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83 Killed, 200 Injured in Sharm El-Shaikh Bombings, Claimed by Al Qaeda Group

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 23 July 2005
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International Attack-Terrorism

Al-Alam TV reported that four car bombs exploded in Sharm El-Shaikh,
killing at least 50 people and injuring 150.

By LEE KEATH Associated Press Writer

July 22, 2005

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) —

As many as seven explosions, including at least four car bombs, struck
the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Shaik early Saturday, hitting several
hotels packed with foreign and Egyptian tourists and killing at least
36 people, witnesses and police said.

Saturday’s explosions at 1:15 a.m. shook windows more than five miles
away. Smoke and fire rose from Na’ama Bay, a main strip of beach
hotels in the desert city popular with Israeli and European tourists,
witnesses said.

At least four car bombs were used in the attacks, said a security
official in the operations control room in Cairo monitoring the
crisis. One went off in the driveway of the Ghazala Garden hotel, a
176-room four-star resort on the main strip of hotels in Na’ama Bay,
the official said.

Another exploded in the Old Market, a few miles away, killing 17
people - believed to be Egyptians - sitting at a nearby outdoor coffee
shop. Three minibuses were set ablaze, though it was not clear if they
were carrying passengers, the official said.

A police official in Sharm el-Shaik said at least 36 people were
killed and 150 wounded in what may have been as many as seven blasts,
three in Na’amah Bay and four in the Old Ma

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  • How much more does the world need to take before it wakes up to the fact that MOST OF these sorts of attacks (YES, including LOndon) are perpetrated by western powers in order to BLAME MUSLIMS so that they can ATTACK MORE MUSLIM COUNTRIES. Why would any muslim group want to blow up innocent civilians, and mainly Muslims at that??? What would this possibly achieve? If any "muslim terrorist" really wanted to have a go at western interests they would strike at military installations or western government buildings / politicians. Do we see any attacks on the knesset or the british parliament ? NO - its always innocent civilians that cop the death and injury and suffering. This is to summon up public support for the perverted western alliance agenda of perpetual warfare against the muslim world. This attack in Egypt also achieves a "side-bar" result: it severely affects Egyptian tourism, one of that country’s main revenue streams - voila! economic terrorism!! [mmm....remember Bali?] Just one of many long knives to be plunged into that country’s back on the road to eventual invasion there also.

    • I already think the world is watching just another holocaust - this time it happens to muslims.

      The attacks in Egypt happened, because a corrupt single candidat "democracy" offers torture service for money to the U.S. (see also Italian incident).