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>From Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/world/95/11/20/pakistan.html
>>>This is an example of the other stuff that goes on in that part of
the world, aside from turning Indian Parliament into a shooting
gallery. This was an operation carried out with the knowledge of the
ISI, according to Bodansky's biography of UbL, a very detailed but a
very informative book. The idea was to send a message to Mubarak.
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8:31 PM 11/19/1995
Blast kills 15 at Egyptian Embassy
Car bomb indicates Islamic hard-liners taking fight abroad
By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG
Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI, India -- With the devastating car bombing of the Egyptian
Embassy in Pakistan on Sunday, Islamic hard-liners battling the Cairo
government apparently have served notice that they are carrying their
terror campaign to foreign soil.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali said the
"dastardly" attack in the capital, Islamabad, which killed 15 people
and left scores more injured, was the work of a suicide bomber "who
may have blasted his way through the gate and exploded his pickup
truck."
Egypt's most extreme fundamentalist group, the Gamaa al Islamiya(Islamic Group), has
said it is responsible for the most destructive and deadly onslaught on Egyptian
interests overseas since the group launched an armed st
ruggle against the government in 1992. Later, two other groups, Islamic Jihad and the
International Group for Justice, also said they are responsible.
In June, the Gamaa al Islamiya said it had been behind a failed assassination attempt
on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the pro-Western leader who became president after
the murder of Anwar Sadat by extremist Muslim so
ldiers in October 1981.
Last Monday, a high-ranking Egyptian diplomat was shot to death in Geneva, and the
previously unknown International Group for Justice said it was responsible and
threatened more attacks.
In Egypt on Sunday, Prime Minister Atef Sedki went on the airwaves to denounce the
"criminal act" in Islamabad and called on all nations to unite to confront
"international terrorism."
The explosion, at about 9:30 a.m. on a working day in mostly Muslim Pakistan, sheared
off a huge chunk of the two-story building's front wall and gouged a crater 10 feet
deep and 20 feet wide inside the compound.
At least 59 people, including security guards and Pakistanis lined up to apply for
visas, were injured, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.
The blast was so intense that it seriously damaged the Japanese Embassy about 100 feet
away, blowing in windows on the north side and injuring three Japanese and eight local
employees with flying glass.
Retired Gen. Nasirullah Khan Babar, Pakistan's interior minister, inspected the damage
and assured reporters that security outside other embassies in the capital would be
tightened.
The Egyptian Embassy is about a half-mile from the U.S. mission in the capital, and
American diplomats customarily drive by it while on their way to and from work.
Security at the razor-wire-ringed U.S. compound had already been beefed up after three
American consular workers were gunned down in a March 8 street ambush in the troubled
port city of Karachi. But in light of Sunday's b
ombing nearby, "we're reviewing all of our security arrangements," Embassy press
attache Jack McCreary said.
Babar downplayed any connection between Sunday's blast and last week's fatal attack on
a U.S.-run training center for the Saudi Arabian national guard in that country's
capital, Riyadh.
Sunday's bombing was a severe blow to the government of Pakistani Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto, who, like Mubarak, is a pro-Western voice for moderation in the Muslim
world.
If hard-liners from Egypt carried out Sunday's bombing, Pakistani authorities will
have to consider the likelihood that they enjoyed support or assistance from local
Islamic fundamentalists.
Like Mubarak, Bhutto has been facing increasing opposition from radical domestic
Muslim forces who view her rule as too pro-Western and corrupt. Her foes appear to
have some support in the highest echelons of the powerful
armed forces. This fall, 36 army officers and soldiers were arrested, and Defense
Minister Aftab Shaban Mirani said last week that they had been plotting an Islamic
revolution to overthrow the government.
Since the Gamaa al Islamiya began its violent campaign against Mubarak three years
ago, it has targeted top Egyptian government officials, police officers, Coptic
Christians, foreign tourists and secular intellectuals.
Confronted with the terrorist threats and deeds, Mubarak's government has responded
fiercely. Thousands of suspects have been arrested and hundreds sent before military
tribunals, which have sentenced 67 to death by hangi
ng.
Since the beginning of the year, Egypt's government has been claiming
victory, asserting that Gamaa al Islamiya's base of operations has
been cut back to a single province, Minya in southern Egypt, where
the sugar cane fields, mountains and proximity of neighboring Sudan
provide the fighters with hide-outs and supply bases.
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