So who's messing about in Sinai ? Where's the press ??

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Sinai hit by fresh bomb attacks

Two suicide bombers attacked security personnel and foreign peacekeepers in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, but did not cause any injuries to their targets. The first bomber blew himself up as members of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) were passing in a car.

A second attacker on a bicycle tried to detonate his bomb near a police car which had gone to the scene.

The attacks come two days after a triple bombing on the Sinai resort town of Dahab, which killed 23 people.

The MFO is an independent peacekeeping force which has been stationed in Sinai since 1982, following the Egypt-Israeli peace deal.

The attacks took place near the MFO headquarters at el-Gorah, about 35km (22 miles) from the Mediterranean city of Arish.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4946244.stm

 

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Yep ....

 

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If you're ever up that way its just a big sandy desert buffer zone, the Egyptians avoid that side of the canal in case of another Israeli invasion.

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It's a pissed off Dentist chaps, we can all stop wondering now.....??

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The Egyptian security forces say they are pursuing the possibility that the latest bombings in Dahab and the northern Sinai were the work of the same group which carried out previous attacks against the Red Sea resorts of Sharm El Sheikh and Taba.

Two suicide bombers struck on Wednesday in the northern Sinai, but this time the attackers failed to injure their targets - the Egyptian police and international peacekeepers monitoring the implementation of the 1979 peace accords with Israel.

The latest attacks came less than 48 hours after explosions ripped through the Sinai resort of Dahab killing 24 people and injuring scores of others.

Interior Minister Habib Al Adly said it was not a coincidence that all three resort attacks happened on holidays celebrating important national events.

Unnamed police sources have been quoted by the official Middle East News Agency as saying that all lines of inquiry were open, but that it was likely that the bombings were the work of the same group.

They named three fugitives, all Sinai natives, and said they were part of a local cell of Islamic militants hiding in the mountains of the region.

Despite the scale of the attacks against the three Sinai resorts, the Egyptian authorities have never said much about their investigations.

But some information started to surface in recent months with the start of the trial of four men who face charges in connection with the bombings in Taba in October 2004 which killed 34 people including foreign tourists.

'Confessions'

Press reports earlier this month which quote court documents, said the bombers in Taba and Sharm El Sheikh were members of a militant group called Al Tawhid Wal Jihad established by a young dentist, Khaled Mosaed, in the town of Al Arish in the northern Sinai in 2002.

He is said to have succeeded in recruiting around 100 men whom he organised in separate cells often kept ignorant of each other in order to limit the damage should members fall into the hands of the security services.

The reports say Mr Mosaed was motivated by anger against the United States over what he regarded as its humiliating treatment of the Muslim world. He also considered Arab governments which fail to implement Islamic law and which are seen to collude with the US as legitimate targets.

So far, nothing has been made public suggesting that there were links between the Sinai militants and al-Qaeda, though it is clear they are at the very least inspired by the actions of Osama Bin Laden and his followers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4948886.stm

 

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what is the latest on that relationship?

Debka has not had updates recently

 

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I've seen barely anything on the Sinai Doc.
The 'Liberal' press must be avoiding it.

 

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overhere the press is too focused on the McKinney Murder case and now ...

Wow .. flappin $100 rebates from the Repugs due to gasoline prices? These guys are goooodddd ... they are going to throw that "reminder" in every Americans face come fall

WTF? blow me ... unless this money is coming from taxes on the oil compnaies this is a joke and nothing but a "symbolic" gesture so the Bushies can run twice to the pump to fill up and chant "Ohhh, thank you God for having Repugs control this country ..."

This country is in deeepppp shit