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Egyptian security forces shoot at Mexican tourist convoy, kill 12: statement
Reuters.com ^
| 9-13-15
| Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Ahmed Tolba
Posted on 09/13/2015 5:47:47 PM PDT by windcliff
Egypt's police and military killed 12 Egyptians and Mexicans and injured 10 when they accidentally shot at a Mexican tourist convoy whilst engaging militants in the country's western desert, the ministry of interior said on Monday.
"A joint force from the police and military, whilst chasing terrorist elements in the oasis area of the western desert tonight, accidentally engaged four four-wheel drives belonging to a Mexican tourist group," the ministry said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: convoy; egypt; egyptian; egyptians; mexican; mexicans; mexico; tourist; triggerhappy
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Oops.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:47:48 PM PDT
by
windcliff
To: windcliff
Maybe the Egyptians thought they were illegals?
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:50:37 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: windcliff
Who goes on a tourism trip to the ME these days?
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:50:41 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: windcliff
Its bound to happen when you run around in what is effectively an active war zone.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:51:24 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: windcliff
I shouldn’t be laughing at your comment. I will burn for it.
“Was that wrong”?
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:51:26 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: windcliff
It looks like Egypt will be joining the U.S. on Mexico’s schlitzlist.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:51:41 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Liberals keep looking for ways to be offended. I keep looking for ways to offend them.)
To: BuckeyeTexan
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:51:50 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
To: windcliff
Egyptian tourism? Is that like Puerto Rican bonds? Haitian sexcapades?
To: BuckeyeTexan
Jordan maybe but only with state run tours. (The ones that travel with military escorts)
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:52:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: dp0622
Should I have not done that?
To: windcliff
Lets take a tour in a war zone.
To: windcliff
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:55:44 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(It's Not "Immigration", Stupid....IT'S INVASION !")
To: windcliff
They were looking for San Diego.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:56:30 PM PDT
by
Spok
("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
To: Gamecock
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:57:03 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: BillyBonebrake
Egyptian tourism = Pyramid Scheme
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:57:41 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: windcliff
This is awful -
You know what’s also sad?
With a world that’s increasingly on geopolitical fire, Egypt along with more countries everyday get added to the “shoulda-visited-there-earlier, and-I’m-not-goin-there-now” list.
Eff’ing muslims, and their agent provocateur in the Whitehut.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:58:13 PM PDT
by
MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
To: Spok
Trump’s fault (just ask Jorge).
Well, I guess that means the Big ‘O’ must act in place of congress and legalize another half a million.
Mebbe they were practicing sneaking across the border - it was a safer place than the Rio Grande (less gunfire).
Come to think of it, Omar Sharif could have passed for a Mexican.
To: windcliff
Mexicans -/- Terrorists .... Hard to tell the difference sometimes ...
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posted on
09/13/2015 6:04:55 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Who goes on a tourism trip to the ME these days? People who run the same risk of being shot or having their heads cut off in their own third world country?
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posted on
09/13/2015 6:11:34 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: dp0622
Nah, don’t let it bother you. I giggled =)
I know it is not funny, BUT it is!
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