#2 It's that spelling thing again:
In an interview last week Flayfil's father, Sheik Ahmed Flayfil, said his sons turned their backs on him in 1995 after adopting extremist Islamic ideology. ``No power on earth was able to take the poisonous ideas out of their minds,'' Sheik Ahmed said at the interview in his home in al-Medan, six miles west of the Sinai town of el-Arish. ``It was very clear that they mixed with fanatic groups in el-Arish and were affected by dangerous people to the extent that they weren't obeying me or their tribe,'' he said.
Their eldest brother, Saleh Flayfil, said they'd tried to cross into Libya, Jordan and Saudi Arabia on several occasions, but that he lost touch with them in 1996. The family is part of the al-Sawarka tribe. The Bedouin tribe decided Monday during a gathering that it would not avenge Flayfil's killing, a decision that means the Bedouin were punishing Flayfil for deviating from the tribe. ``Since the time the two disappeared, I've been angry with them,'' Sheik Ahmed said. |
Egyptian police have shot dead one of the prime suspects in the July 23 Sharm el-Sheikh bombings which killed at least 64 people, the Interior Ministry have said. Mohamed Fulayfel was killed in an exchange of fire with police near Gebel Ataqa, a hill 11 miles west of the town of Suez. His wife was also killed in the fire fight and their four-year-old daughter was injured. An Interior Ministry statement said that security forces approached a group hiding in quarries in near Gebel Ataqa after being given a tip-off. As they approached the area, gunmen opened fire at them. 