�According to numerous initial reports cited by Chamish, the gunman was not Hadayet, a forty-one-year-old Egyptian man with short black hair and a dark complexion, but was in fact a fifty-two-year-old white man with blond hair and a ponytail. For instance, the UK's Guardian reported that: �The gunman was described as white, pony-tailed and aged 52.�

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,2763,749755,00.html)

�It is, of course, rather interesting that the man's exact age was being reported even as authorities were claiming that the shooter had yet to be identified. And the Guardian certainly wasn't the only media outlet that fingered someone other than Hadayet as the gunman. Cox News Service spoke of: �The 52-year-old gunman, whose name and nationality were not released.�

(http://www.coxnews.com/newsservice/stories/2002/0705-AIRPORT.html)

�The UK's The Times similarly reported that: �The Los Angeles Police Department said that the gunmen was aged 52, but there was no indication of his identity, nationality or motive.� Again, the question that is begged here is how the police and various media outlets knew the suspect's exact age, when it was later reported that the purported gunman, Hadayet, carried no identification and obviously wasn't in a position to be volunteering any information, given that he had been executed.

(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-347057,00.html)

�Australia's Herald Sun noted that: �The gunman ... may have had an accomplice according to the LAPD." UPI also spoke of a second suspect: "There were unconfirmed reports that a second suspect was being sought.� That same UPI report added that: �One man, wearing long sideburns and a blue shirt, was seen being taken away in the back of a police car. His role in the incident was not revealed.�

(http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4646695%255E1702,00.html

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=04072002-031704-9972r)

�Who was the man seen being taken away in a police cruiser? Was he the 52-year-old blond man with the ponytail? And why has he never been mentioned again by the press?�

Aha! There�s my blonde guy with the side burns (refer to my journal entry right after the event itself). At the time, I questioned it, out loud to John. I just assumed that everyone had gotten their facts messed up in all of the obvious hullabaloo immediately after the event.

Curiouser and curiouser�

On to something much more important: Trading Spaces. I stayed home from work yesterday because I had a seriously icky intestinal flu, apparently of the 24-hour variety. So I watched TS in the afternoon. Wonderful, lovely rooms the both of them; even the one designed by Genevieve who I don�t usually trust. I believe, in fact, that she is the one who created the infamous Moss on the Wall room. Were I EVER on that show I would not want her to be my designer. Plus, I think she�s rather odd, personality-wise. OK, so the other room was done by�uh�what�s her name? The one who�s kind of stuck-up�anyway, nice blue bedroom. It was kind of funny because both couples were very apprehensive and thought that the other couple wouldn�t like their room at all, but both couples ended up liking them a lot. I like it when everyone is happy. Over the weekend, I watched a bunch of them (marathon days) and on one show one of the women actually cried; she hated her room that much. It was a nice room, but it was very modern and these people were like straight old school, very old-fashioned types who were all �crafty�. They should have had Frank as their designer, the one who so likes to pretend he�s not gay by talking about his wife on like every show. He�s not kidding anyone.

Hilde! That�s the semi-stuck-up one�s name�I should be nice, in case I ever do get on that show and they give her to me.

OK, I just read Frank�s bio at TS�s webpage and he lists his �Movie he�d watch over and over again� as All About Eve.

And he says he�s not gay.

Laurie (pronounced LAW-rie) drives me batty. Actually, I almost always love her designs, but she, as a person, just BUGS. And now that she�s pregnant, every time you see her on screen she�s holding her tummy. No Joke � EVERY TIME. OK, already. You�re pregnant. WE GET IT!

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