***Note: I moved this down the page because I'm too tired to keep up with developments. Mike, on the other hand, has got it goin on. Go Mike go!

(title hat tip to Aaron)

Nothing to see here, just another isolated incident.

CAIRO, Egypt — As many as seven explosions, including at least four car bombs, struck the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik early Saturday, hitting several hotels packed with foreign and Egyptian tourists and killing at least 36 people, witnesses and police said.

Saturday's explosions at 1:15 a.m. shook windows more than five miles away. Smoke and fire rose from Naama Bay, a main strip of beach hotels in the desert city popular with Israeli and European tourists, witnesses said.

At least four car bombs were used in the attacks, said a security official in the operations control room in Cairo monitoring the crisis. One went off in the driveway of the Ghazala Gardens hotel, a 176-room four-star resort on the main strip of hotels in Naama Bay, the official said.

Let's not be quick to judge, this could very well be the work of the CIA. greg will be happy to fill us in on the details, I'm sure.

***Update: Not to offend our English friends, but does anyone else notice the difference in coverage between this isolated incident and yesterday's isolated incident, or the isolated incident 2 weeks ago?

updated Fox website coverage (the channel is running this story as a crawl on the bottom of the screen, with a short mention every half hour)

Sharm el-Sheik, abutting the Red Sea on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, is a popular vacation spot for Europeans — including Britons — and Israelis.

Notice that the resort was popular with Israelis.

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