Suicide Attacker With Fake U.S. ID Blamed in Bus Bomb

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Source: New York Times

Suicide Attacker With Fake U.S. ID Blamed in Bus Bomb

By NICHOLAS KULISH and MATTHEW BRUNWASSER
Published: July 19, 2012

BURGAS, Bulgaria — The attack on a tour bus carrying Israeli vacationers outside the airport here was carried out by a suicide bomber using fake American identification, Bulgarian officials said Thursday.

Officials in Israel and Bulgaria said that five Israelis had been killed in the Wednesday attack. The Bulgarian driver of the bus was also killed along with the bomber, and dozens more were injured.

Israel quickly blamed Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia, and promised a firm response. As injured Israelis were being ferried back from Bulgaria by military plane on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the attack was carried out by “Hezbollah, the long arm of Iran.”

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Speaking to reporters at the airport at this Black Sea resort on Thursday morning, the interior minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, said the bomber was carrying a fake Michigan driver’s license at the time of the blast. Bulgarian officials posted video footage of the suspect from an airport security camera. The man, with pale skin and long red hair, wanders into the arrivals hall, looks around, then wanders out again. He is wearing an unusually large backpack, which several witnesses said contained the bomb.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/world/europe/explosion-on-bulgaria-tour-bus-kills-at-least-five-israelis.html

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1. How do they know it was fake already? n/t