Posted on 04/24/2006 10:38:11 AM PDT by areafiftyone
I was in the Gulf of Aquba earlier this month. I was surprised on how built up the Egyptian side was, especially compared to the Saudi side. It looked like it would be a really nice place to go.
"CAIRO, Egypt - The Arab world reacted in horror and outrage Tuesday at the bombings of an Egyptian resort — and a rift opened between hardline al-Qaida sympathizers and other radical Muslim groups who say the latest attacks have gone too far.
Three bombs ripped through a promenade in Egypt's Dahab resort at dusk Monday, killing at least 24 — most of them Egyptians on a holiday marking the first day of spring.
The attack, the third on Sinai in less than two years, came a day after Osama bin Laden issued a call to arms to Muslims to support al-Qaida in what he calls a war against Islam. Bin Laden specifically tried to justify attacks against civilians, and tried to align his group with the radical Hamas, which now runs the Palestinian government.
But Hamas and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood were as quick to condemn the Dahab attacks as they were when terrorists carried out a triple bombing Nov. 9 at Amman, Jordan hotels, that killed 63 people. Those attacks provoked howls of outrage against al-Qaida in Iraq, which claimed responsibility.
"The attack on Egypt brings back bad memories," said Muhannad Abul-Ghanam, a 37-year-old Jordanian businessman. "The result is the same — mainly Muslim Arabs died and there's more public hatred toward these militants."
Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas-run Palestinian Cabinet, called the Dahab bombings a "criminal attack which is against all human values."
Radical Muslim groups — like Hamas and the Brotherhood — have in recent months joined a regional chorus denouncing al-Qaida and its sympathizers for targeting Arab and Muslim civilians.
"These groups, in the name of religion, justify such acts in which innocent people are killed," said Hassan Naboulsi, a 32-year-old supporter of the militant Lebanese Hezbollah faction in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon.
Arab-on-Arab violence appears to be spreading."
They are not all Arabs, but they are all muzzies. Until they reform, no pity and no quarter. Screw them all. Until they come to love life more than they hate Americans and infidels, they are welcome to kill themselves off.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060425/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_attacks_arabs_2;_ylt=AjLYX8kV9JgIO2_CxGZ7yEbFCBEB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
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