Speeding U.S. diplomat in Kenya crashes into minibus, killing one, is rushed out of country

[cali]

An American diplomat who police say was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant, officials said Friday.

U.S. Embassy officials in Nairobi rushed the American and his family out of Kenya the next day, leaving the crash victims with no financial assistance to pay for a funeral and for hospital bills for the eight or so others who were seriously injured.

Latifah Naiman Mariki, 38 and whose husband was killed in the crash, was almost evicted from her house this week after her landlord demanded rent. Mariki's deceased husband, Haji Lukindo, was the family's only source of income.

Mariki told The Associated Press that neither the American driver nor anyone at the U.S. Embassy has contacted her, and she doesn't know how she will provide for her soon-to-be-born child and three children, ages 20, 10 and 7.

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read the rest of this disgusting story here:

http://news.yahoo.com/us-diplomat-kills-man-car-crash-leaves-kenya-151442741.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. Link here.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Joshua+Walde&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=iB_8UeG7KcjQ7AbsgIHwCQ&biw=1024&bih=605&sei=mB_8UfHLF6WV7AaU14DICA#um=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Joshua+Walde+diplomat+kenya&oq=Joshua+Walde+diplomat+kenya&gs_l=img.12...13228.17848.0.20358.15.15.0.0.0.0.75.1005.15.15.0....0...1c.1.23.img..15.0.0.-CryOuHwD0A&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853,d.ZGU&fp=3f33c1433c62019d&biw=1024&bih=605&facrc=_&imgrc=yG1gXdp1OZ9K2M%3A%3BXE1t_kRvChF-zM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwpmedia.news.nationalpost.com%252F2013%252F07%252Fbill-bentley.jpg%253Fw%253D140%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fnews.nationalpost.com%252F2013%252F08%252F02%252Fu-s-diplomat-flees-kenya-after-head-on-crash-kills-father-of-three-leaves-widow-destitute%252F%3B140%3B105

I'll put that on FB later. Let the world know what the **** looks like.

You need to cut and paste the entire link.

[bunnies]

3. the entire link... including the O face?

Just what kind of site IS that anyway?

[dipsydoodle]

6. Link is to Nationalpost.com which is Canadian

I found it by googling the name Joshua Walde.

Yes - the entire link including the gismo.

You'll find google matches the face with the main article here : http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/02/u-s-diplomat-flees-kenya-after-head-on-crash-kills-father-of-three-leaves-widow-destitute/

[exboyfil]

2. Making friends all over the world

Will any press be brave enough to ask SoS Kerry about this? Probably not.

We should make it a practice to waive diplomatic immunity for everything except actions done on the behalf of our country (think spying) or trumped up charges. I don't care what other countries do.

[bunnies]

4. Disgusting is right.

That poor family.

[Rex]

5. If we are perfectly okay with accidently bombing weddings

in other countries with drones, do you really think things have changed that much in that particular department? Nope. Obviously not. We're Americans, we only care about ourselves...until the local news gets wind of a story. THEN, nah not even then - it is another country. Let them deal with it.

It sends the message of, 'do as I say, not as I do'.