The Week

Seen IN Santa Cruz, Calif: Professional protesters driving to anti-logging demonstrations in cars bearing bumper stickers from causes past—such as, “Split wood, not atoms.”

Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet, the owner of a limousine service, killed two people at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, before Israeli security guards killed him. “It appears he went there with the intention of killing people,” said the FBI’s spokesman in Los Angeles. Good call: Hadayet was carrying two handguns and a six-inch hunting knife. “Why he did that,” the spokesman continued, “we are still trying to determine.” The press got a jump on the Bureau, quoting one of Hadayet’s former employees as saying that he “had hate for Israel for sure. He told me that the Israelis tried to destroy the Egyptian nation and the Egyptian population by sending prostitutes with AIDS to Egypt” (the poisoned-well theory, with a modern twist). One of Hadayet’s neighbors also reported that another neighbor’s display of American and Marine Corps flags after Sept. 11 affronted him. Mr. Hadayet sounds like he would have been happier in a country with fewer Israelis, and fewer Jews, and his murders were an act of terrorism. Memo to FBI: You can’t make terrorism go away by pretending it doesn’t exist.

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Seen IN Santa Cruz, Calif: Professional protesters driving to anti-logging demonstrations in cars bearing bumper stickers from causes past—such as, “Split wood, not atoms.”

Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet, the owner of a limousine service, killed two people at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, before Israeli security guards killed him. “It appears he went there with the intention of killing people,” said the FBI’s spokesman in Los Angeles. Good call: Hadayet was carrying two handguns and a six-inch hunting knife. “Why he did that,” the spokesman continued, “we are still trying to determine.” The press got a jump on the Bureau, quoting one of Hadayet’s former employees as saying that he “had hate for Israel for sure. He told me that the Israelis tried to destroy the Egyptian nation and the Egyptian population by sending prostitutes with AIDS to Egypt” (the poisoned-well theory, with a modern twist). One of Hadayet’s neighbors also reported that another neighbor’s display of American and Marine Corps flags after Sept. 11 affronted him. Mr. Hadayet sounds like he would have been happier in a country with fewer Israelis, and fewer Jews, and his murders were an act of terrorism. Memo to FBI: You can’t make terrorism go away by pretending it doesn’t exist.