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Egypt: Jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber behind bus blast; victims were Korean Christians visiting holy sites

Feb 17, 2014 4:19 pm By Robert Spencer

Sinaibus“An al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, took responsibility for the bombing. On its Twitter account, the organization promised to continue to attack Egypt’s economy, tourism, and military.” Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis means Supporters of the Holy House, that is, Supporters of Jerusalem — illustrating in itself the truth of Aviv Oreg’s observation that attacks like this one are designed to show that “Israel is their target in their aspirations.” And they consider that if they can destabilize the Egyptian economy and government in the bargain, so much the better.

“Egypt says suicide bomber caused deadly bus blast,” from the Times of Israel, February 17:

CAIRO — A suicide bomber was behind the deadly blast that tore through a bus carrying South Korean tourists, Egyptian security officials said.

The officials said the bomber boarded the bus while it waited near the Egypt-Israel border crossing at Taba in the Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian driver and the South Korean guide had disembarked but were close to the bus when Sunday’s blast took place, according to the officials….

South Korean officials said the bombing killed three South Koreans and an Egyptian driver. The tourists were Korean Christians who had saved for years to visit Biblical sites on their church’s 60th anniversary.

“The preliminary investigation shows some tourists disembarked to get their bags. A man walked to the bus. There was an explosion when he reached the third step,” interior ministry spokesman Hany Abdel Latif told AFP.

The tourists were all members of the same church group from the central South Korean county of Jincheon and were on a 12-day trip through Turkey, Egypt and Israel. They were about to cross into Israel when the attack occurred.

The South Korean ambassador to Egypt, Kim Young-So, told Seoul’s MBN TV station that the bus bombing appeared to be a “suicide bombing by a terrorist.”

An al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, took responsibility for the bombing. On its Twitter account, the organization promised to continue to attack Egypt’s economy, tourism, and military.

The group, based in the Sinai Peninsula, has deployed several suicide bombers in attacks on police, as well as in a failed attempt to assassinate interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim in September.

Fifteen survivors from the blast crossed into Israel on Monday and are staying at a hotel in the resort city of Eilat, Israel’s Channel 2 news reported. Other tourists who had been on the bus carrying 33 were still hospitalized in the Sinai.

Egypt had reportedly refused offers of Israeli help after the blast, transporting at least 12 injured people to hospitals in the Sinai peninsula instead of the closer Yoseftal Hospital in Eilat….

Maj. (res.) Aviv Oreg, formerly the head of Al Qaeda and Global Jihad desk at the Israel Defense Force’s military intelligence directorate, said the bombing was likely intended to send a message to Jerusalem and Cairo.

For jihadist organizations in the Sinai Peninsula, this sort of attack is ”very sufficient in order to pinpoint that Israel is their target in their aspirations,” he told The Times of Israel.

Police under now deposed president Hosni Mubarak had all but stamped out Islamist militancy after a spate of Sinai resort bombings between 2004 and 2006.

But the three-year period of lawlessness and unrest after Mubarak’s overthrow in 2011 has allowed the militants to regroup in the restive Sinai peninsula and to branch out to the Nile Delta.

“A continuation in attacks on tourists would mean a shift in strategy by jihadist groups that until now targeted the military and police,” said Issandr El Amrani of the International Crisis Group.

“But that cannot be judged after one attack,” he added.

The head of Egypt’s Chamber of Tourism said the attack could have been aimed at hitting the tourism industry, one of Egypt’s top revenue generators.

“The attack aimed at harming tourism in general,” said Elhami al-Zayat….

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  1. Bradamante says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 4:31 pm

    I’m sure these savages are very proud that one of their number managed to kill some South Korean tourists, since everyone knows that South Korea has done so much to oppress the Muslims. Utter barbarity.

  2. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 6:45 pm

    Memo to other Korean Christians: *do not* go to Jordan or Egypt. It is *not safe*.

    Go to Israel. Only Israel. Exclusive of Mount Sinai, *all* the most significant Biblical sacred sites are within the land of Israel (though you should be warned that the Temple Mount, the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, Rachel’s Tomb and Jesus’ birthplace in Bethlehem, and the town of Nazareth in Galilee, are all heavily infested with aggressive, treacherous Mohammedan invaders and occupiers whom the Jews of Israel have not yet been able to muster the will to evict, and access to these sites – excepting Nazareth – will be difficult). But if you follow Israeli advice, you should be pretty safe; and Israel, assailed by neverending Muslim jihad which is intent on destroying it and replacing it with a chaotic and wretched Muslim sh*t-hole, can use every tourist dollar you’d like to spend.

