DATE=10/21/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-240545
TITLE=COLOMBIA/TERRORIST (L-ONLY)
BYLINE=JEREMY LENNARD
DATELINE=BOGOTA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: COLOMBIAN INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED A
SUSPECTED EGYPTIAN TERRORIST -- WHO IS LINKED TO LAST YEAR'S
MASSACRE OF 62 PEOPLE IN LUXOR, EGYPT. AS JEREMY LENNARD REPORTS
FROM BOGOTA, COLOMBIA HAS DEPORTED THE SUSPECTED TERRORIST TO
ECUADOR.
TEXT: THE HEAD OF COLOMBIA'S INTELLIGENCE POLICE, COLONEL GERMAN
JARAMILLO, ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY THAT HIS AGENTS HAD CAPTURED
MOHAMMED ABED ABDEL -- A MEMBER OF EGYPT'S MOST RUTHLESS
TERRORIST GROUP JAMMA ISLAMIYYA.
MR. ABDEL IS SUSPECTED OF TAKING PART IN LAST YEAR'S MASSACRE IN
LUXOR, EGYPT, IN WHICH 58 TOURISTS AND FOUR EGYPTIANS WERE
KILLED. HE IS ALSO WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE GUNNING DOWN OF
GREEK TOURISTS OUTSIDE THEIR CAIRO HOTEL IN 1996, AND THE FAILED
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON EGYPT'S PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK IN 1995.
MR. ABDEL WAS ARRESTED IN THE COLOMBIAN CAPITAL BOGOTA ON MONDAY
AFTER ENTERING THE COUNTRY OVERLAND FROM NEIGHBORING ECUADOR ON
THE WEEKEND. COLONEL JARAMILLO WAS UNABLE TO EXPLAIN THE
SUSPECTED TERRORIST'S PRESENCE IN LATIN AMERICA -- BUT HE SAID
THAT THE ARREST WAS THE CULMINATION OF WORK BY INTERNATIONAL
INTELLIGNECE AGENCIES WHICH HAVE HAD MR. ABDEL UNDER SURVEILLANCE
FOR SOME TIME.
AS COLOMBIA HAS NO SPECIFIC CHARGES AGAINST MR. ABDEL, THE
COUNTRY'S IMMIGRATION LAWS STIPULATE THAT HE MUST BE RETURNED TO
HIS POINT OF ENTRY. THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY,
OR DAS, IN BOGOTA CONFIRMED THAT MR. ABDEL WAS DEPORTED TO
ECUADOR WEDNESDAY MORNING LOCAL TIME. DAS OFFICIALS ALSO SAID
THAT THEY ARE IN CONTACT WITH AUTHORITIES IN THE ECUADOREAN
CAPITAL, QUITO, AND THAT ARRANGEMENTS ARE UNDERWAY TO EXTRADITE
MR. ABDEL TO HIS NATIVE EGYPT. (SIGNED)
NEB/JL/WFR
21-Oct-98 4:24 PM EDT (2024 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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