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Fire breaks out in Mecca neighbourhood
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| January 17, 2005
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Posted on 01/17/2005 2:47:21 PM PST by indcons
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To: infowarrior
An Islamic scientist at work??
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posted on
01/17/2005 5:31:49 PM PST
by
indcons
(The Quran - the world's first WMD)
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
If you get them hot enough...
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posted on
01/17/2005 6:23:59 PM PST
by
GW and Twins Pawpaw
(Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
To: infowarrior; cardinal4
You're spot on, infowarrior. I flew into Riyadh at that time on a USAF C-12 from the embassy in Jeddah. The burnt-out hulk of that aircraft was still on the runway. The story going around then was that a "hill Paki," one guy who was pretty unsophisticated, fired up his gas burner to brew some tea. The plane landed, but by then the fire was burning so hot that noone, crew or pax, were able to get out. That "hill Paki" was coming from Waziristan to make his Hajj.
Fortunately, they're not ALL hill Pakis. Some two years after that, a Pakistani doctor performed a triple bypass on my 40-year old bod at Washington Hospital Center.
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posted on
01/17/2005 6:31:50 PM PST
by
Ax
(I learned all I needed to know about Islam during my two years in Saudi Arabia.)
To: Clemenza
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posted on
01/17/2005 7:15:28 PM PST
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Rakkasan1
(Justice of the Piece: There is no justice, there's 'just us'.)
To: Clemenza
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01/17/2005 7:15:34 PM PST
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Rakkasan1
(Justice of the Piece: There is no justice, there's 'just us'.)
To: Ax
Then we may have crossed paths, Ax. I was a flight engineer with the US Army Engineer Division: Middle East at that time, and as I said, was working out of Riyadh International...
the infowarrior
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posted on
01/17/2005 8:14:57 PM PST
by
infowarrior
(TANSTAAFL)
To: dighton
I had read where some passenger had lit an alcohol stove to heat water for tea.
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01/18/2005 5:01:12 AM PST
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Redleg Duke
(Pass Tort Reform Now! Make the bottom clean for the catfish!)
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