Islamists Claim Credit for Eygptian Tour Bus Bombing
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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2014 · People & Blogs
At least four people died and 14 were wounded Sunday by an explosion on a tourist bus in the Egyptian resort town of Taba, an official with the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said. CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva reports. Would you like to know more? Islamists Claim Credit for Eygptian Tour Bus Bombing (nbcnews, Feb 17, 2014) http://nbcnews.to/1jMwo4Y "The Islamist militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis said on Tuesday the bombing of a tourist bus in Egypt's Sinai that killed two South Koreans and the Egyptian driver on Sunday was a suicide attack carried out by one of its fighters, and threatened more strikes against economic targets. The attack on the bus, which was travelling to Israel from St. Catherine's Monastery, a popular tourist destination in the south Sinai, was the first assault on tourists since President Mohamed Mursi's ouster spurred an Islamist insurgency. "Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis has successfully sacrificed one of its heroes to detonate the bus headed toward the Zionists, and this comes as part of our economic war against this regime of traitors," the group said in a statement. Islamist militancy has risen sharply in Egypt..." Tourist bus explosion in Egypt kills 4, wounds 14 http://cnn.it/1kPF4aN "At least four people died and 14 were wounded Sunday by an explosion on a tourist bus in the Egyptian resort town of Taba, authorities said. Brig. Gen. Alaa Mahmoud said 33 tourists from South Korea were on the bus and had visited the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine's, in the Sinai Peninsula. The bus was headed to Israel and was waiting in line near a border crossing, he said. According to state-run media, Health Ministry officials said three tourists and the bus driver, who was from Egypt, were killed. The jihadist group Ansar Jerusalem posted a statement on the radical Islamist website Hanein claiming responsibility for the bombing..." Mohamed Morsy Under Investigation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyxKH9-7gT8 Sinai Growing More Lawless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-plGn6sCI8 Paying For Freedom: Perishing In The Sinai http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLbieIZ1rt4 The Long Way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-DiiXk-Tc Focus On Egypt http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3CB24A62F8EDFE10
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