Cairo – Son of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak directly involved in terror attacks on the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el Sheikh on 23 July 2005, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, which cited classified documents.
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The attacks, coordinated bombings of a bazaar and two hotels, resulted in the deaths of 88 and inured nearly 200. Most of the victims were Egyptians.
According to top-secret interior ministry documents, Gamal Mubarak and co-conspirator Habib El-Adli, Egypt’s former Interior Minister, wanted to take revenge on businessman Hussein Salem for reducing his cut on a 2.5 billion dollar contract to supply gas to Israel from 10 percent to 2.5 percent.
Gamal and El-Adli ordered the bombing of 3 compounds Salem owned in in Sharm Skeikh. In the case of bombing at the bazaar, the driver had to abandon his truck bomb in the bazaar en route to his target because of a police roadblock.
According to Al-Jarida the classified documents paint a startling picture in which El-Adli organised the bombings and paid the perpetrators who made the car bombs used in the attacks. In the wake of the blasts dozens of Bedouins from the Sinai were arrested due to a message posted to a jihadist website in signed by a group called Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which purported to be linked to Al-Qaeda.
Gamal Mubarak’s whereabouts are unknown.
More details in Arutz Sheva
Al-Jarida, is that a reliable source? I find it difficult to believe that, even out of greed, Mubarak’s son will commit destabilizing acts of terror in the country where is own father is the president (ok, dictator) desperately clinging to power.
This episode was alleged to have taken place nearly six years ago.
Of course, now that Mubarak star has waned, it is all too easy to make up stories like the one appearing above.
He should be tried really by the Egyptians, but he would be killed before he got to trial, so he could be tried by the world court!!