Cairo, Red Sea Attacks Deal New Blows To Egypt

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

Armed men shot dead a police officer and a soldier in their car on the outskirts of Cairo on Saturday, Egypt's state news agency said, a day after suspected militants armed with knives wounded three European tourists in a Red Sea resort.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Cairo attack in a statement posted on messaging service Telegram.

Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said the government would announce additional security measures to safeguard tourists after Friday's attack, which wounded two Austrians and a Swede in the resort of Hurghada.

Tourism is critical to the Egyptian economy as a source of hard currency, but has been ravaged by years of political turmoil since the revolution that ousted veteran president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-security-idUSKBN0UM26S20160109

[On the Road]

1. I Have Been to Morocco and Turkey

but I don't think I would go to Egypt right now, or for that matter anywhere in the Arab world. It is too bad because it hurts the regular people the most.