Forgive my ineptitude when it comes to formatting and stuff. Not all of us know about webcode, Scoop, html, embedded links, etc. Sorry. Without further ado, here is the headline from AP 21 minutes ago:
49 Dead and 200 Hurt in Egyptian Blasts
By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer
21 minutes ago
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik early Saturday, ripping through a hotel and a coffeeshop packed with European and Egyptian tourists. The province governor said at least 49 people died in the deadliest attack in Egypt in nearly a decade.
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I remember there was an incident like a decade ago where many tourists were killed by the pyramids or something and then, the Egyptian government brutally cracked down on groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, eventually defeating them, or whatever that means in terms of a conflict against an amorphous enemy. I think this attack is probably connected, in one way or another, to men radicalized since the beginning of the Iraq War, as the WaPo wrote a few weeks ago. Here is more of the story and a link. Give your comments below about how this attack is due to the war in Iraq. Or isn't it?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050723/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_explosions
The powerful blasts, beginning at 1:15 a.m., rattled windows miles away and sent panicked vacationers streaming out of hotels and clubs. Smoke and fire rose from Naama Bay, a main strip of beach hotels in the desert city at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, also popular with Israeli tourists, witnesses said.
Dazed tourists milled about the darkened streets as Egyptian rescuers searched for dead and injured. Bodies of the dead lay under white bedsheets or were loaded in plastic bags into ambulances, while other emergency vehicles sped away with the wounded.
"There seemed to be a lot of bodies strewn across the road" near one cafe, British policeman Chris Reynolds, visiting from Birmingham, England, told the BBC by telephone. "It was horrendous."