Posted on 07/23/2005 4:09:43 AM PDT by rabair
Blasts kill 83 in Egyptian Red Sea resort Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:37 AM BST
By Tom Perry
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - At least 83 people were killed and 200 injured when car bombs ripped through markets and hotels in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday in the worst attack in Egypt since 1981.
Shaken European tourists spoke of mass panic and hysteria as people fled the carnage in the early hours, with bodies strewn across the roads, people screaming and sirens wailing.
The regional governor said two car bombs and possibly a suitcase bomb had rocked the resort, popular with divers and European holidaymakers.
One blast tore the front off the Ghazala Gardens Hotel in Naama Bay, the site of most of the resort's luxury hotels. People were feared trapped in the rubble of the lobby.
A car broke into the hotel compound and exploded in front of the building, South Sinai Governor Mustafa Afifi said.
A senior security source in Sharm el-Sheikh said 83 people were killed and 23 people were in critical condition, from among 35 casualties taken to Cairo for treatment.
Most of the victims were Egyptians but the Tourism Minsirty spokeswoman said Seven non-Egyptians were dead, including a Czech and an Italian, and 20 were injured.
The injured foreigners were nine Italians, five Saudis, three Britons, a Russian, a Ukrainian and an Israeli Arab, spokesman Hala el-Khatib told reporters. But the British Foreign Office in London said that eight Britons were injured.
A group claiming links to the al Qaeda organisation said it carried out the bombings in retaliation for "crimes committed against Muslims", according to an Internet statement.
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I see. A buchananite. Explains a lot. Are you aware that we have more troops in Afghanistan, including on the Pak border, now than we did at the height of the Afghan fighting in '02?
Some running. While the "dashing young madman hero" hides a like a frightened schoolgirl, languishing in some cave or mud hut somewhere, or even slowly turns to compost under the rubble of Tora Bora.
Ted Kennedy: “We'll drive off that bride when we come to it.”
EGYPT MUST PULL OUT OF IRAQ NOW!!!
oh wait....
Telling more fables?
Who you callin' "girlie", buttmunch?
Egypt's assignment of an ambassador to Iraq was read as complicity with the U.S.
Well, that's obvious. Do you mean to imply that this act is somehow a rational causation for a wanton massacre from Al Qaeda? Allow me to introduce you to Red Ken.
add another quisling to the list...
I'm beginning to.
They pop up like toadstools in sh'ite..
Ironically, you're right, except for the wrong reasons. While you believe we should take a more 'reasoned' approach towards 'victim' nations, in reality, this is merely the warm up act before the real fighting begins.
That is, mobilization, occupation, conversion. This ain't a 5-10 year war; this is a 100 year war necessitated by a specific tipping point ie the advent of WMD. If it was prior to 1930s, we could go on ignoring them. Now, it's the fate of our's and future generations to reverse what started 1,400 years ago.
I agree with your overall perspective. But just looking at the map convinces me that Iraq was by conscious design a linchpin to the WoT. A friendly Iraq isolates not only Iran but Syria, and provides a centrally located base of operations and intel gathering throughout the region. It also replaces our need for the Saudi bases, which has to be counted a plus.
Bah. Most of the rest of the world IS racist, more so than the West has ever been.
I can't comment with any authority on the subject. Bob Woodward's accounts of the run up to Afghanistan and Iraq do not support the contention that either was viewed at the time, by the Administration, from a global logistics angle, or even in a geo-political strategic aspect.
Either Woodward had it right, or else there are levels of discussion that neither Woodward nor the general public currently have access to.
I agree with your speculation, but speculation is all I can offer at this time.
When Muslims do the "honour killings" in Jordan, I read that most of the killers get off free, and the idiot thinks he has kept his honour.
This is the Islamic way of thinking, so we might as well get used to it. It is not a sane way of thinking. It is pure savagery.
It was a tourist resort, but apparently most of the victims are Egyptian.
The "Religion Of Peace" has been busy these days.
Absolutely. The latest manifestation of mass evil. Witness the following statements form the article:
[Most of the victims were Egyptians...]
[A group claiming links to the al Qaeda organisation said it carried out the bombings in retaliation for "crimes committed against Muslims"]
Raving lunatics all.
Yes, this is real. It was posted here yesterday. The reason given was to attract tourism. It is even going to permit men and women to be on the same beach! The fundamentalists are going to go more nuts than they already are.
Yeah, Slick kept the old man in reserve for convenient times too, only his was usually for waggin the dog.
Politicians! There ain't a dimes worth of difference in 'em.
BTW, chasin down bin Laden was THE only thing to do. Movin on to Saudi Arabia, if still necessary, would have then been the next thing to do.
Iraq wouldn't even have been on the radar for confident, competent leadership.
The naive and inexperienced Bush was no match for the neocons and their private agenda.
Exactly, which the Librals are the 'audience' the scum terrorists are playing to right now, they see the division and they are trying to exploit it. Which is why I said, that more than ever we need to keep firm and maintain our resolve because the librals want the rest of us to cave in.
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