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Egyptian Military "Accidentally" Kills 12 Mexicans Having A Barbecue After Mistaking Them For ISIS
Back in July, an Egyptian judge confirmed the death sentence against former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. The court characterized Morsi’s year in office as a “black night” before proclaiming that “the dawn of human conscience arrived” in the wake of the military coup that removed him.
The amusing thing about those comments is that Morsi came to power on the heels of another period which supposedly marked a new dawn (or, more accurately, a new “spring”) for the country.
Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood has been branded a terrorist organization by now-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, assumed the Presidency in 2012 after Hosni Mubarak was toppled a year earlier during the Arab Spring. Morsi would himself become the target of mass protests after issuing a decree granting himself special powers — the unrest would ultimately end in the military assuming power in July of 2013 in an infamous (maybe)-coup.
In short, the US was effectively forced to abandon its support for one despot (Mubarak) after the Arab Spring ushered in a successor despot (Morsi) in what were hailed as the first democratic elections in Egypt’s history.
In the wake of the military counter-coup, Washington was again left with little choice but to support a new Egyptian President, this time in the form of former military commander and the Mubarak regime’s head of military intelligence, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who was inaugurated in June of last year. Shortly after his inauguration, al-Sisi got a visit from John Kerry, who, as WSJ noted at the time, “voiced strong U.S. support for Egypt's new president and signaled that Washington will continue the flow of military aid in an American welcome of the post-coup government.”
That military aid now amounts to some $1.3 billion per year and is aimed at - you guessed it - fighting “terrorism” which Egypt has had quite a lot of since removing Morsi (whose party, as mentioned above, is itself viewed as a terrorist organization) from power. As Reuters notes, “Egypt is battling an insurgency that gained pace after the military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013 after mass protests against his rule." As is the case in Turkey, the waters are decidedly muddy regarding who’s a “terrorist” and who’s merely a possibly violent political agitator, but it’s difficult to ignore the similarities between Cairo and Ankara when it comes to a Washington-backed despotic President accepting US assistance ostensibly earmarked for the fight against ISIS but which also serves to fortify the government against political opposition.
Of course when you mix US foreign policy with oppressive Middle Eastern governments and throw in a dash of ISIS there’s no limit to the absurd and very often tragic things that can happen, which is why we could do little but shake our heads when we read the following account of how the Egyptian army managed to kill 12 Mexican tourists “by accident” after mistaking them for a fleeing group of “militants”. Here’s Reuters with the story:
Egyptian security forces killed 12 Mexicans and Egyptians and injured 10 "by accident" on Monday in an attack after mistaking a tourist convoy for militants they were pursuing in the country's western desert, the ministry of interior said.
At least two Mexicans were killed, Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement, though Egyptian security sources later said that eight Mexicans and four Egyptians were killed, and eight Mexicans and two Egyptians were wounded, judicial and security sources said.
The tourist group of 22 had parked their four four-by-four vehicles off road for a barbecue near the Bahariya oasis, a tourist site in the western desert, when army aircraft suddenly began shelling them from above, security sources said.
As members of the tourist convoy tried to flee, additional security forces on the ground fired on them.
Egypt is battling an insurgency that gained pace after the military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013 after mass protests against his rule.
The insurgency, mounted by Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate, has killed hundreds of soldiers and police and has started to attack Western targets.
A joint force from the Egyptian police and military had been chasing militants in the country's vast western desert when it came across the tourist convoy, which it mistook for the militants it was pursuing, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Now, just read that again so it sinks in.
The Egyptian military was out on a routine, desert militant chase when they somehow managed to mistake 12 Mexicans having a barbecue for ISIS.
At that point, someone called in air support - which we imagine might well have involved some of the 12 F-16s the US delivered to Cairo in March - and when the vacationers tried to run, they were shot.
