Egyptian Interior Minister Habib Al-Adli said in an interview published yesterday that the recent terrorist attacks on tourists in Cairo were the work of a small local cell of extremists.
"How small?"
"Very small! Infinitesimal! It was a nanogroup!" |
The attackers had no connection with the Al-Qaeda network or with the Egyptian terrorist organizations that killed tourists in Egypt in the 1990s, newspaper Al-Gomhuria quoted the minister as saying.
"What they did was a reaction to what is happening in the Arab region," he said.
| "There's people exploding all over the place!" |
A young suicide bomber injured seven people, including four foreigners, on Saturday in Cairo when he blew himself up. An Israeli married couple and a female Italian tourist have already left the hospital, security sources said, while a Swedish man and three injured Egyptians were still receiving treatment. The sister of the attacker and his young wife, who had been described as a fiancee in earlier reports, opened fire on a tourist bus in Cairo on the same day without injuring anyone. They killed themselves after the attack. One witness named Fatma Mahmud saw the two women hurrying through the street crying before the attack. One woman said to the other, "I will avenge your death," the report said. |