US Navy security shoot Egyptians in Suez Canal, killing one
As always the Americans are lying. An Egyptian man was shot and killed yesterday by US Navy security, 2 others were injured and the Navy’s official reports claims “no casualties”. The man was shot in front of witnesses, died and was buried after Egyptian authorities confirmed that he was shot by the US ship… but the Navy says “there were no casualties” . American lying isn’t new to the Middle East. It was only a few years ago that we heard all about the WMD in Iraq and the Uranium in Niger...or Saddam’s connections to 9/11… or for God sake… 9/11 itself!!!
I don’t think that I have to explain the that US is already unpopular in the Middle East, but if the US Navy thinks it can raise its weapons in Egypt… on Egyptian territory against Egyptian citizens, it is royally mistaken. For every idiocy committed by the US, there will be a price to pay. If the US had one enemy in Egypt yesterday, today they are a 1 million. The US cannot come to our countries and treat us the owners and citizens as the “threat” when the US is itself the biggest threat in the world.
The more such acts are committed by the US, the more animosity they are guaranteed to provoke.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0326/p25s01-wome.html
U.S., Egypt disagree over Suez shooting, fueling suspicion
A US Navy-chartered cargo ship fired on a small Egyptian boat Monday night. Egypt says at least one man was killed, while the US initially reported no casualties.
By Liam Stack | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor from the March 26, 2008 edition
Cairo - Egypt and the United States issued conflicting accounts Tuesday of a shooting incident involving a US cargo ship and a small boat in the Suez Canal, feeding into the deep distrust here of American motives in the Middle East.
The Global Patriot, which was under short-term charter to the Navy's Military Sealift Command, entered the canal from the Red Sea after dark Monday, when it was approached by several small boats, US and Egyptian officials say.
According to the Egyptian government and local reports, the vessel opened fire on one of the motorboats as it transited through the canal, killing an Egyptian man and injuring two others. Two men on the boat were injured and one man, identified as Mohamed Moqtar Afifi by Agence France-Presse, was killed.
The US Navy has been particularly alert to the activities of such small boats near its warships since Al Qaeda's 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen killed 17 sailors.
"The Americans come to the Middle East and deal with everyone like they are Al Qaeda," says Essam el-Erian, a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most influential opposition group. He says that it is "well known in the area that these people sail beside big ships and sell things."
"It is terrible to kill poor people like this without any warning and it reflects the foolish American policy of treating everyone like an enemy," he said.
But US officials say preliminary reports from the ship indicate there were no casualties. According to the US Embassy in Cairo, the small boats approaching the ship were warned to move away from the vessel by an Arabic speaker on a bullhorn. The ship then fired "a warning flare" at one boat that did not change its course.
"One small boat continued to approach the ship and received two sets of warning shots 20 to 30 yards in front of the bow," reads the statement. "All shots were accounted for as they entered the water."
The motorboats in the Suez Canal incident are believed by many Egyptians to have belonged to mamboutis, local vendors who peddle simple goods such as cigarettes, tea, and snacks to ships passing through the canal.
Pending the results of an investigation, there has been no ready explanation for why the American account is so different from the one reported in the Egyptian local and state-run media.
Nabil Abdel Fattah, the deputy director of the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, also attributed the incident to an American "obsession" with terrorists.
"The American soldiers who come to the Middle East see a threat in everything," he said. "They think so much about terrorist groups, Al Qaeda, nationalist groups. There are many phantoms and obsessions in their minds.
"Egyptians are angry," he added. "There are many nonviolent ways that the American soldiers could get these people away, who were just trying to sell them some simple goods."
• Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
Jingoistic assholes who believe themselves to be superior with immunity that makes such acts of murder unprosecutable unless there's the media storm that warrant trial (often with scapegoats like Abu Ghraib scandal when we know Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking scums knew and approved of horrific torture and humiliation) and/or slap on the wrist (as is often the case of rape, sexual harassment and bullying of the Japanese citizens in Okinawa and elsewhere).
I trust that when the attack commences on Iran-Syria, it will be time the bestially jingoistic servants of American-Israeli hegemony face the consequence of not only annihilation but also humiliation and obliterated pride.
Disgraceful conduct in the military is a dishonorable act towards U.S., and this makes U.S. the most hated nation besides Israel. U.S. and Israel are the mortal enemies of the world because of their arrogance in the belief of militaristic supremacism, and their antagonistic foreign policies.
In the near future, there will be the time for...
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