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...haven't entirely stopped (a member of the city council was found hanged in his jail cell last year after being arrested for alleged extortion), but these days cranes rather than guns are a more apt symbol of Yekaterinburg. Office and apartment blocks are springing up. There's an Egyptian-themed bowling alley, a Scottish pub where the barmen wear kilts, a chain of eight fast-food restaurants called McPeak (which McDonald's considered buying), countless sushi bars and a huge German cash-and-carry hypermarket near the airport. "It used to be hard to get credit, but now banks...
...laid-back Red Sea resort famous for its scuba divers and hippies. But terrorists broke up the party last week, setting off three explosions along Dahab's beachside promenade, killing 18 people, including four foreigners. Two days later, two suicide bombers attacked an international peacekeeping base and an Egyptian police vehicle in the northern Sinai peninsula but killed only themselves. The Dahab attacks - the third major strike on Red Sea resorts in the past 18 months - came as President Hosni Mubarak prepared to welcome political and business leaders to Egypt for a World Economic Forum gathering later this month...
...Dahab, a laid-back Red Sea resort famous for its scuba divers and hippies. But terrorists crashed the party last week, setting off three explosions along Dahab's beachside promenade, killing 18 people, including four foreigners. Two days later, two suicide bombers attacked an international peacekeeping base and an Egyptian police vehicle in the northern Sinai peninsula but killed only themselves...
...Unlike those attacks, the Dahab blasts did not spark a mass exodus of tourists from the Sinai. But some Egyptians were worried that the latest terror spree may cause future holiday cancellations. "We were just waiting for the season to begin, and now this happens," said Tareq Ibrahim, 33, an Egyptian masseur, as he stood on the promenade watching the cleanup effort. "The terrorists want to kill tourism in Egypt...
...harder to maintain a following precisely in those places where local Islamist insurgencies should provide the most fertile ground. A videotape purporting to show Zarqawi musing on the state of the Iraqi insurgency surfaced on a jihadist web site on Tuesday, a day after a terror attack on the Egyptian resort town of Dahab killed at least 23 people and two days after the release of an Osama bin Laden audiotape urging attacks on Western civilians in defense of the Palestinians, among others. All three events show the growing distance between the "global jihadists" of al-Qaeda and the local...