The deep political mystery is not that hens cackle or that Israel is involved, duh, genius, it is why was Bulgaria and Sweden brought into this? What is at play here and who benefits? What can Sweden and/or Bulgaria get out of this or give to some one else involved in this? Or do you really think it was Iran using a former Guantanamo prisoner called Mehdi Ghezali whose ID was so conveniently left all intact to find? :lol: And all on the same day that the Syrian Ministers were blown up with all the media assembled waiting for that to happen after days of build up. One terrorist tragedy the West condemns while the other is celebrated. Co-ordinated events and emotions?
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
Now they're pushing the Hezbollah (Lebanese) angle but still trying to keep the Iran angle connected to it. All references to the bombers name, country of origin which was not initially Lebanon but Algerian and previous residence in Guantanamo and Sweden are missing.
Quote:A senior U.S. official confirmed Israel's assertions Thursday that the suicide bomber who killed five Israelis in an attack here Wednesday was a member of a Hezbollah cell operating in Bulgaria.The official said the current U.S. intelligence assessment is that the bomber was "acting under broad guidance" to hit Israeli targets when the opportunity presented itself. That guidance was given to Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, by its primary sponsor, Iran, he said.
The attack, the official said, was in retaliation for the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists by Israeli agents, something that Israel has neither confirmed nor denied. "This was tit for tat," said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the investigation was still under way. The bombing comes at a time of heightened tensions over Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes but Israel and the West say is a cover for developing weapons. A senior Israeli official said Thursday that the attack in Burgas was part of an intensive wave of terrorist attacks around the world carried out by two different organizations, the Iranian Quds Force, an elite international operations unit within Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and Hezbollah. "They work together when necessary and separately when not necessary," the official said. While the Burgas attack fit the modus operandi of Hezbollah, the Israeli official said, it was not clear whether the bomber intended to blow himself up or had suffered what the official called a "work accident," adding: "We will never know." The bomber was carrying a fake Michigan driver's licence, but there are no indications that he had any connections to the United States, the U.S. official said, adding that there were no details yet about the bomber his name, age or nationality. "This looks like he was hanging out for a local target, and when this popped up he jumped on it," the official said, referring to a tour bus carrying Israeli vacationers outside the airport in Burgas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a news conference Thursday in Jerusalem that the attack in Burgas was carried out by "Hezbollah, the long arm of Iran." For their part, Iranian officials condemned the attack and all acts of terrorism. "Terrorism endangers the lives of innocents," said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast, according to Iran's state Arabic-language television channel, Al Alam. The Bulgarian authorities released a security video Thursday showing the suspect wandering into the arrivals hall at the airport here, for all appearances just another tourist in his plaid shorts, Adidas T-shirt and baseball hat. But it is his oddly bulky, oversized backpack that, in hindsight, stands out the most. This bag, investigators believe, contained the bomb that the man is suspected of detonating next to a bus outside the airport, killing the five Israeli tourists, a Bulgarian bus driver and himself in a fireball that upended this city on the Black Sea. The suicide attack, the country's first, sent police and intelligence officers from Bulgaria, Israel and the United States scrambling to identify the bomber and to look for possible accomplices and convincing evidence that would connect him to Hezbollah or Iran. Officials here have said they have the man's fingerprints and his DNA, and are trying to identify a man who was roughly 36 years old, whom they suspect was in the country between four and seven days before the blast. The Bulgarians are still trying to figure out how the bomber entered the country, how he travelled around the country and where he stayed. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/worl...le4429096/
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
There is also the not insignificant matter of the suspected bomber's fake Michigan driver's license with the name Jacque Felipe Martin of Louisiana. A USA connection and a likely sign of intel cover.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
America's ABC News on Thursday reported that Bulgarian officials denied Bulgarian news reports that the Burgas bomber was identified as Mehdi Ghezali. The Atlantic Wire also reported Swedish officials issuing a similar denial.
Earlier on Thursday Bulgarian media had named the suicide bomber who blew up a bus full of Israeli tourists, killing five Israelis and a local bus driver, in the Black Sea resort of Burgas on Wednesday as 36-year-old Ghezali.
The bomber reportedly arrived in Bulgaria five days before the bombing and arrived at the airport via taxi, Channel 2 reported. He was also reportedly given the bomb by someone else, but no further details were provided.
There was no independent confirmation of Ghezali's identity, which surfaced in Bulgarian media reports on Thursday afternoon. The reports emerged soon after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had publicly accused Hezbollah, directed by Iran, of responsibility for the bombing. The Prime Minister's Office made no comment on the reports.
