[PEN-L:6799] Sorry, Wrong Building.

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Should Osama bin Laden explain that he made a "tragic" mistake and that
he meant only to bomb the building across the street and walk free after
expressing "regret".

Food for thought.

Henry C.K. Liu


Friday  May 14  1999

                Bin Laden linked to killings

               REUTERS in Cairo

               The man accused of bombing the US
               Embassy in Kenya also financed the 1997
               shooting of 58 tourists in Egypt, it was
               claimed yesterday.

               Egypt suspected that Saudi-born Osama bin
               Laden had paid for the attack in which
               Muslim militants opened fire on buses at
               Luxor, Switzerland's police chief said. Many
               of those killed were Swiss.

               Police chief Urs von Daeniken was speaking
               in Cairo after meeting Egyptian officials.

               He said Egypt suspected that Mustafa
               Hamza, a leader of Egypt's biggest militant
               group, al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, had ordered the
               attack from Sudan with funding from bin
               Laden.

               "We bring together the knowledge of our
               services and the Egyptian authorities to find
               the people behind the attack," Mr von
               Daeniken said.

               "As far as we know today, one can conclude
               that it is an act of the Gama'a Islamiya and
               that it has been ordered directly or indirectly
               by a Gama'a member in Sudan."

               He named the member as Hamza and said it
               was believed he was no longer in Sudan and
               might now be in Afghanistan.

               "The finance man of this member of Gama'a
               seems to be bin Laden," Mr von Daeniken
               said. He said this was Egypt's version of
               events, adding: "I think so far we are
               satisfied."

               Mr von Daeniken was part of a Swiss
               delegation, including Attorney-General Carla
               Del Ponte, visiting Egypt to get a final report
               and answers to 116 questions they had about
               Cairo's investigation of the massacre, in
               which 35 Swiss died.

               The United States accuses bin Laden of
               masterminding the bombing of the US
               embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last
               August. More than 220 people were killed.

               Bin Laden is based in Afghanistan.