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The noontime attack — which police blamed on Muslim radicals — sent frightened tourists and by standers streaming in panic from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, a major tourist landmark that contains one of the world’s greatest collec tions of Pharaonic antiquities. Police fired on the gunmen, wounding and capturing two of them. A third suspect was arrested nearby as hundreds of people fled the museum, famed for its rich gold artifacts from the tomb of King Tut. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but police de scribed the gunmen as Muslim ex tremists. The attack came three days after Egypt convicted 72 peo ple of subversion in its largest trial yet of Muslim extremists. Cairo O T/4mlle EGYPT 1/4 km rn CD D3 I ■z Gezira Sporting & Racing Club <» 6th October Bridge Rainses Hilton Hotel CAIRO Egyptian j—g** Museum O Tahrir Bridge Tour bus attacked “I saw one man hurl a Molotov cocktail at the left side of the bus, while another opened fire,” said Mohammed Fadl, an office worker. “There was black smoke coming out of the bus, and then it burst into flames.” “The whole place was in panic,” said Stephen Thomas, a Briton who was visiting the museum with his wife and two children. Another witness, an American from Buffalo, N.Y., who gave his name only as Mark, said the gunfire continued “for what must have been 10-15 minutes. It was crazy, people were running.” Other witnesses said the gun men threw one firebomb under the bus and another inside. Twenty-four people were wounded, including seven hospi talized in stable condition in Qasr el-Aini hospital, police said. Offi cials said other victims were treated and released, but had no details. More than 30 German tourists were already on the bus when the gunmen opened fire shortly after noon, when the museum was crowded with visitors and nearby Tahrir Square was jammed with pedestrians and vehicles. After the attack, two bodies, one riddled with bullets, lay across the stairs of the charred bus, its tires melted and its windows blown out. Seven other bodies were inside, some sprawled across the aisles. A tenth victim died after being re moved from the bus. There was a disagreement over the nationalities of the dead: police said nine were Germans and the other was the Egyptian bus driver. But German officials said only sev en of the dead were German. Police said six of the dead were women and four were men. After the attack, hundreds of po licemen carrying plastic riot shields, assault rifles tipped with tear gas canisters and rifles sealed off the downtown museum to search for the gunmen. Mahmoud Hamdy, the driver of a tour bus parked nearby, said the attackers wore white shirts and ties and looked just like any other Egyptian tourist agent working in the area. A police statement identified two of the suspects as Saber Farhat Abu el-Ulla and his brother Mah moud. It said Saber Abu el-Ulla was convicted of a 1993 attack on a Cairo hotel that killed two Ameri cans and a Frenchman, and was committed to a mental institution after being ruled mentally ill. The police statement said Saber Abu el-Ulla had escaped three days ago. But police officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he had been re leased after spending two years in the institution. CraftMasters’ Mall “A Year Round Arts and Crafts Show” 1857 Briarcrest Drive • Bryan Over 1 70 Booths of Handcrafted Items • Ceramics • Needlecraft • Stained Glass • Baby Items Floral Arrangements • Woodcrafts • Wearable Art • Jewelry • Aggie Commemorative Coins • Aggie Items it Get that perfect gift! 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SSK &M look By Jeff Webb Staff writer J Revenge is a dish best |ld, and the Texas A&M I Jam will be looking for th Iffet line on Saturday w igies take on the Unive [uthwest Louisiana. In last year’s game aga Ragin’ Cajuns, the only 2. Feb. 26: A Swede, a Turk and an Egyptian are killed, 18 others, including two Americans, one Canadian, and one Frenchman, are injured in bombing at downtown Cairo coffee shop. 3. March 4: German woman is injured and later dies after a machine gun is fired at Nile cruiser near Abu Tig 4. Aug. 26: Spanish boy, 13, killed when suspected extremists fire at tourist bus near Nag Hamadi. Three others are injured. 5. Sept. 27: German tourist and two Egyptians killed when suspected extremist opens fire in downtown square 6. Oct. 23: British man killed. I woman and two British men woundsd gfvcd up by the Aggies v when suspected extremist opens lireo: Lovers that led to the r van near Naqada. Egyptian driver ateo [. 22 upset in La f ay ette. wo u fd. , y ear t }-,j n g S promi iU : I’1 lifferent. With the mass o 7. April 18: Gunmen open fire with 12 f llis P ast ^ automatic rifles at Europa Hotel nearr ; P ni1 llie jump in the polls Pyramids, killing 18 Greek tourists and wounding 16 others. An Egyptian alsos wounded 8. Sept. 18: Attackers throw fire bomte and open fire on tourist bus outside Hie Egyptian Museum in Cairo, killing at te nine people, seven of them German tourists. Four foreigners and 15 f were wounded. Ixas A&M can has much taking care of business ^ir upset-minded foes. Most of the attention 1 on the shoulders of Br b wart who had his wors Police officials said Saber Abu el- Ulla told interrogators Thursday’s attack was to avenge posters de picting the Prophet Mohammed as a pig distributed by a Jewish ex tremist in the Palestinian city of He bron in June. The incident has been widely condemned in the Muslim world, as well as by Israeli leaders. Thursday’s attack came three days after a court convicted 72 people of subversion in Egypt’s largest trial of Islamic extremists. Four of the defendants were sen tenced to death and eight to life imprisonment. More than 1,100 people have been killed during the Muslim mil itants’ five-year campaign of vio lence, including tourists, police of ficers and minority Coptic Che tians. Before Thursday’s attad least 29 foreigners had died in violence. In the most recent attack foreigners, Muslim radicals tacked a group of Greek tourist a hotel near the pyramids inAf 1996, killing 18 Greeks. Them hird-r ace Ut By Nicole Hoovi Staff writer The third ranked Texas A im (6-0) will head back tc ccer Co m p lex t h is weekei , _ , , , • two home games until extiemist al-Gamaa al-IslamiyiB^^ w j ien q ie y j lost ^ Islamic Group, claimed respi ^SoccerClassic, bility lor that attack, saying itia Qn Friday, the Aggies will mistaken the Greeks for Isr^jOregon on Sunday, tourists. ' 1 Baylor will also be at tin Authorities repeatedly have ids weekend to play Utah ar ill.ii police have hugely put dflBt they will not face the Ag the rebellion by militants wisliiThe Aggie soccer team is install Islamic law. Recent violf# vwe (1 they will fare agair for the most part has been conli'P ms ’ si nce tNs w iU b e th e ' to battles between police andsw^ 06 ^ )0 ^ 1 . pected militants in southemEjE^wfib the Aggies i ^ ftord, they are not convi se two games are in the 1 nrrl Y it t" The Kyle House “Reputation doesn’t mat Guerrieri said. “To be ah te, we have to play at ou our high) every single pr ity single game. 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