Posted on 06/29/2013 9:37:17 AM PDT by jimbo123
An American college student killed Friday during antigovernment violence in Egypt was in the country on an internship to teach English to young children while also improving his Arabic skills, family members said.
The American, Andrew D. Pochter, 21, a student at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, was killed in Alexandria during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi, the college said. Security officials in Egypt said he was fatally stabbed near the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, which had been set on fire.
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I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said, and I for one just don’t get it
Thanks Markneil1212.
Just out for an innocent hike along the Iraq/Iranian border?
I believe!
Does anybody here remember Amy Biehl? My hero was Bernie Goetz.
By name no. I do remember it happening... her death.
Goetz gets my vote too.
Surprise!
They got just what they deserved IMO. He didn’t approach them. They tried to game him. Well too bad...
Amy Biehl-Stanford graduate wanted to ‘help’ the blacks in South Africa under apartheid.
They want to teach the rest of the world how to be politically correct!
They were all American. But Corrie wasn't Jewish.
They were all children of liberals, and they all believed with every fiber of their being that if they were only nice enough to the murderous serpents, they would love us all.
They all died as a direct result of that fantasy.
It’s the Jew thing.
I’ve traveled through some of the Middle East (including Turkey, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq before the war), and most people there already speak some English.
Asan American, I was welcomed as warmly as anyone. I could tell, though, that a Jew would have a problem in certain neighborhoods...
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