Posted on 10/30/2012 1:18:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
An Egyptian suspected of involvement in last month’s attack on the US mission in Benghazi in which Ambassador Chris Stevens was slain in Cairo yesterday, Wednesday.
According to the Egyptian Interior Ministry, the man — named only as Hazem — died in a shoot-out with security forces at an apartment in Nasr City, northeast Cairo. They had been sent to arrest him following information received implicating him in the Benghazi attack. He is said to have recently returned from Libya.
Security sources say he threw a bomb from the ground floor apartment but it bounced back into the building. Police then fired tear gas and exchanged gunfire. The building subsequently caught fire, forcing other residents to be evacuated. After the fire was put out, police say they found the man’s body completely burnt.
They say they also found 17 bombs, four RPGs, three automatic weapons and large quantities of ammunition.
The man was said to have rented the apartment for the past three months.
The shoot-out came the same day a lawyer in Tunisia said that a local man accused also of being involved the Benghazi mission attack was being held in a Tunis jail on terrorism charges.
The man, named as Ali Harzi, was one of two Tunisians arrested in Turkey on 3 October, allegedly having entered the country on false passports. It was later reported that both were believed to be linked to the Benghazi attack and had been sent back by the Turks to Tunis on 11 October. Harzi is reported to have been trying to head to Syria after having escaped from Libya.
According to lawyer Ouled Ali Anwar, Harzi has been charged with “membership of a terrorist organization in a time of peace in another country”.
Anwar is insisting on his client’s innocence, saying he is a “scapegoat to satisfy the Americans”.
Tunisian Interior Ministry spokesman Tarrouch Khaled has confirmed the arrest, saying the case “is in the hands of justice”.
A US intelligence official is reported claiming that Harzi has links with terrorist organisations. Another report says he appeared on the US intelligence radar when he posted information about the attack on a social media site shortly afterwards.
American investigators have so far not been allowed to question him.
LOLzy. Well played, FRiend.
(nice assistants, btw ;-)
As obama rides away in a white bronco at a blistering 35mph, saying, “I’m going to find the REAL killers!”
Remember Obama’s famous words about a national security team more powerful and better equipped than the military? Now, think about all the visits to the WH by the Muslim Brotherhood and maybe, just maybe - this is the National Security force he is attempting to put into place.
Or maybe its my imagination running wild.
Does that mean he won't get to try out for the Yankees' pitching staff?
Dead men tell no tales.
And yet they "speak" volumes.
Yeah right! The killers we are looking for are busy giving interviews bragging about their accomplishments on Arab TV.
Yes indeed.
Color me cynical, but the Muslim Brotherhood is killing off the jihadists who can finger obuma as the one who ordered the embassy attack.
Was it a spontaneous bomb bounce from a protest?
Totally appreciate how you feel... I’m always prefacing my statements by “I’m not a conspiracy nut, but...”. I hate what the BO presidency has done. So while I’m not a conspiracy nut, do you really expect me to believe this?!?!?
The answer to your question is "no" ... CASH, only, those Pan Am decals are still too easy to come by :o)
“Security sources say he threw a bomb from the ground floor apartment but it bounced back into the building.”
“...sure bombs do that all the time...........what did he attach it to, a trampoline
‘...”
No it was a bungee cord
It was an “Acme” brand bomb. He also had an unopened jar of Acme earthquake capsules.
Where are the SHARE and LIKE hotlinks?
HF
Stevens murder suspect killed in Cairo; Tunisian held in Tunis jail until the symbolism is over. Then he will be released.
Just another inventory number. doesn’t matter what happens to him.
I’m betting on an incredible jail break and maybe followed up with an attempt to capture and a deadly gun battle resulting in his death...or not.
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