Archive for October 11th, 2006
Bad!
I read the news everyday, but what makes me sad is that the same area’s or people are in the news everyday. I mean Iraq and Afghanistan, I’ve made the point about Iraq not too long ago in one of my posts and Afghanistan well, that country hasn’t seen peace in a while. Although the reason for these violence’s may be “necessary”, I mean do we not understand from history? Violence does NOT bring about peace. Just think about it when World War I came about it was said that it is “the war to end all wars” well uhm yeah that was a huge lie and that war just brought about a chain of other wars. Today countries try to justify there violent actions saying that oh we are the good guys and we are simply just trying to bring peace and yes there will be some casualties along the way, but apparently the word some can be changed and fooled around with easily and those casualties well,Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihe raji’oon. Basically the only thing we can do for them is make du’aa for them, pray for them, keep on hoping that it will get better and inshaAllah it will soon stop. Well I can’t remember the last time I’ve done this, but below are some random quotes: (They are actually just mostly headlines that kind of just stick to you and make you realize how much that they are suffering, do you think they even know the meaning of peace anymore?)
“I stand by the figure that a lot of innocent people have lost their life…and that troubles me, and it grieves me. Six-hundred thousand or whatever they guessed at is just… it’s not credible,” -President George W Bush
” An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died since 2003 who might still be alive but for the US-led invasion, according to a survey by a US university.”-BBC News
” Sixty bodies have been found scattered across the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police there have said……..The 60 bodies, who were all men, were found in various parts of the city over a 24-hour period, defence and interior ministry officials said on Tuesday.Many of them had been shot in the head at close range, execution-style.The victims also had their hands and feet bound and showed signs of torture - hallmarks of death-squad killings, the police said.”-BBC News
“They (Shiite militias) consider Sunnis terrorists who must be killed. If the zero hour is coming, we will take the decisions needed to defend ourselves.”-Khalaf al-Alayan, Sunni member of parliament
“Gunmen in police uniforms have killed the brother of Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi in Baghdad.”-BBC News
“While critics point to the discrepancy between this and other independent surveys (such as Iraq Body Count’s figure of 44-49,000 civilian deaths, based on media reports), the Bloomberg School team says its method may actually underestimate the true figure. “Families, especially in households with combatants killed, could have hidden deaths. Under-reporting of infant deaths is a widespread concern in surveys of this type,” the authors say. “Entire households could have been killed, leading to survivor bias. “The survey suggests that most of the extra deaths - 601,000 - would have been the result of violence, mostly gunfire, and suggests that 31% could be attributable to action by US-led coalition forces. The survey is to be published in a UK medical journal, the Lancet, on Thursday. In an accompanying comment, the Lancet’s Richard Horton acknowledges that the 2004 survey provoked controversy, but emphasises that the 2006 follow-up has been recommended by “four expert peers… with relatively minor revisions”.”-BBC News
“At least 11 people, including a number of police officers, have been injured in an explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, say police.“- BBC News
“The international community [must] reassess the manner in which this war against terror is conducted”- President Karzai
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