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To: Wayners who wrote (676839)	3/25/2005 9:16:09 AM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

===> "Thats God's call, not mine like I've said ten times. I don't know Terri." <=== Are you implying that God gave everyone "Free Will" but you? All I asked you was if Terri's soul would be better off in Heaven, or stuck in a useless, brain dead body, rotting away day after day, year after year. Does this question challenge your faith too much? OTOH, by saying that it's God's call, are you then admitting that Terri might go to Hell, instead of Heaven, after she dies?

To: Wayners who wrote (676839)	3/25/2005 10:09:48 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Robert Barry is a sick moron that likes to play heaven vs hell games when it concern abortion, etc. You will get no straight answers from the little satanist.

To: Wayners who wrote (676839)	3/25/2005 10:48:01 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769670

Kyrgyz president remains defiant Friday, March 25, 2005 Posted: 10:05 AM EST (1505 GMT) BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (CNN) -- The Kyrgyz president who fled the country Thursday is reported to have said that "rumors of my resignation are false and intentional," and that he plans to remain a "key player" in Kyrgyzstan. In a statement e-mailed Friday to the Kyrgyz news agency Kabar, the message reputedly from President Ashkar Akayev said: "During these tragic days for our motherland I address you as legitimately elected president of Kyrgyzstan." The authenticity of the e-mail could not be verified. Akayev's government collapsed Thursday after opposition protesters took over the presidential compound and government offices. Kurmanbek Bakiyev, a major opposition leader and former prime minister under Akayev, emerged from the parliament building Friday and claimed to be the acting president, as well as the prime minister. "Freedom has finally come to us," Bakiyev told a crowd in the central square of the capital, Bishkek, according to The Associated Press. Akayev, in the purported e-mail statment, said he was temporarily outside the country. "There has been a constitutional coup in the republic. A small group of irresponsible plotters and carpet-baggers in criminal way used force to capture power. Uncontrolled and destructive wave of anarchy and violence overwhelmed the capital and other cities," Akayev said. Akayev said that from the very beginning of the unrest in the south of the country, he kept a promise not to use force to stop the protesters and he kept the promise. He addressed his countrymen as brothers and sisters. "I'm legitimately elected president of the country and henceforth I will remain a key political player in the republic. An anti-constitutional attempt of stripping me off my presidential powers is a state crime. My current being outside the country is temporary." Akayev has called on the opposition to restore constitutional order. The agency noted that Akayev's location was unclear. The opposition leaders now are forming a transitional government and one opposition leader told CNN that new presidential elections are being earmarked for June. Meanwhile, the Kyrgyz capital was cleaning up on Friday after a night of widespread looting. The Ministry of Health reported four deaths and more than 120 injured in the violence. The crisis escalated when citizens and political observers pointed to what they believe were flawed parliamentary elections in February and March. Early this week, uprisings started in southern Kyrgyz towns, such as Osh and Jalalabad. Protesters, many bused in from the south, then took their complaints to the capital, overrunning the main government building Thursday. Authorities reported widespread looting across Bishkek overnight. CNN's Ryan Chilcote reported that most shops and grocery stores in the capital had been cleared of merchandise -- many of then burned. Chilcote said there were no visible signs of troops or police. The secretary-general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will be heading to Kyrgyzstan this weekend to join in talks with political leaders, the OSCE said in a statement. Secretary-General Jan Kubis, described as an "expert on Central Asia and a fluent Russian speaker, will be joining Alojz Peterle, who is the personal representative of the chairman-in-office for the Central Asian states." Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country facing problems such as poverty and drug trafficking and lacking oil-riches like its neighbors. It borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. It is also near Afghanistan. There is both an American and a Russian military presence in the country, which has a population of 5 million. Right now, the U.S. military amounts to 2,000 troops and private contractors at an air base outside Bishkek, U.S. officials said.