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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/04/005953print.html

April 30, 2005

Egypt: Bomber duo on the run

"Bomber duo on the run: Egypt," from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:

CAIRO: Egyptian investigators have identified two more suspects from a deadly Cairo bombing this month and said they may be planning more attacks, a newspaper said yesterday.
The daily Al-Gomhuria reported both men had “embraced the ideas of jihad (holy war)” and were on the run, bringing to three the number of suspects evading capture for the blast that killed three tourists and the bomber on April 7....

Ah. More Misunderstanders of Islam. It's amazing that this kind of thing can be reported day after day after day and yet Islamic apologists and their allies still insist with a straight face that jihad is a spiritual struggle and that any military application of it is secondary, remote, and rare, if it exists at all. How did so many Muslims get a wrong idea of jihad? They don't answer that one, except to blame the bad old Wahhabis -- which outrages the amply documented historical fact that jihad warfare has been waged from the beginning of Islam, and by the Prophet Muhammad himself, long before Wahhabism was even a gleam in Wahhab's eye.

Al-Gomhuria published pictures of the three fugitives and named the latest two as commerce graduate Ihab Yousri Yassin and teacher Gamal Ahmed Abdul-Aal.
It said Abdul-Aal had left a letter for his family, later handed to police, saying he was leaving for “jihad”....

The ministry previously said the bomber, Hassan Raafat Bishindi, was part of a jihadist group and was tricked into thinking he had five minutes to escape after setting a bomb made from about 3kg of explosives and nails....

Posted at April 30, 2005 07:52 AM


1,345 posted on 04/30/2005 12:28:40 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/04/30/suspected_militants_strike_twice_in_cairo/

"Two women open fire on tour bus in Cairo"
By Paul Garwood, Associated Press Writer  |  April 30, 2005

CAIRO, Egypt --

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Ehab Yousri Yassin was being sought in connection with that attack when he set of the Saturday blast near a five-star hotel frequented by foreigners and behind the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo.

A group calling itself the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the twin attacks in a statement posted on a Web forum used by Islamic militants. It said the attacks were in revenge for the deaths of those who carried out the Sinai bombings last year and for the subsequent arrests of thousands of people.

The claim's authenticity could not be verified.

"The crimes you committed against the people of Sinai ... will not pass lightly," the statement said, addressing President Hosni Mubarak. "The time for your removal has come."

The group -- whose name refers to a Palestinian militant who worked alongside Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and died there in 1989 -- was one of several that claimed responsibility for the Sinai attacks at the resorts of Taba and Ras Shitan.

In the Saturday bus shooting, the Interior Ministry identified the two women attackers as Yassin's sister, Negat, and his fiancee, Iman Ibrahim Khamis.

The two women followed the bus in their car, then stopped their vehicle and opened fire, pumping three bullets into the back window before turning their weapons on themselves, the ministry said. One died immediately, the other died in the hospital."


1,352 posted on 04/30/2005 1:04:44 PM PDT by Cindy
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