Bush Gives Apology for Suez Shooting
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/world/middleeast/28egypt.html
March 28, 2008
Bush Gives Apology for Suez Shooting
By THE NEW YORK TIMES [Egypt] [Suez canal] [followup] [US forces fired on small boats approaching US flagged ship in canal] [reported yesterday with condolences from military] [today, with Bush in Egypt he’s making a specta le of apologizing] [proably little down side to being magnanimous] [*************]
CAIRO — President Bush apologized to the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, on Thursday for the killing of an Egyptian vendor when a cargo ship chartered by the United States opened fire on his small boat near the Suez Canal [***] on Monday in an episode that has enraged Egyptians.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/world/middleeast/28egypt.html
March 28, 2008
Bush Gives Apology for Suez Shooting
By THE NEW YORK TIMES [Egypt] [Suez canal] [followup] [US forces fired on small boats approaching US flagged ship in canal] [reported yesterday with condolences from military] [today, with Bush in Egypt he’s making a specta le of apologizing] [proably little down side to being magnanimous] [*************]
CAIRO — President Bush apologized to the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, on Thursday for the killing of an Egyptian vendor when a cargo ship chartered by the United States opened fire on his small boat near the Suez Canal [***] on Monday in an episode that has enraged Egyptians.
“President Bush expressed his deep regret and sympathies for the incident in the Suez Canal,” a White House spokesman, Gordon D. Johndroe, [****]said Thursday morning aboard Air Force One.
The vendor, 28-year-old Muhammad Fouad Afifi, was a licensed trader selling cigarettes and antiques to ships in the Suez Canal. He was shot on Monday evening as he approached a cargo ship, the Global Patriot.
On Wednesday, Vice Adm. Kevin J. Cosgriff, the commander of the Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, acknowledged the killing, calling it accidental. In a statement, he said a security team on board the ship had fired two sets of warning shots [*****]as three small boats approached. After the first set, two boats turned away, but the vendor’s boat did not.
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