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    Posted November 22, 2009 by
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    Khartoum, Sudan
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    Violence Against Egyptians by Algerians in Sudan

     

    The government of Algeria has chosen to sponsor and promote violence and terror against Egyptians in Algeria after a soccer World Cup Qualifier which Algeria by the way WON!

     

    I was there in person and saw first hand evidence and spoke to Sudanese citizens who stated that the Algerians had plotted a terror campaign against Egyptians in Sudan starting with acquisition of knives, swords and other manual weapons from Sudan to threaten and terrorize Egyptians including breaking into their buses and vehicles, destroying their businesses and properties, beating up Egyptians (which took place in other cities not just Khartoum).

     

    Our bus which left the stadium after the Egypt-Algeria Match in Om Durman Stadium in Khartoum, was subjected to stone throwing at a distance of less than 1 meter from the buses with the intent of hurting those inside (not just breaking windows) and in some cases knives were thrown into the buses to try and hurt people.

     

    The only way I could reach the airport to depart from Khartoum to Cairo was when the bus driver escaped the Algerian rock throwers and was able to reach a police station. The Sudanese police provided an armed vehicle with a machine gun which escorted us to the airport; when we arrived at the airport, it was in complete chaoes with approx. 10,000 Egyptians sitting on the sidewalks wondering how they would get home and the airport terminal was closed; people walked directly from the parking lot to the planes with no security to be seen except for two armed vehicles which watched helplessly as people walked by.

     

    Finally we got on the plane by pure coincidence when we saw two tourist buses were standing by and people rushed to get on hoping they would take them to a plane departing to Cairo which we were lucky enough to be able to make.

     

    Some of the group members had not made it to the airport and we do not know if they ever did.

     

    To prove that this whole ordeal was arranged by the Algerian government,  I saw with my own eyes the Algerian Army Planes wich had take the Algerian so called fans (which turned out to be ex-convicts) to Sudan and back.

     

    I ask the question, how can all this happen and FIFA is getting ready to punish Egypt for a stone that was thrown on one Algerian bus before the Egypt-Algeria match in Cairo on 14 Nov 09  (surely an isolated incident not a plot by the government) as was the case in Khartoum.

     

    From reading articles in the international media, I think some how the story was reversed making Egypt the agressor.

     

    I attach a copy of the broken glass from the bus which had taken me and my group from the stadium in Khartoum.

     

    Please give me a chance to tell my story. I am prepared to talk live on CNN and explain the pure and simple facts.

     

    Wael ElOrabi

    +20122180545

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