Israel Attack Hints Egypt Has Wider Militancy Problem -- Reuters
(Reuters) - When they left their village north of Cairo on August 27, Ahmed Waguih and Bahaa Zaqzouq told their families they were going on holiday. A few weeks later and hundreds of miles away, the cousins were killed mounting a cross-border raid into Israel.
Bahaa, 26, had for years spoken of his wish to die "a martyr". But Ahmed loved life, recalled his father, Waguih Ibrahim who is struggling to comprehend how the mild-mannered 28-year-old abandoned his two infant daughters and wife for a suicide mission at the distant Sinai border.
"I just don't understand this fundamental, quick transformation," he said during an interview at the family home in Mit Khaqan, a hamlet in the Nile Delta. "Who transformed this young man and led him to this?"
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My Comment: One of the militants killed in this attack never left his town until the attack, leaving behind a young wife and two daughters and no explanation on why he decided to participate in an attack against a foe (Israel) that he had never encountered before in his life. This is not only a terrible waste .... but Reuters is right .... this attack reveals that Egypt does have a militancy problem that is probably going to get a lot of young men killed.
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