Sharm al-Shaikh suspect shot dead (egypt bombing)

[Monkie]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EF7EA6E3-5202-433A-A55B-E752DDBA6B21.htm

"Monday 01 August 2005, 17:19 Makka Time, 14:19 GMT

One of the main suspects in Egypt's Sharm al-Shaikh resort attacks has been killed in a shootout with security forces, a police official says.

Mohammed Saleh Flayfil, already wanted for his alleged role in last year's bomb attacks at the Taba resorts in the Sinai peninsula, was killed in the shootout in Ataqaa mountains, near Suez, said the police official on Monday.

Flayfil's wife was injured in the shooting, the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to give information to the press, said.

Flayfil is being tried in absentia for the Taba bombings that killed 34 people and was one of the authorities' main suspects out of a list of 15 wanted in relation to the 23 July explosions that rocked Sharm al-Shaikh, killing scores of Egyptians and tourists. "

[krkaufman]

1. Are they sure he wasn't Brazilian? n/t