It was a suicide attack. The person was wearing an army uniform and was on a motorbike which he rammed into the convoy of the National Army officers.
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And the truck convoy will get longer and longer, and as it approaches Washington it's going to be a big one. Again, we will have a dignified turning-in ceremony and a candlelight vigil in Washington to get the message over that we expect a whole lot more from our president than this man has given us, and that for the sake of our children and for the sake of our country and for the sake of the world, please resign now.
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
I talked to him right before the convoy left. And they told us the next morning and I was like 'that can't be true. I went to high school with this person. That can't be happening.
It was a large convoy, and there were a lot of people killed and a lot of vehicles damaged, or destroyed, I should say.
We're going to continue the convoy of food and water, particularly water and ice, over the next several days, ... We are working with the state and local communities to determine the debris removal needs and we're prepared to do everything we can to accelerate that process.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race he clears their painful way to improvement he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern he may be exacting he may be ambitious yet but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, ''Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.'' His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth -- who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.
We'd love to have a convoy of trucks. But, we're just asking the community to do whatever they can to help in anyway they can.
Again this kind of thing has happened all the time, according to this official, so the Canadian vehicle now carried on down the road after the convoy had pulled all the way over and off to the side.
Several cars that were going by waved at us, ... It was a nice gesture. And when we were going down in our convoy, a guy on a motorcycle gave us a thumbs-up - every vehicle. It made us feel like we were doing something good.
The situation in Abidjan is very similar to the one we had yesterday. There's a crowd of Young Patriots outside the U. N. building as we speak, and it's a growing crowd. We had an attack on a U. N. convoy this morning shortly before 7 a. m.
More than 100,000 Soldiers have trained on our combat convoy simulators, mostly National Guard. About 1,000 pilots, crew chiefs and Soldiers have trained on the door-gunner simulator at Fort Hood and Fort Rucker.
There are several places they could pull the convoy off the road later in the morning.