Here's a look at the Bahariya Oasis and a short description of what kinds of things tourists can get into while visiting (via Egypt's official travel site):
Spanning over 2000 sq. km. the Bahariya Oasis is a lush haven set in the midst of an unforgiving desert and surrounded by black hills made of quartz. The Oasis is home to amazing ruins, such as the Temple of Alexander the Great, beautifully painted Ptolemaic tombs and very old churches. The recent discovery of the golden mummies, the pride of Bawiti Museum today, turned the oasis’ main town, into a tourist magnet, and its proximity to the Black Desert have earned Bahariya a high rank on the tourist map of Egypt.
Go for a short hike up to the mountains of Bahariya for an aerial view of the oasis, dunes and great sunsets. Visit ancient Egyptian and Graeco-Roman sites, such as the Tomb of Banentiu, haggle with the locals for a scarf or a rug, enjoy a moment of solitude among wildlife, or relax in the hot waters of the Bir Sigam hot spring. Your options in Bahariya are wider than you can imagine.
Yes, "haggle with the locals for a rug, enjoy a moment of solitude among wildlife," or run screaming for your life when the Egyptian military mistakes your barbecue for a gathering of bloodthirsty militants.
"Your options in Bahariay are wider than you can imagine."
Needless to say, Enrique Pena Nieto was not pleased:
México condena estos hechos en contra de nuestros ciudadanos y ha exigido al gobierno de Egipto una exhaustiva investigación de lo ocurrido.
— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) September 14, 2015
Translation, Mexico wants a "full investigation into what happened." Unfortunately for Nieto, such an investigation won't yield much in the way of new information. The bottom line is that this is just one more example of the fallout from US meddling in the affairs of each and every nation in the region.
Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and on, and on. You name the state, and the US has an agenda for how it thinks things should go and just as often as not, there's some manner of military involvement or cooperation meaning innocent people will invariably be displaced, killed, or worse, be they Syrians caught in the crossfire between Assad and those whose US-sponsored mandate is to destabilize his regime, or be they Mexican tourists at an oasis cookout in Egypt.
Before anyone thinks incidents like these are set to make al-Sisi reconsider how Egypt handles the fight against terror, think again, because not even a month ago, the President signed new legislation widening Cairo's surveillance authority. And because the US just can't help itself when it comes to missing the irony in its own proclamations, State Department spokesman John Kirby said Washington is "concerned that some measures in Egypt’s new anti-terrorism law could have a significant detrimental impact on human rights and fundamental freedoms." Much like the Patriot Act.
We'll close with the following statement from tour guide syndicate leader Hassan al-Nahla responding to Monday's "accident":
"Because of this negligence and lack of coordination between the ministry of tourism and ministry of interior, Egypt...will pay the price when this affects tourism."
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Sucks to be in the ME.
The so called 'War on Terror' is FUBAR to any rational observer.
Fucktards and psychopaths, get used to it.
The BBQ wasn't halal?
..maybe these Egyptians would make good US drone operators.
Wait who did this? Donald Trump or the Egyptians?
Now that's a fire, that's a fire. He okay, roll him around. Roll Charlie around........
Life imitating art I guess?
pods
Did they enter the country illegally?
Bombing the tourists having a BBQ in a war zone is tragic. However, I believe the author got some things wrong. It is my belief that the “Arab Spring” was engineered by the Soros-Clinton Machine and that the Muslim Brotherhood had the full support of the Soros-Obama Machine and the current Egyptian Government is the result of a fit of sanity that may last until Goldman fixes it. JMHO
We need drones on our borders
we need Egyptians
Did the barbecue look like this:
http://i5.asn.im/syria-_twyw.jpg
Great. Now barbecues will be outlawed.
Bullish!
Of course 12 "accidental" kills would be a slow afternoon for "Drone Master" Obama AMIRITE?
I'm sorry, it's wrong on a host of levels but I can't stop lmao!
I only came in here for the comments. You guys did not disappoint.
If barbecues are outlawed, only terrorists will have barbecues.
The Egyptian military knows no masa
we barbarIcuTed some folks (um tourists) in the war zone, just declared !
