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9/11 bad guys hung out in San Diego
911 hijackers settled in Clairemont, Santee beer thief shot and killed, thresher sharks chase kayakers in La Jolla, my eccentric Golden Hill landlord, cyclists arrested in Sycamore Canyon
Bayoumi: Local Muslims suspected him of spying.
9/11 could have been stopped in San Diego
- Former FBI agent Mark Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, said CIA officials blocked the memo to the FBI because the agency was complicit with Saudi intelligence agents who were trying to recruit Khalid al-Mihdhar and/or Nawaf al-Hazmi. Mihdhar and Hazmi, both Saudis, lived in Clairemont and Lemon Grove in 2000 and were in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
- By H.G. Reza, Sept. 7, 2016
The Parkwood Apartments, where the hijackers lived, have since been converted into condominiums.Why did he befriend the 9/11 Pentagon hijackers?
- Omar al-Bayoumi met Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar under dubious circumstances in a Los Angeles restaurant. Three days later he helped them move into his apartment complex, though he later insisted they were strangers. Bayoumi, married with four children, did not work, yet he seemed not to want for money. He was 42 at the time and claimed to be a student. However, nobody knew where he went to school, and he always seemed to be hanging around the Islamic Center of San Diego on Balboa Avenue, next to the 805 freeway.
- By H.G. Reza, July 27, 2016
St. Louis and friends on a beer run at VonsSometimes, mercy is better than justice
- The bloodstains have long since faded, courtesy of Scram, sun, and time. More than a decade ago, in the parking lot of a Vons in Santee, Christopher St. Louis, 18, lost his life in the pursuit of free beer, shot by off-duty El Cajon police officer Tenaya Webb.
- By Moss Gropen, June 29, 2016
“I’m no trophy hunter, so an estimate of 150 pounds is good enough for me.”Sharks rampage in La Jolla
- The whole time, 100-plus-pound sharks were leaping clear of the water, shredding tackle, and making short work of the local mackerel population. You could see their tails slashing bait, and the the stoke level was high in the kayak lineup.
- By Ian Pike, May 18, 2016
Junkyard across the streetTribute from “the kind of tenant everybody wants!”
- I got the text from my roommate on a Sunday night. “Oh, Rod,” I sighed. It was sudden news, and I wanted to be surprised. But I couldn’t be. My landlord had not taken care of his health and seemed much older than his 64 years. I didn’t know what exactly would have killed him, but I didn’t expect there’d be any great mystery about it. Who will tell his family? I wondered instead. What will happen to his house?
- By Ian Anderson, May 25, 2016
Lt. Matthew Gregory and Capt. Chris Robinson“They told us we would have to plead guilty"
- On Sunday, January 17, Elizabeth Daubner was enjoying a weekend bike ride with several other riders in the Sycamore Canyon region to the east of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. She had parked in a lot off of Highway 67 and descended down the Ridge Trail into Goodan Ranch. A short while after passing through the southern gate of the ranch, her group had a startling encounter.
- By Dryw Keltz, April 13, 2016
Aseguranzas is a pocho word for insuranceTijuana destroys Spanish and English
- “Tengo que ir hacer laundry, then I have to study en la biblioteca,” I’m paraphrasing what the Latina students in my college sounded like. My first real encounter with Spanglish speakers was in Minnesota. Spanglish frustrated me. I kept telling them to speak one language or the other, not to skip between both.
- By Matthew Suárez, Dec. 28, 2016
Stingray Point, an isolated crescent beach that gives way to teeming eel grass and oyster beds off the golf course’s 17th fairway. Generations of Coronado high school kids have snuck over to it after dark to booze and carouse.Glorietta Bay yields the beautiful, elusive seahorse
- She rose from afternoon slumbers with something pinching her tail. Three feet below the surface of San Diego Bay her equine head, crowned with a five-point coronet, poked through a blanket of eel grass. Alarm widened her two glistening brown eyes as she tried to dart away into deeper water. But I wasn’t about to let her go now.
- By Neal Matthews, Dec. 21, 2016
Dave Sossaman and Sher Mohammad Haidari in AfghanistanAlmost killed looking for deserter Bowe Bergdahl
- Sher Mohammad Haidari heard the radio crackle with Taliban chatter as the Army platoon he was with trudged through a valley in eastern Afghanistan looking for a U.S. soldier who had abandoned his post. The enemy, hidden in the vegetation, reported “24 flowers” approaching them that could easily be picked off with rocket-propelled grenades. Be patient, let them pass into the kill zone and spring the ambush, ordered the Taliban commander.
