Posted on 04/24/2006 10:38:11 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Three explosions have been heard in the Egyptian resort town of Dahab, according to the Reuters news agency.
More follows...
Prayers for your sister's safety. Hopefully she was NOWHERE near those blasts! Keep us posted!
I'm praying for her. Is she a student in Egypt or working there?
This is Criminal Studies 101. They go where they CAN go. Serial killers go after prostitutes because they are on the streets in the dark, wee hours. Islamist killers go where they can pass for normal citizens, where there is a healthy Muslim population.Ted Bundy's victims weren't prostitutes, nor were BTK's, and neither were many of those of the Green River killer.
Likewise, there are Muslims that you would never know, visually, to be Muslims. They could strike places were there are few Muslims. But Al Qaeda typically doesn't perform such attacks. They hit the places where the two worlds come together.
-Eric
One of these days hopefully we will wake up and quit pussy footing around with these slugs and just bomb them off the face of the earth. They are simply going to keep killing five here, ten there, six over there, and 3,000 here. But the stinking liberals of this country are going to be the down fall of the Republic. Then the stinking muslin's are going to simply murder all of them while they whine, "but, but, but, we are your friends. We helped run off the conservatives and war mongers here. We are your pals. Why are you killing us?" Then it will be too stinking late.
Not much I suspect but mostly foreigners were killed which means that we are targets whereever we go.
She works there, she is a 1st grade teacher.
I'm really puzzled by your statement.
By the same token, why should we care about those killed at Beslan? or any other senseless act in any other country in the world?
99.9% chance your sister was nowhere near the blast. So many resorts on the Red Sea and just thirty people from one.
Was there any Mexican flags being waved?
She emailed me that they were going to the Sinai for snorkeling, and I remember her telling me that some of the best snorkeling is at the tip. Then later she mentioned the delta, so I'm really not sure...
First there were 100 Dead now only 18?!
THE ZIONIST DOGS DID THIS!
Anybody know who's supplying these cretins with all the explosives?
My dau's in-laws are there now. They couldn't reach them for awhile and it was very scary. They did get ahold of them and they were on the other side of the town.
Said the border between Israel and Sinai has been closed off
"After much thought and consideration I have decided that this merits a big so what?"
Well, for one it is a visible set back for Mubarrak, who in the old language of Patton, may be a son of a bitch but he is OUR son of bitch and no friend of radical islam. Mubarrak leads the most progressive Egypt any of us could dare hope for given the strength of the nutter fringe out there and anything that undermines him is bad for us. Then there is the question of humanity. More people blown to pieces in the name of some twisted religion - it is a reminder to us all that there is no room for complacency in the face of people who think this way. I suspect there will be a number of westerners caught up in it (if not I suspect some Israeli's). So, that's my 'so what'!
Does it impact the 'average american'? Nope. Maybe not. But then neither did Germany's invasion of Poland.
That is what the media wants you to believe. Cairo is very safe. Very low crime. My daugher is living there right now. You can walk the streets at night without any problem. Everyone is very kind.
"I'll never get to Egypt and the rest of the beautiful, historic ME at this rate. It just isn't safe. What a shame. Neither would I go anywhere near there. Too risky on a plane and on the ground. Prayers for the innocent victims and relatives."
Bit of perspective. You are still more likely to get killed in a traffic accident on vacation in Florida, than by Terrorists in Egypt. I guess we just accept the car crash risk!
My other thought is that I'll never let threats keep me from living my life as I like. Why let them defeat me like that?
If our lilly-livered, thoroughly PC, bleeding heart liberals and RINO's even thought about doing that, they would wet their pink panties and lose control of their sphincters immediately. But for those ME countries who want to stop this type of thing instantly, all that it would take is a quick elimination of the terrorist's families- on both sides, and maybe up and down a few generations- and there would be a certain realization on the terrorist's part that there are exact, known consequences for actions.
I'm all for this type of action there. Take out ten for every one they kill. If the understanding of the consequences didn't stop it, at least the attrition eventually would.
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