Unknown group claims responsibility for Taba blast

JERUSALEM, Oct 8 (AFP) - The deadly blast at the Hilton hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Taba on the border with Israel late Thursday was claimed by the previously unknown "World Islamist Group", in a telephone call to AFP here.
"Jamaa Al-Islamiya Al-Alamiya (World Islamist Group) claims responsibility for the explosion at the Taba hotel, carried out in revenge for the Palestinian and Arab martyrs dying in Palestine and Iraq," the caller said.