On the serious side, this is by far not the first attack on tourists in the Islamic world.
1997: about 60 killed in Luxor (Egypt)
2001: suicide fire-bomber waits until German tourist group enters synagogue in Djerba (Tunesia) and kills more than a dozen.

But not only the tourists are targets, they only get more press coverage over here.
3.1.1998: 413 killed by islamic fundamentalists in a night long massacre in three villages in the west of Algeria.

Wolfgang