Incredible Sunami pictures and no warning in Thailand

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> http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=518> > > 12/28/2004> Swedish paper reports tsunami warning halted out of> concern for tourist industry> > Tsunami warning halted ‘for tourist industry’> > This from the Swedish paper Expressen. Translation> by> RAW STORY excerpted here.> > Just minutes after the earthquake in the Indian> Ocean on Sunday morning, Thailand’s foremost> meteorological experts were sitting together in a> crisis meeting. But they decided not to warn about> the> tsunami “out of courtesy to the tourist industry,”> writes the Thailand daily newspaper The Nation.> > The experts got the news around 8:00 am on> Sunday> morning local time. An hour later, the first

massive> wave struck. But the experts started to discuss the> economic impacts when they discussed if a tsunami> warning should be issued.>