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kamar · Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 10597

Is safe to travel in Egypt ?

By Daily Star Egypt staff
First Published: September 2, 2006

CAIRO: Egyptian police are searching for five suspected militants in Sinai, focusing on areas surrounding popular tourist resorts in the region and nearby Bedouin camps, security sources said.

The sources said police were checking laptops for explosive devices that they believed were brought into the area by militants posing as tourists.

Egypt's interior ministry had no details, but some police sources suggested the suspects were affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

Security has been tightened in both north and south Sinai and at the entrances and exits of towns. Police have distributed a list with the names, passport numbers and descriptions of the suspects to checkpoints and police stations, the sources said.

Egyptian police have concentrated on the Sinai area in its hunt for Islamic militants it suspects of involvement in bomb attacks targeting tourist resorts in recent years.

Both police and suspected militants have died in pitched gun battles in the vast mountainous region.

Israel warned its citizens against travel to Sinai on Tuesday, urging those already there to leave immediately.

Egyptian authorities have blamed a local group called Tawhid wal Jihad (One God and Jihad) for bombings and attacks in Sinai over the past two years that killed more than 80 people. Reuters

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2824

moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7683

Personally, I still feel Egypt is as safe (or safer) than most places in the world....it's definitely safer than Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow when the pubs come out :evil:

But the bottom line is, NOWHERE'S safe these days.......

Hoss · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 2539 Location: Cairo, Egypt

Nobody is ever safe in any spot of this earth...hidden in caves, bunkers, or high towers...Destiny will take its course whenever it is due...If one thinks of this he would live with peace of mind forever...

kamar · Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 10597

Maybe in less safe going in Rome :oops:

kamar · Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 10597

Maybe is safe to travel in Egypt but this news in going around in our nespapers and our TV.....

Launched by the authorities Egyptians: sought after 5 men of Ál Qaeda with explosive
Sinai: alarm made an attempt to Sharm and Dahab
From days Israel asks the reentry of the fellow countrymen in Egypt, warned also from Australia.

CAIRO - An alarm made an attempt in the tourist places of the Sinais has been launched by the Egyptian safety services. They are sought after five tied up men to Ál Qaeda that they would be organizing an attack to Sharm el-Sheik or to Dahab, already unfortunately theater of bloody massacres. The Egyptian press reveals it, according to which the wanted would be endowed with explosive. The Egyptian authorities have spread the photocopies of the false passports of the 5 activists suspected in all the set of block in the entrances of the tourist places in the south of the Sinai.

Alarm From Israel is Australia - Two days ago the person responsible of the office national antiterrorism of Israel, Danny Arditi, has allertato the Israelis in vacation in the Sinai, asking to immediately reenter in country for the tall risk of attacks in Egypt. Friday also the embassy of Australia has asked to the Australian citizens in Egypt to pay the maximum attention. Egyptian safety strengths are sieving the zone around Sharm and in the villages of the south of the Sinai. The general Harun Hassan, responsible for the safety in the region, has confirmed that the strengths of police have been mobilized and that in the zone the state remains of maximum allerta. The three attacks to Taba in October 2004, to Sharm in July of the past year and to Dahab in last April have provoked a total of 125 corpses and hundreds of wounded.
September 02 th 2006

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moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7683

kamar........to read UK newspapers, you'd think Britain was a hotbed of Muslim extremists plotting against every UK citizen, you'd never go out your door :roll:

I agree with Hoss, if I'm destined to die in Scotland, I'll die in Scotland, if I'm destined to die in Egypt, I'll die in Egypt........but I'm not going to let other people decide where I can go or can't go...and I still think Egypt's as safe as anywhere, and probably safer than most places.

kamar · Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 10597

My point was not where I will die but I was worried for another cause.
If newspapaer show these notices, I know people here will stop again to go in holiday in Sharm and I think yiou know Sharm start now to re-take to work, i know this from my Egy friend that heis living in Sharm and he is having a shop there and always he is saying me in Sharm there is not work, not too much tourists, a parta Agoust........

La La Land · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 71

moll wrote: Personally, I still feel Egypt is as safe (or safer) than most places in the world....it's definitely safer than Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow when the pubs come out :evil:

But the bottom line is, NOWHERE'S safe these days.......

Ditto..... Cairo & egypt as a whole is considered very safe

But as a woman i wouldnt be safe in Eid Downtown :lol:

Besides I shouldnt be afraid to go wherever I want...... "I shouldnt let fear rule me" (quoting a friend)

marwa-guide · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 14 Location: egypt-cairo

hi all

i miss u all do u still remmber me?

how r u kamar,moll and hoss

i have alot of work and so,then i faced some probleams but now it is ok and iam back

first i want to say that egypt my beautiful country is so safe u can wander as u want around without afraid from anything

cairo never sleep and its charm appear at night

i usually feel that is no safe country as egypt which is protect by its kind pepole who can help you without asking

i hope who didn`t visit it before to come soon

by the way i made my small web-site and i hope ti visit it

www.freewebs.com/marwa-egypt/

hope u like it , i put inside it some information about egypt plus some kinds of programe and many other service

waiting for ur visit and opinoin

see u soon
marwa

kamar · Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 10597

Hi Marwa, welcome back :lol: :lol: :lol:

Missed you on YE and I hope you will find a bit time for to write here :wink:

My compliments for you site Marwa, I saved it :wink: and to be ready because if I back in cairo, I'd like to visit El Fayoum, Alexandria, if is possible also Siwa, so.......to be ready for to give me good advices :wink:

I'll contact you time before I back :wink:

kamar · Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 10597

Marwaaaaaaaaa :lol: :lol: :lol:
I wrote the previous post without to read your travel programs :lol: but OMG.......really to be ready to meet me : you have what I'm looking for about Egypt
wowwwwwwww, I'm going crazy now you made my day

Yalla people : Kamar is ready for to back home

moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7683

Nice site, marwa 8)

Kind of made me feel like I'm overdue a visit to Luxor too :(

La La Land · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 71

moll wrote: Nice site, marwa 8)

Kind of made me feel like I'm overdue a visit to Luxor too :(

Hello, isnt it good to visit you? :lol:

:salut:

:smt054

moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7683

La La Land wrote:

Hello, isnt it good to visit you? :lol:

:salut:

:smt054

Hi, LaLaLand :smt052 nice to see you visiting :wink:

La La Land · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 71

moll wrote: La La Land wrote:

Hello, isnt it good to visit you? :lol:

:salut:

:smt054

Hi, LaLaLand :smt052 nice to see you visiting :wink:

Hi, i'm back here to say hello again :D

hehehehehehehehehe :lol: