[ 09/01/2010 - 02:41 PM ]
CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Egyptian authorities allowed the travel of all members of the international aid convoy Lifeline-3 following a last moment hitch at the Cairo international airport, Zaher Al-Beirawi, the convoy's spokesman, said.
He told the PIC on Saturday that following several obstacles the authorities allowed all convoy members to travel without detaining anyone of them.
Well informed sources told the PIC that a group of British, Malaysian and Turkish activists arrived at the airport at 05.00 am Saturday en route to Istanbul via a plane chartered by the IHH Turkish charitable organization to carry the activists.
They added that the Egyptian airport officers took the passports then claimed that four of them were lost, which prompted their owners, two Britons and two Turks, to contact the Turkish consulate, which promised to follow up the issue with the Egyptian authorities.
Soon afterwards the passports were "found" and all were allowed to travel, the sources noted.
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