An al-Qaeda-linked group posted a web video on Sunday showing the graphic killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. The one-and-a-half-minute video, posted on an Islamic website, shows two blindfolded men beheaded and the shooting of a third man.
This week’s bombings in Sinai are linked to the terror attacks in the peninsula’s resorts of Sharm el-Sheik last year and Taba in 2004, Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el-Adly said on Wednesday. ”The information we have indicates that [the perpetrators] are Sinai Bedouin,” el-Adly told state television.
A demonstration on Sunday to commemorate the second anniversary of the war on Iraq turned into a vocal stand-off between hundreds of supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. It was the first appearance by pro-Mubarak demonstrators in months of anti-government protests.
One wished him well, while another wished him a fate similar to what he allegedly bestowed upon hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. As former dictator Saddam Hussein appeared in court on Thursday, some of the 25-million people who spent the better part of their lives under his authority voiced mixed emotions about the proceedings.