83 dead.

Who will be first to blame Bush, Blair, and Iraq?

Joe Gandelman has an excellent round-up, as always, with reminders of al Qaeda’s longtime targeting of Egyptian tourism.

The Counterterrorism Blog also has comprehensive coverage. Andrew Cochran notes:

In looking for a motive, note that the trial of the October 2004 suspects is scheduled for July 24 – Xinhuanet story from July 2: “Egypt’s Supreme State Security Court on Saturday put off to July 24 trial of three suspects in connection with three bombings which rocked Sinai resorts last October, the official MENA news agency reported.” AFP story: “The trial of three men suspected of involvement in the October bombings opened on July 2 at the high state security court in Ismailiya, northeast of Cairo, and was due to resume on Sunday. One of the men is still at large and being tried in absentia.”

Austin Bay: “When will George Galloway and Teddy Kennedy admit Al Qaeda is at war with Arabs and Muslims as well as “the West?”

Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch:

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades: Azzam, along with Osama, was one of the founders of Al-Qaeda. I profile him, and his Qur’an- and Hadith-filled exhortations to Muslims to wage violent jihad, in Onward Muslim Soldiers. Clearly his murderous Islamic ideology is still winning recruits.

Ed Morrissey:

The media, especially the British media who keep haranguing Tony Blair about causing the London bombings as a price for liberating Iraq, need to start adding two plus two and quit getting three for an answer. AQ operations point to a long-term strategy of isolating and crippling Middle East governments that (a) oppose radical Wahhabism and (b) operate in a secular manner that maintains ties to the West, especially Israel. That is the scope of the war Islamists have fought for twenty years under different banners — Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and now al-Qaeda. They want to seize power by force, cast a Taliban-style tyranny over the entirety of Southwest Asia and North Africa (to start), and bring the infidel world to its knees through the control of petroleum.

Why, four years after 9/11, does the media and the Left still fail to grasp this? Could it be because acknowledging this fact requires a stark choice to either fight or surrender, and they would prefer to create a fantasy through sophistry to allow them to simply go AWOL instead?

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