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[sundubuman]

For you anti-Israel folk...and you are plentiful in this forum, let me just assure you that if you are backpacking in the Middle East, NO ORTHODOX JEWISH WOMEN would ever blow you up.

Seriously, more likely, if you fell off a bicycle near an evil Israeli "settlement" (town), they'd make sure you were bandadged and that your mother in Melbourne or Winnepeg knew that you were all right. They would most likely make you call your mother.

SOME Arab women, however, might blow you up.


Two women open fire on tour bus in Cairo
By Paul Garwood, Associated Press Writer | April 30, 2005

CAIRO, Egypt -- Two veiled women opened fire on a tour bus in a historic part of the Egyptian capital Saturday and one of them was killed in a gunbattle with security guards, authorities said.

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Hours earlier, a suspect in an April 7 bomb attack died in a police chase when an explosive he was carrying blew up as he jumped off a bridge.

Seven people, including four foreigners, were injured in the explosion, which occurred by a bus station near an exclusive hotel frequented by foreigners and behind the downtown Egyptian Museum.

The Interior Ministry said Ehab Yousri Yassin, an Egyptian suspected in the April 7 bombing at a tourist bazaar, was killed after he jumped from the bridge during a pursuit, setting off the explosion he was carrying.

Less than two hours later, two veiled women opened fire at a tour bus in the Sayeda Aisha part of old Cairo, an area rich with historic mosques and cemeteries.

Three people, including one woman, were injured and at least one of the attackers was killed, Egyptian Health Minister Mohammed Awad Tag Eddin told reporters. The minister said it was not known if the injured woman was the second shooter.

Police, who had initially reported the second incident as an explosion, said both women had been killed by security forces in the area. The differing accounts could not be reconciled.

The attacks came less than a month after a suicide bomber killed two French citizens and an American when he detonated a homemade bomb near the Khan al-Khalili market on April 7.

Remains of a body, covered with newspapers, were seen beneath the bridge a few minutes after the initial explosion was heard across downtown Cairo on Saturday afternoon.

Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two Israelis -- a man and a woman -- an Italian woman and a Russian man were injured. Eddin, however, told Nile News television that three Egyptians were injured along with two Israelis, one Swiss and one Italian.

The hands and face of one of the injured -- a man with reddish-blond hair who was lifted onto a stretcher -- were covered with blood. Sitting upright, he held his hands to his face as paramedics loaded the stretcher into an ambulance.

On a nearby curb, two Westerners checked their wounds; the young woman's left arm was bloodied and the man sitting next to her appeared to have sustained leg injuries.

Though the bus station is used almost exclusively by Egyptians, the area is between the Ramses Hilton hotel frequented by foreigners and the Egyptian Museum, one of the country's main tourist sites. Normally, the station is teeming with people heading home from work in the mid-afternoon, but the blast happened on a holiday weekend.

Initially, police said they believed a car had exploded, but no vehicle debris could be seen in the area. A senior policeman on the scene and some witnesses said a bomb was thrown from the bridge above to the street below. Egyptian security officials rarely speak on the record.

"I saw very loud explosion after what looked like a man throwing a bomb down from the bridge," said Mohammed Hasan Mohammed, 45.

Scores of police, including riot officers in helmets and carrying submachine guns, kept away the crowds who gathered to watch, standing on benches and potted plants to get a view.

In a sign of the tension and uncertainty, police singled out a few youths to inspect their bags.

During the 1990s, Islamic insurgents mounted several attacks on tourists in a bid to cripple tourism and bring down the government. The government has been anxious to limit the damage of recent attacks to Egypt's tourism industry and had said the April 7 market blast was the act of only a few.

In October 2004, militants detonated bombs in the Sinai resorts of Taba and Ras Shitan, killing 34 people and wounding more than 100. One bomb destroyed a wing of the Taba Hilton Hotel.

Police said the mastermind was a Palestinian resident of Egypt who was angry with Israel. More than 10 Israeli tourists were among the dead.

The last major burst of violence in Cairo was in 1997, when gunmen attacked a bus of German tourists, killing 11, several months before massacring tourists at a pharaonic temple in the southern city of Luxor in a shooting that left 64 dead, including the six gunmen.

[Big_Bird]

[bucheon bum]

Sundubuman's math. 2 women=500+ million others.

[Big_Bird]

[wannago]

[bucheon bum]

wannago, where was there any mention of any Israeli's being killed? Oh wait, there wasn't.

Totally irrelevant to the peace process. Just some nutty Egyptians killing some tourists because tourism props up the decripit, corrupt Egyptian gov't that is supported by the United States.

Sundubuman, surprise surprise, forgets to mention that and instead brings religion into it.

[sundubuman]

Try to find the hole in this math equation.

The chances that anyone of us getting killed by an Arab or a Moslem while hanging out in a bar in Bali, on a train in Madrid, at a tourist site in Egypt, at a tall building in New York compared to getting killed by a Jew or Israeli in the same places is about a gazillion to zero.

How is that racist?? It's the TRUTH!!!!!!!!

Get your heads out of your bums people.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

[shakuhachi]

We have an apologist for terrorism, bucheon bum, and an apologist for Israeli state oppression, sundubuman. What motivates you two is completely beyond my comprehension.

[The Bobster]

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

Bob do you think the terrorists are protesting torture?

You telling us that they wouldnt' do such stuff if they came to power?

Yes those who luv Bin Laden have shown themselves to be great defenders of human rights.

just for the record:

Khomeni was far more brutal than the Shah. We could expect the same should those who luv Bin Laden come to power.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

[dogbert]

[The Bobster]

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

I bet Pol Pot spoke out about corruption before he came to power.

liberal terrorists? Nah. If they got into power U can be sure they would be using the iron maiden or the like.

but how did terrorists all of a sudden become anti corruption crusaders?