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To: hershey
AFP via translation -

ALARM - Loss of contact with a ferry-boat transporting 1.300 people

CAIRO - the Egyptian and Saoudi maritime authorities lost contact Friday with a ferry-boat transporting 1.300 passengers, as a majority of the Egyptians, which sailed at sea Rouge, coming from Saudi Arabia, one learned from sedentary source.

Sounds like hajj pilgrims.

4 posted on 02/03/2006 2:23:02 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000
CAIRO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Coastal stations have lost contact with a ferry carrying some 1,310 mainly Egyptian passengers from the Saudi port of Jeddah to Safaga on Egypt's Red Sea coast, security sources said on Friday.

The ferry should have reached Safaga at 2 a.m. local time (midnight GMT) but did not arrive, they said.


5 posted on 02/03/2006 2:23:48 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000
Sounds like hajj pilgrims.

Darn. Not.
40 posted on 02/03/2006 4:19:47 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
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To: HAL9000

Those stealth ferry-boats will do that every time.


42 posted on 02/03/2006 4:40:01 AM PST by chainsaw ( ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - H. Clinton))
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