Major Terror Attack in Egypt

[bamacre]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060424/ts_nm/security_egypt_explosions_dc_4

Updated story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060424/ts_nm/security_egypt_explosions_dc_6
*Now 22 dead, 150 wounded*

CAIRO (Reuters) - Three explosions shook the Egyptian Sinai resort of Dahab on Monday and smoke could be seen rising from the town's tourist bazaar, witnesses said.

Residents said they saw body parts and debris on the street after an explosion at a restaurant. Media reports spoke of at least 100 dead and injured.

"There is smoke coming from the area and there are people running everywhere," said the witness, who did not want to be named. The explosions were heard about 7:15 p.m. local time (1315 EDT) on Monday, part of a five-day spring holiday in Egypt, the witness said.

A interior ministry official confirmed there had been explosions but said he had no further information. "There were explosions but the picture is still not clear," he said.

Body parts and debris were seen in the streets after an explosion in a tourist restaurant, other residents said. One visitor said cars and buses leaving the resort were being stopped by police.

"There were body parts and debris in the street ... There are ambulances and cars taking people to hospital," said another resident who also did not want to be named.

Last July, at least 60 people, including foreigners, were killed and more than 200 were wounded when two car bombs and a suitcase ripped through hotels and shopping areas in Egypt's tourist area of Sharm el-Sheikh.

I hope it's not as bad as it sounds.

Further proof terror is on the rise since we have invaded Iraq. These guys won't run out of ammo as long as we keeping feeding it to them.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: bamacre
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060424/ts_nm/security_egypt_explosions_dc_4

CAIRO (Reuters) - Three explosions shook the Egyptian Sinai resort of Dahab on Monday and smoke could be seen rising from the town's tourist bazaar, witnesses said.

Residents said they saw body parts and debris on the street after an explosion at a restaurant. Media reports spoke of at least 100 dead and injured.

"There is smoke coming from the area and there are people running everywhere," said the witness, who did not want to be named. The explosions were heard about 7:15 p.m. local time (1315 EDT) on Monday, part of a five-day spring holiday in Egypt, the witness said.

A interior ministry official confirmed there had been explosions but said he had no further information. "There were explosions but the picture is still not clear," he said.

Body parts and debris were seen in the streets after an explosion in a tourist restaurant, other residents said. One visitor said cars and buses leaving the resort were being stopped by police.

"There were body parts and debris in the street ... There are ambulances and cars taking people to hospital," said another resident who also did not want to be named.

Last July, at least 60 people, including foreigners, were killed and more than 200 were wounded when two car bombs and a suitcase ripped through hotels and shopping areas in Egypt's tourist area of Sharm el-Sheikh.

I hope it's not as bad as it sounds.

Further proof terror is on the rise since we have invaded Iraq. These guys won't run out of ammo as long as we keeping feeding it to them.

Certainly terrorism is up in Iraq but world wide? Almost everything I've read has shown that terrorism is down since we invaded Afghanistan. And the number of attacks in Iraq is on the decline as well.

Sad story though.

 

[maddogchen]

17 dead initially.

 

[bamacre]

I am seeing 22. Horrible, but better than 100+.

 

[Todd33]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Certainly terrorism is up in Iraq but world wide? Almost everything I've read has shown that terrorism is down since we invaded Afghanistan. And the number of attacks in Iraq is on the decline as well.

Sad story though.

Wow, I guess you missed this last year...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...rticle/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.html

First they celebrated and released data that left off 1/4 of the year and had to retract it.

The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than tripled last year, according to U.S. government figures, a sharp upswing in deadly attacks that the State Department has decided not to make public in its annual report on terrorism due to Congress this week.

Then they decided to stop releasing the stats, too embarrassing I guess.

The State Department announced last week that it was breaking with tradition in withholding the statistics on terrorist attacks from its congressionally mandated annual report. Critics said the move was designed to shield the government from questions about the success of its effort to combat terrorism by eliminating what amounted to the only year-to-year benchmark of progress.

Although the State Department said the data would still be made public by the new National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which prepares the information, officials at the center said no decision to publish the statistics has been made.

Spin away, the incompetence is astounding.

 

[Proletariat]

Lets give a

to the dead first.

Then argue.

 

[jlmadyson]

 

[IdioticBuffoon]

"America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safer and the world will be more peaceful."

 

[Proletariat]

Originally posted by: IdioticBuffoon
"America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safer and the world will be more peaceful."

:roll:

 

[Meuge]

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: IdioticBuffoon
"America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safer and the world will be more peaceful."

:roll:

The comparison is hanging. They don't say safer than what. Safer than Somalia, definitely... for now, anyway.

 

[IdioticBuffoon]

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: IdioticBuffoon
"America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safer and the world will be more peaceful."

:roll:

Sorry. I guess it's not four years yet. :roll:

I'll come back next year when the world really will be a S-A-F-E-R place.

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: IdioticBuffoon

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: IdioticBuffoon
"America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safer and the world will be more peaceful."

:roll:

Sorry. I guess it's not four years yet. :roll:

I'll come back next year when the world really will be a S-A-F-E-R place.

well...at least you chose an appropriate forum name

Seriously though...

to those that perished.