For you racing and rally fans, the Paris to Dakar Rally has been called off one day before it was about to begin due to terrorist threats from Al-Qaida. A sad for race fans the world over and for those who don't support appeasing terrorists. My fiancee and I have a friend in the Rally who was poised to win in the motorcycle group (San Francisco-based Team Rally Pan-America with riders Jonah Street and Casey McCoy). They've spent years and tens of thousands of dollars preparing for this race. It's a sad day indeed!
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World famous Dakar Rally called off
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World famous Dakar Rally called off
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I would entirely agree with you on that. I think those of us here are in a very good position to understand the dangers of appeasement. Still, I give credit to the organizers for calling it off because if it had gone on and an attack took place and killed some of the particpants think of what the world reaction would have been.
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