    Indeed, for *any* non-Muslim tourist who has a hankering for Fertile Crescent archaeology (everything from the Old Stone Age right on through to the 17th and 18th century), sand, palm-fringed oases, sun, beaches, dates, figs, wine, belly-dancing, camels, and middle eastern food, there is only *one* place to go: ISRAEL.

    PS No tourist should go to Israel without first reading Mark Durie’s “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom”. If you read that, you will understand why some of the “Arab” Christians you may meet in Israel, and especially in places like Bethlehem, will complain endlessly about the Jews and say little or nothing about the Muslims, or tell you glowing stories about how they all lived in perfect amity with their Muslim neighbours until the nasty Jews upset the apple-cart. Note: such glowing stories are …the result of denial and suppression of the reality of over one thousand years of gross abuse meted out by Muslims to both Christians and Jews. They are about as truthful as the words of a peasant or small shopkeeper in a southern Italian village in the 1930s singing the praises of the local Mafia don.

    • flier2020 says

      Feb 17, 2014 at 11:55 pm

      Please read Giulio Meotti’s new book, “The Vatican Against Israel, J’Accuse”.
      Unfortunately, the Vatican continues it ancient war against the Jewish people by standing with “victims of oppression and occupation”, i.e… the “Palestinian people. The Roman Catholic Church, especially through its pastors and priests living in Israel, continually delegitimize the Jewish state and stand united with Muslim aggressors. NGO’s, certain Catholic/Christian charities and “social justice” groups fund the “Palestinian cause” and remain SILENT when Muslims commit genocide against their Christian brothers and sisters living in the Middle East.

    • boakai ngombu says

      Feb 18, 2014 at 7:38 am

      and if you travel to such area on tour stick with ISRAELI services … hygiene issues with food, water, especially abound with other services.

  3. exsgtbrown says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 7:09 pm

    the Muslims are sending the message that Islam is not a religion of peace…but you knew that already…didn’t you?

  4. David, Thailand says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    Can’t imagine why civilised people would visit countries dominated by Islam, but that’s just me.

    These failed states should be avoided like the plague, and allowed to devolve to the times of the dysfunctional pedophile. But Western leaders and media are spineless, naive, and too polite to absorb basic truths.

  5. flier2020 says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    Please read Giulio Meotti’s new book, “The Vatican Against Israel, J’Accuse”.
    Unfortunately, the Vatican continues it ancient war against the Jewish people by standing with “victims of oppression and occupation”, i.e… the “Palestinian people. The Roman Catholic Church, especially through its pastors and priests living in Israel, continually delegitimize the Jewish state and stand united with Muslim aggressors. NGO’s, certain Catholic/Christian charities and “social justice” groups fund the “Palestinian cause” and remain SILENT when Muslims commit genocide against their Christian brothers and sisters living in the Middle East.

    • squeezethejuice says

      Feb 18, 2014 at 2:09 pm

      It is because they recognize that the Muslims are the true allies of Christians, we both worship the one true god whom we Muslims call Allah (swt). The Jews worship a god too, but he is not the same, he is in fact the god Mammon, the god of money and greed.

  6. squeezethejuice says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    Noooooo! May the wrath of Allah ( swt ) fall upon those who kill the Christians who are our natural allies and best bet to establish belief in the One True God in as many places of this earth as possible! The Korean Christians were the ones who helped my noble Emirati Muslim brothers built the jewel of the Muslim world, the tallest building to grace the Earth [ Allah ( swt ) willing ], the Burj Khalifah.

    It is the duty of all Muslims to fight for our god Allah ( swt ) by mercilessly slaughtering these so-called Muslims working against the interests of Islam. The may as well be allies to the already declared enemies of Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 19, 2014 at 1:59 am

      The repulsive “squeezethejuice” (squeeze the Jews) wrote:

      It is because they recognize that the Muslims are the true allies of Christians, we both worship the one true god whom we Muslims call Allah (swt).
      ……………………………..

