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Bulgarian Suicide Bomber Identified As CIA Tortured Detainee

Thursday, July 19, 2012 17:30

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The Bulgarian media say they have identified the suicide bomber that Israel says was Iran’s doing as a CIA torture victim detained in Guantanamo Bay for 2 years.

Bulgaria Bomber Identified As CIA Torture Victim

At this point Guantanamo Bay is beginning to look more like an CIA training ground for false flag operatives than a torture prison for terrorists – especially given the high rate of released “torture victims” who after being released manage to somehow travel around the world under the radar of the international intelligence community only to reappear to at exactly at the right time they are needed to conduct “terrorist attacks” beneficial to the west’s imperialistic political agenda.

The Bulgarian media say the man who conducted yesterday’s terrorist bombings that Israel is using to justify military action against Iran was a former prisoner in the CIA’s torture prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

According to the reports, they have identified the terrorist as Mehdi Ghezali, an Algerian-Swedish Islamist, who was tortured by the CIA for 2 years after he was arrested in Afghanistan following the battle of Tora Bora.

Suspiciously, the man was arrested after being released while traveling with a group of Al-CIAda terrorist that were carrying $10,000 cash and maps of Western embassies along with explosive belts after being released from Gitmo on to be released again.

Ghezali, whose identity has been confirmed not only from CCTV footage (see video below) but also by his fingerprints which were lifted from the scene and sent to the FBI and Interpol for confirmation, also was in possession of a U.S. passport and Michigan Driver’s license which were both able to allow him to travel but which the FBI says they can find no record of.

Yet despite all of this, Israel is point the finger at Iran and has been all over the news say they will retaliate against Iran for the attack.

From RT:

Burgas suicide bomber identified by media as Guantanamo jihadist

Bulgarian media have named the suicide bomber responsible for killing himself and six others in Burgas airport on Wednesday. The terrorist is alleged to be Mehdi Ghezali, an Algerian-Swedish Islamist who spent two years in Guantanamo Bay.

Officials have so far refused to comment on the information.

Previously, local police matched up airport CCTV footage with the remnants near the bus carrying Israeli tourists that was destroyed in the explosion. The likely suicide bomber was carrying a US driving license bearing the name Jacque Felipe Martin that authorities believe to be a forgery.

Mehdi Ghezali is a 33 year-old Islamist, who was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and subsequently spent two years in detention in Guantanamo. When he was sent back to Sweden, the local government refused to press charges against him. He was arrested again by Pakistani authorities on the Afghanistan border in 2009, but once again set free upon extradition back to his homeland.

The suspect – a long-haired man in shorts wearing two rucksacks – looked no different than the thousands of other holidaymakers at the popular Black Sea resort. He roamed the airport for an hour, apparently waiting for the tourists arriving from Tel Aviv to go through customs before approaching their transfer bus and detonating his bomb.

Five Israelis, the Bulgarian driver and the bomber were instantly killed. Two more tourists remain in serious condition in the capital Sofia, while an Israeli military plane has flown around thirty others who were wounded back to Israel.

Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the bomber had spent between four days and a week in the country.

”We cannot exclude the possibility that he had logistical support on Bulgarian territory,” said Tsvetanov.

Police have taken a DNA sample from the skin of the terrorist to see if it is listed in any international criminal databases.

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Source: RT

From Business Insider:

Bulgaria Suicide Bomber Identified As A Swedish Extremist Released From Guantánamo

Bulgarian media have named the reported suicide bomber who killed six Israeli tourists and two Bulgarianswhen he exploded a bus yesterday as Mehdi Ghezali.The Times of Israel reports that Ghezali was Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish origins who had been held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay from 2002 to 2004.

In 2009 Michael Moynihan of the Weekly Standard reported that Ghezali was released from Guantánamo and sent to Sweden on a government jet after an intense lobbying effort by Swedish prime minister Göran Persson.

Bulgarian news agency Sofia reports that Ghezali was carrying a U.S. passport and a fake Michigan drivers license, noting that an FBI database check did not find an individual with such documents and it remains unclear how he obtained the fake passport and the circumstances surrounding his entrance in Bulgaria.

Sofia also reported that the Bulgarian Interior Ministry managed to recover fingerprints of the bomber, which they gave to the U.S. – who has joined Israeli and Bulgarian officials in the investigation – as well as Interpol.

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Ghezali had been detained during the battle at Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in late 2001 and being handed over to the U.S. military and sent to Guantánamo Bay. [...]

Ghezali was arrested a second time in 2009, this time in Pakistan, while traveling with a group of multinational extremists who crossed the border from Iran on their way to the al-Queda stronghold of Waziristan. The group, according to Pakistani authorities, had $10,000 cash and maps indicating Western embassies along with explosive belts.

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More to come as the story develops.

SEE ALSO:Terror Attack On Israeli Tourists At Bulgarian Airport Kills At Least Six >

Source: Business Insider

On Israel’s using the incident as propaganda to wage war against Iran:

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The shadow war

Israel did not hesitate in naming the perpetrators of the attack.

“All signs point to Iran. This is an Iranian terror offensive that is spreading throughout the world,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The past year has seen attacks on Israeli embassies in Georgia, India and Kenya. Israel says that each time the investigation led back to Iran, Israel’s principal enemy.

“The direct executors are Hezbollah,” claimed Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The Lebanese Islamist organization enjoys ideological and financial ties with Tehran.

“Israel will do all it can to find those responsible and punish them, both those who carried it out directly and those who dispatched them,” promised Barak.

In response, Iranian TV branded the accusations “sensationalist” and “ridiculous.”

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov said further investigations will be necessary before a definitive perpetrator of the attack is found.

“It is wrong and a mistake to point fingers at this stage of the investigation at any country or organization,” stated Mladenov.

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Source:RT

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