Egyptians get a taste of what Radical Islam hath wrought

I say that with no pleasure whatsoever.

"Al-Qaida is willing to attack anytime and anywhere they can do damage. They just need the opportunity," said Hisham Kassem, an Egyptian human-rights advocate who has tracked Egypt's decade-long fight against Islamist militancy.

Kassem, former publisher of the English-language Cairo Times magazine, recently launched a daily Arabic-language newspaper, Al Masri Al Youm (The Egyptian Today), which endorses civil rights, globalization and peace on its editorial pages.

"I don't know if they (security officials) could have done more," he explained, "and now the damage has been done."

At least 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Thursday night's attacks. Most victims were Israeli tourists visiting the Sinai resorts on a holiday weekend.
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"Yesterday at around 10 p.m., we heard a strong boom that sounded like loud thunder, and then 30 minutes later we saw what looked like two lighting bolts with the same boom of thunder," said Sherif El-Gumrawy, owner of the Basata resort, located between the sites of the attacks in Taba and Ras Al-Sheitan (Satan's Head).

"Terrorism has no nationality or religion -- a lot of Egyptians also died," El-Gumrawy said.

"They were women and children, civilians there on holiday," an Egyptian shopkeeper, identifying himself only as Ibrahim, said of the victims. "This is forbidden."

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