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| Terror Networks |
| Egyptian jugged for providin credentials to Masood killers |
| 2001-10-30 |
An Egyptian was charged with providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who killed the military chief of Afghanistan's opposition alliance. Yasser el-Sirri, 39, was the first person charged in connection with the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massood. Two men posing as journalists -- allegedly using a letter of accreditation el-Sirri gave them -- detonated a bomb hidden in their camera while they interviewed Massood in his northern Afghanistan headquarters on Sept. 9. Massood was fatally wounded and both of the bombers were killed. In an interview with an Arabic newspaper before his arrest, el-Sirri said he wrote the letter but thought the men were legitimate journalists. What the hell, it's not as though he was a fellow Muslim or anything. Besides, what'd he ever do for his country? It's not like he was a hero. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |