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HERE IS
A SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE PRESS COVERAGE OF THE TERROR BLASTS IN TABA --
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TABA COVERAGE
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The most important
questions being asked now are "Who did it?" & "What
happens next?"
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 Sudden
confusion
Explosions in Taba
and other parts of Sinai destroy the 6 October holiday calm...
The Taba attack was the
main headline in most of the world's press. Coverage of the explosions
at the Hilton resort at the Egyptian border town with Israel
dominated global news reports.
Although exactly what had
happened was still not immediately clear, clues were starting to
emerge. They told a story of a series of car bombs at three separate
resorts, resulting in over a hundred injuries, and up to two dozen
deaths.
An example of the way
coverage was being spun could be found at the wildly popular US
site Drudge Report, which titled its link to the story --
"Terror at Egyptian paradise".
The Jerusalem Post labeled the
event "Terror in Sinai"... One of its stories discounts
earlier reports that Egypt had hindered Israeli rescue efforts. There is
also coverage of what it calls a new Exodus from Egypt -- with Israeli
tourists saying they will never go back to Sinai again...
Egypt, meanwhile, is
suggesting the blasts have something to do with Israel's ongoing
and extremely deadly Gaza raid, which has killed nearly a hundred
Palestinians, most of them civilians, in just a few days.
The Palestinians, however,
are saying it's not connected.
In general, there has been a
serious lack of Egyptian coverage of the event, thus necessitating
that most information come from Israeli or Western media sources.
A very comprehensive
AP story strangely says "Israel's military took command of
the scene" ... How is that possible when the hotel is in
Egypt? An Egyptian government spokesman is quoted here as well.
The latest AP report put the
death toll at 19, but there's still some confusion. It also suggests
that the bombs were the work of a car
bomb and a suicide bomber. Egypt's tourism minister is also
quoted.
USA Today focuses on the
fact that Israel had issued a concrete
warning in the past few weeks about the possibility of an
attack on Sinai.
CNN reports Israeli claims
that Al-Qaeda
was behind the blasts.
This Haaretz report
actually says the final death toll will probably include more
Egyptians than Israelis.
The Independent places the
incident in the context of Taba being a town where lots of failed
Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations have taken place.
Meanwhile, security has
been boosted
everywhere after the blasts...
Web posted by
Tarek Atia Friday, October 8, 2004 10:30 CAIRO
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