Posted on 03/09/2009 4:05:54 AM PDT by gridlock
A humanitarian convoy led by maverick MP George Galloway carrying medical supplies for Gaza has come under attack in Egypt
The convoy, carrying aid worth £1 million, was pelted with stones and vandalised after it stopped in El-Arish, a small town around 28 miles from the Rafah border crossing with Gaza.
"It's an absolute disgrace,'' convoy organiser Yvonne Ridley told AFP. "The power was cut. Under cover of darkness members of our convoy were attacked with stones.
"Vandals also wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans,'' she said. "Several people in the convoy were injured in the attack."
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"George Galloway is still in negotiations," said Ms Ridley. "What we have agreed to do is to separate the medical aid from the non-medical aid. The non-medical will go into Gaza via the Egyptian Red Crescent."
The convoy is expected to continue to Gaza today.
In early February, it was alleged that three Islamist terror suspects arrested in northwest England had planned to leave the country under cover of Mr Galloway's convoy. Intelligence sources said that the men were planning a terrorist operation abroad.
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He makes Lord Haw Haw seem civil at times and the British were right to try and execute William Joyce as a traitor after WWII.
And here people that give to Red Cross/Red Cresent think that their money goes to MEDICAL aid.
Yes and it is treason (as defined by our Constitution) to provide aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime.
Yes, but MOE needs to export a lot of them...
As a matter of fact, yes. The Muslim Brotherhood is tremendously popular and actually won the most recent Egyptian parliamentary elections, despite being outlawed by the Mubarack regime. Hamas is the Palestinian arm of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, although it is increasingly being seen in a leadership role rather than second fiddle. Hamas' support has likely only increased since the December war.
I don’t know much about this Galloway chap, but he sounds like a true idiot. Waiting for that other idiot - Jimmah Carter - to make his comments. There are real loooons in the world. Every Country has ‘em.
It appears that day is closer than ever before.....
Financial stress has the ability to focus attention on aggravations.....
Saddam owned him. Galloway should have been strung up on the same gallows.
Useful fools are the first to get slaughtered when muslims take over.
Read your history Galloway. Punk Brit.
Thanks for the explanation. I’ll take our freedom of speech to the Parlimentary persuasion against any voicing of dissent, especially against those who you and I both know would see your head separated from your torso, and not by the swift and sure French way, nooooo, a dull a rusty sword.
Normally all you have to do is ask. ;)
sounds good to me!!
I didn’t know he was partaking. But past behavior HAS been bizarre.
The only aid that the West should deliver to Gaza is napalm, from the air.
Galloway gave Arafat AIDS? Yikes - how rude.
Why did Yasser kick the bucket and not Galloway?
:’D
Therein lies the problem.
Britain has 'Enry 'Iggins just you White.
America has Zane Grey..
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