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November 21, 2005
Egypt: Islamist Suspect is Shot Dead in Sinai
South Africa's Mail & Guardian reports that Egyptian forces have today shot dead a Bedouin leader in the Sinai peninsula, who is believed responsible for deadly bomb attacks in the region.
Salem Khadr al-Shnub had been hunted for months for his alleged involvement in attacks upon an international force based in Sinai, attacks upon a resort in Taba and also the recent bomb atrocity at the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Al-Shnub is believed to have been the "bomb-maker" in most of these cases, and is also thought to have given shelter to the bombers and their accomplices in his mountainous "kingdom".
Al-Shnub was killed at down in the mountainous region of Jabal Halal, where he had a fiefdom. In the attack, two of his relatives, Sallam Sweilam and Sallam Sallam Sweilam were also killed.
The atrocities linked to al-Shnub are a series of bomb attack in Taba and other Red Sea resorts last year from October, which killed 34 people, including Israeli tourists. He is held responsible for an attack on a vehicle belonging to international peacekeeping forces in Sinai on August 15. Two Canadian women were injured.
The most devastating of his assumed crimes was the attack upon Sharm el-Sheikh on July 23 this year, in which multiple bombs killed nearly 70 people, including tourists.
Al-Shnub and his two relatives make the total of suspects killed by Egyptian forces now eleven. 37 have been captured.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 21, 2005 9:35 AM
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