EGYPTIAN BLOGGER BIG PHARAOH has more on the terrorist bombings in Sharm-el-Sheikh.

Meanwhile, Robert Mayer emails:

Just an observation. Most bombings, even going back to 9/11, seem targeted directly at tourism. Especially in the Middle East, though. Tourism is one of the easiest industries for a country to develop, and development leads to outside influence, liberalization, and reform. It looks like the terrorists are heading off capitalism right where it’s taking off.

Yes. It’s part of their overall plan to keep their own people poor and ignorant.

UPDATE: Sean Fitzpatrick auditions for a job with the BBC:

I didn’t know Egypt had troops in Iraq. Otherwise, why would the terrorists target them?

Heh. Why, indeed?

ANOTHER UPDATE: John Pilger’s sentiments are predictable.

MORE: Here’s an analysis by Dan Darling that’s worth reading.

And Austin Bay asks: “When will George Galloway and Teddy Kennedy admit Al Qaeda is at war with Arabs and Muslims as well as ‘the West?'”

STILL MORE: Don’t miss Noah Shachtman’s bomb-blogging from Iraq: “[T]he networks aren’t very good at conveying the subtle shades of danger in a place like this. Either they lead, big, with a new act of carnage – or they bury the news from here at the end of the broadcast. That leaves the impression that all of Iraq is in flames, all of the time. Which is just plain wrong.”

And there’s more Egyptian blogging here. And scroll up from that post for updates.