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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...
...explosions were powerful enough to register miles away. Diving instructor Craig Anderson was at a Bedouin village in the mountains four miles outside of town when he felt a strong jolt. "It gave me goosebumps," he said. Returning to Sharm El Sheikh, his day 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...
...part, Chilton swears he will not leave Sharm El Sheikh. "I mean, I could be in London, for God's sake...
...June 14, Dubai Crown Prince and United Arab Emirates Defence Minister His Royal Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum donated $13.6 million for the creation of the Maktoum-Harvard Library in Dubai Healthcare City...
...still continuing. Senior Pentagon officials told TIME that some of his most valuable confessions came not during the period covered in the log or as a result of any particular technique but when al-Qahtani was presented with evidence coughed up by others in detention, especially Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or KSM, the alleged mastermind of 9/11. The intelligence take was more cumulative than anything else, says a Pentagon official. Once al-Qahtani realized KSM was talking, the official speculates, al-Qahtani may have felt he had the green light to follow suit...