http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Luxor Sat, 25 May 2013 07:08:31 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Luxor Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:24:35 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6b2_1361891988 NewspaperOnline An Egyptian security official says at least 19 foreign tourists were killed as their hot air balloon crashed near the famed ancient city of Luxor. According to the Egyptian security official, the balloon carrying at least 20 tourists was flying over Luxor early Tuesday when it caught fire, which triggered an explosion in its gas canister, then plunged at least 300 meters (1,000 feet) from the sky. The balloon crashed into a sugar cane field outside al-Dhabaa village just west of Luxor, 510 kilometers (320 miles) south of Cairo, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. The security official said foul play has been ruled out. An official with the state prosecutor's office said initial findings show that the accident occurred when the pilot's landing cable was caught around a helium tube. He spoke anonymously because the investigation is ongoing. The head of Japan Travel Bureau's Egypt branch, Atsushi Imaeda, confirmed that four Japanese died in the crash. He said two were a couple in their 60s from Tokyo. Details on the other two were not immediately available. In Hong Kong, a travel agency said nine of the tourists that were aboard the balloon were natives of the semiautonomous Chinese city. There was a "very big chance that all nine have perished," said Raymond Ng, a spokesman for the agency. The nine, he said, included five women and four men from three families. They were traveling with six other Hong Kong residents on a 10-day tour of Egypt. Ng said an escort of the nine tourists watched the balloon from the ground catching fire around 7 a.m. and plunging to the ground two minutes later. In Britain, tour operator Thomas Cook confirmed that two British tourists were dead and two were taken to a hospital. "What happened in Luxor this morning is a terrible tragedy and the thoughts of everyone in Thomas Cook are with our guests, their family and friends," said Peter Fankhauser, CEO of Thomas Cook UK &amp; Continental Europe. "We have a very experienced team in resort with the two guests in the local hospital, and we're providing our full support to the family and friends of the deceased at this difficult time," he said. In Paris, a diplomatic official said French tourists were among those involved in the accident, but would give no details on how many, or whether French citizens were among those killed. Speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to be publicly named according to government policy, the official said French authorities were working with their Egyptian counterparts to clarify what happened. French media reports said two French tourists were among the dead but the official wouldn't confirm that. Hot air ballooning, usually at sunrise over the famed Karnak and Luxor temples as well as the Valley of the Kings, is a popular pastime for tourists visiting the area. Tickets for a hot air balloon ride per person are around 200 Egyptian pounds, or roughly $30. The site of the accident has seen past crashes. In 2009, 16 tourists were injured when their balloon struck a cellphone transmission tower. A year earlier, seven tourists were injured in a similar crash. Egypt's tourism industry has been decimated since the 2011 uprising and the political turmoil that followed and continues to this day. Luxor's hotels are currently about 25 percent full in what is supposed to be the peak of the winter season. Scared off by the turmoil and tenuous security following the uprising, the number of tourists coming to Egypt fell to 9.8 million in 2011 from 14.7 million the year before, and revenues plunged 30 percent to $8.8 billion. Magda Fawzi, whose company operates four luxury Nile River cruise boats to Luxor, said she expects the accident will lead to tourist cancellations. Tour guide Hadi Salama said he expects Tuesday's accident to hurt the eight hot air balloon companies operating in Luxor, but that it may not directly affect tourism to the Nile Valley city. Poverty swelled at the country's fastest rate in Luxor, which is highly dependent on visitors to its monumental temples and the tombs of King Tutankhamun and other pharaohs. In 2011, 39 percent of its population lived on less than $1 a day, compared to 18 percent in 2009, according to government figures. In August, Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi flew to Luxor to encourage tourism there, about a month after he took office and vowed that Egypt was safe for tourists. "Egypt is safer than before, and is open for all," he said in remarks carried by the official MENA news agency at the time. He was referring to the security situation following the 2011 ouster of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak. Deadly accidents caused by poor management and a decrepit infrastructure have taken place since Morsi took office. In January, 19 Egyptian conscripts died when their rickety train jumped the track. In November, 49 kindergarteners were killed when their school bus crashed into a speeding train because the railway guard failed to close the crossing. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6b2_1361891988 NewspaperOnline Egypt Hot air balloon crashes in ancient city of <span class="highlight">Luxor</span> Egypt Hot air balloon crashes in ancient city of Luxor Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:45:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fdc_1364686324 spliffy1966 Listen to Chris Dunn before you answer. you just might think twice! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dunn http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fdc_1364686324 spliffy1966 Did the ancient Egyptians carve the giant statues? ancient Egyptians, Luxor, Ramses, statues, Clive Dunn, engineering Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:27:57 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=008_1361906650 Aussie Footage of the hot air balloon exploding and falling back to earth. A hot air balloon ride turned to tragedy Tuesday when the balloon exploded and plummeted to the ground, killing 19 people. It was the deadliest hot air balloon accident in the world in at least 20 years. The balloon carrying 21 tourists from Hong Kong, Japan, France, Britain and Hungary was flying at 300 metres when it exploded and caught fire, a security official said. The pilot and one tourist survived by jumping out of the basket moments before it hit the ground, said an employee at the company operating the balloon, Sky Cruise. Both were taken to hospital. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=008_1361906650 Aussie Balloon Explosion Footage - Egpyt Balloon, explosion, hot, air, luxor, 18, dead, died, fatal, deadly, Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:03:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=681_1363707115 Hecky420 I have no idea what they did but I am sure Allah or whoever is pleased. Egypt justice minister dismayed by lynchings CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's justice minister warned Monday that the lynching of criminals in the streets by angry citizens is a sign of the "death of the state." On Sunday, vigilantes hung two suspected thieves in a rural Nile Delta village as a crowd of thousands watched, and some of them egged on the killers. Justice Minister Ahmed Mekki indicated that the killers may have seen themselves as implementing a strict form of Islamic law that calls for punishment of thieves and other outlaws whose crimes are so extreme, they disrupt society. "The application of Islamic justice on outlaws by citizens and the cutting off of roads is one of the signs of the death of the state," Mekki was quoted as telling the Turkish Anadolu news agency. He said only the state is authorized to use force and if this right is transferred to citizens, there is no state. "A state that allows this is an unjust state because it does not afford its people protection," he said. Since Islamists took power in Egypt following the 2011 uprising, there have been a number of cases where civilians tried to enforce more conservative, Islamic mores on the public. In one such case, three men were convicted of killing a student in the city of Suez as he sat in a park with his fianc'ee. The assailants had argued with the victim for loitering in public with a woman who was not his wife. In another example, a teacher in the southern city of Luxor allegedly punished two 12-year-old schoolgirls by cutting their hair for not wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf. Witnesses to the lynchings depicted it purely as a revenge killing without pointing to any connection to enforcing Islamic law, or Shariah. The killings came a week after the attorney general called for citizen arrests amid a police strike and sharp deterioration in security. The men were hanged in the village of Mahallit Zayad, part of Samanod district in Gharbiya province, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Cairo. Security officials, a witness and a local rights activist, Diaa Mahalawi, said residents suspected the two men who were lynched were part of a gang of kidnappers who abduct girls and boys for ransom. At least one girl told a rights activist that she had been raped during her abduction by one such gang in the village. The lynching of the two, who were also accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw, was one of the most extreme cases of vigilantism in two years of sharp deterioration in security following Egypt's 2011 uprising. Because of conservative cultural norms in rural areas like Mahallit Zayad, girls have not reported a single rape allegation to police, according to security officials and residents, including Mahalawi. The security officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. Residents in Gharbiya province, among them a spokesman for Egypt's dominant political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, say people do not trust the police there to act on reports of rape. Rights activist Mahalawi said people in Gharbiya are feeling hopeless. "There is no security in the country," he said. "Meanwhile, the regime is trying to secure the presidential palace and the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters," he said, referring to the heavy security presence outside the offices of President Mohammed Morsi's Islamist group following violent protests there. Mahalawi, who heads the human rights committee of the liberal