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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (3385)	3/26/2003 2:53:14 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

<g>...I am debating adolescence on another thread.

To: zonder who wrote (3385)	3/26/2003 2:57:15 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Maybe you need to explain that if a paradox seems to exist the situation requires closer investigation to find the REAL circumstances causing two or more postulations to simultaneously exist that, under less rigorous scrutiny, appear mutually exclusive. That to claim the invalidity of something that does indeed exist on the basis of a perceived paradox is logically inconsistent.

To: zonder who wrote (3385)	3/26/2003 8:45:03 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21614

IRAQIS FIRE ON AID QUEUE [Warning: A story by an embedded journalist on the scene follows.] The distribution of humanitarian aid to civilians in the southern Iraqi town of Al Zubayr has been halted after Iraqi forces fired mortar rounds into crowds. Reporter Ian Bruce, who is travelling with Scots unit Black Watch, said troops had established a strong but not yet secure foothold in the town - a known Iraqi militia base - and were to begin distributing aid to its people. The troops were greeted by cheering crowds of several hundred people as they arrived western edge of the town, he said. Sniper But before any food or water could be handed out, snipers opened fire and two mortars shells fell into the crowd. The civilians scattered to escape a hail of bullets and mortar rounds which followed in quick succession and the relief effort was abandoned. Bruce reports Black Watch's Delta Company had fought their way into the battered town early on Tuesday against fierce opposition, which they thought had collapsed under the fire of their Warriors' 30mm cannon and chain guns. The decision to enter the town, believed to be the nerve centre of guerrilla activity in the south east of the country, was taken after intelligence reports that large numbers of young men of military age were trying to flee north to Basra in a fleet of minibuses. Intelligence sources also identified but did not name the Iraqi commander who recaptured Basra after its seizure by Iranian revolutionary guards during the 1980-88 war between the two countries. Shelled He is thought to be the organiser of sniping and rocket attacks that have killed one Black Watch soldier and wounded several others in the British sector in recent days. Bruce adds that Intelligence has confirmed that riots broke out inside Basra on Tuesday and that mobs had looted and burned the city's Baath party headquarters and a number of other government buildings. There is also some evidence that army and militia units loyal to Baghdad have executed civilians in reprisal for the uprising. British and American artillery targeted Iraqi gun positions and military equipment in the city throughout Tuesday night. The Black Watch's Bravo Company had earlier been shelled and its men forced to withdraw temporarily from positions overlooking the city. The battle group is now poised to enter Iraqi's second largest city, possible as soon as Thursday, Bruce reports. sky.com