July 6, 2002	Saturday	Rabi-us-Sani 24,1423

LOS ANGELES, July 5: US authorities on Friday identified the man who opened fire and killed two people at the ticket counter of Israel’s El Al airlines at Los Angeles airport as a 41-year-old Egyptian native.

The attack, swiftly denounced by Israel as “terrorism”, sowed panic and confusion as Americans marked the first Independence Day anniversary since the Sept 11 attacks.

Three people, including the gunman, were left dead and five were injured in the attack, which Israeli officials said bore all the signs of a terror attack, but which the FBI and police initially said appeared to be “an isolated incident”.—Reuters