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Egyptian Military "Accidentally" Kills 12 Mexicans Having A Barbecue After Mistaking Them For ISIS

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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:

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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Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:33 | 6546839 Cruel Aid
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Exactly and lol

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:59 | 6546999 Killer the Buzzard
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Actually the lamb kebob's over there are awesome.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:09 | 6546714 Yen Cross
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  And of course, it's all crickets in the western MSM about this tragedy.

  How you say Pendejo in Egyptian?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:12 | 6547109 Element
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Out of crickets, the UN ate them.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:09 | 6546715 Latitude25
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Barbecueing in a war zone with ongoing ISIS battles.  They win the Darwin award for stupidity.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:33 | 6546789 hedgeless_horseman
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The great thing about The Global War on Terror is that the entire planet is now a war zone.

Thanks to the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), if the US Government thinks your little backyard BBQ in Topeka, Kansas, is a meeting of terrorists, then they can drone your asses with chemical warheads on Hellfire missiles, and it is all perfectly legal.

 

Hellfire thermobaric warhead using a metal augmented explosive charge is used primarily in urban warfare, against bunkers, buildings caves and other concealed targets. This warhead is designed to inflict greater damage in multi-room structures, compared to the Hellfire's standard or blast-fragmentation warheads. The Metal Augmented Charge or MAC (Thermobaric) Hellfire, designated AGM-114N, has completed rapid development cycle in 2002 and was deployed during OIF by US Marines Helicopters in Iraq. The new warhead contains a fluorinated aluminum powder that is layered between the warhead casing and the PBXN-112 explosive fill. When the explosive detonates, the aluminum mixture is dispersed and rapidly burns. The resultant sustained high pressure is extremely effective against enemy personnel and structures. The AGM-114N is designed for deployment from helicopters such as the AH-1W or UAVs such as the Predator drones.

 

http://defense-update.com/products/h/hellfire.htm

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:34 | 6546842 Latitude25
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Well with the immigration of 10,000 Syrian "refugees" to the US your Kansas battles may begin soon..........But not yet.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:48 | 6546913 hedgeless_horseman
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If you want to have a safe and secure terrorist meeting in America, simply rent an AFGE conference room.  Tell them you are putting together a new PAC for the DNC, and they won't even charge you.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:55 | 6548062 gonetogalt
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I checked half a dozen pages on the AFGE site you linked. Nowhere on any page could I discern what AFGE actually stands for, it could be All Fucking Gov Employees, maybe ???

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:23 | 6548182 Clycntct
Mon, 09/14/2015 - 20:29 | 6548754 logicalman
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If 'country' #1 leaves 'country' #2 to do what it will, it reduces the chances of 'country' #2 wanting to fuck with 'country' #1.

Seems simple to me.

But countries are bullshit. Replace 'country' with 'human being' and we may be onto something.

 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:09 | 6546718 Kassandra
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It's true...unfortunately.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:09 | 6546719 rlouis
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This might incent the Mexican government to a little tit-for-tat on our southern border - take out a few isis border crashers.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:10 | 6546720 Chuck Knoblauch
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Mexican what?

Tourists, drug smugglers, legit business.

No fucking context in this article.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:10 | 6546722 booboo
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Some Cartel heads wife and kids. The CIA should have warned them before they left since they have an open line of communications and regularly yuk it up and talk soccer.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:11 | 6546726 Mike Honcho
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Mexicans you say?  That is an act of war towards the US.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:11 | 6546727 Argenta
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If you'd asked me if this article's title was a joke before I read it I'd have sworn it was.  Are you kidding me?  You can't make this crap up...

-Argenta

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:12 | 6546729 starman
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I thought Mexicans dont BBQ cause the beans fall through the grill?! 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:19 | 6546757 Bunghole
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Any good Mexican knows foil is your friend when it comes to cooking or eating.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:25 | 6546794 booboo
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Them little fuckers can cook on a engine manifold, seen it done many times.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:14 | 6546731 Fukushima Fricassee
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" Make a run for the Border"  "We Taco Belled some folks"

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:14 | 6546735 pupdog1
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Not our fault for once.

The US doesn't go after Mexican tourists.

Bammy prefers peasant children gathering firewood.

Or wedding parties.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:15 | 6546740 SnivellingEarthquake
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Tourist, Terrorist, they sound much the same.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:17 | 6546747 buttmint
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...errata...Mexicans do not barbeque, why?

The beans fall through the grates!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:26 | 6547521 PleasedToMeatYou
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Time for you to reach up there and treat yourself to another mint. 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:17 | 6546750 SmittyinLA
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Suspicious, smells like rotten fish.

If i were a cartel kingpin..... I might try to restock RPGs on my vacation, theres a huge Lebanon hash/heroin supply chain, for like 40 years now, <Slim Helu?> EGYPT may be easier to do business with Muslim heroine smugglers now that it's run by criminal stooges on the take.

I bet they ship direct from Egypt to Mexico.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:29 | 6546822 libertysghost
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Exactamente!!!!

I'm not buying this for a second.  It sounds like a "hit" to me.  Egypt get a lot of Mexican nationals on vacation does it?  Hmmmm?  They drive around in 4, 4 x 4s...armored maybe?  With a band of "locals" too eh?  

This was more likely a chance to get rid of competition or secure some new market share on some elicit end...it'll be fascinating to see if we ever get the names of all those killed "by accident".   

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:03 | 6547023 Benjamin123
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Of course they do. People from all around the world go to Egypt as tourists, though now far less than before. Including the very real and outnumbered middle classes and rich classes from all 3rd world countries.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:52 | 6547681 libertysghost
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I didn't say "they didn't"...I said "alot?"  Read please before making yourself look dumb.  So how many you think tour Egypt in a year?  How many tourists getting mowed down by Egyptian military in a year?  

Our point isn't that all Mexicans are there for elicit reasons.  Our point is that if a a half dozen Mexicans in Egypt gets taken out by the Egyptian airforce there is a decent chance it wasn't as "random" as they want to make it appear.  I know...coincidence theorists abound.  

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:03 | 6547754 delacroix
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some german tourists got machinegunned a few years ago, at the pyramids.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:21 | 6546764 Chippewa Partners
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Just like redneck deer hunters .........if it's brown it's down!!!!!!!!!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:24 | 6546781 Dr. Engali
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Hey, I resemble that remark.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:26 | 6546802 booboo
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Can't eat the antlers.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 20:35 | 6548764 logicalman
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No, but you can use 'em for tip overlays on your next bow build.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:21 | 6546765 hannah
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so isis is visiting tourists spots now....hahaha! you have to be a special case of stupid to kill people at a tourist spot thinking they were terrorist.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:25 | 6546788 youngman
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Some of that Mexican food can be very deadly.....I would take them out too

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:25 | 6546791 Able Ape
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Nothing tastes better than a thick steak that was tenderized and cooked by .50 caliber tracer rounds!...

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:27 | 6546805 silentboom
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Not so great for future tourism.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:27 | 6546810 worbsid
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At least now the government is sure that those 12 are no longer terrorists.  You have to detroy them to save them?  

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:35 | 6546850 New_Meat
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Like Dunkin' Witches in Salem Ma, back in the day.  Drown the witch, if she dies, she wasn't a witch.  Works every time it is tried.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:30 | 6546826 Guns N Metals
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It is the state of Israel and their Israeli agents in the U.S., i.e., AIPAC that get the U.S. entangled in Middel Eastern affairs.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:04 | 6547760 delacroix
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al sissi is a jew

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:30 | 6546827 Guns N Metals
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It is the state of Israel and their Israeli agents in the U.S., i.e., AIPAC that get the U.S. entangled in Middel Eastern affairs.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:31 | 6546830 SmittyinLA
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Who visits the Egypt desert in Sept for "vacation" other than smugglers?

From Mexico, "bueno vamos a ir a Egipto este verano cuando hace mucho calor aquí en México"

 

If cartel kingains were whacked, would the Mexican got mention it if they were implicated <cuz we know they all are>¿

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:32 | 6546834 AlfredNeumann
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Mexicans, ISIS whats the diff?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:00 | 6547006 Benjamin123
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And you are supposed to be the evolved humanitarian with a critical mind..

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:44 | 6546858 RagnarRedux
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Brown people, thinking that they themselves all look alike. How rayyyciss.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:57 | 6546979 Benjamin123
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Chances are the mexicans were white.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:07 | 6547062 Jethro
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Most likely. I was sort of shocked the first time I met a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Mexican. There are plenty of ethnic Germans in Mexico (thanks to Maximilian), and I try not to hold them responsible for the circus music...

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:17 | 6547152 Benjamin123
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Most latin american countries are a bit like south africa. Some white minority ruling the show, blacks and indians at the bottom and all sort of mestizos acting as a social and economic buffer.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:29 | 6547227 Oldrepublic
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around 180,000,000 whites live in Latin America, about 40% of the total population. 91 million live in Brazil, 38 million in Argentina and about 25 million in Mexico.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:32 | 6547240 Oldrepublic
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Maximilian had real class, he paid each Mexican soldier who shot him one gold coin, only requesting that he not be shot in the face!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 19:06 | 6548549 RevIdahoSpud3
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But wasn't he shot in the face anyway?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:44 | 6546900 TongueStun
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If only everyone here would start shooting 'cans....

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:44 | 6546902 BlackVoid
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You have to be really dumb to visit the ME as a tourist. Darwin award worthy.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:46 | 6546912 Oldrepublic
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I was in Egypt two years, met two Mexicans. One was a conductor at a Mexican orchestra. All the major tourist attractions are empty.   Prices for foreign tourists are very cheap. The Western desert is very empty, it is common every year for someone to find old planes from World War II battles. A lot of Americans think that all Mexicans are poor, that is because the worst type come to the US. In Mexico there is a large Middle class. Those Mexicans probably spoke excellent English.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:22 | 6547500 PleasedToMeatYou
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You have way too much common sense. 

Who the hell let you into this asylum? 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:47 | 6546922 Thick Willy
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Anyone dumb enough to visit a Muslim nation as a tourist deserves whatever happens to them.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:49 | 6546931 DearLeaderMaobama
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Maybe we can hire the Egyptian military to guard our southern border.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:51 | 6546943 Deathstar
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Well, at least the Egyptians know who the trouble makers are.

Mexicants reputation of drug smugglers and illegal fence jumpers precedes them.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:52 | 6546948 atomicwasted
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Mexicans can't catch a break anywhere they go.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:55 | 6546951 Benjamin123
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Few things make me cringe as much as a latin american patrician in democratic clothes pretending to care for some dead commoners, too cynic for me.

Believe me, Enrique Peña Nieto was more than pleased. Every sort of disgrace is good in the eyes of latin american patricians, they give them a chance to stand strong with "their people".

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:53 | 6546954 Sturm und Drang
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Weddings? Barbecues? Is nothing scared?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:08 | 6547063 1stepcloser
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CIA drug runners are safe from drone targeting..

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:25 | 6547204 Proofreder
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Yes, BBQ can be very scary

Weddings even more so.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 22:15 | 6549084 Crush the cube
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Weddings? Barbecues? Is nothing scared?

 

Hey, thats what it said in the manual. 

Isis vs. Sisi, which one was on our side again, or do they share the same acronym?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:57 | 6546981 JewSmack
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That's one HELL of a desert crossing and swim!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 13:59 | 6547003 Question Reality
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The Egyptians just wanted to help out with the barbeque. Not getting to bring pork, they went for long pig.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:06 | 6547045 1stepcloser
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Egypt just got tired of their low riding, bouncing cars...sheeeeit holmes...