Why you folks here?
lol..."And behold the mighty sword of Allah (the most merciful) striking down the infidel griller!" - Sura 10.12 of the regulatory bureaucratic sur-real text.
those quotation marks are well advised because, unlike george w. bush who, according to tucker carlson, could brag only of executing a crying, pleading, incarcerated woman back in texas (first in 135 years): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker, obama is quite the president-stud-killer. while he may like his arugula and know a bit about au courant books, his real surprise is that it "turns out I'm really good at killing people" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/03/obama-drones-double-down_n_4208...
of course it's by executive order executed via drone video jocks half a world away from any blood or, heaven forfend, prospect of live ammunition or retaliation of any kind.
these last two presidents are a real matched set.
The Governor of Texas DOES NOT have the power to unilaterally commute a death sentence. He can only act after a clemency board reccommends it and the board turned down Tucker's petition.
Karla Faye Tucker killed two people with a pickaxe and an axe. She testified that she had "multiple orgasms" while killing the woman, one orgasm with each blow of the axe.
Its obvious you suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome but hating on Bush dosen't change the facts. And Karla Faye Tucker deserved the death sentence and she got it good and hard.
dass rayciss?
Sick humor. Sick I tell you!
Re: "Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and on, and on. You name the state, and the US has an agenda for how it thinks things should go..."
YANKEE GO HOME
members of a mexican cartel take a sales reward trip?
They have decent pyramids in Mexico. What the hell, muchachos?
Ziggurats, not exactly pyramids.
They self-identify as pyramids.
Which tells a very important story about how all life came to migrate from the garden of Eden.
Those who paid attention understood.
Those who are full of hate, didn't .
Is that a new Members OnlyTM ad?
Looks 'shopped' to me.
What else would you expect from a military totalitarian regime? The current government in Egypt has murdered hundreds, if not thousands, without blinking an eye. Western media blacks out this important news.
So much for Democracy. They had that. But it didn't mesh well with the central bankers so they nullified the elections and brushed the Muslim Brotherhood aside like it was nothing.
If you stand for democracy, it doesn't mean you brush it aside and support a military state whenver it doesn't suite your needs. If anything this tragic story only shines a glaring light on just how corrupt this world has become.
If you are smart, you stay OUT of the Middle East, Mexico, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Greece, Ferguson, and anywhere else where social unrest is increasing along with military control lest you become collateral damage.
Unless something is done to address the resurgence of fascism, this time at the hands of the central bankers and their partners (multi national corporations), soon there may be no place to run... exept maybe Antartica.
That'll teach El Chapo to try and take a vacation!
His lowrider monster truck had difficulty navigating the dunes.
When you said totalitarian regime in Egypt, you wouldnt by chance care to compare and contrast that to the USA govt. Cause we have killed far more than just tourists, throw in wedding parties, farmer's markets, etc
Only thing we never seem to hit is a barmitzvah or a synagogue.
We're on the same side, so that's a good thing
!
they couldn't get the charcoal lit and just needed a little help from above
Maybe the USA can get Egypt to protect America's borders.
We barbequed some folks.
Rick Perry trying to resuscitate his campaign. Oops.
Pork BBQ ... a fatal mistake out there.
A lot of brown and black meat for sure, bloody.
beef brisket ;-)
Just Egypts contribution in making Mexican Hot Tamales.....
But really....This is how Egypt handles the "Mexican Imigration" issue.
Yeah, but they were brownies.
Good!!! Brown people are all the same. USA! USA! USA!
-Red Team voter
They might have been mistook for western anglos, cause a lot of upper class messicans are "white". I was cashiering at a fast food place once, and a bunch of white people speaking spanish mobbed in and I asked the dude ordering, "are you guys from Uruguay ?????" he said no, mexico. I looked back at the kitchen staff, and then looked at him, and thought , yeah right !!!!!!!!!!!!
There's just gotta be a way to make this "our fault" so we're somehow shamed with guilt into taking moar Mexicans in. How bout...they had to transit through Houston (IAH, otherwise known as, George Bush International Airport) and their sombreros were confiscated by fanatical union TSA employees making them completely unrecognizable to the trigger happy Egyptian pilots!? ;-)
duuude, please for all of our sakes, please keep your day-job
- Ned
The Egyptian military needs some practice. If the attack had been carried out by a Mexican Cartel, there would have been NO survivors.