opposition Wafd Party in the village where the lynchings took place, told the AP that he saw for the first time in Mahallit Zayad trucks packed with riot police outside the local police station on Monday. A day earlier, a witness said those behind the lynching had taken the bodies to that police station and dumped them at the front door. Mahalawi said that with no government or security taking action, people took matters into their own hands. He said that a girl had been raped and held a few days before the lynching and that her parents, with donations from residents, were able to pay a ransom and free her. "The people are asking themselves why they should abide by the law," he said, blaming the president and his Brotherhood party for the chaos. Brotherhood spokesman in the nearby city of Mahalla, Atef Bayouni, told the AP that police are to blame. He said they are not carrying out their duties in full in the area and that the lack of security has given free rein to criminals to do what they want. "Had the police dealt with thugs directly, the situation would not have deteriorated like this," Bayouni said. He said there are people who want the return of the old authoritarian regime and are being paid to create chaos and bring down Morsi, who took office last summer. Another Brotherhood spokesman in the province repeated the same allegation about police. In the most recent abduction case in Mahallit Zayad, security officials said that on Monday, a mother and daughter were released after relatives paid 60,000 Egyptian pounds (almost $9,000) in ransom. The police were not involved in their release. It was the latest example of how citizens have taken matters into their own hands following the 2011 uprising that ousted longtime authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak. The country's once powerful and feared police force was left weakened after the revolt. The city of Mahalla was at a standstill for the second straight day on Monday due to a shortage in diesel, another one of Egypt's many crises. Microbus drivers had cut off the main roads there to protest the shortages, which barred policemen from reaching the scene of the lynchings, according to security officials. Egyptians angry with police for decades of abuse under Mubarak and the use of lethal force against protesters have clashed with security forces during rallies against his democratically elected successor, Morsi. For four months, protesters have held a sit-in in Cairo's Tahrir Square against Morsi. Protesters burnt a police vehicle there on Monday during another attempt by police to clear the sit-in. Also on Monday, the country's top prosecutor ordered the arrest of 15 protesters and three Brotherhood guards for alleged involvement in an assault on journalists outside the group's headquarters over the weekend after activists spray painted anti-Brotherhood graffiti on the street outside the office. The opposition accuses Morsi of trying to monopolize power, reneging on promises of reform and of failing to improve the country's poor economy. Nearly half of Egypt's around 85 million people live at or below the poverty line of $2 or less a day. Also frustrated, thousands of officers and low-ranking policemen have broken ranks, staging protests and waging strikes against what they say is the politicization of the force by Morsi. Some of the striking police officers allege that the Muslim Brotherhood is attempting to control them. The Brotherhood denies that. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=681_1363707115 Hecky420 Egyptian Vigilantes Hang 2 People in Public... Brutal,death,lynching,murder,egypt,syria,uprising,war,death,killed,shot,hung,sexy,new,live,teen,pope,rape,raped,assad,fsa,saa,middle east,wtf,nasty,racist,south,news,nude Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:15:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=193_1362978758 aydeo The only passenger to survive Egypt's hot air balloon disaster paid tribute to his wife, who died in the disaster with 18 other tourists - By Richard Spencer in Cairo and Magdy Samaan in Luxor 8:05PM GMT 28 Feb 2013 Michael Rennie, 49, said his wife Yvonne was his "rock", and offered his condolences to the families of the other tourists who died. "Yvonne was my rock, my friend, my shoulder to cry on," he said in a written statement. "She was my world." Mr Rennie, a construction firm manager from Perth, Scotland, fell from the balloon as it plummeted to the ground on Tuesday in Luxor. He was found in a nearby sugar cane field, asking where his wife was. Mrs Rennie, 48, a hospital receptionist, was later confirmed dead at the scene. A second Briton, Joe Bampton, was also able to jump free but died later in Luxor International Hospital. His mother, Maureen, also issued a statement honouring her son and his Hungarian girlfriend, Suzanna "Zsi" Gyetvai, who also died. The couple from south London worked together as artists and art valuers. "I would like to thank everyone for their messages of condolence, cards and flowers following the tragic deaths of my son Joe Bampton and his girlfriend Zsi Gyetvai in Egypt on Tuesday," she said. "My son and Zsi were wonderfully creative and sensitive individuals who lived life to the full and enjoyed being in Clapham Common with their dog Ollie." A memorial service will be held at the scene of