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A SUMMARY OF THE LATEST PRESS COVERAGE OF THE TABA TERROR BLASTS --
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LATEST
TABA COVERAGE
Diplomacy
& blame
The
speculating over who bombed Taba, and where Egyptian-Israeli relations
are heading, goes on...
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Waiting for
answers
 The
most important questions being asked now are "Who did it?" and
"What happens next?"
The investigation continues...
Who's behind the blasts?
AP polls the official and experts, who for the most part think it was a one
off incident, and not part of a coordinated Islamist militant strike
against Egypt. Israel,
however, continues to insist that a big
terror group did it. The Telegraph also reports an Israeli suggestion
that a female suicide bomber did it. Egypt rejects
that theory.
Meanwhile, dozens of Bedouin tribesmen have been detained on suspicion.
CNN says 15 people are in custody...
Plus, more investigation
details from UPI. Did they come in by boat?
Also, a man who sold explosives says he didn't
know what they would be used for... attacks in Palestine
perhaps? More Gaza insinuations
from CBC.
Meanwhile, a calmer
view emerges... "Egypt views this evaluation by the Israeli side as
being very hasty ... I cannot reach the same conclusion at this
stage, because we don't know who perpetrated these actions,"
said presidential spokesman Magid Abdul Fattah."
Rescue aftermath...
Much of the global coverage of the Taba blasts feature reports of negative incidents involving
Egyptian fire and rescue personnel. An Israeli op-ed piece deals with this issue in
detail.
Plus, more eye-witness
accounts from the Guardian. And, although there seems to no
longer be hope
of finding more survivors,
nine Russians are still missing,
and
at least one is confirmed dead.
Will tourism be
affected? BBC looks at empty
Sinai huts... Reuters says Sinai employees are worried
about losing their jobs... Plus, AP captures a very
interesting story in its take on the tourism issue -- "As
thousands of Israelis streamed east out of Egypt's Sinai
Peninsula, Alaa Montasser waited for a bus to take him home to
Cairo... The 21-year-old Montasser was slated for his first day of
work Thursday as an accountant at the Taba Hilton, his first
decent job, when terrorists bombed the hotel, killing dozens of
people."
The Guardian does a history
of the Hilton Taba. A Washington Post story concentrates on the last
Israelis to leave Sinai. A story in the Jerusalem Post,
meanwhile, suggests that Israeli tourism will
soon return
to Sinai.
Talking politics... Al-Gamaa al-Islamiya is highly critical
of the Taba blasts, reports the BBC. The Muslim Brotherhood,
meanwhile, blames US
and Israeli policies in the Middle East.
And finally, talk of the buffer
zone emerges -- "All the blasts took place in sectors patrolled
by American troops from this force. Osama El-Baz, a senior adviser
to President Hosni Mubarak, said: "Had we been able to have
the army in Area C it would have been easier for us to control
entry to the area."
Web posted by
Tarek Atia Monday, October 11, 2004 12:30 CAIRO
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