Another Egyptian jihad attack on a tourist site. From AP:
CAIRO, Egypt - Three explosions rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of the tourist season Monday, killing at least 18 people and wounding more than 150 at just one hotel, according to the doctor in charge of the Sinai peninsula rescue squad.Police said the explosions hit the central part of the city where there are many shops, restaurants, bars and guesthouses. The blasts ripped through the town shortly after nightfall when the streets would have been jammed with tourists, mainly with Europeans, Israelis and expatriates living in Egypt.
Dr. Said Essa, who runs the rescue squad, said his casualty figures were for victims at the el-Khaleeg Hotel only. He said there were casualties from the other explosions....
Terrorist attacks have killed nearly 100 people at several tourist resorts of Egypt's Sinai region in the past two years....
The Egyptian government has said the militants who carried out the bombings were locals without international connections, but other security agencies have said they suspect al-Qaida....
Many Israelis travel to the Sinai for beach holidays.
Israel's ambassador in Cairo, Shalom Cohen, told Israel's Channel 10 TV that there were three explosions, hitting a hotel, a police station and a marketplace.
"We don't know of Israelis" who were hurt, he said, though some Israelis were known to be in Dahab.
Cohen said the best thing Israeli tourists in Sinai could do now would be to "go home."
He said there have been repeated warnings from the Israeli government against visiting the Sinai Desert, where Israelis have been targeted in attacks in the past.
"Unfortunately, the warnings came true," he said.
Might be a good thing to keep in mind for the future.
Let's stay home and keep our tourist dollars, euros whatever out of Islamo-fascist hands. Why vacation in a land that wants your money but also your speedy demise??
I will not be surprised to learn that this murderous attack was sychronized with UBL's tape release.
I will not be surprised even if it was not.
I will not be surprised - because I know ISLAM IS NOTHING BUT A CULT OF ENSLAVEMENT AND MURDER.
It does not suprise me that this terror attack comes a day latter after the most recent OBL video tape.
Come on now folks...we all know Islam is the religion of peace...or should I say pieces....after the bomb has detonated.
unlike the cowardly scum that planted these bombs to kill innocent men women and children WE beleive that people are responsible for their own actions - THIS IS the foundation of civilisation - Muslims on mass have abandoned reason when they decidede to follow the mad teachings of a violent lunatic - mohamed.
They did this due to one reason - FEAR - they gave in to fear and folowed the mohamodens solely for self-presevation - underneath - THEY ALL KNOW THIS - this is why they all over-react when we expose the underlying absurdities that underpin the Muslim faith. (excuse the excess "unders") cant be bothered to edit it!
Compare this to the west, we have always resisted tyranny and have always triumphed over evil - we are stronger that them and braver and it is this reason that has led to our ascendency and our inevitable triumph - islam will be exposed and ultimately destroyed.
Body count is up to 30 dead and 150 injured,according to Arutz sheva:
http://www.local6.com/news/4492055/detail.html
Ack! I am having a bad day - the above link leads to a story about bees invading a house, not to the explosion in Egypt.
Here is the link to the article on Arutz Sheva:
http://www.arutzsheva.com/news.php3?id=102463
Apparently I belong in a home for the terminally confused.
Anyone foolish enough to visit Islamic lands, except for espionage purposes, risks the continual hysterical terrorism that has been ongoing under their aegis since the pedophile "prophet" killed his first neighbor to promote the cult of Allah.
Nothing in any Muslim country is worth dying for.
Not the Egyptian pyramids (non-Muslim objects), not the Hagia Sophia (non-Muslim object) in Constantinople (corrupted in pidgin Turkish to Istambul), or the fine Roman ruins in Libya (non-Muslim objects).
Visit Western museums instead.
Check out the Aztec and Incan marvels in Central and South America.
Cambodia's ancient sites are just as spectacular.
Let Islam's resentful stew in their own tourist-killing poverty.
Most of what Islam itself built up, other Muslims destroyed through religious schismic madness in the meantime, the latest being the Shi'ite "Golden Mosque" in Iraq.
They're so big on iconoclasm, and anti-intellectualism, that what you tend to find in Muslim lands are the surviving remnants of the previous, vital cultures that Islamic Imperialism subsumed, fey pastiches of modernistic buildings, or paralyzed imitations of 'antique' Muslim structures like the Alhambra or Taj Mahal, over and over and over. With petro-dollar gigantism making them even more bizarre and ludicrous.
I wouldnt buy a date or a fig from them.
Its profit might come back as the oblique component of an IED.
Or fund the expansion of the Ummah in my own land.
As Voltaire said:
"We must cultivate our own gardens."
Let Muslims visit themselves.
its bad enough they get petro dollars,but God's sake to give them tourist dollars! like posters have said spend your money in your own lands. Avoid arab countries till they become civilized and throw out islam for good!
The one thing we can ALL be 100% certain of with regards to Islam is that this so-called 'religion' will continue killing people. As we see here one more stomach-turning time.
Question to all Israelis - why on Earth are you visiting Egypt - terror or no terror?
Infidel Pride:
A-7 noted that 25,000 Israelis had gone to Egypt for the Pesach holiday. And that's the holiday when we celebrate leaving Egypt, not going the other way(!).
So I think maybe it's the same assortment of motivations that cause Americans to stay on Mt St Helen's before a volcanic explosion, to wrestle alligators, to drive across railroad tracks when a train is coming, to date abusive ex-spouses, to take drugs, and to do work in Saudi Arabia.
HaMalach-
And what's wrong with wrasslin' gators?!
You anti-diluvian or sumpin?!
I could never be so calloused as to say 'I told you so' when human beings who are from western countries are injured or killed while visiting these countries.
I am always amazed at how many here in Ireland are taking trips to Dubai, Egypt, Turkey and wherever else.
Does it ever dawn on people that they are investing in an economy which hates them and detests them so much?
If westerners would simply boycott these countries and only travel to those places which are deemed to be unislamic (I would not be so naive to say that their economies would falter, because of course, the sheiks would make sure that billions would filter through to get their agenda fulfilled) then at least westerners would not be guilty of investing into these countries and, they would at least be able to return from their holidays in an airplane seat rather than in a box.
PJ