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Published on August 31, 2004 By mignuna In Current Events


What the world did wrong today ...

Part of an update published by The Herald news. Link to full article below.

-Unidentified gunmen killed Ibrahim Ismael, head of the education department in the northern city of Kirkuk, police Col. Sarhat Qadir said. Three of Ismael's bodyguards were wounded.

-A gruesome video posted on a Web site purported to show militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency.

-In south Baghdad, assailants attacked a police patrol with grenades, killing one officer and wounding two, said Naji Bahr Naji al-Khalidi, an official with Iraq's FPS security force.

-Insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, sparking a gunbattle in which U.S. troops wounded one of the assailants, the Army said. One civilian was killed and a second was wounded in crossfire, Lt. Col. Paul Hastings said.

-Gunmen fired at a car near the town of Latifiyah, 25 miles south of Baghdad, killing Shiite scholar Bashir al-Jazaari and his driver and wounding two passengers, authorities said.

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Comments
on Sep 01, 2004
You left out..... Two suicide bombers blow up two passenger busses in Israel killing 12 and seriously wounding over 50
on Sep 01, 2004
the number of dead is now 16
on Sep 01, 2004
Is this part of Bush's "miscalculation" and the fact we cannot "win"? Other than all-out war, the only alternative is to make a forceful diplomatic assault on the Israel quagmire--either both sides give up their toys of destruction and land squabbles or the UN will take over all of the territory in question.
on Sep 01, 2004
You left out..... Two suicide bombers blow up two passenger busses in Israel killing 12 and seriously wounding over 50


manopeace, this was written before that sad occurence.

the number of dead is now 16


as i am writing this some time after your comment, i can only assume this has risen even further. i'm too scared to read the news, almost, manopeace. what a sad state the world is in.




Is this part of Bush's "miscalculation" and the fact we cannot "win"?


and stevendedalus, what exactly is 'winning' anyway ?. how can anybody 'win' here ?. we are all losing.

the only alternative is to make a forceful diplomatic assault on the Israel quagmire--either both sides give up their toys of destruction and land squabbles or the UN will take over all of the territory in question.


stevendedalus, i agree with you that other than all-out-war, as you say, a peaceful and unified force needs to impartially view this for what it is, rather than what individual groups or nations see or believe it is, and regardless of what we as individuals want it to be. (which is sadly impossible, at least it seems to be).


thanks for the comments.


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