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New York Times
March 27, 2008
Pg. 7
CAIRO (AP) — The United States Navy expressed regret on Wednesday that an Egyptian citizen was killed when a Navy-contracted ship fired warning shots at approaching motorboats late Monday in the Suez Canal.
The United States Embassy in Cairo and the Navy initially maintained that, according to the security team aboard the ship, there had been no casualties. But on Wednesday, an embassy statement said it “appears that an Egyptian in the boat was killed by one of the warning shots.”
The ship, the Global Patriot, a civilian vessel under contract to the Navy, had been approached by small motorboats that often do informal commerce in the canal. After warnings were issued, two sets of warning shots were fired as one boat kept approaching.
The Egyptian who died, Muhammad Fouad, was buried Tuesday.
The Navy has been leery of small boats getting near its warships since members of Al Qaeda rammed an explosives-packed motorboat into the destroyer Cole off Yemen in 2000, killing 17 sailors.
March 27, 2008
Pg. 7
CAIRO (AP) — The United States Navy expressed regret on Wednesday that an Egyptian citizen was killed when a Navy-contracted ship fired warning shots at approaching motorboats late Monday in the Suez Canal.
The United States Embassy in Cairo and the Navy initially maintained that, according to the security team aboard the ship, there had been no casualties. But on Wednesday, an embassy statement said it “appears that an Egyptian in the boat was killed by one of the warning shots.”
The ship, the Global Patriot, a civilian vessel under contract to the Navy, had been approached by small motorboats that often do informal commerce in the canal. After warnings were issued, two sets of warning shots were fired as one boat kept approaching.
The Egyptian who died, Muhammad Fouad, was buried Tuesday.
The Navy has been leery of small boats getting near its warships since members of Al Qaeda rammed an explosives-packed motorboat into the destroyer Cole off Yemen in 2000, killing 17 sailors.