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| Tension in Falluja amid truce talks | ||
| 2004-04-16 | ||
Muslim clerics have entered the besieged town of Falluja to meet with US military commanders to seek the restoration of police control and to end the almost two-weeks of bloody fighting. Senior cleric Shaikh Abd al-Salam al-Kubaisi said representatives of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), the highest Sunni authority in Iraq, were allowed to enter Falluja on Friday after being barred from doing so one day earlier. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, spokesperson for the AMS, Dr Abd al-Salam al-Kubaisi said the situation in Falluja is worsening and accused the US of using cluster bombs. More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in the last week in Falluja. "Last night and throughout yesterday, US fighters and helicopters massacred residents of Falluja by dropping banned cluster bombs. The people of Falluja were bombed because they were defending their city, land, and honour. The most horrible brutality was the targeting of ambulances which carried pregnant women who were about to give birth. There were tens of bodies which are still under debris and we could not arrive at the places as US snipers prevented people from getting them out. Via you, (addressing the international media) I call on the entire world to see what we are doing and what the US forces have been doing." Al-Kubaisi also accused US forces of detaining and torturing children.
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| Posted by:Long Hair Republican |
| #6 Religious education is the bane of the Middle East. The Koran is remarkably silent about mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, and anything else required to build and maintain a modern civilization. Since most of the educational apparatus is focused on the Koran, anyone from this part of the world who wants to learn anything useful has to study abroad. During the 80's, arab countries had designated smart guys. For example, back then the only engineer in the arab world that understood avionics was a Moroccan educated in Canada. If Egypt or Jordan needed that expertise, they would ask Morocco would send their smart guy to help out. The same was true in almost every technical discipline. I don't think technical competence (with the possible exception of the chemistry of explosives) is any more widespread today. Until they fix their educational system they will remain third rate. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-04-16 8:36:55 PM |
| #5 No truce, no negotiations, no quarter. Sadr surrenders or we take the place apart in pursuit of him. No-effing-body calls 9-11 "a miracle from God" and gets a free pass. Go ahead, pour on the firey rhetoric, just remember it's your @ss that has to cash the check your mouth is writing. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-16 8:33:02 PM |
| #4 These "Muslim Scolars" are such a joke. Look at the s--thole they live in and how everyone treats each other, and then they come out of the woodwork to complain about inhumanty when it suits their purposes. The whole middle east is that way, it seems. We need millions of electricians to rewire all their brains back to code. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-04-16 7:37:19 PM |
| #3 "Hey Bill, I think there is a pregnant woman in that ambulance about to give birth! Let's blow it up!" "Hold on a sec, can't you see I'm busy torturing this child?" |
| Posted by: sludj 2004-04-16 7:28:11 PM |
| #2 The headline ought to read BS parade in Falluja amid truce talks. We are wasting our time with this truce talk crap. Get in there and clean this s**thole out. |
| Posted by: remote man 2004-04-16 7:15:33 PM |
| #1 Link goes to Al-Jitzz... so consider the source. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-04-16 6:47:07 PM |