September 30, 2008

Egypt desert hostages freed after 10-day ordeal (AFP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

European tourists, who were taken hostage by bandits in the Egyptian desert 10 days ago and rescued today by the Egyptian army, hold bunches of flowers after leaving an Egyptian military airplane. A group of European tourists and their guides snatched by armed bandits in a remote desert 10 days ago were freed unharmed in a pre-dawn raid by Egyptian Special Forces today, officials said.(AFP/Cris Bouroncle)AFP - A group of European tourists and their guides snatched by armed bandits in a remote desert 10 days ago were freed unharmed in a pre-dawn raid by Egyptian special forces on Monday, officials in Egypt said.


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