Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Suspected as Bulgaria Suicide Bomber

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8. Swedish, Bulgarian officials deny Mehdi Ghezali is Burgas suicide bomber

Swedish and Bulgarian officials denied Thursday that Mehdi Ghezali, a Swedish citizen of Algerian descent, is responsible for the attack against Israelis in Bulgaria a day earlier.

Bulgarian media reported earlier Thursday that the suspected suicide bomber who blew up a bus of Israeli tourists in Burgas, which killed seven people and wounded 34, was Ghezali, who is a 33-year-old former detainee of Guantanamo.

Several hours after the name was circulated in Israeli and global media, Swedish officials were quoted by the Swedish news agency TT as saying that Mehdi Ghezali was not the bomber behind the Burgas attack.

Moreover, Bulgarian officials told ABC news that the bombing suspect's name that has been circulating on the web is incorrect.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/swedish-bulgarian-officials-deny-mehdi-ghezali-is-burgas-suicide-bomber-1.452314

It's possible this is just because some forum users thought that he's a guy who was in Guantanamo with long hair:

Media reports claiming that the suicide bomber who attacked a bus full of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is Swedish ex Guantanamo detainee Mehdi Ghezali are false, stated the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior.

"Information circulated by media and elsewhere that the man who performed a suicide attack in Burgas is Mehdi Ghezali is not true," said the Ministry in a statement.

Earlier The Atlantic Wire had reported that Swedish officials had also refuted the allegations.

Bulgarian news site News.bg was among the first to publish the report, quoting its own forum users and refering to Ghezali's profile in the site CagePrisoners.com and the similarity they found in CCTV footage released earlier by the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior.

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=141488

Google translation of the Bulgarian site:

Validating a News.bg found a website with a profile of a former prisoner at Guantanamo, which can be likened to the physical perpetrator of the terrorist act in Burgas, after being circulated video male suspect.

Mohammed Mehdi Gezli was born in 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden. His father is Algerian and mother Finn. He grew up in the Swedish city Yorebru.

Gezli visited Pakistan to study Islamic law before September 11, 2001. He was arrested at 01:12 in 2001 in Pakistan. After a stay in Guantanamo Bay was released.

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