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Carried out by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the November 19, 1995 attack on the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan was retaliation against the diplomatic staffers who were accused of gathering intelligence on Jihad factions inside Pakistan. It was the deadliest attack against the Egyptian government, since it had been declared apostate three years earlier by Islamic militants.〔Jehl, Douglas. ''The New York Times'', (Islamic militants' war on Egypt ), November 20, 1995〕 ==Attack== Ayman al-Zawahiri planned the attack in 1994, shortly after aligning himself together with Osama bin Laden, initially hoping to target the Khan el-Khalili marketplace on the same day.〔El-Zayyat, Montasser, "The Road to al-Qaeda", 2004. tr. by Ahmed Fakry〕〔CNN, (Egyptian doctor emerges as terror mastermind )〕 Members such as Abu Hafs claimed it was in response to Pakistan's extradition of several al-Jihad members to face imprisonment, torture and sexual abuse in Egypt.〔Al-Ahram, (Piecing together the puzzle ), August 13–19, 1998〕〔Atwan, Abdel Bari. "The Secret History of al Qaeda", 2006. p. 25〕〔 Al-Zawahiri later said that the group had wanted to target the American embassy, but it was too heavily fortified.〔Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002. pp. 132〕 Two men approached the embassy at approximately 9:30am〔''The New York Times'', (Associated Press; No Headline ), November 20, 1995〕 and killed its security detail with their guns and grenades. A vehicle described alternately as either a pickup truck or a small car resembling a taxi loaded with a 250-pound bomb then rushed into the compound. The driver set off the bomb, blowing apart the gates.〔 Three minutes later, a Jeep carrying a second, larger bomb also detonated and the side of the building crumbled.〔〔 The Japanese and Indonesian embassies were also damaged, as was a nearby bank.〔Orr, Tamra. "Egyptian Islamic Jihad", 2003. p. 37〕〔Bodansky, Yossef. "Bin Laden: The Man who declared war on America", 2001. p. 143〕 The two bombers, the Second Secretary for the embassy, three Egyptian security guards and 12 others including Pakistani security guards, civilians and as many as four other diplomats〔McGirk, Tim. The Independent, "Bomb kills 14 at Egypt's embassy", November 20, 1995〕 were killed in total, and approximately sixty were wounded.〔al-Hammadi, "The Inside Story of al-Qa'ida," part 9, March 28, 2005, ''al-Quds al-Arabi''〕〔McGirk, Tim. ''Time'', "(Rogues No More? )", April 29, 2002〕〔Tal, Nachman. Radical Islam in Egypt and Jordan. 2005〕 A 17th person died in the hospital the following day.〔Stewart, Ian. Seattle Times, "Stunned By Terrorism, Pakistan Asks For Help", November 20, 1995〕 It was the group's first success under Zawahiri's leadership, but Bin Laden had disapproved of the operation. The bombing alienated the host of the embassy, Pakistan, and Pakistan was "the best route into Afghanistan" 〔Wright, ''Looming Towers'', 2006, p.217〕 Zawahiri later referred to the bombings in his autobiographical text.
Three groups had all simultaneously taken responsibility for the attack, including al-Jihad, the International Justice Group and the Islamic Holy War group.〔 Former CIA agent Robert Baer claims that Imad Mughniyah "facilitated the travel" of somebody involved, and that one of his deputies had "provided a stolen Lebanese passport to one of the planners of the bombing".〔Baer, Robert, ''See No Evil'', 2003〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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