Arab MP accused of murdering Pop Idol Winner

xzanti

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Suzanne-Tamim-Murder-Egyptian-MP-Heshaam-Talaat-Moustafa-Hired-Hitman-To-Kill-Lebanese-Pop-Idol/Article/200809115093302?lpos=World%2BNews_4&lid=ARTICLE_15093302_Suzanne%2BTamim%2BMurder%253A%2BEgyptian%2BMP%2BHeshaam%2BTalaat%2BMoustafa%2B%2527Hired%2BHitman%2BTo%2BKill%2BLebanese%2BPop%2BIdol%2527

An Egyptian billionaire has been charged with hiring a hitman to kill the winner of Lebanon's equivalent of Pop Idol, in a case that has rocked the Arab world.

Singer shot to stardom in the Arab world after winning talent show


Suzanne Tamim enjoyed a meteoric rise to pop fame after winning the reality show in Lebanon.

But on July 28 the star's body was found with her throat slit in her luxury apartment block in Dubai.

The man accused of ordering her death is one of Egypt's most prominent and most successful tycoons, Heshaam Talaat Moustafa.

The alleged killer was a former police officer who stalked Tamim from London to Dubai before killing her, say authorities.

They claim the hitman entered the singer's apartment pretending to bring a letter from her landlord.

"He then laid into her with the knife," read the official indictment, "cutting her main arteries and her trachea".

Moustafa is charged with paying the alleged killer two million dollars to carry out the killing.

The Egyptian is an MP with the ruling National Democratic Party, led by President Hosni Mubarak - but that is not helping him now. The upper house of the parliament has stripped him of his legal immunity as a lawmaker

The indictment says little about a possible motive, mentioning only that the killing was an act of revenge.


Arab papers have speculated that the singer had been romantically involved with Moustafa, a married father-of-three.

Lebanese pop music is enormously popular across the Arab world. Tamim had been one of its biggest stars.

The story is causing a sensation in the region, but in Egypt was subject to a reporting ban last month, only lifted in time to



Crazy sh1t.. would be like Bertie having Nadine Coyle killed..

Silenceisbliss

good.... he has my seal of approval

Gone West

No hot singer would date Bertie, thats the difference! :pac:

Solarball10

xzanti wrote: »

Crazy sh1t.. would be like Bertie having Nadine Coyle killed..

LMAO

Steve_o

Thats mad...

Tak3n

They cant touch someone that wealthy... If they did lock him up all he would need to say was "Offering 30 Million to anyone who breaks me out and keeps me out"

thelordofcheese

xzanti wrote: »

Crazy sh1t.. would be like Bertie having Nadine Coyle killed..

I approve of this plan

Dardania

Bloody Sky News: "singer shot to death" vs. "Found with her throat slit"

Still - harsh story...

/glares at Leona Lewis.

You're next.

Archeron

I love thread titles like this one. Its like somebody threw a load of words in a bag, then scattered them out on the floor and made a sentence.
"Arab MP accused of murdering pop idol winner"
"Aboriginal nuns in lesbian cave troll scandal"
"Artificial boob explosion kills baboon on intercontinental flight"

I've seen a few threads on AH lately that I actually had to double take at the title for the words to make sense. This is another one of those

Dardania

Sounds a lot like how Star Wars films are made: film a load of scenes, then build a story around what you've filmed.

pablomakaveli

she was savage lookin too which makes it a hundred times worse.

Red Alert

Imagine if we'd taken out the McCauls!

Supercell

Erm, the lovely Nadine has nowt to do with this.

Nadine my number is 087 219 4132589

hussey

Supercell wrote: »

Erm, the lovely Nadine has nowt to do with this.

Nadine my number is 087 219 4132589

/subscribes to ghey sex line

anyone one wanna chip in for a Will young fund?

Ava Grace

Archeron wrote: »

I love thread titles like this one. Its like somebody threw a load of words in a bag, then scattered them out on the floor and made a sentence.
"Arab MP accused of murdering pop idol winner"
"Aboriginal nuns in lesbian cave troll scandal"
"Artificial boob explosion kills baboon on intercontinental flight"

I've seen a few threads on AH lately that I actually had to double take at the title for the words to make sense. This is another one of those

LMAO

anonymous_joe

Tak3n wrote: »

They cant touch someone that wealthy... If they did lock him up all he would need to say was "Offering 30 Million to anyone who breaks me out and keeps me out"

Tell that to the former Russian oligarch in the gulags.