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Security Council cancels Congo trip
hosted ^ | Apr 16

Posted on 04/16/2010 9:29:39 AM PDT by JoeProBono

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council has canceled a trip to Congo because of the volcanic ash cloud over Europe.

Diplomats from the 15 council nations were scheduled to leave New York for Paris on Friday night and change planes for Kinshasa, but almost all flights to France and many across Europe have been canceled because of the hazardous cloud from an erupting volcano in Iceland....

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KEYWORDS: cloud; congo; jpb; security; securitycouncil; unitednations; volcano


1 posted on 04/16/2010 9:29:39 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

King Leonardo would be very disappointed!!!


2 posted on 04/16/2010 9:31:49 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: JoeProBono

the child raping will have to go on without them
the pimp market must be deeply saddened


3 posted on 04/16/2010 9:34:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
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To: RexBeach

4 posted on 04/16/2010 9:34:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

The Congo must have run out of champagne.


5 posted on 04/16/2010 9:40:29 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: RexBeach

King Leopold...

You gotta hand it to him.


6 posted on 04/16/2010 9:49:14 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

King Leonardo’s realm was known as the “Bongo Congo”! :)


7 posted on 04/16/2010 9:55:58 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: RexBeach

I’d forgotten completely about that! LOL.. got me.


8 posted on 04/16/2010 9:57:00 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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