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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At this point, they're just trying to be the last ones eaten by the crocodile. You have to step up and kill the crocodile, Euro-trash!!
By the standards of the euroweenies, that was all about Afghanistan and Iraq too.
I feel sorry for him and for his loved ones, but you just...don't...do....that.
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Like Nick Berg, he assumed he was 'acceptable.'
Guess the assassination of Sadat was all about Bush's policies towards Afghanistan and Iraq too.
This bombing obviously has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with the Muslim jihad on western culture. This resort looks to be as western style as anything in Egypt is apt to be. I don't know because I've never been there, but swimming pools and women in bathing suits doesn't seem like it would fit into the radical Muslim culture.
Unless, you are either in Al Qaeda, or could pass for Bin Laden, why in God's name would you be vacationing in the Lion's Den.
BTTT!
Talk about dense!
These barbarians are attacking around the world for ONE reason ... they believe they are the vanguard of a Muslim fundamentalist revolution that will purge their neighborhoods of western infidels and the influences therof.
If I could spend ten minutes with you and a shillelagh I think I could get it through your thick head.
My opposition to Bush's (nutty neocon) move from the Afghan/Paki border to Baghdad is and has been that the terrorists interpreted this move as:
1) Weakness on our part (a willingness to run from the East's dashing young madman/hero to pursue a toothless old tiger in an impoverished country).
2) A clear signal that we were intent on making war on all Muslims, not just terrorists. A powerful message that they have of course carried to the masses.
From our own standpoint it has accomplished nothing positive, not even the neocon goals.
Good point.
Sir Francis Dashwood ~ His brother doesn't seem to remember...
His brother doesn't seem to remember much of anything.
Osama, in addition to being a man who assassinated his mentor, in addition to claiming to revere the man he assassinated, in addition to selling out his own organization to suck up to Zawahiri's Egyptians, is a fraud, a liar, a hypocrite many times over, an apostate, and a coward.
The only battle he's ever been in, to the best of my knowlege, was when he and about 50 Arab mujas were surrounded at a place named Jaji, by a battalion of Soviets who already knew they were going home, starved and sniped for five days, and then bolted and ran for the Pak border.
On arriving in Miram Shah, Bin Laden began to produce videotapes and brochures acclaiming his "great victory" to all who would listen, a propaganda campaign that eventually escalated to the point where Osama himself now believes he personally defeated and caused the fall of the Soviet Union.
Whenever he fires the AK-47 rifle he supposedly liberated from a Soviet he supposedly killed, he closes his eyes and flinches, holding the weapon so far away from his delicate face he can't even line up the sights on a target. This is evident in every video he distributes which supposedly depict the great Bin Laden as a "warrior".
Though never a friend, his anti-US rhetoric campaign didn't begin with the establishment of Israel, the fall of the Shah, or even when the Saudi government laughed at the idea of Bin Laden's "army" defending Arabia from Saddam Hussein and liberating Kuwait, preferring the US Army instead.
Bin Laden's hatred of the US didn't begin until the day we levered him out of Sudan, in 1996, and his first warning to us wasn't issued until he arrived back in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
The day we put five in his scraggley bearded, purple lipped head, I intend to celebrate with at least a full bottle of Kentucky's finest.
My best guess is that when he gets it, he will scream like a girl and offer to tell us anything we care to know in order to try and save himself. He won't die in clean robes either.
The only people I've ever heard actually ask "Why do they hate us" is the media, who simply uses that as an excuse to tell us what a bunch of jerks we are, over and over, ad nauseum, at every opportunity they get, and at many opportunities they connive to manufacture themselves.
Ayman hates the Egyptian government about as much as Osama hates the Saudi royal family, hence yesterday's attack in Egypt.B.b.b.but I thought all the dirty Mooselimbs were in cahoots! [/sarc]
Good post. It's sometimes forgotten that Al Qaeda hates non-fanatical Islamic governments nearly as much as they hate the US and Israel.
-Eric
Terrorism by radical Islamists has been rising exponentially since the 1970's. At the same time, terrorism from other non-Islamist groups has been on the decline. The kind of multi-target attachs we see now is not new, but you're right -- new technology is making it easier for terrorists to plan and coordinate such attacks.
I agree also. I only hope that the rest of the world is FINALLY GOING TO SEE THESE NUTS FOR WHAT THEY ARE. On Fox this morning, they were giving the ACLU crap, saying that if it happened here, the ACLU would have been seeing who could break an ankle first getting line to gripe in front of a camera and file a lawsuit. The time for PC is over. The rest of the world is hopefully going to finally get the message.
I'd like to see your detailed comments in the MSM. Ever send emails like this to Fox et. al? I'd love to join you in toasting to OBL's demise.
Where should I try to take light and reason? DU?
The truth (and only the truth) will make you free.
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