The BBQ was not halal.
Comen chuletas de centro lomo de puerco (They ate bone-in center cut pork chops). I read it on the front page of Cardenas (http://www.cardenasmarkets.com/src/v1.html)
After the smoke clears: "OMGWTFBBQ?"
It was the crime of not eating at the oasis "snack shack". So the Egyptian military doesn't have binoculars? This is the police state attacking first because your behavior was not standard issue. Then they investigate after you are dead or maimed.
Coming to a town near you.
It already has.
Oopsies...We made a mistake.
Here survivors. Have some TAXPAYER MONEY and keep yer mouth shut...or we can make another "mistake".
We have to pay no personal consequences for fucking up yer life.
-Yer Police Farce.
The GOONS have no conscience. They have YOU pay for it. They thank you for YOUR SUPPORT because without your Financial Support, then they could not purchase the complicity ofthe survivors.
It is Murder for hire.
Prepare accordingly
Beans kept falling through the grill.
That's because they were free-hole-lees!!!
Ayyyy, caramba!!!
dey knowed it wud all ovah when d'beans fall through d'grill, sistah...
So trump needs to promise to hire Egyptians for DHS after he is elected.
FORWARD SOVIET!
Loop de dupe
FORWARD SOVIET!
Whoa, glad the cover on my Weber grill is camo'd!
After the revolution things will be different, not better, just different......
Speaking of "Fucktards"...Why are they "having a Bar-B-Que" in the middle of the fucking desert in a nutjob, Muslum religious fanatic, fucktard nation on a contenant that is falling apart?
More proof Natural Selection is total fucking bullshit...if it was true, all 22 would be dead.
If the morons would have bothered to check, they would have easily figured out the USA wasn't finished spreading "Freedom and Democracy" in the area...
What is the difference between 22 Mexicans having a barbeque and an ISIS encampment?
I don't know....I just fly the Drone....
I'd say it's a good indication that the only danger in many of these places is indeed the US Empire's spasms of violence. As you indicate, most people won't have a barbecue in the middle of an obvious battlefield. Though I did have an awfully nice cookout this summer in Southern Utah, which would qualify as the middle of the fucking desert in a nutjob religious fanatic fucktard region. Nobody bothered us in the least, however. Because, I imagine, there was no US military presence, nor oil, nor pipeline routes.
If we trace radical Islamic Military actions back, we find an explosion occurred during the US led war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The US paid to set up religious scholls all over the Middle East, in hopes of creating radicals who would go to fight the Soviet occupation. From these schools in the 80's, entire generations of fully trained radical islamists moved across all nations of the Middle East. After the Soviets were defeated, the USA cut these guys lose to invade and conquer Afghanistan, and to start attacking all secular Arab states. The rest is history. The last spasm of US involvment with radical Islam was the arming, funding and training of 30,000 Jihadists in Turkey and Jordan to go and fight Assad in Syria. Libya was turned into a Jihadist base camp by NATO, from which arms and men could be funneled to the anti Assad forces. Or so Washington thought. We live in a world of radical Islam, and the USA has played at least 50% of the entire roll in creating and fostering it, even today we fund ISIS through Saudi Arabia.
Indeed. Another man caused disaster with completely predictable results. Kinda makes you think that might have been the plan all along...
I think the factor that undermines the entire project is the fact that people are waking up to it. By analogy, we have our own population of awakening Agenda 21 fucktards.
I thought the USA started this militant Islam stuff 13 centuries ago. The soviets' misadventures with Rep Tom Hanks stingers having been more recent.
For an old con, look up "Zionism."
wrong place
Can't seem to get comments to work properly.
Actually, doesn't the NSA have a big facility in southwestern Utah? Whatever you do, don't put up a Confederate flag: that'll get your ass droned for sure.
UTAH DATA CENTER WIKI
I live in slc and I kinda consider it just down the road a bit.
