Subject: Israel-Egypt border post near Taba, Egypt (2001 file)
Date: Oct 08, 2004 @ 16:07
Author: Doug Murray (Doug Murray <doug@dougmurrayproductions.com>)
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> From the news wires:
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> Israeli, left, and Egyptian flags flutter in the wind at the border
> post
> between the two countries in this Sunday, Jan. 21, 2001 file photo
> taken out
> of the window of the Hilton hotel in the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt,
> approximately 100 meters from the crossing. Three explosions shook
> popular
> resorts on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Thursday night Oct. 7, 2004 as
> many
> Israelis vacationed at the close of a Jewish holiday. The first and
> largest
> blast shook the Hilton hotel in the Taba resort, only meters (yards)
> from
> the Israeli border. Two smaller blasts later struck the area of Ras
> Shitan,
> a camping area near the town of Nuweiba south of Taba, witnesses said.
> (AP
> Photo/Enric Marti)
> <<egypt-israel crossing.jpg>>
>