Bombs in Egypt

Nerdanel · 07-23-2005, 05:51 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4709491.stm

Spock · 07-23-2005, 09:14 AM

They've got their hands full with people who don't like their Royal Family (I'm familiar with that history :-( ) and tourists and Egyptian citizens have to suffer for it. It's a shame explosives are so cheap and people think human life is cheaper.

inked · 07-23-2005, 12:23 PM

You do recall that the Nobel Prize was established by the inventor of TNT (dynamite) on the profits of that "new and improved" explosive. Perhaps the inventor(s) of plastique should do the same?

Recall though that political assassinations only require a dedicated assassin and any means to hand.

And local political cells are terrorists when they act like this, aren't they?

So what makes a terrorist? An individual or group of individuals adhering to a political goal which they hope to be achieved by radical means without regard to human casualty and intending the use of the same to achieve stated political goal(s). Said political goals may be hidden by rhetoric regarding religion, philosophy, or the need for redistribution of power and wealth from the existing structure to the terrorists, personally and organizationally. All done in the name of the god, philosopher, or prophet of change popular with the organization as a recruiting tool and in whose name conscription is instituted all for the beneficent "future" promulgated by the individuals seeking control until they achieve it, when they revert to type and the cycle begins over. (Cf. USSR, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Cuba...........)

***azalea*** · 07-23-2005, 01:03 PM

I just wanted to express my sadness at this, yet another terrorist attack in such a short amount of time. I feel so badly for the Londoners and the Egyptian tourists that have suffered as a result of these atrocious acts recently.

Nerdanel · 07-23-2005, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by azalea

I just wanted to express my sadness at this, yet another terrorist attack in such a short amount of time. I feel so badly for the Londoners and the Egyptian tourists that have suffered as a result of these atrocious acts recently.

I also feel bad for the Londoners and everyone personally affected by the bombings there.. And for the locals in Sharm al-Sheikh, not only the tourists.

trolls' bane · 07-25-2005, 02:42 AM

A friend of mine left Egypt earlier that day. Yesterday was the first I heard of it.

The Gaffer · 07-25-2005, 03:36 AM

I think most of the victims were locals. In the longer term, they will suffer most as well because of the damage it does to the tourism industry.

trolls' bane · 07-25-2005, 03:39 AM

That's what I heard from my near-miss friend. Relatively few tourists were injured.

sun-star · 07-25-2005, 06:26 AM

This is a terrible event

07-23-2005, 05:51 AM	#1
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07-23-2005, 09:14 AM	#2
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	They've got their hands full with people who don't like their Royal Family (I'm familiar with that history :-( ) and tourists and Egyptian citizens have to suffer for it. It's a shame explosives are so cheap and people think human life is cheaper. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-23-2005, 12:23 PM	#3
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	You do recall that the Nobel Prize was established by the inventor of TNT (dynamite) on the profits of that "new and improved" explosive. Perhaps the inventor(s) of plastique should do the same? Recall though that political assassinations only require a dedicated assassin and any means to hand. And local political cells are terrorists when they act like this, aren't they? So what makes a terrorist? An individual or group of individuals adhering to a political goal which they hope to be achieved by radical means without regard to human casualty and intending the use of the same to achieve stated political goal(s). Said political goals may be hidden by rhetoric regarding religion, philosophy, or the need for redistribution of power and wealth from the existing structure to the terrorists, personally and organizationally. All done in the name of the god, philosopher, or prophet of change popular with the organization as a recruiting tool and in whose name conscription is instituted all for the beneficent "future" promulgated by the individuals seeking control until they achieve it, when they revert to type and the cycle begins over. (Cf. USSR, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Cuba...........) __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

07-25-2005, 02:42 AM	#6
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	A friend of mine left Egypt earlier that day. Yesterday was the first I heard of it. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

07-25-2005, 03:39 AM	#8
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	That's what I heard from my near-miss friend. Relatively few tourists were injured. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

07-23-2005, 01:03 PM	#4
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	I just wanted to express my sadness at this, yet another terrorist attack in such a short amount of time. I feel so badly for the Londoners and the Egyptian tourists that have suffered as a result of these atrocious acts recently.

07-25-2005, 03:36 AM	#7
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	I think most of the victims were locals. In the longer term, they will suffer most as well because of the damage it does to the tourism industry.

07-25-2005, 06:26 AM	#9
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	This is a terrible event __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

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