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Unintended Consequences
October 10, 2004: The Islamic terrorists who planned the attacks on the Egyptian beach hotel at Taba missed one important detail, the place was particularly popular with Israeli Arabs. About a third of those killed or missing were Israeli Arabs. That, plus the deaths among the Egyptian staff of the hotel, mean that about 40 percent of the dead and injured were Moslem. That, plus the Egyptian loss of jobs for several years, as Israeli tourists stay away, get the Islamic terrorists more ill will in Egypt, and the Arab world in general. The war on terror is a war of public opinion, as well as bombs and bullets. Islamic bombs have been killing a lot of Moslem women and children lately, and that does not go down well in the Islamic world. The Egyptian police are already rounding up the usual suspects, including twenty Bedouins, suspected of supplying the ton of explosives. Bedouins have been smuggling, and operating on the edges of society, for centuries. Criminals and terrorists will go to Bedouins for what they cannot get legitimately. Israeli and Egyptian police are working together on the investigation, another development that is unlikely to please those behind the bombing. Posted by: ed 2004-10-10 |
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