January 20, 2005
Tsunami Survivors 'Eating Leaves'
According to this report, people in a camp in the village of Beurawang in the Aceh region on Sumatra have been eating leaves to stave off hunger, increasing fears of mass starvation and disease. The news comes from American nurse Linley York and is at least second-hand information.
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Meanwhile, Indonesia's Health Ministry has confirmed additional dead that were believed to be only missing. The Indonesian death toll has been raised to 166,320 which brings the global total for the tsunami disaster to 226,566.
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Is Al Qaeda a fabrication by Washington?
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=6666
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=6666
Posted by: hooplaba at January 20, 2005 11:45 AM (E8xr7)
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I think that article, and the BBC, ask a very important question: We have so many people of interest in custody and are working them over good and hard (as any terrorist should be), but we are not coming up with so many cells and national leaders? This doesnt change the fact that there are terror cells out there, just are they as widespread as the DHS and the administration is proporting?
Posted by: Salamander at January 20, 2005 12:30 PM (V40IZ)
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Also to the point of Bande Aceh area starving ... no tears here. That area has been a bunch of anti-government rebels since the Dutch East Indies days. You support terrorism your area will be supressed by the central government, no mercy should be shown to anti-government forces who use the pitiful state of the people they use as human shields or for recruiting. Those terrorists show not quarter to government troops when they fall prisoner, neither should the government show them mercy. This would be the perfect time to root them out, once and for all.
Posted by: Salamander at January 20, 2005 12:40 PM (V40IZ)
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Y'know, Salamander has a point here, and I'd like to continue it. The Indonesian Government has made it plain that our military is not welcome. Neither is our oversight of the money, food, medicine and water we continue to fly in with our helicopters, now 200 miles each way. The Corrupt Government, the Islamofascist rebels, and the rest can scavenge the fish that washed up on the beaches as far as I'm concerned. We try to help and we get dissed. Let the bastards get hung on light poles in their cities by the starving masses they created!
Posted by: la at January 20, 2005 04:19 PM (VRK2g)
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And they will multiply on the fine food and aid we send them. Then move back to the same low lying areas and wait for the next wave. Then again we send more aid. The cycle continues on.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 22, 2005 07:02 PM (/rKIG)
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