Saturday August 7, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

Egyptian police, secret service and army are conducting a massive man hunt in the Sinai desert. They are looking for terrorists and trucks used to launch a barrage of rockets that landed in Aqaba, Jordan and in Eilat, Israel.

The rockets were launched on Monday. One Jordanian was killed and three were wounded. The incoming explosives left no dead or injured in Israel. Now the United States has updates the State Department's travel warning recommendations and is advising Americans to stay away from Eilat.

Immediately after the rockets came flying Egypt declared that there was no possible way that they came from their territory. They claimed that US anti-terror and police teams swarm the area making it impossible for an attack to be launched. They were convinced only after Jordan delivered incontrovertible proof and evidence that the rockets were, indeed, launched from Egypt.

Now Egypt is in high gear and they have announced that the terrorists came from Gaza. Of course, these terrorists have not been sunbathing in Sinai for the past few days waiting to be caught.

This delay by Egypt was a classic element of Mid-East machismo. This time that machismo got in the way of apprehending terrorists and gathering intel on their operations.

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