Uruguay Hands Over Luxor Massacre Suspect
From Times Wire Reports
A suspected planner of the 1997 Luxor massacre that killed 62 people -- mostly tourists -- was handed over by Uruguayan authorities to Egyptian police, Egypt’s Middle East News Agency said. Uruguayan police arrested Mohammed Ali Hassan Mokhlis in early 1999.
Mokhlis was taken into custody after his arrival at Cairo’s international airport, according to the news agency. He is wanted in the Nov. 17, 1997, massacre of 58 foreign tourists by Muslim extremists at the Temple of Hatshepsut in southern Egypt.
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