      What crap. The Christian God is *nothing* like the vicious, unknowable “Allah”. And pious Muslims know this—this is why they are butchering Christians all over the world, like these Korean Christians in Sinai.

      More:

      The Jews worship a god too, but he is not the same, he is in fact the god Mammon, the god of money and greed.
      ……………………………..

      Typical antisemitic Mohammedan crap. You may have heard that Jesus—*not* “Isa”—was himself Jewish.

      More:

      Noooooo! May the wrath of Allah ( swt ) fall upon those who kill the Christians who are our natural allies and best bet to establish belief in the One True God in as many places of this earth as possible!
      ……………………………..

      And what does this mean, as the vile “squeezethejuice” sees it? On another thread, he envisioned a grotesque scenario of Christians slaughtering non-violent gay people alongside the rampaging Muslim mob.

      Then, further, he envisioned Christians butchering “polytheists” for Muslims, and then their divvying up the women taken captive for rape, enslavement, and impregnation.

      *This* is what he believes he can get decent Christians to do.

      And if Christians were both foolish enough and vicious enough to go along with this? Then after Christians had done Muslims’ dirty work for them, they would no doubt be liquidated after their usefulness was ended.

      More:

      The Korean Christians were the ones who helped my noble Emirati Muslim brothers built the jewel of the Muslim world, the tallest building to grace the Earth [ Allah ( swt ) willing ], the Burj Khalifah.
      ……………………………..

      This building was designed, engineered, and built by Infidels—Americans, Italians, and Koreans—because slovenly Mohammedans are incapable of such feats.

      The tower now sits more than half empty, because Muslims don’t actually know what to do with such a structure.

      More:

      It is the duty of all Muslims to fight for our god Allah ( swt ) by mercilessly slaughtering these so-called Muslims working against the interests of Islam. The may as well be allies to the already declared enemies of Islam.
      ……………………………..

      More crap—this vicious Jihadist just finds his fellow Jihadists in Sinai to be inconvenient for now—he has made is *quite* clear that he is entirely in favor of violent Jihad. It’s just that he wants it aimed first at gays, Jews, and “polytheists”.

      Plenty of time, as he sees it, to take care of the technologically-savvy Christians after they have served as Islam’s bloody Janissaries. *Sickening*.

      Of course, he is wrong—Christians may well be foolish enough to build skyscrapers for Muslims, but are not apt to sign on to execute their bloody genocides. Dream on, creep…

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    This is yet another example of the great amount of harm the is done by the Islamic clerics such as the imams and mullahs who very much mind program the other people into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Quran and other written works of Islam of a sex filled paradise for the male Muslim who dies fighting for Islam in the jihad . Such false teachers as these imams and mullahs who thoroughly brainwash other people in the such a belief in this type fiction and myth/ doctrine as that as just described was predicted in the Bible. For the Bible reads “For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate {endure] sound and wholesome instruction, but having itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold, and will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man made fictions.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. Furthermore, the man, Muhammad, who started this all was just one of the “many false prophets [who] have gone out into the world. ” First John 4:1. Also the false teachers as the imams an mullahs who indoctrinate the lies and falsehood of the message of the Quran in the beliefs of others are accursed by God, Galatians 1:6-9. THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE

  8. bona says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 5:44 am

    Wanna understand even better the presence of the Three Deities of the Abrahamic faith in Jerusalem?
    And the Deities Conspiracy to overshadow the True God?
    Read my book for free, just send your request for a book titled “A TRUE PEACE TALK”. It is for frees, for the glory of the true God.

  9. Paddy Monaghan says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 8:13 am

    Hi Robert I notice that one of your respondents praised Giulio Meotti’s book The Vatican Against Israel – J’accuse- in November 2013. My initial response to the many untrue and exaggerated statements in it was that people will see through it and ignore it as it deserves. The book makes many unsubstantiated and unfair claims against the Catholic Church. I agree with Meotti on some things such as his highlighting of blatant anti-Semitism emanating from some Middle East Catholic Leaders which needs to be exposed.Overall it is a poorly written book that can hurt Catholic/Jewish and Christian/Jewish relationships.
    Would you be interested in considering publishing my Response to it.
    Shalom from Ireland
    Paddy Monaghan
    Catholic Lay Leader
    Ireland

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