Qatar denies handing over Cairo bombing suspect

DOHA: Qatar on Saturday denied it had handed over to Egypt a man allegedly involved in attacks on tourists in Cairo last April, contradicting an earlier Egyptian report, the official QNA agency reported. An official at the Qatari interior ministry denied that Doha had handed over to Egypt one of those suspected of financing attacks against tourists in Cairo, as was announced by an Egyptian interior ministry source, it said. The information was completely unfounded, the official was quoted as saying. An Egyptian security source said Saturday that an Egyptian suspect in last year s attacks, in which three foreigners were killed, had been extradited. Tamer Yusri Yassin, who worked in Qatar, is considered to be funding a group of 14 people who appeared last week in a Cairo court for involvement in terrorist acts in April 2005, the Egyptian source had said. On April 7, two French tourists and an American were killed and some 20 other people wounded in a bomb attack in the Al-Azhar area of the Egyptian capital. Seven people were wounded in an attack later the same month in Cairo s Abdel Moneim Riad Square, and two women assailants were killed in a failed attack on a tourist bus. AFP