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Ten die in Amsterdam airport fire
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| October 26, 2005
| BBC
Posted on 10/26/2005 8:10:41 PM PDT by Heatseeker
At least 10 people have died, and 15 are injured and in hospital, after a fire set buildings ablaze at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
The blaze broke out soon after midnight in a detention centre at the airport, the main air hub of the Netherlands.
The Dutch news agency ANP reported that it was not contained for several hours, and said the death toll could rise. The building where the fire started houses people who are awaiting deportation from the Netherlands.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airport; airportfire; airportsecurity; amsterdam; deathtoll; holland; netherlands; schiphol
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Pull if aduplicate.
To: Heatseeker
2
posted on
10/26/2005 8:12:11 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: Heatseeker
Was one of them a Van der Sloot ?
3
posted on
10/26/2005 8:12:26 PM PDT
by
af_vet_1981
(I support the President you are betraying. You hate Bush more than you love America.)
To: Heatseeker
4
posted on
10/26/2005 8:14:15 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: af_vet_1981
I hope not, I want him to suffer.
5
posted on
10/26/2005 8:15:50 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: F14 Pilot
"hmmmm... smells bad"
Yep, like the stench of a diaper head.
6
posted on
10/26/2005 8:17:27 PM PDT
by
Adiemus
To: Heatseeker
Well, that's ONE way to get rid of a Nation's undesireables.
7
posted on
10/26/2005 8:18:41 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Heatseeker
Even money that Islamanazis awaiting deportation started the fire.
Semper Fi
8
posted on
10/26/2005 8:19:07 PM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: cripplecreek
The BBC says the fire broke out "shortly after midnight" (local time one presumes) and it's now past 5 AM there, yet there is nothing about it I can find on the net or on Radio Netherlands. Strange.
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posted on
10/26/2005 8:19:10 PM PDT
by
Heatseeker
("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
I wonder if any of their peaceful muslim population was involved in this?
To: SmoothTalker; Chieftain
Whoa...hold these comments.
This was obviously an accidental fire started by a religious exercise conducted by the Religion of Peace!
Quick, call the ACLU and the UN to make sure the fire starters religious rights weren't violated!
To: SmoothTalker
De Telegraaf says it was mostly druggies and what Babelfish translated as "resistance workers", whatever that is.
www.telegraaf.nl
12
posted on
10/26/2005 8:29:08 PM PDT
by
Heatseeker
("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
To: Heatseeker
Schiphol and Belfast. My two favorite airports.
I'm a sucker for sub-machine guns.
To: Heatseeker
That is a huge and very nice airport.
Flew in and from it some yrs ago.
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posted on
10/26/2005 8:33:00 PM PDT
by
SoCalPol
(I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!)
To: river rat
From
Radio Netherlands web site's English news page:
10 die in Dutch airport blaze
At least ten people have died and 15 people have been injured in a fire in prison cells at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. Guards and customs officials were among the injured. The fire broke out shortly after midnight and spread rapidly. It is not yet known what caused the blaze, which was brought under control just after three o'clock.
The cells housed mainly drugs smugglers, illegal immigrants and people refused entry to the Netherlands. There were 43 inmates in the part of the building which caught fire. Some prisoners have been taken to jails in Rotterdam and Zeist: no prisoners appear to have escaped during the incident.
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posted on
10/26/2005 8:33:07 PM PDT
by
Heatseeker
("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
To: Heatseeker
"resistance workers", whatever that is.Try the word 'terrorist' for a translation, and see if the sentence makes sense.
16
posted on
10/26/2005 8:38:15 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
17
posted on
10/26/2005 8:45:17 PM PDT
by
Heatseeker
("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
To: Heatseeker
"The building where the fire started houses people who are awaiting deportation from the Netherlands."
Can I take a wild guess?
18
posted on
10/26/2005 8:51:25 PM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: PAR35
"resistance
workers"
Hmmm, perhaps this was some sort of "work accident".
19
posted on
10/26/2005 8:52:28 PM PDT
by
Thinkin' Gal
(As it was in the days of NO...)
To: Thinkin' Gal; PAR35; Heatseeker
"resistance workers" "work accident"
Where's OSHA when you need them? We need to make sure that "resistance workers" and "Personal Explosives Implementation Personnel" have safe working conditions. Keep them free of dangerous chemicals and second hand smoke.
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posted on
10/26/2005 9:16:52 PM PDT
by
eldoradude
(When all else fails, vote from the rooftops.)
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