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| Saqr Releases Five Men Detained over Choueifat Bombing |
| 2014-02-07 |
| [An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered on Thursday the release of five people detained over the Choueifat bombing. According to the state-run National News Agency, investigations with the five suspects showed that they have nothing to do with the Monday's blast and have no ties with the jacket wallah. Earlier on Thursday, Saqr stressed that three suspects out of the five have no links to the suicide bomber. "The men were referred to the the Army Intelligence Directorate for further questioning over the mystery of selling a Kalashnikov by the taxi driver," al-Joumhouria newspaper, published on Thursday, quoted Saqr as saying. Security sources told the daily that the three men, including the taxi driver, who transported the suicide bomber from Khaldah to Choueifat denied to the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau their prior knowledge to the suicide bomber. "A dispute erupted between the suicide bomber and the taxi driver A. Gh., prompting him to get down from the car," the sources said. The sources pointed out that the suicide bomber forgot his Kalashnikov in the taxi and after the driver found it, he sold it in cooperation with the other two detained men. |
| Posted by:Fred |