Identified as Osama Hassan El-Darandaly

From Eric Dondero:

A San Diego woman barely escaped having to have her leg amputated after a cab driver mowed down over 30 partyers in a busy SD nightclub area.

The suspect has been identified as Osama Hassan El-Darandaly, 52, of San Diego. (Note - SD media - 760 AM KFMB NewsVideo - are deliberately anglicizing his name to "Sam Daley".) He worked for the Makmar Enterprises cab company.

According to KFMB His roomate Dan Rose describes El-Darandaly as a "'pretty solitary man' who is devoutly Muslim."

Daly’s plan was to move back to his home country of Egypt, Rose said.

Bankrupt, House in Foreclosure, "very irregular behavior"

NBC News San Diego discovered:

Rose, told us Daly has been having financial and personal problems.

"Just very irregular behavior, kind of up and down, a little bit recluse, depressed type of behavior," said Rose.

The cab driver owns the house in Linda Vista but told his roommate the bank is foreclosing on the property.

There is no motive given for the attacks. However, according to SignonSanDiego.com:

Stingaree club owner James Brennan has said that Daly had a pair of scissors in his hand and took a swing at one of the club’s managers.

Has a prior arrest for "Misedemeanor Battery"

El-Darandaly does have one prior charge for "misdemeanor battery" according to NBC.

22 of the 32 injuries were "very serious," including crushed bones, and cuts. However, as signonSD reports one woman was critically injured when she was pinned against a wall:

Dominique Gambale [The 45-year-old mother of two from Encinitas] suffered multiple breaks in both bones of her lower-leg

Surgeons through extensive surgery, have managed to save her leg.

The attack came Friday night. And as Wizbang blog summarizes:

a devoutly Muslim man from Egypt named Sam Hassan Daly slowly and methodically drives a cab into a crowd of bar patrons injuring 36 then emerges from the cab with scissors in hand swinging at the club's owner, the incident occuring within hours of Mubarak's ouster in his home country.

UPDATE! The very latest AP story, has not a single mention of Hassan's Islamic background, or even the fact that he is an Egytian national. Here is the benign headline: "Cabbie out of hospital after crash that hurt 35."

Photos of Stingaree Nightclub in SD's Gaslamp District.