The egyptian government isn't going to allow tourists to get killed by anyone? I assume then, you're ignoring the several terrorist incidents involving murders of tourists, in recent years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sharm_el-Sheikh_attacks 88 killed, 200 wounded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Dahab_bombings 23 killed 80 wounded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Sinai_bombings 34 killed, 171 wounded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1997_Luxor_massacre 63 killed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2005_terrorist_attacks_in_Cairo (actually 3 seperate incidents.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_bus_crash was an intentional ramming of an Israeli bus.
We have an entire page on terrorism in Egypt and a category. You really think the Egyptian government controls what terrorists do? That's why they're criminals: they don't care about the law.
-Dan
On Feb 23, 2008, at 12:46 PM, geni wrote:
On 23/02/2008, Ben McIlwain cydeweys@gmail.com wrote:
Sweet Christ, can anyone remind me how in the hell we ever decided on Egypt in the first place? Was that when the probability of being killed by terrorists was equally rated with the desire to not host Wikimania on the same continent two years in a row?
The Egyptian government is not going to allow tourists to get killed by anyone. Have you any idea what it would do to their economy?
Face it, Egypt shares very little of the same values that we do (especially the whole "not censored" part). There is a significant chance of violent protests breaking out, potentially bringing harm to our conference and our participants.
In Egypt? Peaceful protests maybe. Wahhabism hasn't really caught on in the Egyptian population and the government doesn't exactly support it's growth.
Torino doesn't look so bad anymore, huh?
Because of course wikipedia has never done anything to upset the mafia or the red brigade. -- geni
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