Monday, 9 March 2009

Monday, 9th March 2009

It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch

3:04pm


You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at this

A convoy led by the maverick MP George Galloway carrying supplies for Gaza has been attacked in Egypt, apparently injuring several people travelling in his party. The convoy, carrying aid worth £1 million, was pelted with stones and vandalised with anti-Hamas slogans after it stopped overnight in El-Arish, a small town around 28 miles from the Rafah border crossing with Gaza.

... ‘It's an absolute disgrace,'’ convoy organiser Yvonne Ridley told the AFP news agency. ‘The power was cut. Under cover of darkness members of our convoy were attacked with stones. Vandals also wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans.’

Fancy!

Now Galloway has called upon the Egyptians

To rise up, to rise up, and to demolish the border at Rafah and let the

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