Kesher Talk

FBI wakes up and admits it might have just smelled some coffee: The AP reported yesterday that the FBI is "investigating the July 4 double killing at Los Angeles International Airport as possible terrorism even though there's no evidence linking the alleged shooter to any terrorist group, a spokesman said Tuesday." Justice Department officials "have said all along that terrorism was among several possible motives for the attack at an Israeli airline counter, and investigators were looking for evidence the shooter, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, had terror group connections. But until now the FBI had not publicly characterized the probe as a terrorism investigation." The Israeli government "has called the event a terror attack since it occurred, and Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and other members of Congress had complained about the FBI's reluctance to characterize it that way." Matt McLaughlin, spokesman for the FBI's Los Angeles field office, said, "The shooting is being classified as a terrorism investigation. If there is the slightest chance it could be terrorism, you open it up as a terrorism investigation. It's the only prudent course of action."

posted by Howard @ 9/04/2002 09:00:00 AM