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More jihad in Egypt. Just in from Reuters:
CAIRO (Reuters) - Two men blew themselves up in Egypt's north Sinai on Wednesday, one near an airport used by an international observer force and one near the northern town of El Arish, security sources said.The bombs, which followed three deadly explosions in the east Sinai resort of Dahab on Monday, killed only the bombers, an Interior Ministry statement said.
It was not immediately clear if all the incidents were related but most members of the group blamed for attacks in Sinai over the past two years came from the El Arish area.
A spokesman for the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) group, which supervises the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, said the first bomber appeared to target two of its vehicles but there were no MFO injuries.
The second man blew himself next to a police car outside a police station in Sheikh Zuwayed, near the northern coast town of El Arish. The car was empty and there were no other casualties, the security sources said.
The office of the governor of Sharkia province in the east of the Nile Delta denied reports of a third incident in the Sharkia town of Bilbeis.
Posted by Robert at April 26, 2006 10:36 AM
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I hope the first two words to these guys in the afterlife are:
"You missed."
Then, let the trap door open...
Posted by: Shinoliite![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 26, 2006 10:42 AM
Losers.
Posted by: Ironman Hondo at April 26, 2006 10:58 AM
Now it seems these guys are just blowing themselves up for the sheer joy of it. What fun.
Posted by: Xerxes at April 26, 2006 11:17 AM
Question:
Does one receive one's allotment of virgins in Paradise if one fails to kill any infidels in one's jihad to advance the RoP? I would appreciate an answer from the resident imam.
Concerned Bomber
Posted by: Xerxes at April 26, 2006 12:03 PM
I'm sure allah looks down on those that missed. He'd probably send them to hell because missing the targets would be blasphemous. But, on the good side, he'd have 72 lovely , yet, hellish minions.
Posted by: freewoman at April 26, 2006 12:05 PM
Re: "The second man blew himself next to a police car outside a police station in Sheikh Zuwayed, near the northern coast town of El Arish. The car was empty.."
You just can't recruit smart suicide bombers these days.
Posted by: johnb at April 26, 2006 12:07 PM
I just can't for the life of me understand that these sick SOB's strap on a bomb and blow themselves up. Wouldn't you rather be sitting on a beautiful sandy beach under swaying palm trees with a cold Mai Tai in your hand looking at crystalline blue water...ready to hop on a jet ski and tear it up. Mind boggling to say the least.
Posted by: Siciliano at April 26, 2006 12:21 PM
"Sinai" rather than "Egypt's Sinai."
Why does it matter? It matters because people simply assume that the Sinai Desert has always been Egyptian. In fact, the desert of Sinai was never recognized as part of Egypt. Just look at all the nineteenth-century travellers who wrote books on "The Holy Land and Sinai" or "Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine." See the photographer Francis Frith. See Arthur Stanley, the Anglican divine who accompanied the Prince of Wales on his trip to "Sinai and Palestine."
So when was it, exactly, that the Sinai, that desert (and deserts were treated as a corpus separatum under the Ottoman as under the Western legal regimes) of the Sinai became transmogrified into "Egypt's Sinai"?
Well, it happened in 1922. A thin sliver on the east bank of the Nile (why don't we call that the "East Bank" just for fun?) had always been Egyptian. But the great wilderness of the Sinai peninsula had never been considered part of Egypt, not under the Ottomans (who had controlled, directly or indirectly, or so very indirectly as really not to control at all, Egypt since 1517). After World War I the Ottoman domains were in the hands of the Allies. The English could have done whatever they liked with the Sinai. They chose to entrust it to Egypt. Who else was there? The notion of making it part of Mandatory Palestine would have stuck in the craw of the local English officials who were so unenthusiastic, and ready to sabotage, the idea of the Mandate for Palestine as a way to bring about the establishment of a Jewish state. The Zionists did not make a fuss; they just wanted to have their tiny strip of land, and even when the British closed off the provisions of the Mandate to the vast area east of the Jordan, in order to give the Emir Abdullah a consolation prize since his younger brother Feisal had been given all of Iraq as his kingdom, only the "Revisiionists" under Jabotinsky were as enraged as were the non-Jewish members of the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations.
