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[Bulsajo]

Perhaps it's a terrible thing to say, but I'm glad I visited Egypt when I did. Before the Intifadah it was relatively carefree- you just had to watch out for theives and have enough baksheesh for cops.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/22/egypt.explosions.ap/

[desultude]

[bucheon bum]

That was the target: westerners. Egyptians are not allowed to go to Sharm unless they have business there or have some other legit excuse (hotel reservations, etc).

[dulouz]

Egypt isn't part of the coalition. Ya-ta boy et al, what did Egypt do wrong?
Why are they the ones to blame?

[keithinkorea]

Everyone who is affected by terrorism has my sympathy. Whilst obviously an attack on London is more important to me as I have friends and family who work there, I only vaguely know a couple of Egyptians and people who've travelled to Egypt. 50 dead is very bad news indeed.

Egypt was targeted before by extremist terrorists with the attack at the pyramids. It is not a first in Egypt.

[bucheon bum]

slight correction: the terrorist attacks were in Luxor. I don't believe there has ever been a terrorist attack by the Pyramids.

On the other hand, this is the 2nd attack on the sinai peninsula w/in a year. Last october 2 hotels were bombed near the Israeli border.

[Bulsajo]

[bucheon bum]

[BigBlackEquus]

And the extremists who call themselves Muslims, but certainly are not, detonated these things late in the night when most tourists were asleep. I think mostly Egyptians, who arent supposed to go into that area, it is said, were killed.

My gay friend ribbed me today that between this blast and the failed backpacks in London, it's a good thing that the Muslim extremists are pretty stupid. That embarased me some, but then I remembered that these guys arent Muslims. They're just unintelligent, sad individuals who are easily swayed by other murderers who kill in Allah's name, yet have no right to do so.

[dulouz]

[bigverne]

[Ya-ta Boy]

The most recent report is that 82 are dead.