DAHAB EGYPT TERRORIST ATTACK: 23 DEAD

Blasts Kill 23 in Egyptian Resort Town

"DAHAB, Egypt — A series of explosions ripped through this Egyptian resort town Monday night, killing at least 23 people, injuring more than 60 and raising suspicions that Islamist militants had once again taken aim at the tourist-filled Sinai peninsula.The three near-simultaneous blasts, which centered on a hotel quarter packed with restaurants, nightclubs and bars, shattered the balmy desert evening just after 7, when the streets of the seaside town were packed with foreign tourists and Egyptian visitors strolling, shopping and dining.

Hours after the explosions, blood and bloody footprints still stained the streets of the market area in Dahab's old town. A baby stroller with one bloodstained shoe was abandoned in front of the Ghazala supermarket, where one of the bombs struck."I picked up the baby, a foreign child, from this stroller, but he was dead already," said Walid Sayed, 25, who has worked in the market district for seven years. "We left this stroller here so everyone can see what these criminals did."Egypt's Interior Ministry said that the dead included 20 Egyptians and three foreigners and that about two-thirds of those hurt were Egyptians.
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Ed Lasky from AmericanThinker.com had brought up a very interesting point:
http://www.americanthinker.com

Egyptian terror blast aimed at Coptic Christians

One aspect of the blast receiving little notice is its timing: over the Eastern Orthodox Easter weekend, when the hotel was full of Copt guests. Steven Hurst of the AP reports:

"Hotels and guesthouses were filled with foreigners and with Egyptians celebrating the long Coptic Christian Easter weekend that coincided this year with Shem al-Nessim, the ancient holiday marking the first day of spring."

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