Explosions rock Egypt Red Sea resorts-residents

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 07-23-2005, 02:09

Explosions rock Egypt Red Sea resorts-residents
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A large explosion shook the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday and two other explosions were heard later, apparently from the nearby resort of Naama Bay, a resident said.

One man quoted bystanders as saying four cars had exploded in the car park of an upmarket hotel in the area.

The first explosion, shortly after one a.m., was audible more than one km (half a mile) away, one resident said. It started a fire and smoke billowed over the town.

About 15 minutes later, two explosions were audible from the direction of Naama Bay, about six km (four miles) away, he said. Naama Bay has dozens of luxury hotels popular with divers and holidaymakers from Europe.

Another resident said one of the explosions came from the direction of the Moevenpick Hotel in Naama Bay and broke the windows of his apartment. It was unclear how far away he was from the blasts.

A third person, Ahmed Fawzi, an Egyptian lawyer visiting Naama Bay on business, told Reuters that one of the explosions ripped the door of his office off its hinges.

When he went outside to find out what happened, bystanders said four cars had exploded in the car park of the Moevenpick Hotel. President Hosni Mubarak has a holiday villa in the adjacent Golf Hotel.

Three tourists were killed and others injured in two bombings in the Egyptian capital Cairo in April.

Egypt's tourism industry, based on Red Sea resorts like Sharm el-Sheikh and on its pharaonic ruins, proved resilient after earlier bombings in the Sinai peninsula in October, which killed 34. Those attacks were seen as targeting mainly Israelis.

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I wonder whos behind these?

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 07-23-2005, 03:48

So whats up. Does it only count when the US or Brtain or Spain is hit? Nobody has anything to say here?

**Taffy_is_a_Taff** · 07-23-2005, 03:52

bastards

**Don Corleone** · 07-23-2005, 04:02

At some point my friend, you start to become numb to these things. First of all, i'd love to know who's suicidal enough to go on a resort holiday in the southern tip of the Sinai. You'd have to be a fool to go anywhere in the Arabic world and not expect harassment, let alone violence.

Second, let's examine the story at it's grass roots level. Some terrorists bombed a key spot in Egypt. Yes, horrible, terrible, loss of life. I got that. But I'm not going to jump up and run around and scream bloody murder every time the terrorists strike. Don't give the bastards what they want.

A quick 'uh, yeah, a shame' and continuing about your business is the worst F$!K You that you can give these honorless jackals. Live life on your terms, not theirs.

**Tribesman** · 07-23-2005, 08:03

I wonder whos behind these?
I think it was probably terrorists .

**Fragony** · 07-23-2005, 08:08

Oh enough allready, damn necrophiles. His goatness also threatened to make Amsterdam a hell, ah let them come. We are no brits, we are going to get a little crazy.

**Efrem** · 07-23-2005, 09:06

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

So whats up. Does it only count when the US or Brtain or Spain is hit? Nobody has anything to say here?

Nah it only matters if US or Britain gets hit, no one cared about spain. They don't even speak english.

(this is a political commentary not my views)

**Marcellus** · 07-23-2005, 16:33

Apparently this is the worst ever terrorist attack in Egypt, with at least 83 deaths as I write. My sympathies to everyone affected and their families, I just hope that the people behind these attacks can be bought to justice. It does seem unjust when attacks like these receive less attention than, say, the London attacks. However I must say there does seem to be pretty good reporting on this, although that might be because foreign tourists were amongst the victims (2 Britons dead so far, I don't know about other foreign casualties).

And people did care about the Madrid bombings.

**lancelot** · 07-23-2005, 22:52

Hopefully this tradgedy will make muslim nations take action against what these terror cowards are doing in the name of their religion...

My condolences to all concerned, Brit, Egyptian...all of em.