Terror Without Borders
Three thundering explosions brought Sharm el-Sheik tumbling down on Saturday two weeks ago. Hotels were flattened, 88 people were killed and over 120 were wounded. This was the worst incident in Egypts history. Two weeks beforehand, terror of a similar kind took the lives of 53 people in London and killed 100 in Musayyib, 60 kilometers to the south of Baghdad.
Sharm el-Sheikhs tragedy confirms that the wave of terror is continuing to spread across the world. Tempo contributor Mohammed Dzonun As`adi, reports from Iskandariyah after interviewing a number of witnesses from Sharm el-Sheikh. His story follows.
August 2, 2005
THE hand of a clock ticks over to one oclock in the morning. The stifling summer heat is slowly replaced by a cool breeze from the desert which washes over the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. Hotel lobbies are still buzzing in Sharm el-Sheikh, the pearl of the Sinai Peninsula and the center of Egypts tourism industry. Located along the shores of the Red Sea the town never sleeps.
At around about the same time four men from Thaba, in the north of S
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