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The suicide bomber is said to be a man with a Michigan-issued US driver's licence which reports said may have been fake.
Bulgarian media have named the reported suicide bomber who allegedly killed five Israeli tourists and two Bulgarians in a bus explosion yesterday as Mehdi Ghezali, according to The Times of Israel. Ghezali, a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish origins, was held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay from 2002 to 2004 and arrested in Pakistan in 2009. The Swedish secret service has denied that Ghezali was the bomber:
Originally posted by mr-lizard
The guy looks white (possibly Western), not Iranian. Apparently he had a Michigan driving license too.
www.bbc.co.uk...
The suicide bomber is said to be a man with a Michigan-issued US driver's licence which reports said may have been fake.
Very odd.
Originally posted by ken10
The perpetrator has been identified according to this article with video...
www.vesti.bg...
Doesn't look Iranian to me.
Originally posted by Jobeycool
Originally posted by phalanx001
I have an alternative theory...
Iran or Israel, etc may not have anything to do with this. It could be in retaliation to recent bad publicity aimed at the Bulgarians (in the last 12 months). There was a recently released movie (in the Balkan region) named '3rd half-time' which touched on the subject of the Bulgarian participation in the holocaust. Since then Bulgaria has received a lot of negative publicity. Relatively speaking, although some 'Bulgarian Jews' survived the holocaust (thanks to some compassionate Bulgarian authorities), there have always been pro-nazi elements in Bulgaria. The siding with Nazi Germany and the invasion of neighbouring countries in 1941 is living proof of this.
Bulgarian participation in the holocaust - just a link I came across on google. Although Macedonia is mentioned in the article, at the time it was administered by occupying forces (Bulgarian, German and Italian). As such, there was no Macedonian authorities - only occupied Macedonian population. Basically, the Macedonians were also being murdered in their own country by the occupiers.
It's not a stretch of the imagination to state that those same pro-nazi elements that contributed to the demise of many Jews during world war II are still active today in Bulgaria.
Ps: I am neither in support or against Israeli or Iranian politics. I have no intention of debating the existence of the holocaust (although i don't necessarily agree with the reported numbers) or Bulgaria's obvoius involvement in it, etc, etc ...edit on 19/7/2012 by phalanx001 because: (no reason given)edit on 19/7/2012 by phalanx001 because: (no reason given)
Pretty interesting theory.Just proves the hatred of the jews happening all over again.
Originally posted by mkgandhas
reply to post by Shminkee Pinkee
why what happened ??don't like Karma??