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| Egypt: Witness claims to have seen and followed Cairo bombers |
| 2009-02-26 |
| (AKI) - An unnamed witness is said to have seen two men place in front of a hotel the deadly bomb that on Sunday exploded in a Cairo bazaar. The men then fled in a taxi that was waiting for them, the witness said. "I saw a man who had a plastic bag, go towards the hotel, where he met another man who was waiting for him. "The second man placed the plastic bag on the stone altar in the square, and soon after the explosion happened," said the witness quoted by Egyptian daily al-Masri al-Youm. The witness, who was in the square with her sons to take photos, also claims to have followed the alleged culprits of the bomb attacks to an area near Cairo called Halmiya al-Zeitoun. "Then I saw both men running towards a taxi that was waiting for them in the al-Azhar street. There were two other men and the driver had a black beard. The taxi escaped and I followed them with my car until I saw them arrive in the area of Halmiya al-Zeitoun. Both men then entered an old house while the taxi drove off," said the witness. The witness also claims to have asked a shopkeeper who were the two men, who claimed their names are Marwan and Naser. "I thought of filming them with the video camera I had on me, but I was afraid of being discovered, and I just left," she said. Egyptian police have already interrogated several owners of firework shops that sell the material used for the explosive devices. At least three suspects have been arrested over the blast, which struck a hotel's open-air cafe packed with tourists next to the crowded Khan al-Khalili bazaar in Cairo at the on Sunday. A 17 year-old French teenage girl was killed and 24 others were injured in the bombing. The wounded included three Saudis, 13 French, a German and four Egyptians. The attack was the first targeting tourists in Egypt for three years. The banned Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and its extremist offshoot Gamaa Islamiya on Monday condemned the bomb attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Hooray for the "Unnamed witness" that's exactly what's needed to stop this shit. |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2009-02-26 01:22 |