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:08 | 6547072 Chairman
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Ben Carson, who was known for practicing brain surgery on himself said, "See I told you that you can kill Mexicans in the desert with drones"

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:12 | 6547106 Mr. Bones
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Obama killed a minor American citizen at a BBQ in Yemen in 2011 in the misguided attempt to allegedly kill Ibrahim al-Banna who is linked to AQAP which is linked to Ansar al-Sharia which was implicated in the Benghazi attack.  al-Banna is still alive as of 2014, which begs the question: if bagging him was such a high priority as to excuse the killing of a minor born in Denver, CO how is he still alive?

If the "accidental" assassination of citizens doesn't merit a policy change, I highly doubt 12 dead Mexicans will even register for a response. 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:17 | 6547143 venturen
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can we hire some Egyptian Border Guards?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:17 | 6547155 q99x2
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If they used Bitcoin this kind of thing wouldn't happen.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:18 | 6547162 Gerb00
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The dispatcher is still learning english, he got tourism and terroism confused....voila dead meskins...

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:21 | 6547182 shovelhead
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"OK, I got a group of about 20. Should we have ground forces ID them?"

"Nah, light em up. We'll ID them later."

"Roger that."

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:22 | 6547185 Nimrod of the North
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" Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto condemned the attack and demanded a full investigation, and his foreign minister said survivors told officials they were fired upon by helicopters and other aircraft."

In other news, Pena Nieto was in no hurry to investigate the thousands of Narco-related deaths in his own country,

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:06 | 6547411 Falconsixone
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He should shoot himself in the head to show his outrage.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:22 | 6547188 samjam7
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American guns killing for war on drugs or war on terrorism in either Mexico or Egypt, different location same result. 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:23 | 6547189 zvzzt
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To be fair to the Egyptians, the whole area has been off limits to any personnel - let alone tourists - since January 2015 from dusk till dawn. Camping was also strictly forbidden. Horrible for the people killed, but the travel agent should have know (restrictions were broadcaster elaborately). 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:49 | 6547327 insanelysane
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Ranger El-Smith-Asisi is taking the protection of "pik-aaah-nik' baskets a bit too far.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:57 | 6547370 Bankster Kibble
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Next time get a signed release from everybody, first.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:41 | 6547222 beaglebog
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Ahhhh ... that explains it.

 

Fuckers were having an illegal barbie.... whatever that is.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:54 | 6547355 Falconsixone
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Smoke was blowing off the property and they'd been warned once.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:32 | 6547235 homiegot
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"They all look the same to me."

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:38 | 6547245 Sockshow Puppethand
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"I wish I was in Bahariya
Eating barbequed iguana...

                   I'm on a Mexican radio. I'm on a Mexican, whoa-Oh, radio.
                   I'm on a Mexican radio. I'm on a Mexican, whoa-Oh, radio."

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:01 | 6547388 Falconsixone
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I'm in the Mexican cia....whoa-whoa

I'm in the Mexican cia whoa-whoa

I'm learning how kill ....whoa-whoa

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:38 | 6547275 JetsettingWelfareMom
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"Hey they're trying to run! They must be terrorists light 'em up!"

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:45 | 6547309 insanelysane
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The pilot was listening to the Clash at the time of the incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:46 | 6547312 Falconsixone
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Black sombreros 80% off until sold out!

 

Black sombreros 80% off until sold out!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:48 | 6547321 Teh Finn
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Why in the world would you want to tour anywhere in the ME right now?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:50 | 6547337 insanelysane
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Because Munich and Chicago are much more dangerous right now.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:37 | 6547969 BigJim
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Wait until you see what ISIS have in store for Egyptian antiquities. You wanna see the ancient sites? Better go soon.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 19:17 | 6548587 RevIdahoSpud3
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We don't have to now. The government is bringing the Syrians to us here in South Idaho. It's getting to be so...cosmopolitan...burqa's, sombrero's, cowboy's,Mormon missionaries? We got it all.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:51 | 6547339 Falconsixone
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Bring our young helicopters home!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 14:52 | 6547340 Winston Smith 2009
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16 Mexicans in a "tourist group" of 22 having a BBQ out in the f'ing middle of nowhere (look up Bahariya Oasis) in the western desert of Egypt. What was that all about? Illicit drug/arms trade?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:03 | 6547393 Twaddlefree
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So, the existance of USA provided arms and materiel makes the use of them the USA's fault? Isn't that kind of like saying guns are to blame for shooting deaths? Would it be better to have Iran and Syria (via the Russians) providing arms and materiel? If we had a president who wasn't in cahoots with the Muslims, Morsi would never have been elected and the majority of Egyptians, who fully understood what was at stake and who fully wanted freedom, might have been able to realize true liberty.

And, really, who goes to a country like this on vacation? Isn't that kind of like the folks who get all warm and fuzzy about going to Syria to "help" against the evil West, then become fodder for terrorist propaganda just before they're beheaded?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:11 | 6547438 samjam7
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You sir have a very strange perception on how to solve violence in this world. And yes, do stay at home I hope you will be much safer there. 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:06 | 6547415 henry chucho
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The rest of the story.."When the Mexican tourists broke out the cans of spray paint,and started painting 13 norteno,and 14 sur on the sides of the pyramids,the Egyptian military mistook the grafitti as the Arabic symbol for ISIS,and,unfortunately,gunned down the Mexicans"

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:46 | 6547638 Jusup
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Rest of the story . When some stupid US brainwashed egyptian soldiers saw some mexican tourists they decided to shoot them first ask questions later.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:08 | 6547424 Skiprrrdog
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Hey, look on the bright side; that is 12 less Mexican immigrants we have to worry about illegally crossing the border from Mexico to the USSA...

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:18 | 6547478 calltoaccount
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huibera sido usted!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:37 | 6547592 Jusup
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Hey look at the bright there's more low wage jobs for you're already collapsing economy that you can take, no wait you're too lazy to take them. You prefer to be on food stamps and those jobs will be filled by no one so again good-bye US economy 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:10 | 6548132 falconflight
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70% of anchor baby households are having their asses wiped by an American TaxPayer.  Are you a bot?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:31 | 6548213 Jusup
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American taxpayerr my ass your QE propped economy doesn't even know what paying is with all of your 0% interest rates etc. but paytime is coming and all your worthless dollars are coming back to you along with hyperinflation you just wait and see then you'll wish you really paid all you owe in time

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 19:53 | 6548691 falconflight
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You don't think that TaxPayers are footing the bill? QE is paid for by the TaxPayers as well.  I fail to see how I'm personally responsible or supportive for the corruption and criminality of the Fed-US Gov't dictatorship.  I'm doing just about everything I can think of without going to prison.  You've probably read many of the comments in response to me today, and honestly your post is the only one that actually bothers me.  

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 23:52 | 6549346 Jusup
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Ok

a) QE is not payed by US taxpayers only it is paid by the whole world because the dollar is the world reserve currency

b)Yeah right like you don't benefit at all by a Fed propped dollar and 0% interest rates sure the oligarchs benefit a whole lot more.

c) Ok it's not your fault directly but you still reap the benefits no matter how much you complain living in a  "1st world economy" and thrashing third world economies in Latin America which don't have nearly as many opportunites as you do for looking to make a better living.Economies on which you depend a lot for your well-being no matter what Trump says.

 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:17 | 6547470 PleasedToMeatYou
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Please!  This is supposed to be a happy occasion.

Let's not bicker and argue over ooooo killed oooo.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:18 | 6547476 moneylover3
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BBQ, all in the allah forsaken place...?!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:28 | 6547534 NoWayJose
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Were the Mexicans cooking pork on their BarBQ. Punishable by death under Sharia law!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:31 | 6547552 Terrible Fed
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I was waiting for the laugh-track.....still waiting....

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:34 | 6547577 pupdog1
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Safe to say that Visit the pyramids is off everyones' bucket list by now.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:13 | 6547816 Spiritof42
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Or make a visit to the pyramids the last item on your bucket list.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:37 | 6547593 cheech_wizard
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Shouldn't the US be inviting the Egyptian military to patrol our southern border? 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:43 | 6547627 mog
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Judging from the shocking imcompetence of the entire incident can we be sure it wasn't the American military posing as Egyptians for te purpose of a false flag?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:39 | 6547607 arbwhore
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 ... and this is worse than droning a wedding party how?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:50 | 6547665 Able Ape
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News footage from the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06nIz4scvI

Yes, this is tragic but also STUPID as hell....

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:10 | 6547802 PacOps
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always good to know the ROE.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:54 | 6547693 Savyindallas
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These guys were obviously trained by Americans  - Shoot first and ask questions later  -  and hope they are terrorists.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:04 | 6547758 roadhazard
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They were killed for advertising that they would work for less than the locals.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:10 | 6547804 Spiritof42
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This might be giving Donald Trump some new ideas on what to do with Mexicans.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:12 | 6547785 Spiritof42
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  • Reminiscent of Pakistani wedding parties mistaken for Taliban.
Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:13 | 6547823 PacOps
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/14/us-egypt-violence-mexico-victi...

Moar: 

Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:03pm EDT

 Eight Mexicans slain in Egypt attack, including Reiki healers: relative

"I don't think they were mistaken (for militants)," Bejarano's sister Gabriela told local radio. "As far as I understand ... they were dining when they came under attack." 

 

"They were in a permitted area. On this occasion they didn't stay to camp, because that was what was not permitted."

 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:25 | 6547877 Lumberjack
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Was Guzman (El Chapo) part of the group?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:31 | 6547931 Lumberjack
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Lots of very good tunnel builders on the Egyptian/israeli border region.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:44 | 6548008 NoWayJose
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If we had these Egyptian guys on border patrol, would we have an legal alien problem?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 18:31 | 6548447 Benjamin123
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Egyptians kill sudanese and eritrean migrants on their way to Israel, a country that sends them to be fed in jail while not killing them, as Egypt does.

Egypt the same country that shares a border with Gaza and is as guilty of any blockade as Israel, but..

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:48 | 6548034 Hannibal
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We're all tourist now, (or you mean terrorist..?) duh.!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:57 | 6548077 Wahooo
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Wedding parties, barbeques ... doesn't matter, we drone them all.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:00 | 6548095 One of We
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When did innocent until proven guilty go down the shitter?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:03 | 6548104 gfmucci1
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Regarding the BBQ:  Don't you think it is rather brainless for tourists to be having a BBQ in 4wd vehicles along the side of the road in the desert in a country experiencing hourly terror attacks by a resurgence of orthodox Islam?

And regarding the article about the BBQ:  It is rather ethnocentric of the author to believe that it is easy to identify and spare tourists that appear for all intents and purposes to be opposing jihadists in the midst of a civil war in a nation surrounded by a resurgence of orthodox jihadi Muslims.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:06 | 6548110 scatha
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Prepare yourselves to die martyr's deaths for religion of holy barbecue ribs while vacationing in UTAH. 

Drones on US soil are not coming they already came. And they are looking for pilots. 

By the way, somebody tell all those Islamic jihadist that they are being short changed by their bosses. 

Their bosses are lying to them, talking about forty virgins waiting for them in heaven after their deaths. 

Guys, you should know that Christian crusaders were getting fifty virgins and an instant sainthood on the top of it.

Somebody is stashing ten virgins for himself per dead lunatic who was conned to die on cheap.

After all this is the same God and all are equal in eyes of God. Muslim, Christians and Jews.

