Posted on 09/27/2012 6:47:41 PM PDT by kristinn
Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya leader Mostafa Hamza, detained for terrorist activity and attempt on Hosni Mubarak's life, released Tuesday by President Morsi's pardon
Egypt's security authorities released, Tuesday, Mostafa Hamza, a prominent radical Sheikh charged with attempting to assassinate former president Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia in1995.
Hamza, a leading member of Islamic organisation Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, was extradited to Egypt from Iran in 2004. He was detained following terrorism-related charges that included being a member of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
SNIP
(The wire services are ignoring this news. We learned about it via FrontPageMag which highlighted that Hamza was behind the Luxor massacre. FPM excerpted several articles detailing the 1997 massacre of 58 foreign tourists at the Egyptian tourist destination and noted, "The Luxor Massacre has been mostly forgotten, but it deserves to be remembered as a template of the Islamist soul. The full horror of what happened there needs to be understood for us to understand what Morsi has just done."
The former headof news for Egypt's state television, Abdul Latif Minawi, wrote at Al Arabiya:
"It seems we are about to lose the ability to feel astonished at what is happening in Egypt, one day after another. Take, for example, the release of a large number of Islamist militants who were charged with terrorism and the killing of innocent civilians. The last of those was Mustafa Hamza, the mastermind of the attempt on the former president’s life in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. I don’t think readers need to be told about Hamza’s ideological and organizational stance, but I would just like to remind them that all his co-militants stressed in their interviews and memoirs that he did not only plan the assassination of the president, but was also involved in the killing of tourists in Luxor in 1997."
i’m thinking pound sand, in a nice way of course.
Thanks Obama, you f******* *********!!
I have to say that it seems vaguely similar to Clinton pardoning ‘criminal friends’, doesn’t it?
From frontage link:
The Luxor Massacre has been mostly forgotten, but it deserves to be remembered as a template of the Islamist soul. The full horror of what happened there needs to be understood for us to understand what Morsi has just done.
As they ran past a Japanese tourist, she said, one of the men fired into the woman’s face from a range of about 15 inches.
“They made us get down on our knees,” Ms Dousse said. “And then they started shooting. A man who was very heavy fell on me and the lady behind me also covered me … They shot me in the arm and leg, and then they started again shooting those who were still alive in the head.
The gunmen “took all the young women, the girls, and disappeared with them. I don’t know where they went with the women, but they hurt them. We could hear screams of pain,” Dousse said.
“It went on for a long time, an hour or an hour and a half. The terrorists came back again and again; they danced and sang,” she said.
Among the horrors, the marauders cut off the ears and noses of several of their victims. A note praising Islam was found inside one disemboweled body.
The foreign dead included 31 Swiss, 10 Japanese, five Germans, four Britons one a child a Bulgarian, a Colombian and a French citizen. The Japanese victims were four newlywed couples and an elderly couple on their second honeymoon.
A statement issued in the name of Egypt’s most prominent Islamic militant group said that the massacre had begun as an effort to take hostages in order to secure the release of a leader imprisoned in New York for his role in the World Trade Center bombing. But the accounts by survivors gave no hint of any attempts to take tourists alive – only to kill and, perhaps, to butcher, them.
The terrorists came back, as they sang, danced and shouted “Allah, Allah …”. It took an eternity before help arrived.
Two British backpackers told last night how a screaming terrorist slit the throat of a tourist as he begged for mercy. Stuart Bentley and Paula Wainwright watched terrified from behind a pillar as the black-clad gunman first riddled the man’s legs with bullets as he tried to flee.
Stuart said: “I saw three men dressed in black.They were screaming something, almost like a chant, and shooting indiscriminately.
“I saw one man, who looked European, trying to run away. He was shot in the legs, rolled over and clasped his hands together as if begging for his life. But the gunman just cut his throat and began firing again.”
The remains of the Luxor massacre victim Joan Turner were eventually flown back to Britain yesterday. The body of her daughter, Karina, is still missing.
Behind the difficulties in identifying the bodies of the family lies the brutal fact that their Muslim fundamentalist killers had deliberately disfigured the bodies of their victims after stripping them. They had been shot in the face after they were dead.
After the September 11, 2011 attacks, Morsi pardoned one of the worst monsters in the ranks of Egyptian Salafists, the man who ordered this atrocity. This is not an accident, this is a message. It is a statement from the Muslim Brotherhood that Obama has put in charge of Egypt. “I am with you.”
Whatever outrage there was over the freeing of the Lockerbie bomber should be doubled and trebled in this case. The Luxor Massacre was far more horrifying than Lockerbie. It was closer to Beslan and Morsi has made it clear that his new Egypt is on the side of the perpetrators of the Luxor Massacre.”
Time to demand a cut off of all funding in Egypt!
That leaflet that was stuffed inside one of the bodies didn’t just contain a prayer, it also contained a demand for the release of the “blind sheikh” Omar Abdul Rahman/Abder Rahman, far-leftist lawyer Lynne Stewart’s beloved buddy.
