It’s vacation time in Egypt, the resorts are at near full capacity — Just a great time to be a terrorist I guess.

Dozens reported dead and wounded in tourist town blasts

Three explosions rocked Egypt’s Sinai resort town of Dahab on Monday night, leaving at least 30 people dead and 160 wounded.

One blast hit a hotel, a second a restaurant and the third explosion rocked a supermarket in the resort town’s tourist area about 7:15 p.m. local time (1715 GMT). Egyptian authorities said the blasts were likely not caused by suicide bombers but rather bombs that had been planted.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called the explosions a “wicked terrorist act.”
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This is high tourist season – part of a five-day Egyptian holiday – and hotels all along the Egyptian coasts could be expected to be at near capacity.

“There is smoke coming from the area and there are people running everywhere,” said a witness, who did not want to be named.

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.
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There have been a string of attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula over the past 18 months, including deadly Al-Qaida-style bombings in the Egyptian resorts of Taba and
Ras Shitan in October 2004 and in Sharm el-Sheikh in July.

Israeli defense officials said Monday’s attacks resembled the earlier attacks.

Groups claiming links to Al-Qaida took responsibility for those attacks, and Egyptian authorities say new Islamic militant groups have arisen in the peninsula – but they are still trying to determine if they have any real connection to al-Qaida or other international terrorists.

I wouldn’t hold my breath worrying that al-Qaida or some other radical Islamic group are not responsible — this has their MO all over it. But, guess we will have to wait and see which heinous group steps up to take credit for another senseless massacre of innocents. (db)

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