Most of 1,400 on Doomed Ferry Feared Lost

yahoo news/AP ^ | Feb 3, 2006

[xcamel]

It's Allah's fault.

[pipecorp]

praise allah and the prophet. many watery drippings be upon his head.

[phoenix0468]

Search is your friend.

Ferry with 1,400 sinks; most feared dead

[RolandBurnam]

I guess alla was hungry. MMMMmmm

[spinestein]

[Egyptian officials initially turned down a British offer to divert a warship to the scene and a U.S. offer to send a P3-Orion maritime naval patrol aircraft to the area. The British craft, HMS Bulwark, headed from the southern Red Sea where it was operating, then turned around when the offer was rejected. But then Egypt reversed itself and asked for both the Orion and the Bulwark to be sent — then finally decided to call off the Bulwark, deciding it was too far away to help...]


If they were any more clownish, we'd be hearing circus music.

[MikeA]

Undoubtly this calls for burning American flags and reviling Israel, as well as of course protesting the Danish cartoon by the families of the victims.

[Doogle]

...and the moral to this story is never travel on an overloaded ANYTHING in the middle east.

[nuconvert]

I know the story has been posted. That's why I listed this under the topic "extended". It's an update.

[manic4organic]

No, it's Bush's fault.

[nuconvert]

Pathetically incompetent.

[Doogle]

[spinestein]

WHOA!

[Callahan]

Life is cheap in the ME. Puts things in perspective doesn't it?

[nuconvert]

Yup. Life is cheap in a lot of countries.

[Doogle]

[Joe_October]

This is a terrible, sad thing. I hope the initial reports are false and they find most have survived.

[spinestein]

HEE HEE HEEEEEEE!


Got any more?

[spinestein]

Let's hope that the journalists there are using the American standard of reporting the death toll 100x too high as in hurricane Katrina.

There would only be 14 dead instead of 1,400.

[Farmer Dean]

Or any other third world country.Those Phillipine ferries are a real treat also.