"It is located at Camp Williams near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake"
Wow, and I thought driving down the Moki Dugway in a Toyota Corolla was scary as hell. (Go ahead and Google "Moki Dugway." It's a scary state highway in Utah, innocuously labeled as a mere "Scenic Route." Sure, if loss of bowel control constitutes "Scenery." One of the few state highways I know of with over 130 TripAdvisor reviews.)
Actually, I stand by that; it was scary as hell. But not as scary as running across the NSA in the middle of nowhere with no witnesses.
It's almost as though the same type of people that organized the wildly successfull "War On Drugs" are in charge of the "War On Terror." War On Poverty? War On Education? War On Freedom!!! MOAR WAR!!!
You're right! Every time we have a "War On" something, there ends up being more of it.
Lets declare an all-out War On Peace, War On Freedom, and War On Prosperity.
We've had the "War on Drugs," fortunately. How about the "War on Overly-Friendly Busty Sluts?"
The pyramids just aren't worth visiting ever since Napoleon trashed the place and shot the nose off the Sphynx........at this point I'd rather go to a BBQ in Compton.
The muslims cut off the nose not Napoleon, well it might have been one of the other Pharos but no cannon was fired at the Sphynx. I'll bet your an American college fessor aintcha...
There's always one that doesn't get the joke.
Long pig in Compton.
Fake story and it's still funny.
How will this impact the tourism industry. Snark off/
Well..I for one won't be going there anytime soon.
Yeah, good luck with that investigation, Enrique. I'm sure you'll make a lot of progress given that you're country is essentially a US vassal state. But keep flying those Italian flag colors like you mean something!
coming to a town near you.
[quote]Translation, Mexico wants a "full investigation into what happened." [/quote]
Hmm, how's that Mexican "investigation" into 43 dead students coming along?
OK? 4 4x4s? 4+4+4=12
12 dead.
22 people mistakenly bombed.
Is anything true any more? Or is it all BULLSHIT?
You're really good at math.
I bet he is really good at grammer and English to.
Gawd Damn you, you leave my Grammer out of this. She had nothing to do with it.
STOP "grammar" "too"
ho li fuk retardski everywheresky
I didn't say 4 + 4x4= 12. I said there are 3 4s in that description.
The use of doubles, and triples, in the occult is extremely common.
And what do we see in this story? 3 4s. 2 2s. These guys have a friggin calling card, which they use to 'signal' their confidantes. You know, like Flight 77, on 9/11. And then what floor did the plane (not Flight 77, but one of the other hijacked planes) crash into? 77.
I am not saying the 'numerology' proves anything. I am saying you have to watch out for these asshats, and one of the ways they 'signal' others 'in the know' is often using numerology. The elites are into kabbalah, occult, tarot, Freemasonry, much more, and much worse. It is what it is.
So, there are NO coincidences ...
EVERYTHING is pre-ordained or part of a conspiracy.
Got it ... Total Bullshit!
Illuminati confirmed
I had to buddy. It was too easy of a joke. On a side note, not sure this is a conspiracy. What purpose does blowing some mexicans into pieces at a BBQ serve. I am sure Mexico will not do a damn thing as they are one broke dick shithole of a country. Thats a long ride across the ocean in a dingy.
22 mexicans in 4 vehicles. That seems about right. What is the problem?
hell, I have seen 12 mexican roofers pile out of a 1992 Crown Vic.
Many years ago i managed to drive 10 friends home in my Mini!
It was a bit tight, but funny as hell!
Surprised the suspension could stand it!
2+2=4
"a vehicle"...cause they couldn't fit 12 on a camel.
Ninty percent of Mexican men that have tried camels say they prefer women.
Lots of people who've tried Steyvesant prefer Camels.
Not necessarily, if you are an accountant.
SOP anywhere in the third world is 6 (or 7) adults per SUV. Doubly so for a tourism operator, that otherwise has to sacrifice profit for the added expense of moar gas and drivers.
What can we learn from this story? Never bring a sand nig to the desert , perhaps.
what happened to the other 38 Mexicans?
