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Armed attackers have taken over a bus traveling in northern Italy
AP News Alert
| May 15, 2007
Posted on 05/15/2007 7:34:57 AM PDT by HAL9000
AP News Alert
ROME (AP) -- Authorities say armed attackers have taken over a bus traveling in northern Italy
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: albania; albanians; balkans; bus; hijacking; italy; kosovo
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To: MizSterious
Fox News just reported that they were North Africans. Thats mediaspeak for ROPers.
Honestly, I took a quick glance at the wall map and thought "Well, you know, they're really not that close to a large native ROP region... I guess it's possible, that maybe, perhaps, somehow, it could be someone else... but then there's all those North African and Balkan immigrants... no, I was right the first time."
Why the self doubt, Owl?
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
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posted on
05/15/2007 8:08:12 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: HAL9000
“North African”? Is it a euphemism for Tunisian or Moroccan?
It seems the European press also suffers from political correctness.
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posted on
05/15/2007 8:08:16 AM PDT
by
Leonora
To: Osage Orange
“North Africans”, “Ethinic Albanians”. Go figure.
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posted on
05/15/2007 8:09:45 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Leonora
It seems the European press also suffers from political correctness. GAG
If you think the LSM in the^US is bad - try the ones over here for a while - you will learn to LOVE the objectivity and fairness of The Old Gray Lady, The Compost, the Alphabetsoup Group - and even CNN!!
44
posted on
05/15/2007 8:13:20 AM PDT
by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: Rutles4Ever
That way, we can just call them ROWers, as in, "hey, I bet this was pulled off by those ROWers over in the middle east". It just rolls off the tongue, don't you think?
Psycho. You're always trying to poison folk's opinions of people who are crew rowers. Just because you had that springtime romance your Junior year in college with the 6' 2" Norweigan skuller with "tresses like rivers of gold and eyes the color of a mountain lake" who was stolen away by the captain of the Mens Crew team.
At least I have a legitimate gripe to explain my obsession with wrestlers.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
45
posted on
05/15/2007 8:14:47 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: massgopguy
North Africans, Ethinic Albanians. Go figure. FWIW: the press here routinely refered to the rioters in France (and other countries) alternatively as "north Africans" or "youths" (sometimes both).
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posted on
05/15/2007 8:15:30 AM PDT
by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
05/15/2007 8:52:55 AM PDT
by
Gritty
(Given the growing Islamic problem in Europe, it's secular Europe that's living on faith - Mark Steyn)
To: An.American.Expatriate
Well, let’s see how quickly this story disappears from the news. Looks like the passengers are safe, so why bother asking about the cause? /sarc
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posted on
05/15/2007 8:54:41 AM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: HAL9000
" three bandit apparently North African armed"Means they are almost certainly muzzies.
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posted on
05/15/2007 8:58:27 AM PDT
by
Post-Neolithic
(Money only makes Communists rich Communists)
To: An.American.Expatriate
Switzerland has great gun laws doesn’t it? I bet the scenery and weather are neat too (I hate the warm weather).
50
posted on
05/15/2007 9:00:25 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: HAL9000
Okay, if I drank alcohol, that’s what my translation would look like too...anyone else hearing this in your mind with a sterotypical Italian accent? (With ‘-a’ at the end of everything)-”This-a is-a report-a about-a bus-a...”
Oops. Channeling Father Guido Sarducci there. ;-)
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posted on
05/15/2007 9:08:19 AM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Bible Thumper and Proud! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
To: Owl_Eagle
Maybe it is a branch of the Italian Green Brigade(reference to an incident that happened some years ago, that I’ve only heard my father talk about(he said it changed his view on the Death Penalty) where a Communist group took over a train and were dealt with when it became time to hold them accountable) in North Africa?
52
posted on
05/15/2007 9:30:23 AM PDT
by
Merta
(The Entertainment FReeper(ideas on movies, music, videogames without the constant Bush bashing))
To: Types_with_Fist
"North Africans," huh? That's right. If something like that had happened here they would be "homegrown terrorists."NORTH Africans???? I thought I read SOUTH Africans and figured that the perps were some unreconstructed old white Afrikaners out on a bender... /sarcasm off
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posted on
05/15/2007 9:33:47 AM PDT
by
Kenton
(All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
To: HAL9000; MoochPooch; Michael81Dus; Vicomte13; az_gila; Experiment 6-2-6; henkster; CT-Freeper; ...
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posted on
05/15/2007 9:35:05 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Types_with_Fist
The three would have made to come down some women. I bet these machines can do a lot better with translations, but they just like to sound like this.
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posted on
05/15/2007 9:38:01 AM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Owl_Eagle
No, it’s not ROP’ers -—it’s Sicilians who got on the wrong bus.
To: Leonora
North African? Is it a euphemism for Tunisian or Moroccan? And Algerian. Let's not forget the Algerians. The French are having lots of fun with them.
To: Owl_Eagle
For the acronymically challenged, like me, please ref. your ROP by giving full title in parenthesis.
vaudine
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posted on
05/15/2007 9:53:33 AM PDT
by
vaudine
To: HAL9000
Well, when I first saw the headline on Drudge, I thought it might conceivably be the Red Brigades. But it’s been some time since they seemed to have gone out of business.
The Mafia is all business, and it’s hard to see why they would hijack a bus full of tourists. They want money, not celebrity.
That pretty much leaves it to Muslims, which evidently is what this is. At a guess, 99% of “North Africans” are Muslims.
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posted on
05/15/2007 9:53:47 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Types_with_Fist
LOL, I thought I was in an episode of The Matrix reading it, and was waiting for the phone to ring to get me the hell out.
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posted on
05/15/2007 9:55:37 AM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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