fact that a group of
Egyptian air force officers
was on the plane. He warned that citing the Egyptian
copilot as deliberately
causing the crash would have a negative effect on
Egyptian-US relations.
The report therefore fell short of clear conclusions.
Hadayat's murderous attack on El Al flight 106
passengers p
