"Tawheed wal-Jihad" Claims Recent Sinai Bombings

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Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Monday, 25 July 2005 19:00

In a new communiqué posted online and verified as authentic by sources close to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the "Egyptian Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement" has claimed responsibility for recent suicide bombing attacks in the Sinai resort towns of Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh. The statement justified the latest carnage in Sharm el-Sheikh as the "response to the orders of Allah and his Prophet to fight the infidels everywhere [and] to demonstrate our loyalty to the commanders of the mujahideen, Usama Bin Laden and Shaykh Ayman al-Zawahiri." Only hours after the latest bombings in Egypt, Zarqawi's Media Wing released a video showing Al-Qaida interrogators questioning former Egyptian Ambassador to Baghdad Ihab el-Sherif concerning the location of Jews in the Sinai Peninsula--to which an obviously distressed Sherif responded, "From Taba to Sharm al-Sheikh."

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