"Aid helicopter is shot down; 4 dead
KHARTOUM - An aid helicopter for the UN-African Union mission in Darfur was shot down outside a refugee camp yesterday, killing all four crew members and scattering debris over a half-mile, Sudanese police and the UN said. The helicopter went down in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. It was operated by a private company and hired by the joint mission to carry relief materials to Muhajiria from Nyala (AP)."
And since the Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing MSM is all over this next story, I am suspicious!
"Troops rescue tourist hostages; Commandos aid Egypt, Sudan" by Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press | September 30, 2008
CAIRO - Egyptian and Sudanese troops, backed by European commandos, swooped down in helicopters yesterday to rescue a tour group that had been kidnapped in Egypt and taken on a 10-day dash across the Sahara to the frontier of Chad.
Freedom for the 11 European tourists and eight Egyptian guides came hours after Sudanese troops killed six of the abductors and captured two who revealed where the remaining gunmen were holding their captives. The European tourists and Egyptian guides returned to Cairo unharmed yesterday.
Some Egyptian officials spoke privately of a gun battle with the kidnappers that killed several of the gunmen, but there was no official confirmation of the reports. The five Germans, five Italians and a Romanian, along with eight Egyptian drivers and guides, arrived in Cairo on a military plane, smiling as they walked across the tarmac to be greeted with bouquets of flowers.
Something just stinks about this whole thing!
Reminds me of Columbia!
They were taken to a military hospital for checkups, but doctors said none had been hurt. The ordeal began Sept. 19 during a safari on the Gilf al-Kabir, a desert plateau renowned for prehistoric cave art in a remote corner of southwestern Egypt, near the Libyan and Sudanese borders. While the group was camping, heavily armed gunmen in SUVs seized them and took them across the unguarded border into Sudan.
The abduction - the first involving tourists in Egypt - was an embarrassment to the Egyptian government, which depends on tourism as the country's biggest foreign currency earner.
And CUI BONO, Israel?
The kidnappers, who officials said were Sudanese and Chadian tribesmen, reportedly demanded up to $15 million in ransom and were negotiating with German officials by satellite phone. At the same time, Egyptian and Sudanese troops working with German and Italian intelligence experts combed the desert looking for them.
On Sunday night, Sudanese troops encountered eight of the kidnappers, apparently sent to get fuel and food. In a gun battle, six of the kidnappers were killed and two were captured, Egyptian and Sudanese officials said.
????? You guys had to KILL THEM so they WOULDN'T TALK, right?
If they ever existed at all, that is!!!
The two kidnappers told authorities the remainder of the gunmen and their captives were holed up in Tabat Shajara in Chad, just across the border with Sudan, some 250 miles southwest of the Gilf al-Kebir, an Egyptian security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. --more--"
