Since he's dead this is highly convenient and also there is no way for the Egyptian govt to have the slightest idea whether or not he was al-Qaeda. It's in Egyptian govt interest to deny al-Qaeda involvement...if they could they would, as they initially tried, to deny terrorism involvement altogether.
Bruce http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10014433.htm?1c Posted on Tue, Oct. 26, 2004 Egypt links Palestinian to attack, not al-Qaeda By Salah Nasrawi Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt - A Palestinian refugee plotted the coordinated bombings targeting Israeli tourists at resorts in the Sinai and accidentally killed himself while carrying out the deadliest blast, Egyptian authorities said yesterday. Discounting the theory of al-Qaeda involvement, an Interior Ministry statement said that Ayad Said Saleh was motivated by the deteriorating situation in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, which his relatives fled in 1967, and that he carried out the attack with the help of local residents. Security officials, on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press they believed the Oct. 7 attacks on the Taba Hilton and two beach camps packed with Israelis may have been carried out with help from Islamic groups based outside Egypt, though not necessarily Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group. One car bomb devastated the Hilton hotel in Taba, yards from the Israeli border; two others rocked tourist camps at Ras Shitan, a village 35 miles farther south, killing a total of 34, including Israelis, Egyptians, Italians and Russians. Egypt's Interior Ministry said the attacks were masterminded by Saleh, a minibus driver born in the northern Sinai town of al-Arish, who was in his early 20s. Saleh was killed in the Hilton bombing along with a fellow alleged plotter, Egyptian Suleiman Ahmed Saleh Flayfil, 39. The statement said that both men, identified through DNA testing, had been trying to leave the attack scene but that their timed explosives went off prematurely. Two suspects were said to be at large: Mohamed Ahmed Saleh Flayfil, Suleiman Flayfil's brother, and Hammad Gaman Gomah Tarabeen. They were accused of carrying out the campground attacks. Police also arrested five Egyptians accused of playing lower-level roles, including obtaining explosives and cars used in the attacks. The statement did not say when they were arrested or provide details of their capture. The five are residents of the Sinai Peninsula, a territory Israel captured from Egypt in the 1967 war and returned in 1982 under terms of an Israeli-Arab peace treaty. The Interior Ministry said the three cars used in the bombings were stolen and the explosives were salvaged from war armaments in the Sinai. A senior Egyptian official close to the investigation told the Associated Press that TNT obtained from a Sinai quarry and RDX explosives from war armaments were used in the attacks. RDX is a key ingredient in plastic explosives such as C-4 and Semtex. Other officials and prosecutors said 1,100 pounds of TNT were used in the Taba attack, while leftover munitions from the Sinai war were planted in two cars used in the Ras Shitan bombings. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
