I stayed at the Luxor Hilton and the Cairo Hilton a few years back. They had a lot of heavily armed "Tourist Police" out front... but obviously they weren't much of a deterrant here.
Booby-trapped cars may be behind Sinai blasts-TV
CAIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Two of the three blasts that struck Egyptian resorts on Thursday may have been caused by booby-trapped cars, the Egyptian governor of South Sinai told an Egyptian television channel.
Bomb blasts hit three Egyptian Red Sea resorts used by vacationing Israelis on Thursday and at least 35 people were feared dead from the biggest explosion at the Hilton hotel in the resort town of Taba near the Israeli border.
South Sinai Governor Mustafa Afifi told Nile News TV that evidence from the blasts at seaside campsites of Tarabin and Ras al-Sultan further south indicated they may have been bombed.
"There are two seaside camp sites. I think it (the blasts) was a result of booby-trapped cars because we found small pick-ups completely burnt out."
Asked about casualties, he said two people were killed, one Egyptian and one Israeli, and 10 others were wounded. A hospital source earlier said that one Egyptian had been killed, while an Israeli was among the wounded taken to Nueiba hospital.
Ras al-Sultan has also been referred to as Ras Sheetan.