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| Wicked Wednesday Wrapup |
| 2006-04-26 |
| A string of suicide bombings and shooting attacks strike the Gaza Strip, Sinai and Egypt in rapid succession Wednesday. Information is still sketchy. DEBKAfile’s sources have some details on the confused sequence of violent outbreaks that occurred two days after a triple al Qaeda bombing attack devastated the Dahab coastal resort in eastern Sinai, killing at least 34 people and injuring 70. Wednesday’s attacks began when Palestinian police stopped two cars, one booby-trapped, from crashing their barrier at the Karni goods crossing from Gaza into Israel. There was a shoot-out with five terrorists. Next, two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the El Arish base in northern Sinai of the Multinational Observer force. One hit a car carrying peacekeepers to their base. The second rode a motorcycle which blew up as Egyptian security and aid units arrived on the scene. Two peacekeepers were injured – a New Zealander and a Norwegian - and two Egyptian policemen. The MFO force was set up in 1981 to monitor Sinai’s demilitarization under the Israel-Egyptian peace treaty. Finally, a group of gunmen stormed a police station in the Egyptian town of Balbit south of Ismailiya on the east bank of the Suez Canal. The Egyptian authorities deny this attack took place. No further details are available. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 For me these violent acts are just PC buildup to inducing a US-Iran conflict, whereupon the Radics will hold themselves justified in attacking US, Isreali, andor Western targets. Iran had already set a March 2006 deadline for its Natantz plant to be prepped for usage of up to 3000 centrifuges, which by US officials' calculation means Iran may officially get its first bomb by end-of-year 2006 or early 2007, assuming that Iran stays at 3000 centrifuges for the year. The threat from Iran then, for time being, remains via nuclearized, "dirty bomb" or "suitcase bomb" random terror attacks. WIth FOOD-WORK RIOTS starting to occur in Iran, North Korea, and Cuba, etal. the motivation is there for both the Mullahs, etal. to intensify nucprogs dev before lose their grip on power, as well as to PC instigate new 9-11's against America in order to divert poitical and international attention. Since we all know the MSM and Socialist OWG-happy Dems-Lefties will blame Dubya, the GOP-Right, and America for everything anyways, regardless of merits, it behooves Dubya-America to attack Radical-controlled Iran while Iran's capability is still in [perceived]infancy. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-04-26 23:59 |
| #1 Palestinian police stopped two cars, one booby-trapped, from crashing their barrier at the Karni goods crossing from Gaza into Israel. There was a shoot-out with five terrorists. Presumably the terrorists were from the wrong "militant" group, but even so I am surprised the Palestinian police acted so decisively to stop them. The other attacks look like Al Qaeda (or associates) are continuing their little war against Egypt. It does seem as though bin Laden's speech was the trigger. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-04-26 14:38 |