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| Crane Collapse in Mecca Kills at Least 62 |
| 2015-09-11 |
| Insh'Allah.......as it is said in the region. A powerful storm in Mecca knocked down a crane at Saudi Arabia's Grand Mosque Friday, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television network reported‐and the Saudi Civil Defense authority says 62 people are dead. The Saudi Civil Defense authority confirmed the accident in a Twitter post, saying 62 people died and 30 were wounded, Reuters reported. Photos on social media showed shocked pilgrims in bloodied robes, and debris from part of a crane that looks like it crashed through a ceiling. Authorities in Mecca have been preparing for the millions of faithful making the annual Muslim Haj pilgrimage there later this month. Pics at the link. A big crane boom poking through the building. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #17 Which latin-influenced European Christians would have rendered as "Deus Vult" (or in this case, volt)... |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-09-11 23:05 |
| #16 When Mr. Wife was doing that six month factory start-up in Cairo (around month five they realized they hadn't ordered his raw materials yet; once that was taken care of, things proceeded right smartly apace), his taxi took him every day along the main thoroughfare, the one with the grassy median on which was a series of unmortered cement block huts in which people lived. Periodically on his drives between the Mena House hotel and the factory he would notice people building a new hut. Then one time he realized that the new hut was being built from an old one that had collapsed, killing the inhabitants within. In the Third World things collapse that could have been prevented with a little care, killing people. The Muslims say that Allah creates the universe anew each moment, changing it at his whim. So if the crane fell and people were wounded and killed... Insh' allah. It was God's will. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-09-11 22:38 |
| #15 n'shallah. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2015-09-11 20:00 |
| #14 Crane booms.....why do they hate us? Laws of statics and physics? Not in the Koran. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-09-11 19:53 |
| #13 I need more popcorn. And not the sissy microwave stuff, popcorn cooked in oil. Topped with real butter and salt. Mixed with bacon flavored pork rinds! Oh and how many hours til they start blaming the jews for it? Cause you know, the Saudi Royal Family (So hard to type with a straight face) is full of secret jews! |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-09-11 18:50 |
| #12 You are right - polite company would willingly, sheepishly, and actively avoid noticing that pre-hajj a lightning bolt struck a bin laden crane on 9/11 causing the crane to crash into and crack open the grande mosque, and to add insult the videos taken inside the wreckage have allowed any infidel like myself to see inside the privy of privies. And its no Angor Wat. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-09-11 18:48 |
| #11 M.Murcek, you called it. Bin Laden is the lead contractor for the El Grande Mosk project, and owned the crane. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2015-09-11 18:41 |
| #10 The Times (UK) reports: The construction giant Saudi Binladin Group is leading the mosque expansion. The Binladin family has been close to Saudi Arabia’s rulers for decades and oversees major building projects around the country. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-09-11 18:41 |
| #9 As programmed, the Haliburton Automated Weather Targeting System (HAWTS) worked flawlessly...and wait till you see our hawt spokes-model |
| Posted by: Warthog 2015-09-11 18:35 |
| #8 I'm at Rantburg because I take a more Gen. LeMay-ish view towards our adversaries than our would be betters. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2015-09-11 18:06 |
| #7 Who said we were polite ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-09-11 18:02 |
| #6 People dying is funny? How is this remotely acceptable in polite company? |
| Posted by: Hupomolet Thomosing6528 2015-09-11 17:57 |
| #5 On Sept 11th too. Irony appears to be a natural law. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2015-09-11 17:47 |
| #4 Wouldn't it be something if the contractor was the construction arm of the bin Laden family. Lotsa blood money going out. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-09-11 16:03 |
| #3 Sorry... that is just too damn funny. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-09-11 15:14 |
| #2 Gaia is angry! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-11 15:00 |
| #1 87 deaders now |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-09-11 14:55 |