Dozens Dead After Egyptian Ship Disaster

[2pac Shakur]

CAIRO, Egypt - An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying around 1,300 people, mostly Egyptian workers returning from Saudi Arabia, sank in the Red Sea overnight. Coast Guard vessels pulled dozens of bodies from the water Friday and rescued 100 survivors from lifeboats, officials said.

Sad.


Now to make it political:

British naval officials ordered a warship heading to the scene to abandon its rescue efforts, a defense spokesman said in London, declining to explain why.

WTF?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060203/...ypt_ship_sinks

[E. Blackadder]

from JPost

Originally Posted by JPost

At least twelve bodies of passengers aboard the Egyptian cruise ship Salaam 98, which sank Friday in the Red Sea, have been retrieved, Zaka reported Friday afternoon, adding that Egypt has declined the Israel Navy's offer of search and rescue assistance...

Nothing worse than helpful Jooz or Brits.

[Happy Spiaggia]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

Sad.


Now to make it political:



WTF?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060203/...ypt_ship_sinks

I can guess why.

[Chubbs]

Why dont' they want help. Are they afraid we will find WMD's in the wreckage. Were those dogs working for terrorists? Good catch on this one 2pac. I think you are really on to something. You goal of global mistrust and hatred for all moooslims is one step closer to completion.

[Happy Spiaggia]

And my guess is that there was an important gooblybonks
match being shown on the telly.

[Happy Spiaggia]

Good burn Chubbs

[Feif]

Maybe because when Israel offered to help, Egypt said no. God forbid a Jew should save the life of an arab. England just felt that if Israel can't help, neither can we.

[2pac Shakur]

Originally Posted by Feif

Maybe because when Israel offered to help, Egypt said no. God forbid a Jew should save the life of an arab. England just felt that if Israel can't help, neither can we.

That'd be a crappy move on the part of Egypt's gummint.
Followed up by a crappy move by England.

[Feif]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

That'd be a crappy move on the part of Egypt's gummint.
Followed up by a crappy move by England.

That would be a crappy move? They said it. Read the news.

[Loner]

The sotry has been updated:

Rescue efforts appeared confused. Egyptian officials initially turned down a British offer to divert a warship to the scene to help out and a U.S. offer to send a P3-Orion maritime naval patrol aircraft to the area. The British craft, HMS Bulwark, headed toward 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, said Cdr. Jeff Breslau, a spokesman for the U.S. 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain.