I know what many of you are thinking. Galloway got into the hashish but it's even better.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 appears that Hamas is not thought too well of there.
George certainly doesn't appear to be...
The attack comes weeks after Mr Galloway, of the Respect party, described Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak as a "tyrant" and "criminal" and demanded that he be overthrown by his country's armed forces.
Proving once again that Galloway is a meddling dickweed.
Drove through Egypt after insulting Hosni? My, that's brave ...
I think the word you were actually looking for might be "stoopid."
Mr Galloway's party confirmed that Egyptian officials had also become embroiled in a dispute with the party over what type of goods they would be allowed to take into the territory through the Rafah crossing.
Galloway is under the delusion that because he is a member of Parliment he can go wherever he pleases and do whatever he wants.
| Well of course he can - the sun never sets on the Empire and all that. Oh wait ... wrong meme ... The sun never sets on the Ummah? |
The biggest attack faced so far by the the 110-vehicle convoy, organised and led by the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, came after it arrived in El-Arish on Saturday. During a power cut -- which is a frequent occurrence in the town -- children had pelted the convoy with stones, a security official said. "It's an absolute disgrace,'' convoy organiser Yvonne Ridley
We're just overrun by usual suspects on this trips, aren't we?
told the AFP news agency. "The power was cut. Under cover of darkness members of our convoy were attacked with stones.
I mean, here we are trying to give aid to their enemies and they treat us like Infidels!
I can only hope Yvonne took a couple upside the head ...
"Vandals also wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans. Several people in the convoy were injured in the attack."
Don't they know who we are? They should be worshipping us!
The convoy had been held up in El-Arish after a dispute arose between organisers and Egyptian officials over the inclusion of non-medical aid in the convoy.
Somebody try to sneak in some ammo? weapons?
Dynamite, likely...
Egyptian officials have said that they will allow medical relief through the Rafah passage to Gaza, which is facing a humanitarian crisis after Israel's military offensive. However, non-medical goods such as food would have to pass through Israel's crossings with the Palestinian enclave. "George Galloway is still in negotiations," said Ms Ridley. "What we have agreed to do is to separate the medical aid from the non-medical aid. The non-medical will go into Gaza via the Egyptian Red Crescent."
Which will then be sold a a hefty proffit.
Mr Galloway's convoy were braced for some hostility in Egypt after the Respect MP earlier this year called for its President to be overthrown in a highly controversial speech at a rally protesting Israel's assault on the Islamist militants of Hamas. "There are many governments responsible for this great crime in Palestine, but the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak is jointly responsible for the murder of every Palestinian who has died in these last two years," he said.
"I think I'll waddle right down to Egypt and tell him that!"
"When he [Mubarak] was embracing Livni [the Israeli Foreign Minister] as the bombs were falling, when he locked the border at Rafah, he became an international criminal and an outlaw of the Arab world. So I call, in conclusion, on the great people of Egypt, on the heroic armed forces of Egypt, and the heroic army of Egypt of 1973, to rise up and sweep away this tyrant Mubarak. To rise up, to rise up, and to demolish the border at Rafah and let the people go free."
Hey Dickweed. They don't want Paleostinians ruining their Country.
The trip also ran into controversy when it was disclosed last month that three Islamist terror suspects arrested in northwest England had planned to leave the country under cover of Mr Galloway's convoy.
That went over like a fart in an aroma therapy clinic.
Senior police sources said that the men were believed to be planning a terrorist operation abroad.
With George's connivance...
They were arrested in a joint operation by police and MI5 while they were driving two vans on the M65 near Preston, Lancashire. Police sources said that the men were driving to Ramsgate to join a "Valentine's Day convoy" of 110 vehicles that later left the port. There is no indication that Mr Galloway or any of the convoy's organisers knew of the men's plans.
Tell them Hogan I know nothing!
He's shocked, shocked!