the accident on Friday afternoon, attended by the governor of Luxor and the ambassadors of the countries of the tourists who died. The other dead included Hong Kong Chinese, Japanese, French and one Egyptian. Mohmin Murad, the pilot, suffered 70 per cent burns and is being treated at a separate hospital in Cairo from Mr Rennie, who is said to be physically fit but pschologically traumatised. Prosecution services and Egypt's civil aviation authorities are investigating the crash, though they have ruled out "foul play", and are speaking to Mr Rennie. The company whose balloon crashed, Sky Cruise, has a contract with a local travel firm, Bright Sky, who are agents for Thomas Cook. Other balloon companies have claimed that competition over costs had reduced prices to a level where safety standards suffered. Sky Cruise suffered another accident in 2011 in which a balloon crash landed on the Nile, hitting a boat. On that occasion, the Dutch and British passengers escaped with bruises. The manager of Bright Sky, Kamel Kordy, insisted that it paid 500 Egyptian pounds (about GBP50) per passenger to Sky Cruise, which is a rate agreed between the balloon companies. "This is the first time an incident has happened with our customers since we have dealt with Sky Cruise," he said. He said the Britons had all been booked on a flight the day before which had been cancelled due to strong winds. "Michael Rennie and his wife insisted on taking the next day's flight," he said. "Michael said, 'I mainly came her for the balloon ride'." A Thomas Cook spokesman said: "We insist that the local companies that offer hot-air balloon excursions to our guests in Luxor are fully licensed by the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority. We, like all other major tour operators, rely upon this endorsement." Tharwat Agami, head of the Luxor Chamber of Tourism, blamed a culture of lax inspection by the Civil Aviation Authority, which is responsible for licensing the balloons and has inspectors on hand every morning before the flights. Mr Agami said the incident happened because the tether rope cut off the gas hose. "These hoses have a life span and if they had checked the parts seriously such an incident would not have happened," he said. "Getting pilot licences is too easy and we hear about people getting them because of their personal contacts. "We didn't witness such accidents when pilots and engineers came from abroad." The industry was founded by British balloon pilots in the 1980s and 1990s, but British companies were eventually forced to sell out to their Egyptian partners. In 2009, all flights were halted after a series of minor accidents while safety procedures were tightened. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/9901199/Balloon-crash-survivors-moving-tribute-to-his-wife.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=193_1362978758 aydeo Balloon crash survivor's moving tribute to his wife Egypt,Balloon crash survivor,Tribut,Wife Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:58:33 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d42_1361904983 JustinTime Eighteen Asian and European tourists died when a hot air balloon crashed early on Tuesday near the ancient Egyptian town of Luxor. Officials say the crash was caused by a mid-air explosion in the hose that connects the balloon's burner and gas canister. The pilot survived by jumping from the basket when it was about 10 meters from the ground. One tourist also survived. The explosion took place at around 1000 feet, as the hot air balloon passed over Luxor's famous pharaonic temples, and tombs of the Valley of the Kings. 18 Asian and European tourists have died in a hot air balloon crash near the ancient Egyptian town of Luxor. Full Story: The balloon came to ground on the west bank of the Nile river. Its wreckage was scattered in an open field, where rescuers recovered what appear to be the bodies of some of the victims. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d42_1361904983 JustinTime Deadly Hot Air Balloon Crash in Egypt (Three Videos) Hot, Air, Balloon, Crash Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:32:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8f_1182702778 teamchloe At the Market with Mustafa in Luxor, Egypt. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8f_1182702778 teamchloe At the Market with Mustafa in <span class="highlight">Luxor</span>, Egypt. Luxor, Egypt Mon, 07 May 2007 12:53:13 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2dc_1178556793 crabman There was an explosion in the Luxor parking garage overnight Killing one person http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2dc_1178556793 crabman Explosion at <span class="highlight">Luxor</span> in Las Vegas kills 1 Person bomb,murder,las vagas,news,police.explosion, Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:27:40 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=676_1190978860 foundrymusic The one and only Carrot Top, the ultimate prop comic, visits the Opie and Anthony Show to hang with the guys, talk about his new deal at the Luxor in Las Vegas, and to show off his poofy red hair and enormous upper body. