Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/04

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Subject: [Leica] Re:katrina aid
From: jdos2 at mindspring.com (Jeff Sumner)
Date: Sun Sep 4 17:11:54 2005
References: <214.84be94e.304cbea7@aol.com>

Seconded.

If there's a story here, there's NOT  enough detail about which to  
get emotional.


On Sep 4, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Summicron1@aol.com wrote:

> this doesn't pass the smell test -- ask yourself, would German  
> pilots take
> off with 10 tons of stuff on a flight across the atlantic without  
> knowing ahead
> of time where they were going, with landing permissions already in  
> place and a
> recipient lined up?
>
> cripes, people will believe anything if it's sent out by email. $5  
> will get
> you an M7 this is all over the web in two days flat, however.
>
> ctrentelman
> In a message dated 9/4/05 12:04:22 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org  
> writes:
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>> Reported a few minutes ago on German radio :
>>> How much truth there is in the report I don't know, it's only  
>>> minutes old.
>>>
>>> A german military transport aircraft with 10 tons of cargo for
>>> relief in the hurricane Katrina disaster area was refused
>>> landing permission by the US authorities, quoted as having said "Our
>>> country is perfectly capable of looking after itself"
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] Re:katrina aid)
In reply to: Message from Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com) ([Leica] Re:katrina aid)