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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:13 am Post subject: World's Luckiest Cabbie (rockets fired at US ships) |
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Incredible:
"Israeli police and witnesses said a Katyusha rocket fired from Jordan slammed into a taxi traveling near the airport in Israel's nearby Red Sea resort of Eilat, but did not explode.
"I heard a noise, the car shook, and I kept driving for two more meters (yards),'' said Israeli cab driver Meir Farhan, 40, who suffered mild wounds. "I didn't realize what it was. When I went out of the car I saw a hole in the ground on the asphalt.''
The rocket left a small crater in the road about 15 yards from the Eilat airport fence, said local police commander Avi Azulin."
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Attackers fire three missiles from Jordan; one misses U.S. Navy ship
Jamal Halaby, Associated Press
August 19, 2005 JORDAN0820
AMMAN, Jordan � Unknown assailants fired at least three missiles from Jordan early today, with one narrowly missing a U.S. Navy ship docked at port, an attack that killed a Jordanian soldier. One missile fell close to an airport in neighboring Israel, officials said.
The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, said two American amphibious ships were docked in Aqaba when a mortar was fired toward them. The vessels later sailed out of port as a result of the attacks, U.S. Navy spokesman Lt. Cdr. Charlie Brown told The Associated Press in Bahrain.
Jordanian soldier Ahmed Jamal Saleh was fatally wounded when the mortar sailed over one of the U.S. ships and slammed into a warehouse, a Jordanian security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The soldier died in the ambulance taking him to hospital; another Jordanian was also wounded, the official added.
"At approximately 8:44 a.m. local time, a suspected mortar rocket flew over the USS Ashland's bow and impacted in a warehouse on the pier in the vicinity of the Ashland and USS Kearsage,'' Brown said. "The warehouse sustained an approximate 8-foot hole in the roof of the building.''
No sailors or Marines were injured in the attack, Brown said.
A Jordanian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said another missile landed near a Jordanian hospital.
The attacks were believed to have been launched from a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Aqaba, a Jordanian Red Sea port 210 miles south of the capital, Amman, officials said.
The attacks come amid a time of tension in the region marked by Israel's withdrawal from the Palestinian Gaza and several terrorist attacks on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the past year, including the July 23 attack in Sharm el-Sheik... |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003
Location: pusan baby!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:23 am Post subject: |
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The worlds luckiest cabbie is actually the SOB driving around Busan AT THIS MOMENT wearing the 390,000 won VERSACE sunglasses that I 'misplaced' in his Vehicle when i was feeling 'tired and emotional' a couple of weeks ago (at three O'clock in the moroning).
I dont wanna talk about it. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:31 am Post subject: |
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I dont wanna talk about it. |
I think you just did. Sorry to hear about that. Have to admit that it confirms my decsion to not buy sunglasses more than $15-20. I've got a dozen lying around the house and car and if I lose 1 or 5 it's no big deal. True, there's no honeys flocking to me because of my bling shades.... |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003
Location: pusan baby!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Well I dont wanna talk about it anymore because its physically painful.I bet that ajossi thinks hes 'jack the biscuit' now....but ill be looking for him...and he knows ill be looking for him so he wont be able to enjoy them.
Where's what I want!!!!
...thats it im not even mentioning it again. |
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