- We don't have much time. The El Al counter murders in
Los Angeles are fast being covered up. Two days ago I presented preliminary
evidence suggesting that the "terror" attack, was in fact, a
bungled attempt to assassinate Shimon Peres' granddaughter. Peres inhabits
a world of murder, and he has at least since he organized the Rabin assassination
in 1995. His European circles want Israel to stop existing as a sovereign
state and he was to be their blunt instrument of destruction. But Peres
has been blackmailed over the Rabin murder and he has been mostly neutralized
in Israel. His controllers are most unhappy with what they view as his
betrayal of them and sought to exact vengeance against his beloved grandchild.
A wild scenario? Let us review the evidence two days later.
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- Translated from the Hebrew:
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- Arutz Sheva, Friday, July 5
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- The shooter first took deliberate aim at the El Al hostess
behind the counter, then turned back and shot at those in line.
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- Witnesses at the scene reported that the shooter did
not look Middle Eastern and he shouted, "Artie took my job, I lost
my job."
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- The FBI added that no employee named Artie had worked
recently for El Al in Los Angeles.
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- FROM Inyan Mercazi, [www.news-israel.net], a Hebrew website:
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- PERES' GRANDDAUGHTER WAS BESIDE THE COUNTER AT THE TIME
OF THE ATTACK.
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- Shimon Peres' granddaughter Michal Valden was right beside
the El Al counter at the time of the Los Angeles attack. Valden and her
(girl) friend were arranging to board the flight to Toronto and from there
return to Israel. The moment the attack begin, she called her family in
Israel to report on the incident. So it is no surprise that Shimon Peres
was the first to declare it a terror attack.
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- LA Attacker Claims Two Lives At El Al Desk (IsraelNN.com)
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- While FBI officials stated it was too early to know for
certain if it was a terror attack, Israeli security officials stated it
was being treated as an act of terror. Late last night, Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres stated with certainty it was a terror attack.
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- ***
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- THE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN BEGINS AND QUICKLY
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- ALL early reports of the shooting have a 52 year old
caucasian with a ponytail doing the deed. Since the blame fell on a 41
year old dark Egyptian named Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, rumors were spread
that the reports about a blonde man doing the shooting came from a caller
to CNN who pranked them. He was making a reference to the Howard Stern
Show, and gave a description of one Jackie "The Jokeman," a former
Stern sidekick. Then it became quickly clear that Hadayet had no criminal
background, was not known to belong to any political organizations and
was friendly to his Jewish neighbors. So a new picture was spread through
the highly iffy Debka.com that not only was Hadayet an active member of
Egyptian Jihad, the group that tried to knock down the World Trade Center
in 1990 but was bosom buddies with the Air Egypt co-pilot who allegedly
crashed his passenger jet into the Atlantic in 1999. My, my, such wide
circles. This morning, Israel radio announced, on top of all this, that
Hadayet was also a member of Hamas. The humble limo driver sure got around,
didn't he? Shall we try to cut through the lies and sort out the truth
through media reports and those of my brilliant correspondents? From Texas,
a diligent researcher has located Dr. David Parkus, who tried to revive
Hadayet:***
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- OK, I'm trying to figure this incident out: First, there
is only 1 "Parkus" in the Texas Dept. of Public Safety database
of driver's licenses (www.publicdata.com) and kevdb.infospace.com listing
of phone numbers:
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- David Parkus 3985 North St Beaumont, TX 77706 409-898-1302
(Beaumont is 100 miles east of Houston, on the Louisiana border.)
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- (What was he doing in LA on his way to Israel? Most Texans
go to JFK to connect to El Al.)
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- Next, why did the Egyptian show up at the airport if
he was not anti-Israel? Could it be that he was hired under the pretense
of picking someone up? Could there really have been a white/blonde pony-tailed
man who did the shooting, and, this limo-driver was setup as the shooter?
Were the weapons planted on him during the wrestling match with the first
security guard while the real shooter left? Was he shot while on the ground
to prevent him from giving his side of the story? Maybe the doctor can
give some details.
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- Also, you should call Arutz-7's Mordechai Shenker and
ask who was the person he interviewed, during the Phil Chernovsky Torah
Tidbits show, who claimed to be an on-the-scene eyewitness and saw the
blonde, white shooter? I'm really baffled by this!
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- ***
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- Another correspondent adds yet another witness who saw
the blonde shooter. ***
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- In case you did not see this and nobody else has told
you: Several hours after the shooting there was a live interview of a security
guard from the air counter next to El Al, on CNN. They only showed the
security guards hands and torso while being interviewed. Not sure of the
exact name of the airlines, but I believe it was a Mexican airlines. He
stated that he watched the whole thing and proceeded to tell the story.
