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| Africa: North |
| Cairo Bomb Exploded Prematurely - Government |
| 2005-04-11 |
| A bomb which killed three tourists in a Cairo bazaar last week exploded prematurely, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said on Monday, suggesting that it may not have been a deliberate suicide operation The bomber was an engineering student who was born in 1987 and who recently began to take an interest in the ideas of militant Islamists, it said in a statement. It named him as Hassan Rafaat Ahmed Bishindi, who lived in the north Cairo suburb of Shubra el-Kheima and went to the Benha branch of Zagazig University in the east of the Nile Delta. Egyptian prosecution sources had named him on Sunday as Mohamed Sobhi Ali Jidan, 24. "All the evidence indicates that while the perpetrator was preparing the bomb for explosion, the explosion took place," the statement said. His badly damaged body was found in the street in the Moski area of old Cairo, where the bomb exploded. The explosion on Thursday killed a French woman, a French man and an American man, as well as the bomber. Eighteen people were injured -- 11 Egyptians and seven foreigners. Rest at link. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 It's understandable. He had a test in Bomb Design and one in Koranic Justification for Killing and only could study for one. The professor in bomb-making didn't chop off hands for getting a failing grade. |
| Posted by: jackal 2005-04-11 9:36:17 PM |
| #3 That's what he gets for sleeping through Bombmaking 101. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-04-11 4:07:51 PM |
| #2 Or he Zagazigged when he shoulda Zigazagged? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-11 4:05:55 PM |
| #1 "the bomber was an engineering student" "and went to the Benha branch of Zagazig University" worthless engineer... spent a little to much time studying reefer at the ZigZag U I'd say. |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2005-04-11 4:03:51 PM |