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Friday April 18, 2003

FBI calls Los Angeles attacker lone terrorist

LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- The shooting deaths of two Israeli-Americans at Los Angeles International Airport last year was an act of t
The FBI findings about the July 4 shooting rampage at an El Al ticket counter by Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, which claimed the lives

After waffling for months over Hadayet's motives and whether to classify the attack as terrorism -- to the frustration of the victims' families and Israeli officials -- the FBI in its report concludes that the Egyptian immigrant methodically planned the killings to express his anger over Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

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