Small World

Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar is the biochemist currently being held in Egypt for chats about his role in the London bombings. British media reported that police had found evidence of the explosive TATP in his bathtub. This is the same explosive which was to be used by the shoe bomber Richard Reid who was affiliated with the same mosque in London. el-Nashar was in Raleigh, N. C. for one semester studying at North Carolina State. The problem is he stayed here for a total of 13 months. We really need to find out what he did during that time an who he had contacts with.