So I was doing some research on Magdy Mahmoud Elnashar who was nabbed in Egypt today as a 7/7 suspect and I found his e-mail at Leeds University. Since he's now experiencing the pleasures of the Egyptian penal system and is no longer at Leeds University where he just earned his Ph. D. I figure I won't post it. I mean, he probably won't ever get to read it so what possible value could e-mailing the man who's apartment was used to construct the bomb that killed 52 innocents and mamed hundreds more?

Oh, right. There is that.

So, if you think there might be some theraputic value in e-mailing this son-of-a-bitch and telling him just what you think of him, here you go.

UPDATE: Try this e-mail address, instead: m.elnashar@chem.leeds.ac.uk

7/7 terrorist Dr. Magdy Mahmoud Mostafa Elnashar's e-mail address: bmbmmme@leeds.ac.uk

UPDATE: *sigh* e-mail is dead. Which is odd since most universities don't kick you off their e-mail systems until long after you graduated. But Dave's quip in the comments section may explain why his e-mail is down. It is currently being looked at by British intelligence.

I wonder if he still has voice-mail? Those take a little longer to change. Here is his telephone number if you're a Brit and this is local:

+44(0) 113 3433162

Here is a cached version of his bio.

Also, have you ever wanted to read a peer reviewed scientific paper published by a terrorist? Well, here's your chance to read Novel Matrix for Biocatalyst Production. You mean to say that terrorists might be as ordinary as the guy next door? They go to work, come home, and are generally good neighbors until the day they blow people up? They don't roam the streets yelling death to America all day long? I don't believe it.

Another Update: It looks like the terrorist in question was on a fellowship sponsored by the European Union. These kinds of fellowships are routinely given out to anybody that applies and meets the general qualifications--including foreigners. In fact, if the fellowship that Elnashar received was anything like fellowships in the US, his status as an Egyptian national would only help him--after all, diversity before all other considerations!

So, all indications are that Elnashar was a good student who had received some amount of recognition at Leeds University. The only sign that he was a terrorist was that he enjoyed talking about his religion. Isn't that odd? A religious man becoming a terrorist?

Yet another update: Looks like Andrew Cochran knows how to do a Google search too.

Mike Pechar, a co-author here, makes this important point at his own blog:

It needs to be noted that Elnasher has been reported to be a chemistry student, a chemistry lecturer, a biochemistry researcher, and a chemistry professor. Right now, it's not really clear what he is, but it has something to do with chemistry.

What bothers me is the possibility that he is a biochemist. If so, and he's found to be a terrorist, there is the likelihood that he may have been working on biological weapons

Yet another update: Dread Pundit Bluto finds that the grant he recieved was worth about $60k.

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1 sounds like a good idea, emailing a guy who's email is about to come under review by intel agencies and law enforcement, let me fire up thunderbird right now!!

Posted by: dave at July 15, 2005 11:14 AM (fsJ2z)

2 bmbmmme@leeds.ac.uk? Bomb Me? Yeesh.

Posted by: Donnie at July 15, 2005 11:16 AM (WktwR)

3 Don't these degerate a-moral goat pimps know that if they keep this up, that we will turn their so called "Holy Cities" into dust? Sure. Osama and friends. Set off a nuke in nyc- Go ahead. You will cause the worlds muslims to say Buuuh Bye to every thing you hold dear. Nuke Mecca, Medina and every other dirty town that you and your ilk find necessary to your so called religon. Buhhhh Bye. ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP! POOOF!! So, Keep it up Hamad & Mahmoood. Keep it up. Remember, don't look at the bright light.

Posted by: Filthy Allah at July 15, 2005 12:01 PM (yBHNA)

4 http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:s4QeV0YMqucJ:www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/IRC/melnashar.htm

Posted by: asgeir at July 15, 2005 01:09 PM (b3OAj)

5 This idiot: Bruce Michielsen (bruce.michielsen@gmail.com), sent me this: "Hey powerless_brainless, you seem to have affection for that moronic country of yours. You'd make fine cannon fodder! Enlist! Bush needs padding like you. And you're so easy to piss off, which would make great sport for us goat-fucking-sand-niggers. Gotta go now. Blowin' up London t'day, y'know!" I googled him and he seems to be a white Dutch muslim who is highly confused, or maybe a half-Arab who loathes himself for only being half "pure blood". In any event, I forwarded it to Interpol and the FBI, and probably will again just to make sure it gets seen. I'm tellin' ya, these spolied rich kids all need a good beating.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 15, 2005 06:38 PM (0yYS2)

6 ah, never mind he has a gmail account, his email's already being read by the NSA

Posted by: dave at July 16, 2005 12:26 AM (fsJ2z)

7 Anyone know if this asshole was American educated?

Posted by: greyrooster at July 19, 2005 10:45 PM (CBNGy)

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