Posted on 07/23/2005 9:47:25 AM PDT by jmc1969
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - Less than 24 hours after terrorists killed at least 88 people in attacks on the Sinai resort town of Sharm el- Sheikh, Egyptian sources claimed that Israel was responsible for the deadly bombings.
The claims were apparently based on the fact that most of the victims were Egyptian nationals.
Egyptian media analysts, sources in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian parliamentarian Ala Hasnin, in an interview with the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television network, all suggested Israel was responsible for the attacks.
One Egyptian analyst interviewed by Al-Jazeera said that is was in Israel's interest to carry out such a terror attack and thus Jerusalem was thus responsible for Saturday's bombings.
The Egyptian analyst also added that Israel wants undermine its own disengagement plan - yet another reason, he said, to carry out attacks in Egypt.
The analyst told Al-Jazeera there is an abnormal concentration of Israelis visiting in Sinai and that they pose a security threat.
"Why are Israelis able to enter Sinai without undergoing stringent security checks?" the analyst asked.
He went on to add that the United States also has a motive to carry out such an attack.
The analyst closed his Al-Jazeera interview by saying that Israel wants to prove what he described as its fallacious claim that terrorism is spreading throughout the region.
Following the bombings, rumors spread across Egypt indicating that the bomb-laden cars used to attack the Sinai resorts sported Israeli license plates.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretzdaily.com ...
Friggin' loony 'slammics.
Another brain dead Arab country heard from.
Gosh, I am surprised it has taken this long for Egypt to blame Israel and the USA...
And I just watched Condi on TV giving a speech in Israel talking about what a tragedy this was for "our friends the Egyptians".....uh, yeah, right.
Just another example of murderous Muslims killing other Muslims.
Boy...I sure hope that Bush has a solid alibi!
And there you have it.
Egypt has until August 15th to get its troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Egypt, if you are going to blame us for Muslim terrorists killing you, then I suggest you take your beaches, pyramids, and other tourist sites and shove them.
yes - and is now a good time to tell those morons that if we OR the Israelis wanted to blow them up, there would be a steaming crater where the country of Egypt used to be?
Why would we waste OUR time setting off little tiny explosions? The only people who do that are - one guess! OTHER ARABS!!!!!!
Someone needs to write some letters to the Egyptian newpapers and inform them of that little fact.
Like they don't know it.
Instead of blaming the crazies who have been comnmitting these kinds of attacks for the last 10-15 years or so, let's blame the folks who, up until now, have been the targets of those crimes! Makes sense to me.
Bring on the real explosions - give them something to really complain about!
I'm getting sick and tired of the whole Blame America routine. Cut their aid. Build some decent walls to protect our borders. Kick out anyone who wears a burka or a turban.
I lived in Turkey for a few years as a military dependent and what I saw was a group of people who looked forward to the next war. Not that the Turks are representative of the entire middle east, but the attitude is the same. They are all a group of folks who don't have anything to do unless they are starting a war with their neighbors. Talking isn't exactly their forte.
If you could see them rioting (which they do at the drop of a hat), you would see them burn the American flag, probably the UK flag and maybe a couple more European flags, and when you see them tear down and burn their OWN flag, you know you aren't dealing with people who will listen to reason.
Any country whose citizens celebrate by firing live bullets into the air, isn't a country we can expect to care a lot about diplomacy. Add to that the fact that to the Arab world, lying is considered an art form - and you have a huge cultural divide.
Just some of my opinions.
Americans and Israelis, heavily into materialism, are not particularly known for suicide car bombings.
"Americans and Israelis, heavily into materialism, are not particularly known for suicide car bombings."
Yes, I'll take materialism to blowing myself up in a clapped-out Toyota any day.
I figure the terrorists came up with the idea of the Israeli license plate - would suit their purposes....or it might have even been a stolen car.
Note to terrorists: Only our msm and lefties are stupid enough to believe this was Israel. It doesn't fly with the rest of us.
"...most of the victims were Egyptian nationals."
So, Egyptian analysts claimed Israel was responsible.
On 9/11, most of the victims were Americans and who would the Islamic world claim to be responsible?
Thanks to the gullible MSM, they have become experts in propaganda.
Lunatics.
"A group citing ties to al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the bombings, according to a statement posted on an Islamic Web site."
It's hard to tell whether they're just lying or just being stupid, since, so often, they do both at the same time.
These people are loonies. But I guess we already knew that.
This is a resort built by the Israelis during the time they controlled the sainai after the 67 war.
I have to believe that like Morocco this was an attack against foreigners, not against fellow Muslims.
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