When asked by the news people of the attacker's race - nationality, he
said these words: "He was white, Jew or German . . . . white, Jew
or German." (The man must have been obviously "white" for
him to say this.)
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- He was very adamant about this description. When the
news later showed the picture of the attacker, his picture was neither
obviously Jewish nor German. Also, I have watched the news over and over
on this shooting, and have not seen this interview a second time.
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- ***We add two more witnesses. The LAPD first reported
the age of the shooter as 52, while another eye-witness to the ponytailed
shooter comes forward. Note that El Al's security chief has the gunman
running toward the counter gun and knife in hand, while all other witnesses
said the shooter was waiting quietly in line and was fourth from the front
when he suddenly started shooting.***
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- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-347057,00.html
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- World News
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- July 05, 2002
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- Gunman kills two in attack on El Al desk at Los Angeles
airport By Roland Watson and Chris Reed in Los Angeles
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- The Los Angeles Police Department said that the gunmen
was aged 52, but there was no indication of his identity, nationality or
motive.
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- Zvi Vapni, the Israeli Deputy Consul General in Los Angeles,
said that Haim Saphir, El Al,s chief security officer at the airport, had
encountered the gunman running toward the El Al counter with a gun and
a knife and ran to stop him. The gunman stabbed Mr Saphir in the back,
and then the guard fatally shot the gunman.
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- Another witness, Joseph Broesky, who was 20ft away from
the shooting, told a television interviewer: "I heard a shot and saw
this white guy with a pony tail and overweight. He kept saying: Ardy took
my job. Ardy took my job., Mr Broesky added: "Then it was really weird
because the gunman started laughing and joking.
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- ***
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- Haaretz confirms that the shooter waited patiently in
line and reports that he shot twice or three times, in direct contradiction
to all early reports that the shooter got off 10 or 11 shots. Soak in the
following reports before we examine the significance of the number of shots.***
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- Gunman kills two at LA airport El Al desk
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- By Ha'aretz Staff and Agencies
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- According to initial reports, the gunman, described as
heavy set, with long brown hair and wearing a blue shirt, started shooting
randomly at the El Al desk inside the LAX Tom Bradley International Terminal
around 11.30 A.M. local time (9.30 P.M. Israel time). Some reports said
that the man was actually waiting in line at the El Al desk and when his
turn came, he shouted something at the clerk and opened fire. One witness
reported the gunman shouting: "He took my job; he took my job."
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- Witnesses say they heard a short burst of 2-3 shots,
followed by 7-8 shots fired in response.
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2096000/2096383.stm
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- Friday, 5 July, 2002, 06:34 GMT 07:34 UK Eyewitness:
Airport shooting .
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- BBC correspondent David Willis, who was at the airport
at the time of the shooting, described the fear experienced by passengers.
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- "Evacuated passengers, many of them shaken, some
of them tearful, told me how they hit the floor as a volley of up to a
dozen shots rang out," he said.
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- ***
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- The story that Hadayet shot 2-3 shots, now being circulated,
not only contradicts eye-witness reports but doesn't add up. Seven people
were wounded in the shooting and one of the two fatalities, 25 year old
Victoria Khen was shot twice. The El Al/Israeli version has Hadayet subdued
by El Al personnel and in the scuffle shot twice. There are no shots by
security personnel before then so Hadayet must have caused the casualties,
unless someone else was also shooting.
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- The most likely scenario described by the witnesses is
that Hadayet reached short range shooting distance from the counter, pulled
out his pistol and deliberately shot Victoria Khen twice. She was the target.
Standing inches from Khen was a young lady, approximately the same age
as her, Michal Valden. She was supposed to be the target but Khen died
as a result of a tragic mistaken identity.***
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- FBI: Gunman at Los Angeles Airport was Egyptian national
By Anat Cygielman and Benny Landau, Ha'aretz Correspondents, Ha'aretz Service
and agencies
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- FBI officials also said that the gunman did not utter
words during the attack, contradicting earlier eye-witness reports that
the gunman shouted "He took my job" during the shooting.
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- "The sound was distinctive, there were a lot of
shots fired then silence and two more shots," a witness said.
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- Witnesses: Gunman was former El Al employee Workers at
the Mexicana airline ticketing counter said that the gunman was a former
El Al employee and wore the company's badge during the shooting.
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- An eye-witness told CNN on Thursday that the gunman shouted
"He took my job" before the shooting.
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- Earlier, CNN identified the gunman as a 52-year-old male.
CNN reported that despite the fact that the gunman did not have forms of
identification on him, three individual law enforcement officers stated
that based on his physical appearance, it appeared that the gunman was
an Arab male.