- By H.G. Reza, Dec. 14, 2016
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9/11 bad guys hung out in San Diego
911 hijackers settled in Clairemont, Santee beer thief shot and killed, thresher sharks chase kayakers in La Jolla, my eccentric Golden Hill landlord, cyclists arrested in Sycamore Canyon
9/11 bad guys hung out in San Diego
911 hijackers settled in Clairemont, Santee beer thief shot and killed, thresher sharks chase kayakers in La Jolla, my eccentric Golden Hill landlord, cyclists arrested in Sycamore Canyon
Bayoumi: Local Muslims suspected him of spying.
9/11 could have been stopped in San Diego
- Former FBI agent Mark Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, said CIA officials blocked the memo to the FBI because the agency was complicit with Saudi intelligence agents who were trying to recruit Khalid al-Mihdhar and/or Nawaf al-Hazmi. Mihdhar and Hazmi, both Saudis, lived in Clairemont and Lemon Grove in 2000 and were in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
- By H.G. Reza, Sept. 7, 2016
- The Parkwood Apartments, where the hijackers lived, have since been converted into condominiums.
Why did he befriend the 9/11 Pentagon hijackers?
- Omar al-Bayoumi met Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar under dubious circumstances in a Los Angeles restaurant. Three days later he helped them move into his apartment complex, though he later insisted they were strangers. Bayoumi, married with four children, did not work, yet he seemed not to want for money. He was 42 at the time and claimed to be a student. However, nobody knew where he went to school, and he always seemed to be hanging around the Islamic Center of San Diego on Balboa Avenue, next to the 805 freeway.
- By H.G. Reza, July 27, 2016
- St. Louis and friends on a beer run at Vons
Sometimes, mercy is better than justice
- The bloodstains have long since faded, courtesy of Scram, sun, and time. More than a decade ago, in the parking lot of a Vons in Santee, Christopher St. Louis, 18, lost his life in the pursuit of free beer, shot by off-duty El Cajon police officer Tenaya Webb.
- By Moss Gropen, June 29, 2016
- “I’m no trophy hunter, so an estimate of 150 pounds is good enough for me.”
Sharks rampage in La Jolla
- The whole time, 100-plus-pound sharks were leaping clear of the water, shredding tackle, and making short work of the local mackerel population. You could see their tails slashing bait, and the the stoke level was high in the kayak lineup.
- By Ian Pike, May 18, 2016
- Junkyard across the street
Tribute from “the kind of tenant everybody wants!”
- I got the text from my roommate on a Sunday night. “Oh, Rod,” I sighed. It was sudden news, and I wanted to be surprised. But I couldn’t be. My landlord had not taken care of his health and seemed much older than his 64 years. I didn’t know what exactly would have killed him, but I didn’t expect there’d be any great mystery about it. Who will tell his family? I wondered instead. What will happen to his house?
- By Ian Anderson, May 25, 2016
- Lt. Matthew Gregory and Capt. Chris Robinson
“They told us we would have to plead guilty"
- On Sunday, January 17, Elizabeth Daubner was enjoying a weekend bike ride with several other riders in the Sycamore Canyon region to the east of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. She had parked in a lot off of Highway 67 and descended down the Ridge Trail into Goodan Ranch. A short while after passing through the southern gate of the ranch, her group had a startling encounter.
- By Dryw Keltz, April 13, 2016
- Aseguranzas is a pocho word for insurance
Tijuana destroys Spanish and English
- “Tengo que ir hacer laundry, then I have to study en la biblioteca,” I’m paraphrasing what the Latina students in my college sounded like. My first real encounter with Spanglish speakers was in Minnesota. Spanglish frustrated me. I kept telling them to speak one language or the other, not to skip between both.
- By Matthew Suárez, Dec. 28, 2016
- Stingray Point, an isolated crescent beach that gives way to teeming eel grass and oyster beds off the golf course’s 17th fairway. Generations of Coronado high school kids have snuck over to it after dark to booze and carouse.
Glorietta Bay yields the beautiful, elusive seahorse
- She rose from afternoon slumbers with something pinching her tail. Three feet below the surface of San Diego Bay her equine head, crowned with a five-point coronet, poked through a blanket of eel grass. Alarm widened her two glistening brown eyes as she tried to dart away into deeper water. But I wasn’t about to let her go now.
- By Neal Matthews, Dec. 21, 2016
- Dave Sossaman and Sher Mohammad Haidari in Afghanistan
Almost killed looking for deserter Bowe Bergdahl
- Sher Mohammad Haidari heard the radio crackle with Taliban chatter as the Army platoon he was with trudged through a valley in eastern Afghanistan looking for a U.S. soldier who had abandoned his post. The enemy, hidden in the vegetation, reported “24 flowers” approaching them that could easily be picked off with rocket-propelled grenades. Be patient, let them pass into the kill zone and spring the ambush, ordered the Taliban commander.
- By H.G. Reza, Dec. 14, 2016