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Old 01-04-2008, 07:09 AM
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Just got the Horrible news.

Race called off... I was hoping to see a Epic battele between the Mitshu Pajero Evo's and the Race Toureg...
Old 01-05-2008, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Walla
Just got the Horrible news.

Race called off... I was hoping to see a Epic battele between the Mitshu Pajero Evo's and the Race Toureg...

WHAT!!!!!
Old 01-05-2008, 05:45 PM
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wtf why? dakar is awesome.
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wtf why? dakar is awesome.
Direct terrorist threats and because four French tourists were killed in Mauritania.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ly/7171426.stm
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Yep "terror" reports, lord know's why the Dakar has gone though a couple of war torn countries before, personally i hope the bin West Africa and do a Lisbon to Cape Town again.
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Yep "terror" reports, lord know's why the Dakar has gone though a couple of war torn countries before, personally i hope the bin West Africa and do a Lisbon to Cape Town again.
Apparently these were direct threats to the organization.
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Lots of organizations get direct threats all the time, very few are ever made "good" of ..

It is just a pitty the dakar, a race largely contested by France(one of the few G5/7 Country's that opposed the War on Iraq) get targeted...

Bom the Baja 1000 , not the Dakar..
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Originally Posted by Walla
Key word..

Lots of organizations get direct threats all the time, very few are ever made "good" of ..

It is just a pitty the dakar, a race largely contested by France(one of the few G5/7 Country's that opposed the War on Iraq) get targeted...

Bom the Baja 1000 , not the Dakar..
4 French tourists were killed in Mauritania, so I guess that had something to do with it. I'm just wondering why target the Dakar, though??? What have they ever done?
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