And there is "ocean front property" for sale in Arizona, too. The press (and its readers) are certainly guillible if they buy this deception. Bruce
Cleared Bomb Suspect Freed in Egypt, and Urges Tolerance By <http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=MICHAEL%20SLACKMAN&fdq=1 9960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=MICHAEL%20SLACKMAN&inline=nyt-per> MICHAEL SLACKMAN New York Times August 09, 2005 CAIRO, Aug. 9 - With the attention that comes from having been labeled a suspect in the terror bombing of London's underground, Magdy el-Nashar asked his fellow Muslims to learn more about their religion, so that they cannot be manipulated to kill civilians. And he asked non-Muslims to understand that it was extremists who set the London blasts, not proper Muslims. Wearing a new suit, a tie with a broad Windsor knot, and his hair slicked down like a schoolboy, Mr. Nashar greeted a crowd of television cameras in the dusty road outside his parent's apartment here a few hours after the Egyptian authorities released him. "I urge Muslims to learn about Islam," he said, in both Arabic and then again in English, while standing a few feet from where Egyptian police officers first arrested him nearly a month ago. "This will prevent people from being misled about Islam." Not long after the bombs went off, Mr. Nashar's name came up. His picture appeared in newspapers and on television stations around the world. Headlines talked about a young Egyptian chemist who had been arrested and was being questioned. He knew two of the bombers. He lived in Leeds, England. He was a biochemist. And he left England not long before the attacks took place. And apparently it was all a sorry coincidence, a case of a 33-year-old Egyptian, Mr. Nashar, who had happened to befriend the wrong people at the wrong time, according to the Egyptian authorities. But Mr. Nashar said he was not angry and not at all bitter. He said he understood exactly why he was a suspect. He is just a bit afraid, fearful of returning to Leeds, which he considers his second home, to complete a university fellowship, because he is worried that people will not have heard he had been cleared. "When they label you a suspect, it is on the front page," he said. "But when it turns out you are innocent, they forget about you." Mr. Nashar is a biochemist who graduated from Cairo University with a master's degree before leaving for the United States to study for his doctorate. But that program, he said, required six years of study and he had only a five-year scholarship, so he switched to the university in Leeds. Five years later, in 2005, he said he received his degree and was invited back for a fellowship. But he first needed to return to Egypt to complete some paperwork - and so he was here when the bombs went off in London. On June 14, Mr. Nashar was leaving the new mosque right next to his parent's apartment building, a rundown walk-up of poured concrete, when Egyptian police officers approached him. They asked him to come for some questions and he readily agreed. When they told him he was a suspect in the bombings, he said he did not believe it - until they put him in front of a television and turned on CNN, where he said he was astonished to see his picture. It is a long detailed story he tells, one that took him from academia to world notoriety, but it boils down to this: He met a young man through his mosque who needed a place to live. He likes to help people, so he arranged for the man to have an apartment. The man turned out to be Germaine Lindsay, 19, whom the British authorities suspect of blowing up a subway train at Russell Square. Mr. Nashar said that investigators had found his phone number on at least one of the bombers' cellphones and, perhaps, in papers connected to the apartment that he had helped find. "Honestly, God would not leave an innocent person," Mr. Nashar said. "Egyptian police are good people. Scotland Yard are good people. I know they would not try to stick something on me. If you are innocent, and against what happened, it gives you strength. You have nothing to hide. I said: 'Send me to London. I have nothing to hide.' " The Egyptian police have been accused of torture and holding prisoners in inhumane conditions - but not by Mr. Nashar. He said they treated him with respect, kept him in a hotel, in a private room, with air-conditioning, a private bathroom and "very good food." He said that he was informed after a few days that he had been cleared, but then there was the second bomb attempt in London, and then the bombing attacks in Sharm el Sheik, and the authorities thought the timing wrong to release him. Then today, just at the break of dawn, he walked up the stairs to his parent's house and knocked on the door. "I was so happy and I cried so much of course and I hugged him," his mother said, recalling the moment when her husband opened the door and called out the good news. When the details of his story were complete Mr. Nashar wanted to touch on bigger issues, like trust among different faiths and the difference between what he defined as extremism and proper Islam. "Many people know that Muslims are good people," he said. "I feel it in London, and I feel it in America, too." Mona el Nagar contributed reporting for this article. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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