My brother really, really, really, really hated this part of the world.
Most of the victims were Swiss. Wasn’t there a Swiss Air plane that went down roughly around this time under suspicious circumstances?
Another huge mistake made by our negotiator in chief. America should be on alert. I believe we will see another attack on U.S. soil before November. Obama has endangered us all.
AUGUST 2000 : (AFTER BEING PICKED UP AT THE BOLOGNA AIRPORT, A YEMENI NAMED ABDULSALAM ALI ABDULRAHMAN CONVERSES WITH EGYPTIAN MAHMOUD ES-SAYED ABDELKADER {see LUXOR MASSACRE}, THE DRIVER OF THEIR BUGGED CAR, AND TELLS HIM HE WILL BRING HIM A PIECE OF AN AIRPLANE THE NEXT TIME THEY MEET-- See 911 PLOT, BOLOGNA ITALY CELL) --- "Cryptic Al Qaeda Tapes Hinted at Attacks," New York Times ^ | 5/30/02 | JOHN TAGLIABUE http:/www.nytimes.com/2002/05/30/international/europe/30ITAL.html
If Obama gets a second term he will likely release him.
More ‘flexibilty’ and all.
Heaven help us!
Not sure. But a proper response would be a travel boycott by the nations of citizens murdered at Luxor. Egypt needs tourist dollars. Deny them.
After the first World Trade Center bombing in February 1993, the FBI began to investigate Rahman and his followers more closely. With the assistance of an Egyptian informant wearing a listening device, the FBI managed to record Rahman issuing a fatwa encouraging acts of violence against US civilian targets, particularly in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area.
The most startling plan, the government charged, was to set off five bombs in 10 minutes, blowing up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a federal building housing the FBI. -------- 13 posted on Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:55:50 PM by yefragetuwrabrumuy
1981 : (SADAT IS ASSASSINATED; COPTIC BISHOP SAMUEL IS ALSO ASSASSINATED IN THIS SAME YEAR) The Egyptian government developed the habit—outrageous to decent men and women throughout the world—of ignoring attacks against the Copts, who rarely returned the violence. Jihadists assassinated Sadat in 1981, as the world well remembers, but they also assassinated Bishop Samuel in the same year.————Let My People Go : Review by Robert W. Shaffern OF Christians vs. Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality, By S. S. Hasan, Oxford University Press. 320 pp. $49.95. (Book Review) , in First Things March 2005 | Robert W. Shaffern Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 4:51:27 AM by Stoat
Thanks kristinn.
My only hope is that the Swiss or Japanese take this guy out.
OCTOBER 6, 1981 : (EGYPT : ISLAMIC JIHAD ASSASSINATES SADAT IN CAIRO; AMONG THOSE ROUNDED UP IN RESPONSE IS AL-ZAWAHIRI, WHO WOULD GO ON TO BECOME A LEADER IN AL QAEDA -— See “BLIND SHEIKH” OMAR ABDUL RAHMAN, AL-GAMAL AL-ISLAMIYA, LYNNE STEWART)
1980s LATE & EARLY 1990s: (ISLAMIC GROUP TERRORISTS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF “BLIND SHEIKH” OMAR ABDUL RAHMAN aka UMAR ABD AR-RAHMAN TRAIN IN RURAL AREAS OUTLYING NY CITY & PHILADELPHIA— See LYNNE STEWART)
JANUARY 7, 1993 : (EGYPT : ISLAMOFASCIST REBELLION : ISLAMOFASCIST TERRORISTS FIRE ON JAPANESE TOURISTS IN S EGYPT) Japanese tourists ...fired upon by terrorists in southern Egypt.
JANUARY 8, 1993 : (EGYPT : ISLAMOFASCIST REBELLION : ISLAMOFASCIST TERRORISTS TRY TO BOMB BUS FULL OF GERMAN TOURISTS BUT LUCKILY NO ONE IS INJURED) Islamic terrorists attempt to bomb bus carrying German tourists in Egypt. No one injured in attack. A day earlier Japanese tourists had been fired upon by terrorists in southern Egypt.
JANUARY 1997 : (LETTER BOMBS) In January a total of 12 letter bombs with Alexandria, Egypt, postmarks were discovered in holiday greeting cards mailed to the United States. On two separate days during January, nine letter bombs were discovered in the Washington, DC, and United Nations offices of the Saudi-owned al-Hayat newspaper. In addition, three letter bomb devices were sent to the federal prison in Fort Leavenworth Kansas. None of the letter bombs detonated, and there were no public claims of responsibility. A similar device mailed to theal-Hayat office in London on 13 January did explode, injuring two persons. Subsequently, three more devices were found. The incidents are under investigation by the FBI. -—————State Department Document #10535, Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1997, April 1998 via ALAMO-GIRL’S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01
In this day and age, who would even go there in the first place?
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