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To: i-node who wrote (199136)	8/31/2004 10:57:30 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574664

Man, it must be pleasant to go through life without reality ever intruding on your fantasy version of world events.

To: i-node who wrote (199136)	8/31/2004 11:42:44 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574664

David, It wasn't at the top of Bush's list, either. Frankly, I thought it was. But so what? Tenchusatsu

To: i-node who wrote (199136)	8/31/2004 11:20:43 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574664

>And most importantly, you put a free country right in the center of the Middle East, one which over 20 years can become a model of what freedom can be. There were two, just a couple of blocks down the street... Israel and Turkey. We placed a country in the Middle East under martial law. How does that help? -Z

To: i-node who wrote (199136)	9/1/2004 1:16:41 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574664

<font color=brown> Is this an example of Bush's vision? Stevo probably will think its "beautiful". Thousands are dead and dying.....how anyone can pretend to think this is beneficial? There is no vision involved here.......whatever is involved has to be evil......too much blood, hate and grief have been released into the world for it to be anything else.<Font color=black> ***************************************************** Shocking last seconds of Nepalese hostages By Donald Macintyre and John Lichfield Baghdad - Members of the Nepalese cabinet were called to an emergency session on Tuesday after publication of a video appearing to show the gruesome killing of 12 of the country's workers by insurgents in Iraq. The video, horrific even by the standards of the many other such tapes that have appeared on Islamic websites, showed a blindfolded man having his throat cut by a masked man in camouflage fatigues.** The video, issued as a second deadline for the execution of two French hostages appeared to have been extended, is accompanied by a statement from a group called the Ansa al-Sunna Army and purports to show the 12 workers, employed by the Jordan-based Morning Star Services Company, who were reported kidnapped on August 20. It contains a threat to execute "every agent traitor and spy". After the first victim is seen and heard moaning and then emitting a wheezing sound, the masked murderer displays the head for the camera before placing it on the decapitated corpse of his victim. Other footage shows a man firing shots from an assault rifle at the back of the heads of the 11 other workers, who are lying in what looks like a ditch. Blood seeps from their bodies into the sand, but some of the men, presumably in terrible pain, appear not to die instantly. The Nepalese ambassador to Qatar, Shyamananda Suman, said on Tuesday that he did not yet have official confirmation of what would be a "very bad and inhumane act". He said he had appealed to the kidnappers to set them free, or at least to know their demands, "but all went in vain". Meanwhile, frantic efforts were continuing on Tuesday night to save the lives of two French journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, captured 11 days ago by a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group, called the Islamic Army, in Iraq. In the last two days, the French government has mobilised an extraordinary coalition of support for the two journalists and their Syrian driver-interpreter. The Arab League has suggested that a second deadline set by their captors would expire on Wednesday. In Iraq, the Muslim Scholars Association, a group of Sunni clerics believed to have contacts with insurgent groups, appealed for the release of the pair. On Tuesday afternoon, the French interior minister, Dominique de Villepin, the mayor of Paris, and friends and relatives of the two journalists were invited to prayers for their safety at the Paris mosque. On Monday night, as a first deadline passed, the "Islamic Army" extended its demand that the French government should abandon a law banning Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols in state schools. However, the French government has ruled out any concession to the hostage-takers' demands. Many senior figures in the Middle East, ranging from government ministers to radicals such as the Palestinian group Hamas, have also called on the "Islamic Army" to reward France's opposition to the 2003 Gulf War by freeing the men. iol.co.za