-Caveat Lector- > http://jewishworldreview.com/0702/pipes.html > > Jewish World Review July 9, 2002 / 29 Tamuz, 5762 > > > A 'work dispute' at LAX? > > By Daniel Pipes > > http://www.jewishworldreview.com | > > On the 4th of July last week, an Egyptian > immigrant to the United States who believes > in wild conspiracy theories about Jews, is > known for his great "hate for Israel," and has possible ties > to Al-Qaeda, > armed himself to the teeth and assaulted the Israeli airline > counter at Los > Angeles International Airport, killing two. > > It is obvious why Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet targeted Jews > in a highly > visible place on so prominent a date: to engage in terrorism > against Israel. > > But one important institution - the U.S. > government - claims > not to know Hadayet's goals. An FBI spokesman > has said > that "there's nothing to indicate terrorism." > Another FBI > official said of Hadayet: "It appears he went > there with the > intention of killing people. Why he did that > we are still trying > to determine." Possible causes named include a > work > dispute and a hate crime. > > Sure, law enforcement should not jump to conclusions, but > this > head-in-the-clouds approach is ridiculous. It also fits a > well-established > pattern. Consider three cases of terrorism in the New York > City area: > > Rashid Baz, a Lebanese cab driver with a known hatred > for all things > Israeli and Jewish, armed himself to the teeth in March > 1994 and drove > around the city looking for a Jewish target. He found > his victims - a van > full of Hassidic boys - on the Brooklyn Bridge and fired > a hail of bullets > against them, killing one boy. And how did the FBI > classify this crime? > As "road rage." Only because the murdered boy's mother > relentlessly > fought this false description did the bureau finally in > 2000 re-classify > the murder as "the crimes of a terrorist." > > Ali Hasan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian gunman hailing from > militant Islamic > circles in Florida, took a gun to the top of the Empire > State building in > February 1997 and shot a tourist there. His suicide note > accused the > United States of using Israel as its "instrument" > against the Palestinians > but city officials ignored this evidence and instead > dismissed Abu > Kamal as either "one deranged individual working on his > own" (Police > Commissioner Howard Safir) or a "man who had many, many > enemies > in his mind" (Mayor Rudolph Giuliani). > > Gamil al-Batouti, an EgyptAir copilot, yelled "I put my > faith in G-d's > hands" as he crashed a plane leaving Kennedy airport in > October > 1999, killing 217. Under Egyptian pressure, the National > Transportation > Safety Board report shied away from once mentioning > Batouti's > possible terrorist motives. > > And despite all the "world-has-changed" rhetoric > following the horrors > of last September, Western officialdom continues to > pretend terrorism > away. > > Damir Igric, a Croat immigrant from the former > Yugoslavia, used a box > cutter to slash the neck of a Greyhound bus driver in > Tennessee last > October, causing the bus to roll over, killing six > passengers and > himself. Although this bus-hijacking scenario echoed > similar attacks by > Palestinians on Israeli buses, the FBI immediately > classified it "an > isolated incident" and not an act of terrorism. The > media attributed the > violence to post-traumatic stress syndrome. > > Hassan Jandoubi, an Islamist with possible connections > to Al-Qaeda, > had started working at the AZF fertilizer factory in > suburban Toulouse, > France, just days before a massive explosion took place > there last > Sept. 21. This, the worst catastrophe ever in a French > chemical plant, > killed Jandoubi and 29 others, injured 2,000, destroyed > 600 dwellings, > and damaged 10,000 buildings. The autopsy revealed that > Jandoubi > was wearing two pairs of trousers and four pairs of > underpants, which > the coroner compared to what is worn by "Islamic > militants going into > battle or on suicide missions." > > Also, the chemical plant was processing ammonium nitrate, a > stable > chemical that requires a substantial infusion of energy to > explode. Ignoring > these signs, the French authorities declared there was "no > shred of > evidence" of the explosion being a terrorist act and ruled > it an accident. > They even prosecuted two publications merely for calling > Jandoubi a > "radical Islamist," making them pay tens of thousands of > dollars in fines to > Jandoubi's heirs, a mosque, and a Muslim organization for > their "defamation" > of Jandoubi. > > Work dispute, hate crime, road rage, derangement, > post-traumatic stress, > industrial accident ... these expressions of denial obstruct > effective > counterterrorism. The time has come for governments to catch > up with the > rest of us and call terrorism by its rightful > name. > > > JWR contributor Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East > Forum and > the author of several books, most recently Conspiracy: How > the Paranoid > Style Flourishes and Where It Comes from. Comment by > clicking here. > > > � 2002, Daniel Pipes
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