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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000351.html
May 20, 2006
Headline: "Suspect in Egypt Blasts Killed Near Israel"
Date: Fri May 19, 4:31 PM ET
By: Ashraf Sweillam - AP
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Summary: Arafa Auda Ali, age 28, an alleged member of the Egyptian Tawhid wal Jihad organization and suspect in the April 2006, was killed in a fight with Egyptian security forces on the Egyptian side of Rafah, a city which straddles the Gaza/Egypt border. The report identifies Ali as the current leader of Egyptian TwJ, the local affiliate of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's organization. Ali is likely the unnamed 'Dahab attack plotter' reported to have found shelter in Gaza care of Hamas in this story by Aaron Klein at WorldNetDaily.com. Sweillam says Ali was the successor to "Nasser Khamis el-Mallahi" and Klein says Ali was a relative of "Khaled Musaed" described as "a Sinai dentist Egyptian security officers say was the Sinai coordinator for al-Qaida-linked groups in the area". We suspect that al-Mallahi and Musaed are one and the same, and both reports say he's dead too.
Notes: It remains an open question whether Ali was ever on the Gaza side of Rafah, and if so, how he came to be back on the Egyptian side just in time for the Egyptian forces to show up and kill him. We wouldn't be surprised to find that someone in Hamas or the Popular Resistance Committees now has a little extra cash in his pocket.
The story mentions Israel three times even though there is no Israeli connection. The story never mentions Gaza, Palestinians, Hamas or the PRC.
Egyptian reports of counter-terrorism successes should be taken with a big grain of salt. Reports of such successes are frequently followed by still more stunning terrorist attacks, and it is unclear to what extent the Egyptians actually have a handle on their global jihad problem.
Finally, a question that we have not seen asked, let alone answered, is this: Is Hamas colluding with Egyptian TwJ and/or al-Qaida to help destabilize the Mubarek regime in Egypt just as it was planning attacks on the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?
Posted on 20 May 2006 @ 15:15 GMT
http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=720636
AP
"2,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled Near Oahu"
May 20th - 10:11pm
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "HONOLULU (AP) - An oil tanker spilled up to 2,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday morning, an official said.
The Coast Guard and the state Health Department categorized it as a minimal spill, said Nathan Hokama, spokesman for Tesoro Corp., which owns the tanker. There were no immediate reports of harm to wildlife.
The spill occurred about 1.5 miles off the coast of Oahu when a hose line pumping oil from the tanker to a floating buoy disconnected, Hokama said.
"The only thing we know right now is that one of the couplings in the hose separated, which is what it's supposed to do whenever there's a strain on the hose," he said."