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- One person was arrested, police said. The FBI, which
is managing the investigation into the incident, said it was not looking
for any other suspects.
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- The seven wounded in the attack at the Tom Bradley international
terminal received medical treatment on the scene before being evacauted
to hospital. Two of them were El Al employee, the others were passengers,
one of whom was a woman who was shot in the leg.
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- FROM Inyan Mercazi, [www.news-israel.net], a Hebrew website:
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- El Al vigorously denied that Hadayat ever worked for
the company or that they had used his limousine service in recent years.
Hadayat's uncle insisted the shooting was over a business matter and added
that his nephew had recently taken on two Syrian partners for his limousine
service.
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- ***Now the contradictions and questions come fast and
furious. The police arrested one man. WHO? Hadayet was dead and supposedly
had no accomplices, so who was arrested? The FBI acknowledged the arrest
and added that it was seeking no other suspects. So where did this suspect
disappear to? Has anyone heard from him since? Could he be a 52 year old
blonde with a pony tail?
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- Witnesses at the Air Mexicana counter next to El Al,
reported that Hadayet had been employed by El Al and was sporting an El
Al identity badge while he was shooting. This led to a denial by El Al
that Hadayet was ever employed by them. But maybe someone else connected
to the shooting was.
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- How else can anyone possibly explain why two groups of
witnesses saw different shooters? One group saw a 52 year old running caucasian
shouting that Artie cost him his job, while the other group saw a perfectly
quiet 41 year old Egyptian waiting patiently in line before shooting at
Khen behind the counter.
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- The only scenario that can explain this is that the blonde
man caused a diversion with his shouting while Hadayet shot his target.
Only he got the wrong young lady.
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- If Hadayet was wearing an El Al security badge, it would
go a long way to explaining how he parked his limo opposite LAX International
and walked into the terminal in a light short-sleeved shirt which could
not have concealed one automatic pistol, one gun, one six inch knife and
two ammo clips from the trained eyes of the cadres of security personnel
on duty there on July 4th.
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- Another correspondent reached a similar conclusion before
I did.***
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- Barry,
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- Another discrepancy in the reports on LAX - the age of
the gunman. See this, from Fox News: [could it be the 52-year-old was the
"blond in the ponytail", while the 41-yr.-old was the Egyptian?]
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- Three Dead in Shooting at LAX Airport
Thursday, July 04, 2002
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- LOS ANGELES " A gunman opened fire Thursday at the
El Al airlines ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing
two people and wounding three others before being shot dead by an El Al
security guard, according to authorities.
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- No official motive for the shooting was yet known, but
Israeli officials speculated it was a terrorist attack. There was no indication
of terrorism at this point, an FBI spokesman said.
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- "This appears to be an isolated incident,"
FBI special agent Richard Garcia said. "We have no other suspects
we're looking for."
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- FBI spokesman Matt McGlaughlin said nothing could be
ruled out at this point, however.
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- The 52-year-old gunman approached someone at the ticket
counter and began firing, police spokesman Alex Baez said. No other details
about the shooter were reported.
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- The incident began with two bursts of gunfire, separated
by silence, according to witness Thad Weimlein. After the first burst,
undercover police officers drew their guns and badges, Weimlein said. "A
lot of people thought it was fireworks and a prank" at first, according
to Weimlein.
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- "It's really hard to tell whether he was aiming
at the counter, at people behind the counter or at people in line,"
another witness, Hakin Hasidh, said.
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- July 6, 2002 FBI Still Seeks Motive in LAX Shootings
Investigation: Agency has no evidence gunman had terrorist ties but says
it can't be ruled out. With few leads, officials seek public's help.
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- By ANDREW BLANKSTEIN and JILL LEOVY
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
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- A day after a 41-year-old Egyptian immigrant walked into
Los Angeles International Airport and killed two people at an El Al ticket
counter, authorities said they had uncovered no evidence that the man had
any connection to organized terrorist groups, or that he had quarreled
with anyone at the airport prior to pulling out his weapons.
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- Hadayet began firing toward the counter from somewhere
in the ticket line, about 20 feet back, McLaughlin said. He said investigators
had concluded that witness reports of an argument preceding the shots were
unsubstantiated, and they believe the man said nothing before firing.
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- An unarmed El Al security guard nearby was the first
to leap toward him in an effort to tackle him. This guard grabbed the attacker,
who was still holding his gun, but could not immediately subdue him, and
Hadayet was able to fire more shots.
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- "He didn't say a single word," recalled one
bystander, Orna Yarzin of Los Angeles, who said the gunman was firing with
a deliberate air, aiming and shooting rather than firing indiscriminately.
