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To: Activatecard who wrote (126468)	9/30/2001 8:21:11 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

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.