[An Nahar] Bedouin men kidnapped two U.S. tourists and their guide in Egypt's lawless Sinai on Friday, police said, adding that they were demanding the release of a juggedDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
primitive in exchange for the hostages.
The Bedouin captured the American man and woman in the middle of the peninsula, where they were in a car with their Egyptian guide, almost a month after rustics briefly kidnapped a tourist from Singapore.
The Bedouin were demanding the release of a jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
primitive, the officials said, as Bedouin have done in increasingly frequent tourist kidnappings over the past year.
Two American tourists kidnapped near the Red Sea resort of Dahab in May were released after less than 24 hours in captivity.
All of the previous hostages have been released unhurt.
Bedouins living in the Sinai, where most of Egypt's luxury resorts are concentrated, had long been marginalized under the regime of Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
, and the security situation there has been tense since his ouster in February last year.