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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (3821)	2/27/2004 9:04:41 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Chinu - The plight of the Palestinians has been used by cynical tyrants, OILogarchs and assorted loonies who have ruled most of the ARab world for the past 50 years. I agree with many criticisms of Sharon but the blame has to fall where it should. Given the vast land and resources plundered by the Arab rulers, from Saddam to Arafat, if the plight of the people were the focus, this problem could be solved in a very short time. Rather - by using refugees and getting the world to focus on Israel and its strength, this has been able to keep these tyrants in power.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (3821)	2/28/2004 7:19:23 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

chinu. It's hard to believe that islam is so backwards. Not hard to believe though that they will put their children at risk,,,,again. Emergency polio campaign ends, marred by lingering Nigerian Muslim boycott Friday, February 27, 2004 GLENN McKENZIE, Associated Press Writer sfgate.com An emergency drive to immunize millions of Africans against polio ended with "mixed results" in Nigeria's heavily Muslim north, where many families heeded some Islamic leaders' claims that the vaccine was part of a U.S. plot to render them sterile, U.N. officials said Friday. Families in some northern states hid their children from the door-to-door immunization teams, despite the spreading polio outbreak, said Mohammed Belhocine, World Health Organization representative to Nigeria. Belhocine called U.N. officials "a bit frustrated" at what he called pockets of resistance in the Muslim north. Organizers had hoped to reach 63 million children during the Monday to Thursday campaign in 10 African nations. In Nigeria, U.N. officials say polio has been spreading since Muslim religious leaders began telling their followers last year the vaccines cause infertility or AIDS. Several predominantly Muslim states boycotted the campaign after Kano, one of the states, said its scientists discovered trace levels of estadiol, a type of the female hormone estrogen found in oral contraceptives, in a batch of the vaccines. Some Islamic leaders seized on the discovery, declaring it a plot by the United States and its allies to spread AIDS and render African girls infertile. U.N. and Nigerian federal government officials repeatedly sought to assure Muslims the vaccines were safe, stressing that any hormones found at the levels alleged would be harmless, amounting to less than what is found in breast milk or even drinking water in some developed nations. Belhocine said he and others observed "quite a high number of rejections" in Katsina, a northern state where some families concealed their children from volunteers. Other mothers sought out the vaccines but asked volunteers not to record the immunizations on paper or with paint on their children's fingernails for fear of angering husbands opposed to the vaccines, he said. Some parents in states where officials refused to allow the vaccinations were forced to cross state borders to "get their children immunized," said Bruce Aylward, head of WHO's polio campaign in Geneva. WHO estimates it is achieving 80 percent immunization coverage in predominantly Christian southern Nigeria and 75 percent in multi-religious central regions. It has given no estimates for the Muslim north. In order to wipe out polio transmission, the organization says it needs around 80 percent coverage overall. The northern states of Bauchi and Niger, after suspending immunizations mid-campaign, decided this week to allow them to resume, United Nations Children's Fund spokesman Gerrit Beger said. The decision left Kano and Zamfara the only boycotting states. Kano has been described by U.N. officials as the world's epicenter of polio, in part because Kano city is a major trading center between the Sahara and the rain forests of West and central Africa. A 16-year global campaign to eradicate polio has reduced cases of the disease from 350,000 a year in 1988 to fewer than 1,000 last year. Belhocine was hopeful the disease could still be eradicated by the campaign's target year of 2005 if opponent states are convinced of the vaccine's safety, he added. Another round of vaccinations is scheduled from March 23-26.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (3821)	3/3/2004 4:44:51 PM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Chinese hate the Koreans Philipinos hate the Japs Japs hate the Chinese Arabs hate the Jews Jews hate the Arabs Arabs hate Americans of any nationality and that is just the tip of the iceberg..... and on and on and on infinitum............ I say keep it simple..... Beat them all into subserviance, economically, politically and militarily. USA rule the world.........period better for all in the long run.... I would volunteer to be "President for Life" of course... regards