Case file
1996 Cairo shooting
A mass shooting outside a Cairo hotel in 1996 killed 18 people, including 17 Greek tourists, and was claimed by Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya. In 2020, and still as of October 6, 2023, the opening described the perpetrator group as "The Egyptian Sunni jihadist group." Today's opening names Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya as the group claiming responsibility but drops the word "jihadist" entirely; it appears nowhere in the article. A reader today learns which group claimed the attack but not that Wikipedia once described it as a jihadist organization.
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1996, four Islamists carried out a mass shooting against a group of 88 Greek tourists outside the Europa Hotel in Cairo , Egypt . Eighteen people were killed - 17 Greek tourists and one Egyptian . The victims were outside the hotel, about to board a bus to Alexandria . Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that they thought the tourists were Israelis . The Egyptian Sunni jihadist group carried out attacks in the 1990s, some of which targeted tourists.1 Greek tourists killed by Egyptian gunmen Gunmen in Egypt kill 18 in attack at tourist hotel2
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“jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today it appears nowhere in the article, references included. Read the current article and compare.
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| jihad | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| islamist | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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