After waffling for months over Hadayet’s motives and whether to classify the attack as terrorism — to the frustration of the victims’ families and Israeli officials — the FBI in its report concludes that the Egyptian immigrant methodically planned the killings to express his anger over Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

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