Freed Tourist: ‘At a Certain Point We Thought it Was All Over’

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  09.30.08 | 3:22 PM ET

So says one of the 11 European tourists kidnapped at gunpoint in the Gilf al-Kebir region of Egypt and finally freed Monday. Remarked one of the Egyptian guides who was also kidnapped: “They told all the Egyptians to stand in one line and they cocked their weapons, and at that moment we thought we were dead.” As we noted yesterday, the Christian Science Monitor reports that the kidnapping “highlights new risks for adventure tourists in the western Egyptian desert due to the instability in neighboring Chad and Sudan.”



1 Comment for Freed Tourist: ‘At a Certain Point We Thought it Was All Over’

Midnight Breakfast 10.01.08 | 5:38 AM ET

But it was “adventure tourism.”

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