Small hotel destroyed by violent explosion in Addis Ababa

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | September 11, 2002

[anymouse]

Al Qaida picking on their own.

[July 4th]

Maybe some Al-Qaeda member made a few too many congratulatory calls this week...

[RobRoy]

These babelfish translated articles are always a hoot. I suppose I'll tire of it someday. But It's a lot of fun now...

[tallhappy]

Accident in their hotel room. Before they could bomb their target.

[Dog]

What target???

We have an embassy there???

[Poohbah]

"HOLY S**T, BOB! WE FLATTENED THAT WHOLE BUILDING!"

"Now, settle down, Joe. Let's run through those explosives calculations again...whoops, there's the problem! You moved the decimal to the RIGHT and not the LEFT when you did long division. You gotta do something about that dyslexia, I'm tellin' you..."

[tallhappy]

Of course we have an embassy there. It is the capitol of Ethiopia.

Here is the web page.

[Dog]

Answer me is our embassy near this hotel that went boom??

[tallhappy]

I don't know.

[Joe Hadenuf]

A list of the Hotel occupants would be interesting...

[Dog]

Want me to post a map of Addis Ababa.....it is big tho??

[Joe Hadenuf]

Yeah, go for it, if it's not to much trouble...

[Consort]

Some careless Rastafarian was lighting up near a gas leak.

[Dog]

Notice the the pyramid's with country names near them they are the embassies... p

[Dog]

Explosion took place in the nothern Piazza neighborhood...on that map.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Either this town is in a hilly region, or they didn't have a plan when they laid out the roads and streets...

The American embassy, and or the Hotel in the area of Tigray hotel, located close to the district of Piazza (northern of Addis Ababa), must be north of town off the map. As I don't see this area on the map....

[Consort]

Ethiopia

[chindog]

I wonder what you would find on Smuts Street?

[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers! Thanks for the heads up!