Suicide Bomber in Bulgaria Had Michigan Passport (Video) …Update: A Swedish National


A still picture taken from CCTV surveillance camera shows the suspected bomber (C) at Bulgaria’s Burgas airport July 18, 2012. A suicide bomber carried out an attack that killed seven people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, the country’s interior minister said on Thursday, and Israel said Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants were to blame. Video surveillance footage showed the bomber was similar in appearance to tourists arriving at the airport, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said. (REUTERS/Interior Ministry)

Here’s video of the bomber before the attack.

The suicide bomber who murdereed 8 Israelis yesterday in Bulgaria was carrying a fake Michigan license.
Reuters reported:

A suicide bomber carried out the attack that killed eight people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, the country’s interior minister said on Thursday, and Israel accused Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants of responsibility.

Video surveillance in front of the airport and the investigation showed the bomber could not be distinguished among arriving Israeli tourists, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said at the airport of Burgas, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.

“We have established there was a person who was a suicide bomber in this attack (on Wednesday). This person had a fake driving license from the United States, from the state of Michigan,” Tsvetanov told reporters.

“He looked like anyone else – a normal person with Bermuda shorts and a backpack,” he said.

Special forces had managed to obtain DNA samples from the fingers of the bomber and were now checking databases in an attempt to identify him, Tsvetanov said. Bulgarian security services had received no indications of a pending attack.

Tsvetanov said eight people were killed in the attack including the Bulgarian driver of the bus and the bomber. The Israeli foreign ministry said it could confirm that five Israelis were killed.

UPDATE: The Israeli government is reporting that the bomber was a Swedish national.

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