<http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__afr ica/&articleid=272232> http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__afri ca/&articleid=272232
Africa Key Dahab-bombings suspect killed in blast Cairo, Egypt 19 May 2006 01:33 A leader of an Islamist group blamed for a spate of deadly attacks in tourist resorts in Egypt's Sinai peninsula over the past two years was killed in an explosion on Friday, a security source said. Arafat Ouda Ali died as a device he tried to hurl at security forces closing in on his hideout on a Rafah farm, near the border with Gaza, exploded in his face, the source added. Security forces, tipped off by Bedouin informants in the region, raided the farm early in the morning and a firefight broke out with the 28-year-old Egyptian man. "He tried to throw the device at them, but it exploded in his face," the source said. Ali was wanted in connection with the triple suicide bombings in the Red Sea resort of Dahab on April 24 that killed 20 people, and a failed attack on peacekeepers of the Multinational Force and Observers in northern Sinai. The security source said he was second-in-command of the Tawhid wal Jihad (Unification and Holy War) group, which the authorities blame for the string of attacks on Sinai's tourist-packed Red Sea coast. Multiple bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh killed about 70 people in July 2005, in the deadliest attack to have hit Egypt since a major wave of Islamist violence in the mid-1990s. At least 34 people were also killed in bombings in and around the resort of Taba further up the Red Sea coast near the Israeli border in October 2004. Since the latest bombings, security forces have been combing the vast mountainous desert of Sinai to track down the perpetrators. The interior ministry announced earlier this month that the mastermind of the terror organisation behind the bombings, Nasser Khamis al-Mallahi, was killed. Six others suspects and a police officer have also been killed since the government launched its manhunt in the Sinai. -- Sapa-AFP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/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/