The Egyptians may have convinced themselves that the "Sinai" was always part of Egypt. The Western world always knew better. And so did the Ottomans, and so did everyone in the Middle East. Care with history would be good. Why? Well, the next time Egypt goes to war, if it does, and if Israel not only survives but manages to re-seize the Sinai, it should have mentally prepared itself, and the rest of the world, for a necessary fact: this time, the Sinai will not be given back. St. Catherine's Monastery will be under Israeli protection. The Israelis will have their strategic depth. The Red Sea resorts that, in any case, were built by Israel, will be open to Western tourists -- but this time protected by Israel and not Egypt.
These "no-child-left-behind" tests that about mathematics and English, and which are silent on the need to have learned some history, as part of one's civic responsibilities, arithmetic and elementary literacy, and do not require the learning of history, merely reflect a larger inattention to the teaching of, and learning of, history. It's a mistake. Without such knowledge, you will be putty in the hands of propagandists. You will not be able to reply, to pierce the veil of taqiyya, here or there or anywhere.
Study. Study, to begin with, the history of the Sinai.
Posted by: Hugh at April 26, 2006 12:59 PM
A well deserved Darwin Award for the two!
at April 26, 2006 2:32 PM
The only worrying thought of egyptian people nowadays is the loss of tourism income. I guess it's the thought of the "average" and "secular" muslim
Posted by: poisonr at April 26, 2006 2:36 PM
It will be interesting to find out - in the event the Egyptian government releases the information - who these two individuals were. Were they Bedouins from the Sinai? Were they non-Bedouin Egyptians? Were they foreigners?
Posted by: Cornelius at April 26, 2006 3:32 PM
The failure to reform Islam by Mubarak's govenment in "Egypt" has come back to bite them.
Their insistance of blaming the West and Israel for all their problems does nothing to improve their country. They are just bidding time for when the muslim zealots take over control of Egypt.
If they truly wanted reforms, and have true Western style Democracy, that is separation of State and Church, allow capitilism as the WEst does, there would be huge advancement in their economies. For all the hatred directed towards the Jews, the Egyptians have become trapped inside their own nightmare of hell. The islamist are now the walking dead.
at April 26, 2006 6:05 PM
They didn't kill anybody?
I thought that Mossad, the chief weapon of the vast Zionist Conspiracy trying to destabilize and demonize the peaceful mohammedan masses, was more effective than that.
at April 26, 2006 6:41 PM
This is the next, chilling phase of the Jihad:
-the Attack on the Unmanned Police Vehicles stage.
To be followed by:
the Total Obliteration of Empty Lots campaign.
I guess they're just trying to cover all bases.
Or maybe this was just a dry run, and they forgot to disconnect the batteries when they practiced the pressing the plunger routine?
Either way, my kind of jihadis.
Their reward in Muslim paradise?
72 virginals.
And the only sheet music: "God Bless America".
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 26, 2006 8:18 PM
Oh, my, that made my evening, profitsbeard!
All I can add is to suggest different historical tuning schemes in successive layers of hell. And then, many modulations to distant keys in said sheet music.
(Incidentally, I was initially disappointed to find out diabolus in musica didn't refer to me.)
Posted by: Shinoliite at April 26, 2006 9:29 PM
shinoliite-
If no virginals were handy in halal hell, I'd hit them with a hammerklavier.
(One of Beethoven's nicest pieces, as well.)
But, I suspect they are going to be tethered to a red hot organ grinder's box, while dressed like paisano monkeys, begging for forgiveness in hades for a loooooong time.
As the interminable calliope melody plays:
"Yes, We Have No Bananas".
Over and over and over....
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 26, 2006 11:13 PM
The second man blew himself next to a police car
these people have no shame...
Posted by: Animus at April 26, 2006 11:53 PM
The punishment for failed murder bombers is that they become houris.
Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at April 27, 2006 3:17 AM
"It will be interesting to find out - in the event the Egyptian government releases the information - who these two individuals were. Were they Bedouins from the Sinai? Were they non-Bedouin Egyptians? Were they foreigners?"
the gvernment always says it's bedouins like the sharm attacks of last year, but do you really believe a muslim at this point?
Posted by: poisonr at April 27, 2006 11:48 AM
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