The 2004 Sinai bombings were three bomb attacks targeting tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on October 7, 2004. The attacks killed 34 people and injured 171. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging, usually on a short-term basis. ... Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 The Sinai Peninsula (in Arabic, Shibh Jazirat Sina شبه جزيرة سيناء) is a triangle-shaped peninsula lying between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south), located in Egypt and has an area of... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The bombings

The explosions occurred on the night of October 7, against the Hilton Hotel in Taba and campsites used by Israelis in Ras al-Shitan. In the Taba attack, a truck drove into the lobby of the Taba Hilton and exploded, killing 31 people and wounding some 159 others. Ten floors of the hotel collapsed following the blast. Categories: Companies traded on NYSE | Corporation stubs | Fortune 500 companies | Hotels | Companies based in California ... A small Egyptian village near the northern tip of the Gulf of Eilat, Taba is the location of Egypts busiest border crossing with neighboring Israel. ...

Some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south, at campsites at Ras al-Shitan, near Nuweiba, two more bombings happened. A car parked in front of a restaurant at the Moon Island resort exploded, killing two Israelis and a Bedouin. Twelve were wounded. Another blast happened moments later, targeting the Baddiyah camp, but did not harm anyone because the bomber had apparently been scared off from entering the campground by a guard. Bedouin resting at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic badawi بدوي, a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and...

Of the dead, many were foreigners: 13 were from Israel, 2 from Italy, one from Russia, and one from the United States. The rest of the dead were believed to be Egyptian.

The investigation

According to the Egyptian government, the bombers were Palestinians who had tried to enter Israel to carry out attacks there but were unsuccessful. The mastermind, Iyad Saleh, recruited Egyptians and Bedouins to gain explosives to be used in the attacks. The Palestinian flag, adopted in 1948, is a widely recognized modern symbol of the Palestinian people. ...

Beginning in March 2004, the bombers used washing machine timers, mobile phones and modified gas cylinders to build the bombs. They used TNT and old explosives found in the Sinai (as it was many times a war zone), which were purchased from Bedouins, to complete the bombs. Washing machine may mean: a laundry-cleaning apparatus; an album by Sonic Youth. ... Gas cylinders are used to store compresed gases or compressed air. ... TNT is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, including: Trinitrotoluene, a chemical explosive. ...

Egypt has said that Saleh and one of his aides, Suleiman Ahmed Saleh Flayfil, died in the Hilton blast, apparently because the timer had run out too fast. Two Egyptians, Mohammed Gaber Sabbah and Mohammed Abdullah Rabaa, are on trial for the bombings. Others remain on the loose.

According to investigators, there is no strong link to al-Qaeda in the blasts. Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ...

Aftermath

Israel had warned in September 2004 that terrorists were planning attacks in the Sinai, but most Israelis did not heed those warnings and went on vacation there instead. To some, this made the attacks all the more tragic. Many Israelis left the Sinai after the bombings, along with some foreign tourists, but the effects on the country's tourism were not too severe. September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ...

Militants struck again at tourists in April 2005, killing 3 and wounding several. Resorts in Sharm el-Sheikh were bombed in a similar attack in July 2005. The April 2005 attacks were three related incidents that took place in the city of Cairo, Egypt, on 7 April and 30 April 2005. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Ongoing events • Iraqi legislative election • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • Tsunami relief • Cedar Revolution in Lebanon • Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan • German Visa Affair 2005 • Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Japan • Terri Schiavo controversy • Pope John Paul II... View of the Red Sea and Tiran Island from the Sheraton Sharm hotel Sharm el-Sheikh (شرم الشيخ, also transliterated as Sharm ash Shaykh), often known simply as Sharm, is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in Janub Sina, Egypt, on the coastal strip between the Red... Egypt On July 23, 2005 a series of attacks took place in the Egyptian resort arak|Mubarak]] government, and attacking foreigners including non-Muslims while hurting Egypts tourist trade was seen as serving both goals. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...