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| Africa: North |
| Egypt sez Taba boomers ain't al-Qaeda |
| 2004-11-02 |
| And they have good reason for doing so, though the circumstantial evidence is clear as can be to anybody who's paying attention. All the same, I think Mubarak has his own reasons for wanting to keep this under wraps for not jeopardizing the extremely tentative truce he's been able to strike with his own jihadi community. Egypt's interior minister has said on Monday those behind the deadly bombings in Red Sea resorts in October did not belong to the Al-Qaeda terror network. "The investigation proved that this group is not linked to a larger movement inside the country or abroad or other Al-Qaeda cells," Habib al-Adli said, quoted by the Mena news agency. On October 25, Adli announced the arrest of five of nine people suspected of being behind the October 7 bombings, in which 34 people were killed and 105 wounded. Two are on the run and a Palestinian and an Egyptian were killed in the explosion of one of the three booby-trapped cars placed in front of the entrance to the Hilton hotel in Taba, according to Egyptian authorities. Adli said he is convinced that those held were involved in the attacks. "The evidence is clear. The statements of reliable witnesses, materials indications all stand up and the confessions of the accused are continuing before prosecutors," he said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 1)Not linked to a larger movement inside Egypt. Check 2)Not linked to a larger movement abroad. Check 3)Not linked to other AQ cells. Check Not inside Egypt, not outside. What's left physicists? So these guys came from an Atlantis-type civilization resting under the Gulf of Aqaba? #3 catches my attention. "Other", as in the Taba crew WAS AQ and there were no connections with other AQ pals? Freudian slip Mr. Min. of Int? Or were these guys just copy-cats doing a very one-off just for the thrill? Or maybe political prisoners the govt. is forcing to confess under pressure of blackmail? Or a pure monetary transaction? For example, you guys take the fall and we will provide opportunities of better lives for your destitute family members? Very possible. Remember how Rommel was given a chance to save his family as long as he killed himself. |
| Posted by: chicago mike 2004-11-02 2:53:18 PM |
| #1 Debka has an interesting post on this take with a pinch of salt |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2004-11-02 1:50:08 PM |