イスラエル／パレスチナ和平

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,959684,00.html

Mystery of the last hours of failed suicide bomber found dead in sea

Israel's state forensics institute yesterday confirmed a week of speculation that the body hauled out of the sea was that of the missing British suicide bomber, Omar Khan Sharif, the 27-year-old father of two from Derby who slipped into Israel, strapped several pounds of explosive to his body three weeks ago and then fought with the people he had been trying to kill when the bomb failed to detonate. After that he ran off into the darkness.

That has not stopped security officials speculating. One theory has Sharif running into the sea to escape after the failed bombing only to be swept away by the area's notoriously strong currents.

Another has him drowned by his accomplices to prevent his arrest and exposure under interrogation of the network that brought him from London, and his contacts in the Palestinian territories.

Or perhaps Sharif could not face the shame of failing in his mission and decided to commit suicide another way.

Radical Islamists in Sharif's home town have their own theory. They suspect Israeli security forces murdered him.

Sharif and Hanif were known to MI5 before they set off on their suicide mission. Sharif was a supporter of the radical Islamist group, Al-Muhajiroun, and had been spotted handing out its leaflets outside a Derby mosque. He had links to the controversial Finsbury Park mosque in north London.

テルアビブで見つかった溺死体が、DNA鑑定の結果、
テルアビブで自爆テロを行なったAsif Hanifの連れで
自身も自爆しようとして失敗し、逃走していたOmar Khan Sharifと判明。

逃走中に誤って溺死したのか、
または、組織の全容解明を恐れる協力者によって殺害されたのか、
もしくは、自爆失敗という屈辱に耐えられずに自殺したのか、謎は残る。
ロンドンの過激ムスリム組織は「イスラエル治安部隊によって殺害された」と
相変わらずの陰謀論。

自爆したAsif HanifもOmar Khan Sharifも、過激ムスリムとしてMI5にマークされていたが
まさかイスラエルまで来て自爆するとは予想されていなかった。

この２人が自爆直前に、人間の盾で有名な反戦組織ISMに接触していたため、
イスラエル政府がISMを活動禁止する、というオマケもついた。