Posted on 02/03/2006 3:48:35 PM PST by nuconvert
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...]
....Was Nagin In charge here?
...Yeah, that's it!
I'll bet dollars to donuts that the scene last night was straight out of hell. With Islamic valor, I'd seriously doubt the scene was 'women and children first.' People pushing each other into the abyss would be my guess.
Whoa. Lighten up with the cattle prod, man.
Note to self: The core of your salvation is your belief in the free gift of grace from Jesus Christ. Praise God you don't have to follow a migration ritual that regularly kills thousands, allows corrupt and self-important royal rulers to arbitrarily punish their followers, and keeps "the faithful" in abject poverty and in a techonological getto based upon a thousand years of poverty and ignorance.
trying to care....still trying....
Amazing how many people went to work today like normal and never knew a thing about this tragedy.
If you want to read about a horrific maritime disaster, check out The General Slocum Disaster page.
Up until the attacks on September 11th, it was a the largest single loss of life in New York history. It has it all, greed, scandal, cover ups. Over a thousand killed, women and children making up the bulk of the casualties.
I saw the author on C-Span's Book TV program. I'd never heard of the General Slocum prior to seeing the program. The book title is Ship Ablaze : The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
I've read of this disaster and I agree that not all is roses in the West - nor has it been. My point can be most easily understood by standing on any street in many third world nations when a que develops or scarce commodities are at stake. The behavior of the mob almost universally rules. Public behavior in many developing nations would be considered riot in the West.
thanx for the link
I beg to differ, but according to my sources, it was none other than,
THE JOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
A few years ago, either TLC, Discovery or A&E, was showing a program about a ferry that sank. I believe it was in Indonesia. It wasn't on the scale of this disaster, but a large loss of life all he same. The story focused primarily on a British couple. The handful of survivors were mainly Westerners. It seems as though most of the locals couldn't swim.
The gal is credited with keeping one guy alive, she kept talking to him , convincing him he could stay afloat.
They were afloat for several days. She described how she had to swin away from people, they wanted to cling to her. She knew that they would drag her down, as she'd seen it happen to others.
oh, ok. sorry.
sarc/ Be careful you may cause an international incident. /sarc
"We will proudly trust in Allah and thumb our noses at any assistance from infidels!
...er, except when we get really desperate because we're so backward due to our lives being ruled by ridiculous lies and hatred."
We laugh, but in reality if the whackos aren't stood up to it's only a matter of time before they get around to us.
We're just a little further down on the list of priorities than large newspapers for the moment, but we're on that list, I'm sure.
I'm waiting for the Israeli torpedo theory.
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