A homemade bomb exploded in a 650-year-old bazaar packed with tourists Sunday, killing a French woman and wounding at least 21 people, most of them foreigners.Within an hour, police found a second bomb and detonated it safely. Security officials said three people were in custody.“We were serving our customers as usual, and all of a sudden there was a large sound,” said Magdy Ragab, 42, a waiter at a nearby cafe. “We saw heavy gray smoke and there were people running everywhere … Some people were injured by the stampede, not the shrapnel.”
An expert on Islamic extremism said the attack might have been a response to Israel’s deadly offensive in Gaza last month.NATO on Monday condemned the terrorist attack in Cairo, which killed one French tourist and injured 20 other people. "On behalf of NATO, I condemn in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attack in Cairo yesterday. I express NATO's solidarity to (Egyptian) President (Hosni) Mubarak and to the Egyptian people for this heinous act," said NATO Secretary GeneralJaap de Hoop Scheffer in a statement. "There can be no justification for this cowardly and pointless attack," he said. De Hoop Scheffer extended NATO's condolences to French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the death of the French citizen and hoped for a speedy recovery of the injured. He said NATO will continue to work with Egypt and other partners in the Mediterranean region in the fight against the scourge of terrorism.
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