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George Galloway stoned in Egypt
TimesOnline (Times of London) ^ | 3/9/09 | Ann Barrowclough

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemite; egypt; galloway; gaza; georgegalloway; hamas; hateradio; liberalbigot; pravdamedia; stoning; uk; yvonneridley
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To: gridlock

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.


81 posted on 03/09/2009 7:33:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: gridlock
"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."

And here people that give to Red Cross/Red Cresent think that their money goes to MEDICAL aid.

82 posted on 03/09/2009 7:34:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: Revolting cat!
This is not the good kind of stoned...


83 posted on 03/09/2009 7:35:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: wita
Isn’t Galloway the jerk who came over here and showed us what a wuss he was, bad mouthing the Bush Administration and what we were doing in Iraq. Generally siding with the enemy on every point of doctrine.

Yes and it is treason (as defined by our Constitution) to provide aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/georgegalloway/index

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84 posted on 03/09/2009 7:38:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: gridlock
They already have enough of those, without importing them from Merry Ol’ England.

Yes, but MOE needs to export a lot of them...

85 posted on 03/09/2009 7:38:52 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: counterpunch
And you know this from your personal travels in Egypt...?

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.

86 posted on 03/09/2009 7:53:24 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: gridlock

87 posted on 03/09/2009 7:55:33 AM PDT by edzo4 (NoBama 2012)
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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.


88 posted on 03/09/2009 7:57:43 AM PDT by NoRedTape
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To: gridlock
We'll know when the world has had its fill of knaves and scalawags - when they are found at room temperature in the streets...

It appears that day is closer than ever before.....
Financial stress has the ability to focus attention on aggravations.....

89 posted on 03/09/2009 7:58:03 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: gridlock

Saddam owned him. Galloway should have been strung up on the same gallows.


90 posted on 03/09/2009 8:09:15 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: gridlock

Useful fools are the first to get slaughtered when muslims take over.

Read your history Galloway. Punk Brit.


91 posted on 03/09/2009 8:21:42 AM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! + In this sign Conquer! +)
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To: rumrat

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.


92 posted on 03/09/2009 8:22:31 AM PDT by wita
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To: gridlock

Normally all you have to do is ask. ;)


93 posted on 03/09/2009 8:28:58 AM PDT by SouthTexas (Pending....)
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To: gridlock

sounds good to me!!


94 posted on 03/09/2009 8:30:00 AM PDT by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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To: counterpunch
"It is when it’s George Galloway you’re talking about."

Not even 8:45 yet here in Kalifornistan, and we already have our Post of the Day.
95 posted on 03/09/2009 8:42:24 AM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (1st call: Abbas. 1st interview: Al Arabiya. 1st energy decision: halt drilling in UT. Arabs 1st!)
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To: gridlock

I didn’t know he was partaking. But past behavior HAS been bizarre.


96 posted on 03/09/2009 9:04:07 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The inmates are now officially running the asylum.)
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To: gridlock

The only aid that the West should deliver to Gaza is napalm, from the air.


97 posted on 03/09/2009 9:28:02 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (I am inconsolate over the death of our country.)
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To: counterpunch

Galloway gave Arafat AIDS? Yikes - how rude.

Why did Yasser kick the bucket and not Galloway?


98 posted on 03/09/2009 9:31:21 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: rumrat

:’D


99 posted on 03/09/2009 9:33:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: wita
Not quite yet, but just you wait Enry Iggins,

Therein lies the problem.

Britain has 'Enry 'Iggins just you White.

America has Zane Grey..

100 posted on 03/09/2009 9:34:51 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 47 of our national holiday from reality.)
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