Open Sharm al-Sheikh thread
Feel free to comment on the latest bombing in Egypt here. I do not have anything to add that I haven’t already said in this post from late 2002. UPDATE: OK, two more things I can say, or rather link. First, this Washington Post story by Craig Whitlock suggests that the central Al Qaeda leadership ...
Feel free to comment on the latest bombing in Egypt here. I do not have anything to add that I haven't already said in this post from late 2002. UPDATE: OK, two more things I can say, or rather link. First, this Washington Post story by Craig Whitlock suggests that the central Al Qaeda leadership has more direct control over the timing and location of terrorist attacks than the "franchise" model of Al Qaeda has suggested to date. Second, is it my imagination or does this Canada TV story suggest Hosni Mubarak has seen Casablanca one too many times?:
Feel free to comment on the latest bombing in Egypt here. I do not have anything to add that I haven’t already said in this post from late 2002. UPDATE: OK, two more things I can say, or rather link. First, this Washington Post story by Craig Whitlock suggests that the central Al Qaeda leadership has more direct control over the timing and location of terrorist attacks than the “franchise” model of Al Qaeda has suggested to date. Second, is it my imagination or does this Canada TV story suggest Hosni Mubarak has seen Casablanca one too many times?:
Egyptian security forces have detained 70 people following Saturday’s bomb blasts that killed at least 88 people. The roundups came after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak vowed to hunt down the terrorists behind a series of coordinated bombings in a popular Egyptian Red Sea resort. But none have been yet been accused of involvement in Egypt’s deadliest-ever terror attack, officials said. The police investigation appeared to be similar to the one that followed last October’s attacks at the Sinai resorts of Tabas and Ras Shitan, when 3,000 people were detained.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Interesting…. this New York Times story by Elaine Sciolino and Don Van Natta Jr. cuts against the Whitlock story in the Post. One intelligence official is quoted as saying, “Al Qaeda is finished. But there is Al Qaedaism. This is a powerful ideology that drives local groups to do what they think Osama bin Laden wants.”
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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