If you will go to http://www.goredsea.com/EN_taba.aspx and click on the "Street
Map" image toward the lower right, you will get a Macromedia Flash map of Taba.
Click the map in the "Downtown" area for a larger-scale map. Number 1 on that
map is the Hilton Hotel. It is almost immediately adjacent to the boundary.
Someone recently posted a photo of the border checkpoints that was taken from
the top of the hotel. At the time of the arbitration, the Israelis were said to
have built the Sonesta Hotel in the disputed area. It is not shown on this map,
so how it relates to the Hilton is unclear.

The two places besides the Hilton that were bombed have been described as
"farther down the coast," so they were probably not within the formerly disputed
area.

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arif Samad" <fHoiberg@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 8:04 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Taba query

>
> This is slightly off topic but I thought this was the
> best place to ask the question.
> In the newspaper articles I read on the terrorist
> attacks, they always mention that Sinai was returned
> by Israel to Egypt in 1982. That got me to thinking.
> Taba border strip was an area less than a square mile
> that was returned in 1989. Does anybody know if the
> places that were attacked last week were in the
> one-time disputed area or not?
> Also, when I went to Ireland this year, I crossed into
> NI on a bridge over a river. I now want to collect a
> list of divided bridge on rivers not near the sea.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Arif
>
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