EGYPT: EGYPTIANS CONDEMN INVOLVMENT OF AN EGYPTIAN MAN IN RECENT LONDON TERROR ATTACKS

Record ID: 646674

  • Title: EGYPT: EGYPTIANS CONDEMN INVOLVMENT OF AN EGYPTIAN MAN IN RECENT LONDON TERROR ATTACKS
  • Date: 17th July 2005
  • Summary: (BN13) CAIRO, EGYPT (JULY 15, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. LV BRIDGE OVER RIVER NILE; SLV STREET SCENES (6 SHOTS) 0.25 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ALI MANSOUR, EGYPTIAN MAN, SAYING: "Terror is not going to help Islam, in the contrary it is going to harm the picture of Islam. What about those innocent people that died? This is not going to help Islam." 0.46 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SHAWQI MOHAMAD, EGYPTIAN MAN, SAYING "Whoever committed this act (attacks) can't be a real Egyptian." 0.54 4. SLV STREET SCENES 1.27 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: CAIRO, EGYPT
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVA70F4VSAIBJGYZ2RKUKDDC5OM8
  • Story Text: Egyptians condemn involvement of Egyptian man in
    London's attacks.




    Egypt's Interior Ministry said on Friday (July 15, 2005)
    an Egyptian man wanted by British police in connection with
    last week's London bombings had been arrested and was being
    questioned.

    A ministry statement said 33-year-old chemistry student
    Magdy Elnasher had returned to Egypt for 45 days of holiday
    from his studies and had intended to return to Britain

    Egyptians in downtown Cairo found it difficult to accept
    that one of their people was involved in the London attacks.

    Many of them condemned the attacks saying that they
    would harm the image of Islam.


    "Terror is not going to help Islam, in the contrary it
    is going to harm the picture of Islam.

    What about those innocent people that died? This is not
    going to help Islam," Said Ali Mansour at Cairo market.

    "Whoever committed this act (attacks) can't be a real
    Egyptian," Shawqi Mohamad added.

    Elnasher has denied any link to the attacks, which
    killed at least 54 and wounded 700, the ministry statement
    said but did not say when or where Elnasher had been
    detained.

    A security source in the Interior Ministry said he had
    come to Egypt before the attacks.


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