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| Bam quake has levelled five tombs and 38 mosques | |
| 2004-01-23 | |
| Deputy Head of Iran`s Charity and Endowment Organization Nabiollah Chamran said here on Friday that the 6.3-Richter earthquake in Bam city in southeastern Iran has flattened five tombs belonging to religious figures and 38 mosques. He added that the tragic quake has only spared one mosque and one Imamzadeh from damage. "We are awaiting the government orders to proceed with the reconstruction of mosques in new and more proper locations around the city in accordance with the plans to be provided by the related officials. "A group of engineers are designing mausoleums, which are to be constructed by relying on the funds to be provided by the nationwide Charity and Endowment Departments," he added. The official said that a minimum of 1.2 billion rials is required for the reconstruction of every destroyed tomb. Chamran said that the recent killer quake serves as a lesson to consider the importance of reinforcing other mausoleums and make them quake-resistant," he added. "To materialize such an objective, the people are required to help the board of trustees of the holy places across the nation," he concluded.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #11 Let's see...5 tombs, 38 mosques. They will be assigned Holiest Place in Islam Numbers 72,270 to 73,013, tombs first. And let me know on the "Imamzadeh", whatever the hell they are. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-23 8:34:29 PM |
| #10 Bam recovery and restoration priority list. 1.rebuild Tombs 2.rebuild Mosques. 3.rebuild ancient citadel (get UN to pay for it) 4 through 7 do some infrastructure stuff 8.provide housing for survivors 9.get some food in there 10.find out why Allah is visiting His wrath upon us |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2004-1-23 4:40:02 PM |
| #9 Looks like God (or Allah) is going to have to pick up his sledgehammer again to drive the point home. They just aren't listening. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-23 3:48:20 PM |
| #8 Cause and Effect I wish they had named those two Martian landers 'Cause' and 'Effect'. How neat that would be. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-1-23 3:32:42 PM |
| #7 If they did an underground test around Bam it would be called Boom. From my USGS days at the Nevada Test Site, when they set off a 2 megaton blast underground at NTS, Beatty, Nevada got shook up pretty good, and buildings in Las Vegas swayed. They then decided that the Cannikan blasts of bigger bombs better take place u/g on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. For Iran, seismically or otherwise, Canse and Effect are still just two measilly old words separated by some pages in the dictionary. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-1-23 2:06:01 PM |
| #6 Actually, it might be interesting if the tested a nuclear bomb uderground in their country. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-23 1:17:28 PM |
| #5 It was the Zionist death ray dammit! Why won't they just admit it. They've found a way to make earthquakes. The horror, the horror. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-1-23 1:06:11 PM |
| #4 Hope tu3031 is updating his Michelin's Guide to the Holiest Places of Islam, vol. 52... |
| Posted by: seafarious 2004-1-23 1:05:14 PM |
| #3 It is truly the Will of Allah! ______________________________a big pbuh shoutout to all my homies... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-1-23 12:42:06 PM |
| #2 Wow--I wonder if anybody in the tombs survived? [/smart ass] |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-1-23 12:34:05 PM |
| #1 And Khamenei keeps ignoring that moving finger that writes on his wall every Friday... That's because the hand is Jewish. |
| Posted by: Proud To Be An Infidel (JC) 2004-1-23 12:07:22 PM |