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Egypt to monitor tourist sites
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 09 - 10 - 2013

CAIRO – Egypt may install security cameras at tourist sites to deter militants from targeting visitors, the Interior Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, just hours after suspected militants mounted another fatal attack on police.
“There's a security plan in place in tourist areas that will maintain stability in these areas and there is complete coordination,” said the spokesman, Hany Abdel Latif.
“We expected all these problems because we are in a war against terrorism,” he said without elaborating.
Al Qaeda-inspired militants have targeted police and soldiers almost daily in the Sinai Peninsula since the army toppled Mohamed Morsi in early July.
The attacks are the most sustained since an insurgency that was crushed by then-President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s, when militants killed tourists, government officials and policemen. A total of about 1,200 people died on both sides.
Gunmen killed a police officer and wounded another in the Suez Canal city of Port Said on Tuesday, security sources said. The police were guarding a customs office south of the city.
Political turmoil and bouts of violence have hammered the tourism industry, a traditional pillar of Egypt's economy and a main source of foreign currency, since Mubarak's fall in 2011.
Militant attacks have multiplied since the military ousted Morsi on July 3, raising concerns in the West that it is no longer safe to visit Egypt's pyramids, bazaars and beaches.
Tourism earned Egypt $9.75 billion in the 2012-13 fiscal year, compared with $11.6 billion in 2009-10.
The economy is expected to grow by 2.6 percent in the fiscal year ending June 2014, according to a Reuters poll this month, well below the 3.5 percent the government expects to achieve.
In several years preceding the 2011 uprising against Mubarak, the economy grew at about 7 percent annually.
Attacks by militants in the Sinai have killed more than 100 members of the security forces since early July, the army spokesman said on Sept. 15.
Security forces killed hundreds of pro-Morsi protesters in Cairo in August and then arrested many of the Brotherhood's top leaders in an attempt to cripple the movement.
Though the Brotherhood, which renounced violence decades ago, has been weakened, Islamist groups which sympathize with it show no signs of giving up protests against Morsi's ouster. – Reuters


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