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Saudis: 107 dead in crane collapse at Mecca's Grand Mosque
AP ^ | 9/11/15 | Abdullah Al-Shihri and Adam Schreck

Posted on 09/11/2015 7:03:25 PM PDT by markomalley

Edited on 09/11/2015 7:04:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A towering construction crane toppled over on Friday during a violent rainstorm in the Saudi city of Mecca, Islam's holiest site, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing at least 107 people ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage later this month.


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To: Flycatcher

OMGOSH...ROFLMAO...I just spit coffee all over the place...

That was a GEM of a reply!!!!


21 posted on 09/11/2015 7:15:34 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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To: markomalley

Allah bin Droppin...


22 posted on 09/11/2015 7:15:46 PM PDT by Redbob (Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
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To: bigredkitty1

Would that be the drink or a tool you used to loosen the screws in a certain crane?


23 posted on 09/11/2015 7:16:18 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: markomalley

Getting a head start on the annual hajj stampede?


24 posted on 09/11/2015 7:17:02 PM PDT by Loyalist (Who whom?)
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To: Secret Agent Man
"15 million more cranes like this would be awesome"

Now that there's funny, I don't care who you are!

25 posted on 09/11/2015 7:17:05 PM PDT by Redbob (Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
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To: lee martell

I’m trying to picture in my head how this could happen. They must have been crowded toe to toe in some large room


They were probably on their prayer rugs.


26 posted on 09/11/2015 7:18:57 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.bama and Hitlery are simply Evil.)
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To: 11th_VA

God’s hand because of 9/11?


27 posted on 09/11/2015 7:19:39 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: Lazamataz

It’s a good start.


28 posted on 09/11/2015 7:20:15 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: markomalley

What happens when you put complex machinery in the hands of Stone-Agers better suited to handling camels...


29 posted on 09/11/2015 7:20:44 PM PDT by Redbob (Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
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To: markomalley

So its a better start than I originally thought.


30 posted on 09/11/2015 7:22:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: markomalley

Too bad it’s not 107 million., /s


31 posted on 09/11/2015 7:24:37 PM PDT by babygene (I'm one of the 9.4 million War Heroes that served during the Vietnam war..../s)
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To: Redbob

;)


32 posted on 09/11/2015 7:25:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: markomalley

The Borg is saddened.........


33 posted on 09/11/2015 7:26:04 PM PDT by Osage Orange ( On a Septic Tank Truck: Yesterday's Meals on Wheels)
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To: Flycatcher

WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CRANE?!


34 posted on 09/11/2015 7:28:44 PM PDT by corlorde (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: corlorde

No kidding. Its a shame to waste an expensive piece of machinery like that.


35 posted on 09/11/2015 7:29:31 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: markomalley

“And those on whom the tower of Siloam fell, were they worse sinners than all the other residents of Jerusalem? I tell you, unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”


36 posted on 09/11/2015 7:31:39 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I want to live my cat's life.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

That stone has long been stolen by completing Caliphs. That Mecca is a,whore.


37 posted on 09/11/2015 7:31:45 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: Stepan12

Take a look at the photo on Drudge, storm had something to do with collapse

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COo2w0BWUAAq3NG.jpg


38 posted on 09/11/2015 7:31:51 PM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
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To: cripplecreek

I wonder if the crane has, “made in Israel” on it..


39 posted on 09/11/2015 7:31:59 PM PDT by corlorde (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: madison10

Wow, great picture


40 posted on 09/11/2015 7:33:07 PM PDT by corlorde (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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