 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 20:16 | 6548727 coast
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So, if a million islams die, they will have to come up with 40 million virgins...sounds like hypothencation (sp) to me.  lol.    And if after death, isnt that for eternity?  50 years goes by and you are sick of the virgins, then whatcha gonna do?  Altho, think about it, I havnt read their rhetoric, but did they actually say if they were male or female virgins? lol....And, do people really fuck in heaven?  major lol....I can see it now, everyone in heaven fucking male and female virgins...Isnt there a dog and cat heaven too?  I am busting myself up right now, sorry, I will stop,....but but but, I have so much more!!

night all my friends. 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:08 | 6548120 Son of Captain Nemo
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Another great one tht should be in the "onion" but unfortunately is not!

Eric Holder investgates Eric Holder!...

In a past time long ago in this Country you would have seen D.C. in flames and it wouldn't be because the British were in town to celebrate the 36th anniversary of it's Independence either...

To Russia, China, Iran and anyone else who wishes to join the BRICS party burn 3.806 million mi²  of it to the fucking ground and make sure the people in it don't become your  "refugees"!

Let the down arrows come...  Because when you have Attorney General's in a "republic" given the authority to investigate themselves for high crimes and treason you know your time either is or should be short on this earth!!!!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:11 | 6548135 Panic Mode
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Maybe those Mexcians refused to pay any protection fees.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:12 | 6548138 Monetas
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Mexicans are loved everywhere .... they're not a threat to anyone .... they don't meddle in other countries' affairs .... so this shouldn't have happened .... according to the liberal playbook ? ROTFLMAO

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:17 | 6548163 Jusup
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Great comment you just made a mistake spelling US citizens as mexicans it's americans lmfao

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:25 | 6548189 falconflight
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Well unless youre an Indian coming over the Mexican southern border, and then you become a legitimate firing range target.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:15 | 6548154 falconflight
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Why is the Egyptian gov't taking the blame for a IDF pilot reunion from the USS Liberty attack?  Crazy world... but I have the answer; President Sisi is a Zionist stooge.  

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:23 | 6548183 spanish inquisition
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Coming soon to a bbq near you.

 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:51 | 6548297 Dre4dwolf
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Rolling BBQ drones spicing up your local cookout with hellfire, pass the siracha

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:26 | 6548194 Peter Pan
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I have come late to the debate so let me contribute a joke to what is otherwise another sad indictment on the world we live in.

 

What did the Mexican firemen name twin boys?

 

Hose A and Hose B.

Now you can all comment about how I should keep my day job. LOL.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:38 | 6548242 Dre4dwolf
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Obama doesn't like BBQ'S he thinks they are racist.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 17:48 | 6548285 Lucky Leprachaun
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Am I missing something?  They hardly killed them in the knowledge that they were tourists.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 18:07 | 6548363 bardot63
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What was on the grill?  Pork chops and pork sausage?  What kind of effing morons go on vacation to sightsee in a war zone?  CNN will ask Trump if he will take a page from Egypt's playbook.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 18:18 | 6548403 GRDguy
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Simply another result of financial sociopaths financing sociopaths in government.  Free money created by banksters, gets used for lyin' stealin' and killin'. Disgusting, is it not!

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 19:10 | 6548562 Chupacabra1977
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They thought they were jews so it's a minor mistake.

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 19:18 | 6548593 SmittyinLA
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MubaRAK WAS NOT OUR DESPOT, Egypt picks its own rulers by military coup 

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 19:25 | 6548611 4 wheel drift
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what more proof does anyone need to realize that the ME is a pool of shitheads who deserve obliteration form this planet....

and by logical extension.... all muslims

 

worthless pieces of SHIT.... fucking pigs

 

glass the ME NOW

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 19:31 | 6548614 22winmag
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Is this any worse than Clinton and Wesley Clark's ZATO bombing this shit out of the Serbian Chinese embassy in 1999?

Mon, 09/14/2015 - 20:08 | 6548719 GRDguy
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As an old man, everytime I see the word "investigation" I immediately think of important details becoming missing, something like a "cleaner" so things don't get those truly responsible held to acount.  Gives them "plausible deniability," and screws up any further investigation to find out what really happened.  Kinda like making sure certain reports contain "right side entry point" for a right-handed suicide when the real entry point was on the left side.

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