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Militants claim responsibility
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Wednesday • November 19, W
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Militants blamed
for most of the violence in Egypt’s five-year Is
lamic rebellion claimed responsibility Tues
day for the revolt’s deadliest attack: the mas
sacre of 62 people at an ancient temple
crowded with tourists.
The al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, or the Islamic
Group, said in a faxed statement that Mon
day’s attack was a failed attempt to take
hostages to trade for the freedom of their spir
itual leader, a blind Egyptian cleric jailed in
the United States for plotting to bomb New
York landmarks.
The sandstone terraces of the Temple of
Hatshepsut were bloodstained Tuesday, but
dozens of tourists warily returned. Many oth
ers were fleeing the country, however, and
agencies were scrapping tours—spelling trou
ble for Egypt’s important tourism industry.
President Hosni Mubarak visited the tem
ple on the Nile River’s West Bank, across from
Luxur, to reassure tourists, and replaced his in
terior minister, blaming him for lax security.
Thirty-one of the dead were Swiss, police
said. The others included eight Japanese, five
Germans, four Britons — including a child —
a Bulgarian, a Colombian and a French citi
zen. Seven of the dead were still unidentified.
There were 24 people wounded.
Police shot the six attackers as they tried to
escape. Authorities said one was a member of
al-Gamaa, the group that claimed responsi
bility for the attack.
Al-Gamaa has been a main target of police
battling a violent campaign aimed at over
throwing Mubarak’s secular government and
turning Egypt into a strict Islamic state.
The government has arrested and jailed
thousands of suspected radicals, put hun
dreds on trial and executed 63 people in the
past five years. But al-Gamaa and similar rad
ical groups are difficult to fight because of
their small, loosely connected cells.
Last year, al-Gamaa took responsibility for
killing 16 Greek tourists at a hotel near the
pyramids, on the edge of Cairo. The group
also claimed an assassination attempt on
Mubarak while he was visiting Ethiopia in
June 1995; he was unharmed.
In its statement Tuesday, the gr oup said the
gunmen’s “brave" hostage attempt went awry
because police opened fire too quickly, forcing
militants to return fire. It accused police of show
ing negligence toward the safety of tourists.
“The government forces dealt lightly with
the lives of the tourists and the citizens, lead
ing to the falling of this great number of
dead,” it said.
Witnesses, however, said the six gunmen
opened fire as soon as they entered the tem
ple grounds, spraying wildly with automatic
weapons and killing 58 foreign tourists and
four Egyptians.
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