Israelis warned over Sinai
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
May 9, 2006
Israeli tourists were urged to leave Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula for fear they could be kidnapped.
The Israeli government’s Counter-Terrorism Unit issued an advisory Monday against travel to Egyptian Red Sea resorts, citing “concrete” intelligence warnings of a terrorist plot to abduct Israelis.
The number of Israelis vacationing in the Sinai has dropped off sharply since the area became a target for Islamist suicide bombers over the past two years, but a hardcore group of travel afficionados remains loyal.
Israeli border officials reported that, as of noon Tuesday, no Israelis had returned from Sinai.
But they allowed that word of the travel advisory may not yet have reached the remote Red Sea resorts.
May 9, 2006
Israeli tourists were urged to leave Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula for fear they could be kidnapped.
The Israeli government’s Counter-Terrorism Unit issued an advisory Monday against travel to Egyptian Red Sea resorts, citing “concrete” intelligence warnings of a terrorist plot to abduct Israelis.
The number of Israelis vacationing in the Sinai has dropped off sharply since the area became a target for Islamist suicide bombers over the past two years, but a hardcore group of travel afficionados remains loyal.
Israeli border officials reported that, as of noon Tuesday, no Israelis had returned from Sinai.
But they allowed that word of the travel advisory may not yet have reached the remote Red Sea resorts.
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