Egypt: Terrorism: Sharm el Sheikh joins London, Madrid, Bali, New York's Twin Towers - yet schedules elections for Sept 7

Jonathan Wright reports in Yahoo!News, July 24, 2005, that Egypt has gone ahead and scheduled its upcoming presidential elections for September 7, apparently come hell or hi water.

On-the-scene coverage by BBC News (July 25) of the terrorist attack in Sharm el Sheikh can be found under the title,Egypt investigates resort attacks at Sharm el Sheikh.

The two stories are fused into a third on the rise of a significant trend in publicy opinion, in which Egyptians are perceived as rising against both terrorism and state bullying, but not putting the emphasis right now on the serious shortcomings of the Murbarak regime, as much as on the terrorists who would stop democratic development in its tracks and give a massive excuse to represssion by the state out of its fear of violent anarchy. See Egypt unites against bombers, by Donald Macintyre in Sharm el Sheikh, The Independent London UK, July 25, 2005.