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BREAKING NEWS: Holiday hotspot in Mali is stormed by gunman who have 'taken hostages in resort
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 6/18/17 | Paddy Dinham

Posted on 06/18/2017 11:40:57 AM PDT by ColdOne

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To: Cowboy Bob

“Why would anyone travel to Africa on vacation when there are so many nice beaches in Europe? “

Less chance of being run over by Trucks of Peace?


21 posted on 06/18/2017 12:06:48 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: ColdOne

Mali = 95% Muslim


22 posted on 06/18/2017 12:08:29 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: ColdOne

Boring who cares?


23 posted on 06/18/2017 12:14:58 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ColdOne
An African holiday resort popular with Western tourists has reportedly been stormed by gunmen

I guess Club Med Haiti was full?

24 posted on 06/18/2017 12:19:18 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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25 posted on 06/18/2017 12:20:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: ColdOne

If Detroit had nice beaches, I’d not holiday there either.


26 posted on 06/18/2017 12:22:10 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Cowboy Bob

‘Why would anyone travel to Africa on vacation when there are so many nice beaches in Europe?”

We have Italian extended family who own vacation homes in Kenya on the Indian Ocean. We’ve never been there, but the pictures they’ve shown us are beautiful.


27 posted on 06/18/2017 12:23:19 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Cowboy Bob

There are nice beaches in America.


28 posted on 06/18/2017 12:25:03 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: DJ Taylor

“Nor anything else a tourist might be interested in...”

Timbuktu is there, and Bamoko has a very old library, and there are several famous musicians from there.....

But, yes.


29 posted on 06/18/2017 12:26:29 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: ColdOne

How many rolling heads will there be this time?


30 posted on 06/18/2017 12:27:57 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear
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Why would anyone travel to Africa on vacation when there are so many nice beaches in Europe?

There are plenty of red states with nice beaches. Why not vacation in one of them, and support the economies of the states that helped get President Trump elected?

31 posted on 06/18/2017 12:29:25 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: ColdOne

I thought everyone vacationed in Timbuktu.


32 posted on 06/18/2017 12:31:30 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: House Atreides

It may be a destination for “sex ferien” where men and women go from Europe to use sex slaves of either gender.


33 posted on 06/18/2017 12:31:56 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ColdOne
BREAKING NEWS: Holiday hotspot in Mali is stormed by gunman who have 'taken hostages in resort

Isn't "holiday," resort," and "mali" in the same sentence one of a set of criminal oxymorons?

34 posted on 06/18/2017 12:34:58 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: ColdOne

Per Twitter so far 2 dead, possibly one a french officer and 20 hostages are released.

#Mali

The U.N. is assisting.

Run!!!


35 posted on 06/18/2017 12:37:20 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: VanShuyten
"Timbuktu is there..."

That brought back a memory or two.

The first job offer I got when I retired in 1989 after thirty years in the Army was in Mali, and, not knowing much about Mali, I asked, "In reference to Timbuktu, where is the job site?" The valuable lesson I learned right there was if you have to reference Timbuktu to locate a job site, don't take that job.

Mali now tops the list of places I've been that I will never go back.

36 posted on 06/18/2017 12:37:54 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: BenLurkin

It looks like a dump.


37 posted on 06/18/2017 12:41:31 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Jim Noble
I guess Club Med Haiti was full?

No.
But Club Med Gaza was...

38 posted on 06/18/2017 12:42:35 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

> Why would anyone travel to Africa on vacation when there are so many nice beaches in Europe?

Because the African ones are generally safer now thanks to the rapefulgess in Europe? Just guessing.

Actually a lot of African resorts cater to unmarried and unattractive middle aged European women who are looking for a gigolo for a few weeks. The UK press does stories on it every once in a while.


39 posted on 06/18/2017 12:46:27 PM PDT by JohnyBoy
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Timbuktu is there, and Bamoko has a very old library, and there are several famous musicians from there.....

Since it is impossible for Arabic to be a native African language and, since ALL libraries with any significant content of universal interest are mostly in Arabic, it would be of no interest to most Europeans and tourists from other continents.

Any tourisms (euphemism) are likely to be koranimals. With AK47s...

40 posted on 06/18/2017 12:54:14 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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