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   From: rm@dont-email.me   
      
   Obviously the illiterate cowards in the Whitehouse misread the   
   recently intercepted "terrorist" messages.  They said "Obama's   
   home country" not America.  So Obama the coward closes American   
   embassies.   
      
   A spectacular fire caused major damage Wednesday at the   
   international airport in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the busiest in   
   Africa, according to news reports and social media accounts.   
   There were no reports of casualties, and the cause appeared to   
   be undetermined.   
      
   The blaze broke out at 5 a.m. local time (7 p.m. Tuesday PDT)   
   and gutted the arrivals building of Jomo Kenyatta International   
   Airport, according to Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper. The paper   
   quoted the head of security for the Kenya Airports Authority,   
   Eric Kiraithe, as saying: “By our own standards this is so big.”   
      
   The airport was closed and passengers evacuated, the BBC   
   reported, adding that there were unconfirmed reports that the   
   blaze had begun in the airport's immigration offices.   
      
   The fire broke out on the 15th anniversary of the Aug. 7, 1998,   
   bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, but there was no   
   immediate indication that there was any link. That bombing, and   
   the nearly simultaneous bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es   
   Salaam, Tanzania, were the largest attacks to that point by Al   
   Qaeda, and claimed 224 lives.   
      
   After Wednesday's airport fire, the Associated Press quoted a   
   British passenger, Martyn Collbeck, who had been scheduled to   
   fly back to London on an early morning KLM flight. “When I   
   arrived, there were one or two fire engines parked outside the   
   international arrivals. It spread very fast,” said Collbeck.   
   “There were a couple of explosions, which I think were a couple   
   of gas canisters.”   
      
   Photos posted on Twitter suggested the scale of the blaze.   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-fire-nairobi-   
   airport-20130806,0,6431754.story   
      
            
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)