Da Arab News del 27/07/2005
Originale su http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=67558&d=...

Pakistanis Not Involved, Egypt Says

SHARM EL-SHEIKH — Egypt yesterday denied the involvement of Pakistanis in Saturday’s blast in this Red Sea resort as investigators identified an Egyptian as a possible suicide bomber.

Egyptian Ambassador to Pakistan Hussain Kamel Haridy was quoted in Islamabad as saying: “Late last night, I received instructions from the Egyptian government to convey to the Pakistani government the official view that no Pakistani national was involved in the terrorist attacks that rocked Sharm El-Sheikh last Saturday.”

The clarification came after police on Monday sent photographs of six Pakistanis to police stations in Sinai and checkpoints on the road to Cairo. Arabic satellite channels broadcast their photos and most Egyptian newspapers published them.

Khaled Arafa, an Interior Ministry official, said police would still like to know why the Pakistanis had fake passports.

Investigators have identified a body they suspect of being a suicide bomber in the weekend attacks, saying he was an Egyptian with militant ties. Police using DNA tests identified one of the bodies found at the Ghazala Gardens hotel as Youssef Badran, an Egyptian Sinai resident who they said has links to militants, security officials said. Those links led the officials to suspect he was the bomber in the attack, they said.

Police held members of Badran’s family for questioning and were trying to determine his associates, the officials said.

Security officials revealed meanwhile that authorities received information about an imminent terror attack in Sharm El-Sheik days ahead of the bombings. But they believed it would target casinos, so security was increased around those sites, said two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The officials, who have knowledge of the investigation, would not say where the tip came from, but said security had been put on alert in the resort several days before the pre-dawn attacks.

A third group yesterday issued a claim of responsibility for the attacks. The previously unknown group, Egyptian Tawhid and Jihad, said it attacked the “Crusaders” in Sharm on orders from Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and his Egyptian-born deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri “in support of our brothers in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

The authenticity of the claim, like those by two other groups issued soon after the attacks, could not be verified. The other claims were issued by another Al-Qaeda-linked group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and an apparently local organization, the Holy Warriors of Egypt.

Arafa, the Interior Ministry official, said: “We are somehow convinced that some Bedouins have helped in preparing the attacks since they know every inch of the area and the explosives used in the bombings were smuggled through Taba.” He said police had found that the explosives entered Egypt by sea and were later smuggled through Taba.

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