The Bulgarian reports, rapidly picked up by Hebrew media, posited various versions of how the bomber had detonated the bomb, including the suggestion that the bomber had not intended to die in the blast, but may have wanted to place the bomb on the bus and flee.
Ghezali has a Wikipedia page, which describes him as a Swedish citizen, with Algerian and Finnish origins. He was held at the US's Guantanamo Bay detainment camp on Cuba from 2002 to 2004, having previously studied at a Muslim religious school and mosque in Britain, and traveled to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, it says. He was taken into custody on suspicion of being an al-Qaeda agent, having been arrested along with a number of other al-Qaeda operatives.
Following a lobbying effort by Swedish prime minister Göran Persson, Guantanamo authorities recommended Ghezali be transferred to another country for continued detainment, and he was handed over to Swedish authorities in 2004. The Swedish government did not press charges. A 2005 Swedish documentary about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp starred Ghezali, who detailed his experience in American custody.
He was also reportedly among 12 foreigners captured trying to cross into Afghanistan in 2009.
Earlier on Thursday the Bulgarian police released a brief video clip that claimed to show the suicide bomber, responsible for Wednesday's terror attack on a tour bus full of Israeli citizens, walking around shortly before the blast at Burgas International Airport.
The Bulgarian news agency Sofia reported that the bomber was carrying an American passport and Michigan driver's license, both believed to be forgeries.
Sofia also reported that the Bulgarian Interior Ministry managed to recover the fingerprints of the bomber, which they submitted to the FBI in the United States and the international police organization Interpol. The FBI and CIA joined Israeli and Bulgarian officials in investigating the attack.
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told Sofia that DNA tests were being run to determine the identity of the Caucasian man, who the minister described as casually dressed with nothing suspicious about his appearance to set him apart from the crowd of people at the airport.
The ministry did not indicate how the police came to the conclusion that the man caught on airport security cameras in the clip was the suicide bomber.
Mehdi Ghezali's Wikipedia entry before it gets 'edited', too much. any way.
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[/TABLE] Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali (Arabic: مهدي Ù…Øمد غزالي‎) (5 born July 1979), in media previously known as the Cuba-Swede (Swedish: Kubasvensken), is a Swedish citizen ofAlgerian and Finnish descent[SUP][2][/SUP] who was held as what the United States termed anunlawful combatant at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp on Cuba between January 2002 and July 2004. Prior to his capture Ghezali attended a Muslimreligious school andmosque in the United Kingdom before travelling to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and finally ended up in Pakistan where he was captured. Following his release from detention theSwedish government has not brought any further criminal charges against him for criminal misconduct prior to his capture.
According to the Stockholm News Pakistani security officials "suspected Ghezali to have been involved in a prison uprising where 17 people were killed" -- an assertion Ghezali is reported to have denied.[SUP][3][/SUP] A man bearing Ghezali's passport was one of twelve foreigners Pakistani security officials reported were captured trying to cross into Afghanistan on 28 August 2009.[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP] According to the Associated Press Ghezali was "reportedly part of a group of 156 suspected Al-Qaeda fighters caught while fleeing Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains."[SUP][7][/SUP]
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After the Armed Forces of the United States together with the Afghan Northern Alliance initiated a bombing campaign on the Tora Bora mountains a large number of al-Qaeda sympathisers and others in the affected areas fled southward to Pakistan. Mehdi Ghezali was captured by local warlords in Pakistan in the Tora Bora mountains which are close to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and then handed over to the U.S. Armed Forces which transported him to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on Cuba where Ghezali was held at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.
During his stay at Guantanamo Bay, Ghezali was visited by representatives of the Swedish government (February 2002, January and July 2003 and January 2004) and was informed that he had been assigned an attorney in Sweden (Peter Althin) and that his case had been brought up in inter-governmental contacts and had been featured on several occasions in the Swedish media. Ghezali supposedly refused to discuss what he was doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan with the agents of the Swedish government.[SUP][12][/SUP]
On 15 May 2006 the United States Department of Defense released a list of all the individuals who had been held in military custody in their Guantanamo Bay detainment camps. That list gave Ghezali's Guantanamo detainee ID as 166.[SUP][13][/SUP] The DoD listed his place of birth as Stockholm.
After being held as an enemy combatant for 930 days Ghezali was released into the custody of the Swedish government on 8 July 2004 since he was no longer considered a threat to the United States, since he had no information that was of interest to the American Intelligence Service and since he had not committed a crime which could be proven in a military court.[SUP][14][/SUP] Ghezali was transported home by the Swedish Air Force on a Gulfstream IV jet, at the expense of the Swedish government (estimated at 500 000 600 000Swedish kronor).
