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"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."

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his photo is identified as that of Ehab Yousri Yassin, thought to be the Cairo suicide bomber.
(AP)

"Attacks target Egypt's tourists"
By Tom Perryand Edmund Blair
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY

CAIRO --