Bus with Israeli tourists on way to airport in Bulgaria bombed.

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Bulgarian media names Swedish citizen and former Guantanamo detainee as Burgas suicide bomber

Reports claim that the person responsible for the Burgas terror attack, which killed five Israelis is 33-year-old Mehdi Ghezali - a Swedish citizen of Algerian descent.

By Haaretz and Yaniv Kubovich | Jul.19, 2012 | 6:20 PM


WATCH: Footage of suspected suicide bomber in attack on Israelis in Bulgaria
By Yaniv Kubovich and Barak Ravid

By Haaretz | Jul.19,2012 | 6:20 PM

The suspected suicide bomber who blew up a bus of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is Mehdi Ghezali, a Swedish citizen and former Guantanamo detainee, Bulgarian media reported on Thursday.

Bulgarian media quoted the country's interior minister as saying that the man who was responsible for the attack in a Burgas airport, which killed five and wounded 34 Israelis, is Ghezali, who is a 33-year-old Swedish citizen of Algerian descent.

The report also said that Ghezali was held at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba, after he was captured in Pakistan for being an "unlawful combatant."
The report could not be independently confirmed.

Earlier Thursday, ABC showed an image of the suspect's fake Michigan driver's license with the name Jacque Felipe Martin.

The Novinite Daily reported Thursday that the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said that officials are still trying to determine whether the suspect's U.S. passport was also counterfeit.

According to the image obtained by ABC, the license read "Michigan Operator's License" and showed a fake Louisiana address, which is actually that of a casino called the Belle of Baton Rouge.

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