Initially Swedish prosecutors stated that they would press charges against him for crimes committed prior to Ghezali's departure from Sweden, but they were subsequently dropped. There were also threats made against Ghezali, it was perceived that the Swedish government had given Ghezali too much help.[SUP][11][/SUP]
Ghezali was the subject of the English-language documentary Gitmo The New Rules of War. A film about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by film director Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh[SUP][15][/SUP]
An article in the Boston Globe, on detainees who had returned to battlefield following their release, mentioned Ghezali. The article said Ghezali was being "monitored by Swedish intelligence agents".[SUP][16][/SUP] Ghezali has also stated in his book that he feels he is being intensely monitored by the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO), both in his home and when he moves around. He claims that the surveillance has caused him to feel depressed.[SUP][17][/SUP]
Ghezali has not answered any questions regarding his activities in Afghanistan, possible connections to al-Qaeda and previous criminal activities. At a press conference following his return to Sweden Ghezali said the following about the al-Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden:[SUP][20][/SUP]
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Ghezali's refusal to reveal what he was doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been highlighted in Swedish media and was brought up in the context of his stay at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.[SUP][21][/SUP]
Ghezali was also suspected of having participated in a prison uprising in Pakistan, where 17 people (including seven prison guards) were killed. Ghezali and 47 other prisoners were being transported in a bus when the guards were overpowered and the prisoners fled into the wilderness. The majority of the prisoners were captured again, and were facing execution for their participation in the uprising. After an intervention from the United States the threat of execution was withdrawn and Ghezali was taken into U.S. custody. When questioned about the prison uprising at the press conference following his release Ghezali denied having any knowledge of or participation in the prison uprising.[SUP][22][/SUP]
On 4 July 2006, Ghezali made his first public appearance since his release at a demonstration held outside the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. Ghezali and approximately 60 others called for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay facility. Ghezali, who declined to answer any questions from reporters, and the other demonstrators also appeared in support of Oussama Kassir, the Swedish citizen at the time being held in the Czech Republic for alleged involvement with al-Qaeda.[SUP][23][/SUP]
Ghezali is reported to have dropped his suit against the US government.[SUP][24][/SUP] According to The Muslim News: "The Swede eventually found a [U.S.] firm willing to take the case on, but it dropped out shortly before the deadline for bringing a case expired."
^"Lawyers explain Pakistan trip by 'Guantánamo Swede'".The Local. 23 November 2009. November 2009 Archived from the original on 23 November 2009. "The lawyers explain that the decision to travel to Pakistan arose while the group was traveling through other countries in the Middle East and that the trip was arranged by a tour operator, which had told Ghezali and the other Swedes that visas could be arranged en route."
. The initial version was that a bomb was placed in the luggage compartment of the
bus
.The man was taped by the airport security cameras. On the recording he can be seen walking around the premises for at least one hour. According to initial information he is Caucasian, with long hair, dressed in sports attire.His body is the most torn by the blast and this is the main reason for investigators to believe he is the perpetrator of the attack.His ID papers were found on him. They included a US passport and a drivers license from the state of Michigan, which is believed to be fake.An
FBI
database check has not found an individual with such documents. It remains unclear how he obtained the fake passport, and how and when he entered the country....
The Bulgarian Government says its special services have not received any information, as alleged in some Israeli media reports, of terrorist plans for a major attack against Israeli tourists.
On January 5 2012, Israeli media said that the country's security services had asked their counterparts in Europe to heighten security because of plans for attacks on Israeli tourists. The report highlighted Bulgaria, where it said ski resorts were popular with Israeli tourists.
The attacks, according to the reports, were being planned in revenge for the death of Hezbollah leader Imad Mugniyah.
"Bulgarian special services have not received and do not have information on the preparation for such an act," the Government in Sofia said on its website.
Mugniyah, who was a senior Hezbollah security and intelligence official listed on US and EU "most wanted" terrorist lists, accused of involvement in several terrorist attacks on US and Israeli citizens, died on February 12 2008 in a car bomb attack. Israel denied being behind the attack and some sources suggested that Mugniyah may have been murdered by a rival faction in Hezbollah or agents of another country.
[Please forgive my audacious use of color...]
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"
Bus with Israeli tourists on way to airport in Bulgaria bombed.
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Mehdi Ghezali (screen capture, Channel 10)
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Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu
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