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Science > Prophecies-Of-Nostradamus |
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"TrUlY WoNdRoUs YeS SiReE YeS InDeEdY Do" |
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08 Oct 2004 10:57:38 PM |
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World War III **NEWS** Update......Saturday, October 9th, 2004 |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18704-2004Oct8.html
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In Taba, Freeze Frames of Horror
Egyptian Resort Had Given Israelis Respite From Fear
In the space of a few horrific minutes Thursday night at the Taba
Hilton, a woman fell eight stories in a bathtub.
The charred and twisted skeleton of a car flew from the front driveway
into an empty banquet hall.
Every window in the hotel blew out.
In the aftermath of the apparent car bombing that killed at least 30
people, the ruined hotel looked like a freeze frame from a macabre
movie.
At the front of the building, everything was in the wrong place. Guest
rooms had plunged into the lobby. The facade had slid off like icing
from a cake on a sweltering summer day. Blackened cars had been tossed
into gardens and fountains.
The entire first floor was a dark cavern of horrors. Ceiling tiles
covered the floor. The walls had evaporated.
Three receptionists died there. So did the secretary, the tourist
policeman, the hotel security officer and the rental car man.
Ordinarily, they were among the first to greet arriving guests and the
last to bid them farewell.
One floor below, everything remained as a roomful of diners had left
it. One table was still set for a group of 10, two of whom had just
returned from the dessert bar with plates of cake and mugs of coffee.
The lasagna was still in the warming pan, right next to the model of
the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The chicken must have been particularly
good. Most of the guests had picked the bones clean.
The floor was carpeted with glass and the belongings of guests who had
left the dinner table in a panic: one pink sandal, a black evening
bag, a tourist guidebook. And a film of black soot coated every plate
of abandoned food and every blue tablecloth.
A month ago, the same hotel provided me and my family with an escape
from the daily fears of living in Israel, the persistent threat of
suicide bombings.
It was an oasis of palm-lined sidewalks and bougainvillea-covered
gardens. Swimmers could dive into the enormous saltwater pool and swim
to an island bar. Beside the pool, thin Russian women in thong bikinis
sunbathed next to Arab women covered head-to-toe in scarves and robes.
On Thursday night, body parts floated in the pool, according to a
hotel cook.
The yellow-and-white-striped beach towels fluttering from many of the
hotel's balconies looked much the same as they did a month ago. But on
one third-floor balcony, just feet from the front rooms that slid off
the hotel, a frantic guest had knotted sheets and blankets together
and tossed two mattresses onto the ground to improvise a means of
escape.
Every vacationing guest fled. Hundreds ran for the Israeli border,
leaving behind luggage, passports and purses in their haste to escape
the shattered and burning hotel. Israeli officials said that was
probably why not all of the 150 people who remain unaccounted for are
expected to be found in the rubble.
On Friday, hotel employees -- many with bandages on their heads or
arms -- carried dozens of pieces of luggage and bags of possessions
down steep flights of steps in preparation for returning them to their
owners.
As dusk fell over the Red Sea Friday evening, rescue workers using
picks and chainsaws dug through the rubble that was once the lobby. As
night wore on, they found two bodies.
Asked to describe them, one rescue worker shook his head. "Smashed,"
he said.
A small brown rescue dog, brought to sniff out survivors in the
rubble, sat at the end of his leash. He had nothing to do.
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