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=676_1190978860 foundrymusic Carrot Top Visits the Opie and Anthony Show opie,anthony,foundry,foundrymusic,carrot,top,comedian,prop,comic,muscles,bodybuilder,las,vegas,luxor Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:18:05 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a38_1295298512 ommadawn What to do when there's a curfew outside and you're not allowed in the Casino. Raid the hotel stationary and.... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a38_1295298512 ommadawn Under-21's bored in a Vegas hotel paper,planes,luxor,bored,hotel,vegas,kids,curfew,casino Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:52:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a5f_1224024748 tazzzwannabe2 Muslims More Australian than Austrailians? Islam is teaching its peace and love for mankind again.. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a5f_1224024748 tazzzwannabe2 Welcome to Australiastan? Islamization ,Australia , Islam , Islamisation ,Jihad , Taqiyya, Terror , 9/11, Luxor, Kidnapping ,Abuse , Prostitution ,Murder Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:06:13 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=556_1351885225 Slovenac1981 Video has emerged showing Madeleine Albright in a verbal altercation with a group of pro-Serbian activists in Prague. The former U.S. Secretary of State got involved in a heated exchange with the activists who remonstrated with her over her role in the American-led 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and her reported interest in a Kosovar communications firm. At a book-signing event, promoting her memoir "Prague Winter," in the Czech capital's Luxor bookstore on October 23, members of the civic group, "Friends of Serbs in Kosovo" entered into a verbal confrontation with Albright and her representatives. The two videos, which were uploaded to YouTube by the group were published by the Czech publication Parlamentni Listy on its website on October 25. The videos show the verbal jousting that ensued after one of the group's members, Czech film director Vaclav Dvorak who made the documentary "Stolen Kosovo," walked up to Albright and asked her to sign a DVD copy of his film. In one video, Dvorak is accompanied by a cameraman as he comes up to Albright's desk and tells her: "I brought you a film I recorded in Kosovo and I also wanted to remind you of your other deeds," at which point he places posters on her desk with a picture of Albright and the logo of Kosovo's IPKO state telecommunications firm. Parlamentni Listy reports that one of the posters had photographs of Serbs killed during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Albright, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and speaks Czech, tells Dvorak and his group that she will not be signing the posters, at which point a woman from the crowd asks her if she is ashamed to sign them. Following a mild scuffle between security staff and the group (at the 01:22 mark in the video above), Albright gets up from her chair and screams "Get out!" The second video which appears to be shot from a different angle, shows the same scene with additional footage. After being called a war criminal by someone in the crowd, Albright answers back, "You're a war criminal." She can be heard a few more times screaming, "Get out." At the 01:02 mark, however, she gets up from her chair one final time and yells, "Disgusting Serbs! Get Out!" before being escorted away from the scene by her handlers. Anton Dvorak told "Parlamentni Listy " that he had not expected such a feisty response from the septuagenarian former diplomat. "... I was surprised by her reaction," he said. "We politely came to give her the film we recorded in Kosovo, regardless of the fact that it concerns "stolen Kosovo" -- which was gifted to the narco mafia with the help of NATO bombings and aggression -- and the IPKO company that enabled Albright to line her pockets." In September, Bloomberg reported that the bidding for Kosovo's state-owned post and telecoms company "...has attracted interest from European and Turkish phone operators, as well as from an investment company headed by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was a major backer of Kosovo in its war against Serbia." Jaroslav Foldyna , a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party who was present at the event, claims that the protest was not planned. Rather "it was a spontaneous protest by people interested in politics who do not agree with what Albright did in the Balkans." Richard Klichnik, the organizer of the signing event for the Argo publishing house, denied claims that Albright became upset and initiated the verbal attack on the pro-Serbian group. "It was about pro-Serbian activists who had posters and flyers connected to the conflict in the Balkans," Klichnik said. "It was clear that they came to provoke." This is not Albright's first incident in her birthplace. On a visit to the Law Faculty at Masaryk University in Brno in March 2000, Albright was attacked with eggs by two Czech anarchists. She served as U.S Secretary of State from 1997 until 2001, presiding over the controversial 1999 NATO air bombing of the former Yugoslavia, aimed at driving Serb troops from Kosovo. Theatlantic.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=556_1351885225 Slovenac1981 Madeleine Albright in Prague: &quot; Get out, disgusting Serbs&quot; Madeleine, Albright, war criminal, 666,