I think people realize why Egypt's tourist industry is in the dumps. This was a big money maker for them.
Tourists hunted through the ruins on the day Egypts Islamist menace shocked the world
JUNE 27, 2014
IT was a day of excitement and wonder that turned to horror in the flash of a gun.
Scores of tourists marvelling at awe-inspiring ruins of Luxor, in Egypt, were ambushed by Islamic terrorists.
In the space of 45 minutes, a mere six attackers hunted down and butchered 62 people as they cowered among the ancient temple walls.
The killers, screaming Allah Akbar (God is Great), used guns and machetes, their victims 58 foreign visitors and four locals ranging from children to pensioners.
Some survivors said young women were first sexually assaulted; others that victims bodies were mutilated.
The massacre was in November 1997, four years before the world learned to fear the names of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Continue reading at:
http://www.news.com.au/world/touris...hocked-the-world/story-fndir2ev-1226967570975
Tourists hunted through the ruins on the day Egypts Islamist menace shocked the world
JUNE 27, 2014
IT was a day of excitement and wonder that turned to horror in the flash of a gun.
Scores of tourists marvelling at awe-inspiring ruins of Luxor, in Egypt, were ambushed by Islamic terrorists.
In the space of 45 minutes, a mere six attackers hunted down and butchered 62 people as they cowered among the ancient temple walls.
The killers, screaming Allah Akbar (God is Great), used guns and machetes, their victims 58 foreign visitors and four locals ranging from children to pensioners.
Some survivors said young women were first sexually assaulted; others that victims bodies were mutilated.
The massacre was in November 1997, four years before the world learned to fear the names of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Continue reading at:
http://www.news.com.au/world/touris...hocked-the-world/story-fndir2ev-1226967570975
