Your 'cave of darkness' and the promise to cut our troops communication off from us.
How did they foul up the servers that were messed up this past week?
I was waiting for news of it, as my Yahoo email accounts would barely work for the past week.
Some place I read about trouble in Denver, that affected the servers, way over my head, so I don't know what I read now, but Yahoo is much better.
Assuit has traditionally been a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt. I found this interesting.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAW9HK07RD.html Gunmen Threatens to Kill Hostages, Four Police Wounded in Shootout
The Associated Press
Published: Feb 27, 2004
ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) - A clan leader who is holding scores of hostages southern Egyptian town threatened Friday to kill them if police attempt a resuce.
Izzat Mohammed Hamid said his band of about 50 men held hundreds of hostages, but police put the figure at closer to 80.
The band seized the hostages during a shootout Friday with authorities who had been trying to arrest fugitives wanted for drug trafficking and other crimes. Police said four police were wounded.
Hamid said his hostages included women, children and several Coptic Christians. He warned police not to try to end the siege by force.
"If we die, then they will die with us," Hamid said of the hostages in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Some 3,000 police officers and 100 armored vehicles were sent to Nakhilah, about 200 miles south of Cairo. The town has long been considered a center for illicit trade in arms and drugs.
AP-ES-02-27-04 2025EST