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« on: October 08, 2005, 03:42:07 am »
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Hopefully the earthquake killed Bin Laden, since we're clearly too incompetant to kill him ourselves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4321490.stm
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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2005, 03:55:39 am »
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It seems to have wiped out whole villages in Kashmir. Several tower blocks in Islamabad have collapsed. We could be talking of thousands of dead. And so on.

Congratulations for once again making a snide political point out of a tragedy.
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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2005, 04:02:14 am »
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It seems to have wiped out whole villages in Kashmir. Several tower blocks in Islamabad have collapsed. We could be talking of thousands of dead. And so on.

Congratulations for once again making a snide political point out of a tragedy.

Hey, we took out a lot more than just thousands in Iraq for nothing.
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« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2005, 08:23:45 am »
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It seems to have wiped out whole villages in Kashmir. Several tower blocks in Islamabad have collapsed. We could be talking of thousands of dead. And so on.

Congratulations for once again making a snide political point out of a tragedy.

Hey, we took out a lot more than just thousands in Iraq for nothing.

Gee, JFRAUD, I had no idea the US was planting car bombs.
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« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2005, 11:25:32 am »
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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2005, 11:40:28 am »
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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2005, 12:00:18 pm »
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I was just there this summer.

To to the Northwest Frontier Province, Islamabad and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

Edit: Oh damn the epicenter was right where I stayed in Kashmir !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2005, 04:07:58 pm »
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It seems to have wiped out whole villages in Kashmir. Several tower blocks in Islamabad have collapsed. We could be talking of thousands of dead. And so on.

Congratulations for once again making a snide political point out of a tragedy.

Hey, we took out a lot more than just thousands in Iraq for nothing.

Gee, JFRAUD, I had no idea the US was planting car bombs.

Are you dense? In Fallujah we took out the freaking hospital on pourpose, killing a sh**tload of civilians, just so that "the casuality numbers wouldn't be inflated". That is listed as a war crime under US law, and Bush should get the death penalty.
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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2005, 04:13:26 pm »
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« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2005, 04:18:13 pm »
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You're such an ass

Yeah, I'm a terrible person for wanting Bin Laden dead.
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« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2005, 05:29:42 pm »
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I'm glad you care enough to want Osama dead jfern, but that snip about "we're not competent to kill him ourselves" was really unnecessary.
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« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2005, 05:51:27 pm »
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It seems to have wiped out whole villages in Kashmir. Several tower blocks in Islamabad have collapsed. We could be talking of thousands of dead. And so on.

Congratulations for once again making a snide political point out of a tragedy.

Hey, we took out a lot more than just thousands in Iraq for nothing.

Gee, JFRAUD, I had no idea the US was planting car bombs.

Are you dense? In Fallujah we took out the freaking hospital on pourpose, killing a sh**tload of civilians, just so that "the casuality numbers wouldn't be inflated". That is listed as a war crime under US law, and Bush should get the death penalty.

The one where the Iraqi troops were barricading.  Look the Iraqis occupied hospitals and schools.  I'm far from overjoyed that the did, but that stop the Iraqi  from shooting out of the buildings.
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« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2005, 05:52:55 pm »
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I've seen the newscasts.  It looks like a complete disaster.  Some of the worse damage I've seen.
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« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2005, 06:01:05 pm »
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2000* confirmed dead; 400 of those were children in one school in Mansehra.
Unsuprisingly the huge Kashmiri community over here is very upset about this; a lot seem to have lost relatives. Over £2 million in relief money has been raised by a Birmingham based charity already.

*another report has just said 3000
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« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2005, 07:36:40 pm »
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2000* confirmed dead; 400 of those were children in one school in Mansehra.
Unsuprisingly the huge Kashmiri community over here is very upset about this; a lot seem to have lost relatives. Over £2 million in relief money has been raised by a Birmingham based charity already.

*another report has just said 3000

I'm hoping my resthouse in Kashmir is still intact. I had the best tour guide, I hope nothing happened to him....
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« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2005, 10:10:47 pm »
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jfern, "incompetent" is spelled with an "e" and I'm surprised you did not blame this on global warming.

Stupid straw man.
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« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2005, 11:31:03 pm »
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CNN is now reporting the death toll has surpassed 18,000.
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« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2005, 11:38:31 pm »
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18,000 dead
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« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2005, 12:52:32 am »
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Most of them are in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir..
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« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2005, 03:00:38 am »
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Some report are putting at 25,000; I hope that's wrong.
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« Reply #20 on: October 09, 2005, 03:29:13 am »
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jfern, "incompetent" is spelled with an "e" and I'm surprised you did not blame this on global warming.

Stupid straw man.

It's actually poisoning the well.

I just realised that my post was rather horrible, so I have removed it.
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« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2005, 04:54:05 am »
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I've heard between 20-40,000, mainly in Pakistani Kashmir.

What would you rather, jfern-39,999 dead innocents and UBL, or none and no UBL?
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« Reply #22 on: October 09, 2005, 05:16:43 am »
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I've heard that 40,000 are injured, but 40,000 dead? Sad
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« Reply #23 on: October 09, 2005, 06:02:45 am »
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probably sensationalist, but we're getting reports like "Official estimates put the toll under 20,000; but our experts say that's a minimum and it could be up to 40,000".
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« Reply #24 on: October 09, 2005, 10:00:04 am »
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This thing is that bad, yes.
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