The 1990 Cairo bus attack killed nine Israeli tourists in an assault partly claimed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. As of October 6, 2023 the opening's descriptor line read "Terrorist attack on Israeli tourists in Cairo," calling it a terrorist attack. Today's descriptor reads "Military attack in Egypt," though terror survives six times in the body. A reader today does not learn that Wikipedia's own opening once labeled this a terrorist attack rather than a military attack.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “terror” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 6.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Terrorist attack on Israeli tourists in Cairo The Cairo bus attack was a terrorist attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Cairo , Egypt that occurred on February 4, 1990.1 The attack was claimed by two groups, an unknown group calling itself the 'Organisation for the Defense of the Oppressed of Egypts Prisons' which claimed to have done it to protest the torture in Egyptian prisons, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad . Nine Israeli civilians were killed and 17 more were wounded with automatic fire and hand grenades. The attack was the worst on Israelis in Egypt since the two countries signed a peace agreement in 1979. Israel's minister Ariel Sharon said the Palestine Liberation Organisation was behind the attack. Later, the Egyptian government announced that the attack had been plotted abroad and carried out by non-Egyptians.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
The Cairo bus attack was a terrorist attack that occurred on February 4, 1990. The attack was claimed by two groups, an unknown group calling itself the 'Organisation for the Defense of the Oppressed of Egypts Prisons' which claimed to have done it to protest the torture in Egyptian prisons, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad . Nine Israeli civilians were killed and 17 more were wounded with automatic fire and hand grenades. The attack was the worst on Israelis in Egypt since the two countries signed a peace agreement in 1979. Israel's minister Ariel Sharon said the Palestine Liberation Organisation was behind the attack. Later, the Egyptian Government announced that the attack had been plotted abroad and carried out by non- Egyptians.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Military attack in Egypt The Cairo bus attack was an attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Cairo , Egypt that occurred on February 4, 1990. The assault was claimed by two groups, an unknown group calling itself the 'Organisation for the Defense of the Oppressed of Egypts Prisons' which claimed to have done it to protest the torture in Egyptian prisons, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad . Nine Israeli civilians were killed and 17 more were wounded with automatic fire and hand grenades. The attack was the worst on Israelis in Egypt since the two countries signed a peace agreement in 1979. Israel's minister Ariel Sharon said the Palestine Liberation Organisation was behind the attack. Later, the Egyptian government announced that the attack had been plotted abroad and carried out by non-Egyptians.
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Today
“terror” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 6. Read the current article and compare.
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Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
Where the word went
It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
“terror” now appears 1× under Aftermath, 67% of the way down the article
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