Bulgaria: Homicide bomber used fake drivers license from Michigan, death toll climbs to 8

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The global nexis of terror ….. proving, yet again, this is an ideological war that transcends borders, race, creed, and color. A Michigan drivers license ….

"A similar plot targeting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria was thwarted in January, just weeks ahead of the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah operations chief Imad Mughniyeh, when a suspicious package was spotted on a bus carrying Israeli tourists from Turkey to Bulgaria.  Israeli officials requested the Bulgarians provide enhanced security for buses carrying Israeli tourists, which they did.  Additional security was reportedly put in place at the country’s premier ski resort as well. (Daily Beast)

"Suicide bomber with fake US documents killed Israelis in Bulgaria" Telegraph, July 19, 2012

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The bombing of a coach carrying Israeli tourists was carried out by male suicide bomber with fake US identity documents, officials confirm.

The bomber, killed in the attack, was a young man with long hair who was described as a "caucasian" looking like any other tourist.

He was caught on CCTV walking around the airport dressed in sportswear, shorts and carrying a backpack before carrying out the attack on a coach load of Israeli tourists at the airport in the quiet Black Sea resort city of Burgas, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital, Sofia.

The death toll was raised to at least eight after the Bulgarian driver of the bus died in hospital overnight. The other six victims were Israeli citizens and the suspected bomber died in the attack, Bulgaria's Interior minister said on Thursday morning.

Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the suspected attacker was carrying a Michigan driver's license that was being sent to the FBI for authentication.

"The explosion was caused by a man who died in the attack and whose identity has not yet been established," Mr Tsvetanov said at the airport a day after the attack, which Israel blames on Iran.

"The suicide bomber, wearing shorts and carrying a backpack, looked like any other tourist. He put his bag in the luggage compartment of the bus that blew up," the minister told a news conference.

"His travel document was a fake driving licence from the (US) state of Michigan."

No group immediately claimed responsibility but Israel was quick to blame Iran and the Hezbollah.

Israel's Defence Minister said that his nation is confronting a "global wave of terror" sponsored by Iran.

"We are facing a global wave of terror… the attack in Burgas was led by members of Hezbollah and sponsored by Iran," Ehud Barak told Israeli public radio on Thursday morning.

"The Al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad networks also operate globally," he added, citing a long list of recent attacks or attempted attacks on Israelis around the world.

His comments came a day after Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, accused Tehran of being behind the attack near the popular Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach and warned of retaliatory measures targeting Iran.

"All the signs lead to Iran. Israel will respond forcefully to Iranian terror," he said.

Three buses caught fire after an explosion at around 5.30pm local time ripped through a coach carrying 44 Israeli tourists, including many teenagers, who had just landed on a flight from Tel Aviv. Over 30 people were also injured in the attack.

The blast was confirmed as a terrorist attack linked to the 18th anniversary of Iran's bombing of a Jewish community centre in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires that killed 85 people

"Eighteen years exactly after the blast at the Jewish community centre in Argentina, murderous Iranian terror continues to hit innocent people," said Mr Netanyahu.

"This is an Iranian terror attack that is spreading throughout the entire world. Israel will react powerfully against Iranian terror."

"Only in the past few months we have seen Iranian attempts to attack Israelis in Thailand, India, Georgia, Kenya, Cyprus and other places,"

Survivors spoke of the terrifying attack. Tsviti Isaac, who was sitting at the front of the bus, survived the explosion with facial injuries but it is thought that his pregnant wife was killed.

"The blow came from below and the side as if a row of seats fell on me. Somehow I left the bus, but then went back for my wife," he said.

"I am still looking for my wife I do not know if she dead or alive. But I think she is not alive."

Gal Malka, who also survived the explosion, told Israeli Army Radio: "We sat down and within a few seconds we heard a huge boom and we ran away. We managed to escape through a hole on the bus. We saw bodies and many people injured. The whole bus went up in flames."

Dimitar Nikolov, the mayor of Burgas told the bTV television channel that the attack was caused by "a very strong explosive that was deliberately placed or brought into the baggage compartment of the bus".

The US condemned the attack, with President Barack Obama stating his "thoughts and prayers" were with the victims.

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InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
11 years ago

So Obama is thinking of the victims, or so he claims. I suppose we should be grateful.

meira750
meira750
11 years ago

And it gets better. The guy was in Guantanamo according to this.
Though the suspected bomber has not been identified by authorities, reports in the Bulgarian press cited by Israeli media claim he is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent named Mehdi Ghezali, according to the Times of Israel.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/fake-michigan-driver-license-found-suspect-bulgaria-bus-bombing-killed-israeli-tourists-article-1.1117502#ixzz215cBUodW

Donald Douglas
Donald Douglas
11 years ago
Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
11 years ago

Isn’t Dearbornistan in Michigan? I wonder if the Dearbornistan PD or DMV could’ve had anything to do with this?

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
11 years ago

One of the reason the the jihadists do the suicide/homicide bombings is because of those heinous imams and mullahs who in their evil work braunwash their students[victims] in the mosque and madrassas to the point that those who come out of those places of Islamic programing beliving in the falsehood and lie of a paradise with virgins,houris, for the jihadist who dies in a specific way for Islam. Talk about using a person for one own agenda. This is the the imams and mullahs do to the extreme. So these people because they are so mind progamed actually become dangerous to self and others. A religion of peace ? BULL !.

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
11 years ago

This and other jihadists do their suicide bombings because they are so throughly mind programmed into the Islamic belief from the Quran by the imams ans mullahs of a paradise with many virgins for the jihadist who dies for the cause of Islam. The reader might notice that those imams and mullahs are never the ones who go out and do the suicide bombings. They just brainwash other people into the mindset for it and then send them out to commit the act of suicde bombings. That in itself say a lot aboutthe real character of those Muslim clerics. The end result of some people beliving in this far-fetch and nonsensical doctrine ofthe virgins,houris, is much murder ans mayhem. To put this in another way, theFrench philosopher, Voltaire, wrote that “As long as men continue to beieve in absurities they will comtinue to commit atrocities.”

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