Sorry, Wrong Building.

Henry C.K. Liu hliu at mindspring.com
Thu May 13 22:16:00 PDT 1999


Should Osama bin Laden explain that he made a "tragic" mistake and that he meant only to bomb the building across the street and walk free after expressing "regret".

Food for thought.

Henry C.K. Liu

Friday May 14 1999

Bin Laden linked to killings

REUTERS in Cairo

The man accused of bombing the US

Embassy in Kenya also financed the 1997

shooting of 58 tourists in Egypt, it was

claimed yesterday.

Egypt suspected that Saudi-born Osama bin

Laden had paid for the attack in which

Muslim militants opened fire on buses at

Luxor, Switzerland's police chief said. Many

of those killed were Swiss.

Police chief Urs von Daeniken was speaking

in Cairo after meeting Egyptian officials.

He said Egypt suspected that Mustafa

Hamza, a leader of Egypt's biggest militant

group, al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, had ordered the

attack from Sudan with funding from bin

Laden.

"We bring together the knowledge of our

services and the Egyptian authorities to find

the people behind the attack," Mr von

Daeniken said.

"As far as we know today, one can conclude

that it is an act of the Gama'a Islamiya and

that it has been ordered directly or indirectly

by a Gama'a member in Sudan."

He named the member as Hamza and said it

was believed he was no longer in Sudan and

might now be in Afghanistan.

"The finance man of this member of Gama'a

seems to be bin Laden," Mr von Daeniken

said. He said this was Egypt's version of

events, adding: "I think so far we are

satisfied."

Mr von Daeniken was part of a Swiss

delegation, including Attorney-General Carla

Del Ponte, visiting Egypt to get a final report

and answers to 116 questions they had about

Cairo's investigation of the massacre, in

which 35 Swiss died.

The United States accuses bin Laden of

masterminding the bombing of the US

embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last

August. More than 220 people were killed.

Bin Laden is based in Afghanistan.



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