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Bedouin Abducts Two U.S. Tourists in Sinai
Arutz Sheva ^ | 13/7/12 | Elad Benari

Posted on 07/14/2012 1:24:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Military and police officials in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula said on Friday that two U.S. tourists have been abducted by a Bedouin seeking to pressure officials to release his detained relative.

Officials told The Associated Press the two Americans, a man and a woman, were taken along with their Egyptian tour guide, in a mountainous region in the center of the peninsula called Sabr el-Hitan.

U.S. Embassy spokesman David Lynnfield told AP the embassy was looking into the kidnapping.

Security officials say the Bedouin man abducted the tourists to pressure authorities to release his uncle detained in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria.

Sinai has seen a series of kidnappings over the past year. Abducted tourists are rarely harmed and usually released within 24 hours. .....

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abduct; bedouins; sinai; tourists
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How nice. Are abducting Bedouins ever harmed? Perhaps that should change.
1 posted on 07/14/2012 1:24:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5
Are abducting Bedouins ever harmed?

Are abducted tourists ever armed?

(Your line next ... possible rhymes include "farmed" and "charmed.")

2 posted on 07/14/2012 1:26:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("For it is time to seek the LORD, until he come and rain down justice upon you.")
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To: Eleutheria5
Any Westerner who goes anywhere near Egypt from now on is asking to be kidnapped,or worse.Any such individual who suffers such a fate won't get any sympathy from me...any more than does someone who's killed doing 120mph on I-95.
3 posted on 07/14/2012 1:30:00 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President Of My Lifetime)
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To: Eleutheria5

Bedouin will be their ruin!


4 posted on 07/14/2012 1:34:17 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Tax-chick

Nothing 2c. Don’t be alarmed.
Getting abducted could be fun.
Think what a great movie was
The Wind and the Lion.
If you haven’t been abducted,
You simply aren’t tryin’.


5 posted on 07/14/2012 1:34:17 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Amen.

Egypt is being run by the insane with absolutely no lawful boundaries. Stay as far away as possible.


6 posted on 07/14/2012 1:35:15 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Eleutheria5

LOL! Good job!

My mother and her friends went to Egypt (and Israel) in 1999, iirc. They liked the Nile cruise. And I think one of the Undead Thread regulars went this year with her mother.

When I was belly-dancing in Tulsa, I knew a lot of people who had been to Egypt. One lady said she went right after the shooting incident at the Pyramids, and the US Consulate gave her a private armed detachment the whole time. Maybe she was the only American tourist!

Much as I’d like to see the Cairo Museum, I can just look at the book or see it on DVD - inexpensive and safe!


7 posted on 07/14/2012 1:39:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("For it is time to seek the LORD, until he come and rain down justice upon you.")
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You’d have to abduct me to get me to visit Egypt. Took ten plagues and a split sea to get my ancestors out.


8 posted on 07/14/2012 1:43:40 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I understand. My brother and I feel that way about our ancestral homeland, Philadelphia.


9 posted on 07/14/2012 1:46:28 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("For it is time to seek the LORD, until he come and rain down justice upon you.")
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To: Tax-chick

Traveled to Egypt when I was on active duty back in the 1970’s, didn’t care for it so much. Actually, had more fun for the short time I was in Philly!


10 posted on 07/14/2012 1:52:29 PM PDT by exnavy (The time is upon us, fish or cut bait, may God guide your heart.)
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To: exnavy

The bad parts of Philly, from which my parents escaped, are like Detroit. The good parts are Rainbow Territory.

As in Egypt, one can enjoy a view of the historic sites, if one carefully ignores everything else!


11 posted on 07/14/2012 1:56:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("For it is time to seek the LORD, until he come and rain down justice upon you.")
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Who, but a couple of Idiots would be a tourist in any of the Mid-East in these days of kidnap and murder??? It is really hard for me to whip up any sympathy for them. You go to Vegas knowing the odds are against you, put all your stash on the table and throw the dice. Duh, you lost, don't ask me to care.
12 posted on 07/14/2012 2:12:41 PM PDT by fish hawk (Religion: Man's attempt to gain salvation or the approbation of God by his own works)
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When I was belly-dancing in Tulsa...

Whut?

13 posted on 07/14/2012 2:24:40 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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And that is exactly what I managed to do!


14 posted on 07/14/2012 2:40:01 PM PDT by exnavy (The time is upon us, fish or cut bait, may God guide your heart.)
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I understand. My brother and I feel that way about our ancestral homeland, Philadelphia.

Mega LOLs! All it took for me to leave the City of Brotherly Love after being in business there for 30 years was Fast Eddie's 7% sales tax hike -- on top of the school tax, the sales & use tax, the licensing & inspection tax, the wage tax, the high gasoline tax, and the state income tax. (On top of the various Federal taxes.)

15 posted on 07/14/2012 2:45:48 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: Tax-chick
When I was belly-dancing in Tulsa....

16 posted on 07/14/2012 2:46:35 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Gay State Conservative; fish hawk

Tourists, really? C’mon, what person in his right mind would go to Eqypt now. I imagine they are spies of some kind. It isn’t as if we don’t send spies places.


17 posted on 07/14/2012 2:57:00 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: Eleutheria5

Didn’t 0bama compare himself to Teddy Roosevelt many times?

Should I hold my breath waiting for a statement like:

“This government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”

From the punk?


18 posted on 07/14/2012 3:01:12 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Tourists, really? C’mon, what person in his right mind would go to Eqypt now.

Some folks might not understand the danger.I,for example,am still kicking myself for not having stayed there longer,thus allowing me to see the pyramids.I certainly wouldn't go *now*,however.

19 posted on 07/14/2012 3:04:26 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President Of My Lifetime)
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U.S. Embassy spokesman David Lynnfield told AP the embassy was looking into the kidnapping.

Uh, oh! Look out, kidnappers! They're looking into it!

But Obama is busy golfing and fundraising, so he probably doesn't have time to congratulate his Muslim Brotherhood pals on this clever initiative!

20 posted on 07/14/2012 3:05:14 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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