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- The exact sequence of events remains unclear, however,
said McLaughlin, including such details as when bystanders joined the fight
and when the shooter's gun skittered away.
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- McLaughlin disputed accounts from bystanders that Hadayet
had been shot after being disarmed and held on the ground. The Los Angeles
Police Department also cited contradictory accounts. McLaughlin said authorities
do not know exactly when Hadayet received the fatal shot, or at what range.
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- Hadayet's uncle Hassan Mostafa Mahfouz said Hadayet's
wife and sister had been picked up by Egyptian intelligence for questioning.
FBI officials also interviewed family members.
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- A few minutes later, a woman arrived, and shouted at
reporters, saying, "I will not speak to these dogs who have no respect
for death!" She would not identify herself but neighbors said she
was Hadayet's wife.
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- Mahfouz said Hadayet did not belong to any political
or religious group. "He was an average Muslim who prays regularly
just like we all do."
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- "I don't believe what happened," he added.
"I don't believe the American government's reports because they are
confusing."
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- Neighbors at the Woodbridge Pines Apartments described
Hadayet as a devoutly religious man who had somewhat chilly relations with
his non-Muslim neighbors. They said his wife and sons were much friendlier."I
tried to say hi to him when he first moved in and he completely ignored
me," said Pamela Paulson, 51, who lives two apartments away.
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- "He was stone cold. If he looked at you, he looked
right through you."
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- *** Three of Hadayet's Jewish neighbors Dan Danielevicz
, Koby Metzler and his daughter all reported that Hadayet was friendly
and helpful to them. Since that fact is too inconvenient, a new radical
Hadayet had to be created and another correspondent suggests how it was
done.***
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- I heard that he had a sticker saying "Read the Koran"
on his door, but it was taken off after Sept. 11th. On July 4th it was
back on, but was rather quickly taken off by someone before someone from
a newspaper arrived
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- He was known to go to..well...to pray not five but seven
times a day - as some relative put it. But not one of four mosques in the
Los Angeles area acknowledged knowing him.
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- ***So the devout, radical Moslem Hadayet may have had
a Read The Koran sticker on his door on July 4, but no one from the media
saw it. Not that reading the Koran is necessarily an extremist position
but if Hadayet did read Islam's holy book, it was not at a mosque in Los
Angeles. If he was so devout, why didn't he attend the prayer services
of any mosque?
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- Hadayet was set up, however it was done, to take the
blame for the murder of Peres' granddaughter Michal Varden and he had a
noisy, blonde 52 year old accomplice/handler nearby to guide the crime
along.
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- The FBI is right and Israel is wrong. The shooting at
LAX wasn't a terror act; it was intended to be a cold-blooded execution
to teach Shimon Peres that treachery is costly.*** ___
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- Tomorrow, Tuesday July 8 (Israel time), I will be giving
two one hour interviews. At 11 PM EDT, I will be discussing this case on
CFRB Toronto, and at 9 PM PDT, I'll be on the Jeff Rense show. www.rense.com
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- My books, as always, are available by writing me, punching
my name into Amazon or in the US, by calling toll free 1 877 RABINYY.
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- Comment
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- From E. Simpson
7-9-2
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- Dear Mr Chamish,
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- I just read your article about the LAX shooting. While
I am not ruling out any kind of cover-up, I just thought you should know
that I personally heard the caller to CNN who said it was a white guy with
a ponytail and shouted "Artie took my job!".
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- I knew it was a prank call almost immediately, and as
someone who works in news, I was watching intently to see how long it
would take CNN to figure out that it was a Howard Stern Joke (they cut
his voice out right as he was about to say Howard Stern). It was undoubtedly
a hoax.
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- To understand how the information seemed widely dispursed,
you should understand what happens in a newsroom when there is breaking
news. Every station's assignment desk has people checking the competition's
coverage. If one station reports something....the other stations usually
will check the info against police sources or whatever, then go on air
with the info themselves.
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- In this case, the coverage was unfolding and it wasnt
clear to the other stations that the call was a prank. Just after the CNN
hoax call, Lester Holt, on NBC, repeated all of the hoax information...even
quoting the hoaxster. Obviously, MSNBC producers were watching CNN and
gave it to Lester as if it were fact.
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- KNBC also reported it, as did Fox newschannel, then the
Associated Press picked up the quotes, and from there the rest is history.
News outlets report other news outlet's info as fact ALL THE TIME, and
obviously some print journalists figured that if CNN and MSNBC and KNBC
and Fox newschannel and the AP were reporting it, then it must be true.
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- I just thought you should know this before you draw any
conclusions that may be partially-based on the "white guy with a ponytail"
info.
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- Thanks, E. Simpson
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