Posted on 01/17/2005 2:47:21 PM PST by indcons
A fire broke out today in a neighborhood close to the Grand Mosque as thousands of pilgrims for the annual haj converged on the Muslim holy site for prayers.
Saudi officials said initial reports indicated the blaze caused no injuries and was quickly extinguished.
The pilgrims were some of the nearly two million Muslims taking part in the haj, a rite required of able-bodied faithful who can afford it at least once in a lifetime.
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In the immortal words of Darryl Strawberry: "Let it burn."
Have the annual stampedes started yet?
Do you suppose the Black Muslims who were chanting "Burn, Baby, Burn!" in Los Angeles 30 years ago will go to Mecca and chant the same thing?
There is never a MOAB (Daisy Cutter) around when you need one!
Does anyone think that anyone will give prayers of thanks to the US because we are helping their Muslim brothers and sisters in SE Asia?
Do moonrocks burn?
Years ago, a Saudi 7474 carrying some 400 pilgrims caught fire on the ground when one of the passengers lit a small charcoal brazier in the cabin in order to cook his dinner..I beleive over 250 were killed.
Get back to me when the Royal Palaces are engulfed in flames.
Mecca Mecca Hai Mecca Heiney Ho!
Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn!
Burnin'!
To my surprise, yes! One hundred stories high
People gettin' loose y’all gettin' down on the roof - Do you hear?
(the folks are flaming)Folks were screamin' - out of control
It was so entertainin' - when the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say
Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! - Burn that mother down
Burn baby burn! - Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! - Burn that mother down
Burnin'!
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I think they are making the journey so they can worship the black stone of Kaaba. It is a rock stored in a temple that they must circle 5 times.
At several miles per second, launched from the Moon and aimed at Mecca, they'll burn. . . .(evil grin)
I think of it as a sort of preparation for what's really in store for them instead of the 70 virgins or 11 raisins or whatever the nonsense promised.
I thought it was a Lockheed Tri-Star.
Heck, they didn't even give money. One of the Five Pillars of Islam is zakat or alms,but they interpret that to mean money paid through the mosque to finance suicide bombings, and terrorists who need new surface-to-air missiles or to have a sword sharpened.
The Saudis give billions for terror but chump change for relief. It's the Muslim way: public, boastful charity that isn't really charity when you look at it up close.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Actually, it was either a DC-10 or a Lockheed L1011. But, the stupidity is still present, regardless of the form of transport.
Well, today. i the USA if you travel by dometic airline, Delta, USAir..you get a bag of chips..
It was indeed an L-1011.
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I don't know about the brazier. (Perhaps another flight?)
Fire warnings about seven minutes after takeoff. Returned to Riyadh, burned on ground, killing all passengers and crew (a total of 301).
Quote:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The initiation of a fire in the C-3 cargo compartment. The source of the ignition of the fire is undetermined. Factors contributing to the fatal results of this accident were 1) the failure of the captain to prepare the cabin crew for immediate evacuation upon landing and his failure in not making a maximum stop landing on the runway, with immediate evacuation, 2) the failure of the captain to properly utilize his flight crew throughout the emergency 3) the failure of C/F/R headquarters management personnel to ensure that its personnel had adequate equipment and training to function as required during an emergency."
Actually, it was a Saudia Lockheed L1011 which caught fire, and killed all those people, in 1980-81. I was stationed at Riyadh International Airport at the time of this disaster, and at one time had a clandestine Polaroid of the aircraft, with the entire top of the cabin burned off.
It was later determined that a passenger had lit something like a sterno stove, to heat some tea, or some such, which then somehow ignited the oxygen system, causing a huge conflagration in the passenger cabin. More lives might have been saved, however the stricken aircraft's request for an emergency landing had been denied by the airport, due to the arrival of the Royal Airplane at the same time...
the infowarrior
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