The picture gets grimmer and grimmer with each story and even after all that .
....... Blow for Bush as Saudis deny use of bases
By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor and Ben
Fenton in Washington
(Filed: 01/10/2001)
SAUDI ARABIA ruled out the use of its bases for President
Bush's war against terrorism yesterday, dealing a blow to
his hopes of building a strong alliance with Muslim states.
"We do not accept the presence in our country of a single
soldier at war with Muslims or Arabs," Prince Sultan Abdul
Aziz, the defence minister, was quoted as saying. His
comments, in the Arabic-language Okaz daily,
contradicted earlier assurances from Saudi officials that
Riyadh would permit the use of its bases for military
operations in Afghanistan.
portal.telegraph.co.uk
........ even if half true is horrible. I just wonder were Amnesty was and all other human right activist does any one belive that the UN, Kofi Annan et-al did not know those horrific facts ? It makes me really sick.
portal.telegraph.co.uk
"I was forced by the Taliban to watch my husband burn to
death," said Perigul, a mother of six, who thinks she may
be 30. "They locked him in our hut and set fire to it, then
held me there listening to his screams. They killed 300
people in my village, even children and old men and burnt
all the crops."
Mohammad Sarwar, who fled to the mountains, said:
"They came and they destroyed everything, shooting and
killing people - even donkeys - with knives and poking the
eyes out of the people with steel rods. They did not leave
a single house standing in my village. They blew up
tunnels in which people had hid."
Many women were raped by Taliban soldiers, though they
refuse to talk about it. One woman, Aziza, with a small
child clinging to her mud-spattered clothes, said with
bitterness: "We have nothing left. |
