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Sharm El Sheikh is an upscale luxury resort town sandwiched between the desert mountains of Sinai and the white sandy beaches of the Red Sea coast, lined with hotels, restaurants, bars, and dive shops that cater to a mostly European, Israeli and Egyptian clientele. It?s a place where people go for fun and some of the best diving in the world and last night at least 90 of them were slaughtered in three bomb attacks that also wounded more than...
...became even stranger when he was waved over by security officials. They asked if he would like his picture taken with Hosni Mubarak, who had come to town that morning to inspect the damage. "It was bizarre," Anderson said, showing off a mobile phone photo of himself with the Egyptian President. "Like a comedy, but terrible...
...Mubarak was there in part to reassure tourists, who many worry will now avoid the area. Some tourists could be seen dragging their luggage and belongings in the streets which had been closed by police, desperate to leave as soon as possible. Khaled Barakat, the Egyptian manager of a water sports shop, stood dazed and staring past a police cordon at the remains of the marketplace strewn with glass, burned rubber and car parts. "It's shock," he said. "I've been living here 15 years and I can't believe it." He said he worries the pristine resort town...
...biggest police investigation in British history has already unearthed a number of links between the bombers and al-Qaeda, which counterterrorism officials fear may have other cells standing by. Police and intelligence services around the world have joined the hunt. On Friday, Egyptian authorities detained Magdy el-Nashar, a biochemist trained at Leeds University who left Britain at least a week before the attacks; he may have had contacts with the Leeds bombers, though he denies having any involvement in the plot...
...important than the everyday chats in mosques and youth clubs. "That atrocity broke our hearts," says Mohammed Kozbar, spokesman for the North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park. "I've been shocked and surprised by the news that these young people are British Muslims." Until early 2003, the radical Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was the imam at Finsbury Park, reeling in enthusiastic young followers with his fiery sermons. Now Abu Hamza is awaiting trial on charges that include stirring racial hatred, and a gentler brand of Islam is drawing people back to the mosque. "We have...