Egypt recalled its ambassador in Algeria for "consultations"
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CAIRO - Egypt Thursday recalled its ambassador in Algeria for "consultations" after attacks against supporters of its football team in Sudan, where the Pharaohs lost before Algeria in qualifying to the World Cup-2010.
- In a statement, the Foreign Ministry stated that it had recalled its ambassador in Algeria for "consultations".
The foreign Ministry also stated that it expressed to the ambassador of Algeria in Egypt, Abdelkader Hajar, the extreme indignation of Egypt against the aggressions of Algerian nationals against Egyptian nationals after the Algeria-Egypt match Wednesday night in Khartoum, won 1-0 by the "Greens".
M. Hajar had already been convened last week by the ministry after Algerian supporters attacked buildings of Egyptian companies in Algiers.
Egypt also expressed "outrage" after the Egyptian citizens living in Algeria had made reports on attacks and intimidation against them, the statement said.
Witnesses said the clashes took place on the night of Wednesday to Thursday in Khartoum between Algerian and Egyptian fans after the match.
Egyptian supporters said that buses plying between Omdurman, a suburb of Khartoum, and the airport were targeted by stone throwing.
A spokesman for police in Khartoum, Abdel Majid al-Tayeb, said that four people were slightly injured after the game.
In an interview on Egyptian state television, the Egyptian Minister of Health Hatem el-Gabali said for his part that 21 Egyptians were wounded in Sudan, saying they were "minor injuries".
Incidents have also occurred in Cairo on the sidelines of an earlier Egypt-Algeria match played on Saturday. The bus carrying the Algerian team upon arrival in Cairo three days ago had been attacked with stones and three players were injured.
The Sudanese authorities have called on their side the Egyptian ambassador Thursday to express their discontent after the broadcast by Egyptian media, of testimonies of Egyptian fans saying Sudanese police had not protected them against "attacks by Algerians".
Egyptian TV channels and Cairo dailies reported at least one death in these clashes, however, allegations denied by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Rather than point out everything that Sudan has done for this game, host, hosting nearly 25,000 people and security," Egyptian media have disseminated "false" news, said the Spokesman of the Sudanese Foreign Minister, Osman Khalid Moawiya.
"What happened will have no negative impact on the special relationship between Sudan and Egypt, traditional allies, declared the Egyptian ambassador in Khartoum Afifi Abdel Wahab after convocation.Knowing that Egyptians were the first to start hostilities when they attacked the Algerian team in Cairo, injuring three players the attacked Algerian supporters at the end of the match won by their team.
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Comments (8 posted):
The Algerian made the plan impossible and the Egyptian lost is bigger than what they predicted.
A lesson they learned; Don't mess with the Algerians,
Hakim Talbi, Algerian photographer in New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ih769PwKjw
Anyway both teams will get out of the competition at the first stage, but I think Algerians r better cause they can play modern football, Egyptians dont :)
we live in a world where barbarians scream so loud, that the dignified voices of civilized people no longer matters to anyone....
Egypt is the victim , yet the world's offline and online media believes otherwise....
that's because "favors" and political crap overrules the sound of common-sense and humanity...
However, nothing stays the same for long...
Egypt WILL have its rights back...
with the support of un-just media, or without it!
the world is on a verge of change!
a change for the better....
Let Algerians have their laugh for now,
cause it won't last for long.
i am personally ashamed too that such truth-twisters can find it in their hearts to see the truth, and turn their back to it....
and i am personally enraged about the official political and media direction of the algerian nation....
a nation we helped get on their feet and become civilized and independent...
like i said,... we live in an ugly world....
but that's not the end of it..... not by far!
the future will tell, the future will tell!
Well we are not arabs but we are berbers! No need to call us arabs if you don't want to. We can do without that. The thing is we Algerians are made of a different cloth than the Egyptians. we are much more resilient and tough, less forgiving or prone to crying (see Egyptian satellite tv) and we don't run when honor is at stake. You stoned our players where yours were greeted with flowers. You mistreated our fans and you had it coming. You messed with the wrong guys once again. You better stick to something you know better, like talking or singing, because war is not your forte. Nor is courage.
Yes, Algerian youth made me proud again! The Egyptians just got what was coming to them. They are used to it anyway.
One two three, Viva l'Algérie!!
I cant beleive how u manipulate urselves like this, just because u have all this jealousy and hatred in ur blood does not mean u justify ur actions.
I mnt talkin abt a game now, but wat u guys did is above imagination.
yes, definitely we donot share the same blood, because u dared 2 forget who liberalized u.
firstly i am an egyptian wise (as i think) fan i am not used to watch matches or go to stadiums BUT i would like to say more than one point so please read my article and think about it as it is pointed to both egyptians and algerians first of all i would like to answer algerians saying that we are taitors or we sold palastine . u should know that we are the most arabic country fighted against israel and for those who say we are defeated in 6 days war i answer that if we were defeted then we must have been defeted because we sent our troops to fight for other countries as yemen an algeria(the country which i regret to say that it is not gratfull for egyptian helps) and i would like to say that we took revenge in yom kippour war so every one should know that we are the once who fighted for all arabs not algeria
seconly about the rumor saying that algerians were killed in cairo i say u should must first be sure of what u hear "in ga2akom fasekon benaba2en fatabayanoo" i am sorry to write quran like that i have no arabic on my computer and u must see the words of u r embassador in egypt who refuted this rumor and said no one was killed
thirdly i would like any algerian to answer my would u expain for me the videos of algerians showing knives and menacing egyptians by slaughtering why !!!!!! arent we muslims like u fourthly the bus of algerian players that the glass of it was blown out not in which indicate that the bus was broken from inside fifth about algerians attaching egyptian people and owns in algeria i would like to say to the be wise there is 5000 algerian family in egypt that we can cut their necks if we want but this is not what mohamed (PBUH) ordered us as this is a cheap way to say opinion to attach women and children finaly i would like to give algerian governoment a strong blame to stand with these attachs and send c-130 filled with prisoners to attach egyptian and i would like to say to them that if egypt had done the same our men would have eaten yours alive so be wise and dont act like terrosist and thank for any one who read my aricle
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