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Saudis: 107 dead in crane collapse at Mecca's Grand Mosque
AP ^
| 9/11/15
| Abdullah Al-Shihri and Adam Schreck
Posted on 09/11/2015 7:03:25 PM PDT by markomalley
Edited on 09/11/2015 7:04:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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A towering construction crane toppled over on Friday during a violent rainstorm in the Saudi city of Mecca, Islam's holiest site, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing at least 107 people ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage later this month.
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To: Flycatcher
OMGOSH...ROFLMAO...I just spit coffee all over the place...
That was a GEM of a reply!!!!
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:15:34 PM PDT
by
HarleyLady27
("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
To: markomalley
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:15:46 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
To: bigredkitty1
Would that be the drink or a tool you used to loosen the screws in a certain crane?
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:16:18 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: markomalley
Getting a head start on the annual hajj stampede?
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:17:02 PM PDT
by
Loyalist
(Who whom?)
To: Secret Agent Man
"15 million more cranes like this would be awesome"Now that there's funny, I don't care who you are!
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:17:05 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
To: lee martell
I’m trying to picture in my head how this could happen. They must have been crowded toe to toe in some large room
They were probably on their prayer rugs.
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:18:57 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.bama and Hitlery are simply Evil.)
To: 11th_VA
God’s hand because of 9/11?
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:19:39 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
(Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:20:15 PM PDT
by
Tudorfly
(All things are possible within the will of God.)
To: markomalley
What happens when you put complex machinery in the hands of Stone-Agers better suited to handling camels...
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:20:44 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
To: markomalley
So its a better start than I originally thought.
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:22:29 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: markomalley
Too bad it’s not 107 million., /s
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:24:37 PM PDT
by
babygene
(I'm one of the 9.4 million War Heroes that served during the Vietnam war..../s)
To: Redbob
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:25:03 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: markomalley
The Borg is saddened.........
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:26:04 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
( On a Septic Tank Truck: Yesterday's Meals on Wheels)
To: Flycatcher
WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CRANE?!
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:28:44 PM PDT
by
corlorde
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To: corlorde
No kidding. Its a shame to waste an expensive piece of machinery like that.
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:29:31 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: markomalley
“And those on whom the tower of Siloam fell, were they worse sinners than all the other residents of Jerusalem? I tell you, unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:31:39 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I want to live my cat's life.)
To: LeoWindhorse
That stone has long been stolen by completing Caliphs. That Mecca is a,whore.
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:31:45 PM PDT
by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
To: Stepan12
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posted on
09/11/2015 7:31:51 PM PDT
by
madison10
(If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
To: cripplecreek
I wonder if the crane has, “made in Israel” on it..
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09/11/2015 7:31:59 PM PDT
by
corlorde
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To: madison10
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09/11/2015 7:33:07 PM PDT
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