Weight. I think.
You forgot the 10 egyptians.
You forgot that just because 12 mexicans died, doesnt mean all mexicans died.
To be fair, the rest of the world can fit more people into a 4x4. They're probably not as fat as an average American.
Only 22? If you sit in a supermarket parking lot here in South Idaho on a Saturday you can watch 22 Mexicans get out of a Mini Cooper.
How do you like your steaks? Well done.
It was more likely goat but I'm trying to cut back on the shrapnel.
Goat is tasty meat.
In related news, Donald Trump showed off the prototype border patrol stations he will build on the Mexican border, in the shape of a 200-foot long sphinx with The Donald's head.
Donald Trump; "Mmm, interesting!"
Were the Mexicans in Egypt illegally or legally?
At this point what difference does it make?
-Government of Egypt
Wealthy Mexicans traveling to Egypt?
Why come to the US if wages are increasing in Mexico?
Because they are still higher in the US.
Great for Egyptian tourism.
You can really relax on your vacation knowing that you can have your ass blown up at any time.
Make sure the the Pyramids are last on your bucket list.
There is STILL Egyptian tourism? ????
Hard to believe anyone would fly anywhere unless absolutely unavoidable.
Everything about air travel is just fucking terrible.
Get to the airport 3 hours before your flight so you can fully anticipate the thrill of being felt up and fucked about by some brain-dead asshole with blue rubber gloves only to sit next to some overly large waste of skin while suffering shitty food and cramped legs. Off the plane - fucked about some more by some other uniformed, self-important dickhead asking you what is the reason for your journey
I just wanted to experience the thrill of travelling /sarc
Just make sure you bring a blonde person with you....you look too much like the natives you get shot!
Just put up a flag ...
Preferably Canadian.
Mr Harper is doing his beat to make the Canadian Flag just as despised aroung the world as the Stars and Stripes.
Credit where it's due, in that department, he's doing a bang-up job!
Bad Luck Bernardo.
There seem to be some people that just want to see things "burn". They like killing and will do as much as they can if they can get away with it.
Unfortunately governments seem to be overrun with these creeps.
There are 3 likely explainations:
1) As drinking and driving is a national past time South of the border they were probably lubed up and took the wrong right turn at San Yisdro.
2) They have expanded the cocaine trafficing routes from West African to Suez.
3) They going to pass themselves off as Syrians and illegally cross in Western Europe on their way to Munich (the new San Diego of the Alps)
4) they were exploring new synergies in international cross-border trade not excessively encumbered with red-tape.
Didn't know what else to do with the surplus on their EBT cards.
I guess that's one way to deal with an immigration problem.
I guess that's one way to deal with an immigration problem.
Coming to a FEMA Sector near you!!!
mexicanski muchachos searched for welfare in egypt desert?
so stupid there is no welfare in deserts outside of israel
Please tell me this is "The Onion"!
They were forced to barbeque their own pork because you just can't find a good rib shack anywhere along the Nile.
Goddamn brown people just keep getting in the way of freedom munitions...
If this is true the Egyptian military are fucking retards.
Brown People in the mid-east. They are a peso a dozen. Life is cheap, either a predator drone, a car bomb, ied, CIA black site or a saud/ISIS beheader will get you.
Sucks but at least one can buy RTN, LMT or BA knowing there is always a market for the products.
How does an aircraft shell someone? Dont they bomb people? or was it one of those weird airforce prototypes that actually had artillery?
Actually the C130 does have an artillery gun but I don't think the Egyptians have them.
The F-16 is very well armed ...
with a 20mm Gatling gun system produced by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems.
ref: http://www.gd-ots.com/armament_systems/ags_F-16.html
artillery gun=howitzer
C130 Spooky/Spectre
praxis, I see these misnomers and wonder about the so called accuracy of the financial content.
Editors?!? We don't need no stinkin' editors!
Who the fuck would go to Egypt and have a BBQ?
The last "hot rub" you'll ever need to taste
Apparently Mexicans.