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To: bentway who wrote (450641)	1/25/2009 1:10:02 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576159

Obama's failure to stop Global Warming leads to his killing 10 people in Turkey. Rush is right Obama is a failure. 10 killed by Turkish avalanche Jan 25 12:52 PM US/Eastern By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press Writer Write a Comment The bodies of avalanche victims lie in the snow as army officers and rescue... ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - An avalanche slammed into a group of Turkish hikers on a trip to a remote mountain plateau on Sunday, dragging them more than 1,640 feet (500 meters) into a valley and fatally burying 10. The members of a skiing and mountaineering club were taking part in an annual winter sports celebration on 7,200-foot (2,200-meter) Mount Zigana. Seventeen were hiking single-file when the avalanche swept into them. "We looked up and there was nowhere to run. The snow took us and dragged us along," 61-year-old Kasim Keles told reporters from his hospital bed. "The snow dragged me down into a valley before it stopped," Keles said. "My right hand was stuck beneath me, with my left hand I cleared my face; I began to breathe and called for help." A fellow hiker who escaped unharmed dug Keles out of the snow by hand. Faruk Ozak, Turkey's minister in charge of public works and housing who visited the site, said 10 hikers died on the mountain. Two of the hikers were hospitalized, while five walked away unharmed, he said. Military and private mountain rescue teams assisted by sniffer dogs carried out a search in case others were trapped beneath the snow. Rescue workers could be seen probing with long rods and digging through several feet (meters) of snow with shovels until sunset, when the search was called off for the day. Television footage showed soldiers and villagers struggling through the snow to carry a person lying on a makeshift stretcher. "We were walking and before we realized what was going on, the avalanche came on us," Ural Ayar, one of the survivors, told NTV television by telephone. "The snow dragged our friends along and unfortunately they were buried." The Zigana festival was meant to attract skiers to the small, mainly cross-country ski resort some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Black Sea coast. It was not clear what triggered the avalanche. There had been no warning of a possible snow slide. The Turkish avalanche occurred a day after three people were killed in an avalanche on a mountain in the Scottish Highlands.

To: bentway who wrote (450641)	1/25/2009 1:11:51 PM
From: d[-_-]b	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1576159

When he kills bin Laden, how embarrassed will you (R)'s be? You're such a pinhead - we would be ecstatic over whoever kills him. Unlike you who wants to wrap a party label around yourself and every event we wrap ourselves in our countries flag and want only the best for the entire country.

To: bentway who wrote (450641)	1/25/2009 1:12:29 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576159

Looks like Obama didn't kill AQ. Now Obama is killing women and children, can the world survive this mad man ? Angry protests over 16 dead Afghan civilians Jan 25 08:52 AM US/Eastern Write a Comment An Afghan soldier on patrol in Sayed Abad village in December 2008. Police ... An Afghan soldier on patrol in Sayed Abad village in December 2008. Police ... About 1,000 demonstrators on Sunday shouted slogans against US troops in Afghanistan to condemn an operation which President Hamid Karzai said killed 16 civilians, including women and children. The angry men marched in the small town of Mihtarlam, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of the capital Kabul, chanting "death to the Americans" and demanding an end to US-only operations, officials and witnesses told AFP. Some of the protesters threw stones at US military vehicles, witnesses said, putting the number of demonstrators at 1,000. The US military said Saturday that an operation against a Taliban network had taken place near Mihtarlam, killing "15 armed militants". But locals said civilians were also killed and they were investigating to find out how many. A statement from Karzai's office Sunday said: "An air and ground operation in Garoch area on the outskirts of Mihtarlam town took place midnight Friday resulting in the death of 16 civilians including two women and three children." It condemned the latest alleged civilian casualties in the fight against Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan, saying such incidents "weaken government rule and empower the terrorists." Karzai "once again reminds the coalition forces that bombing Afghan villages will not yield anything in the war against terror except civilian casualties," it said. Officials say such casualties are often the result of US forces not properly coordinating their operations with their Afghan counterparts, sometimes resulting in them being led astray by poor intelligence. US military spokesman Colonel Greg Julian said Sunday the force had no information to support Karzai's statement but planned to travel to the area next week with Afghan officials to "determine the ground truth." The US forces have said they targeted a Taliban commander known for trafficking foreign fighters and weapons into the region to attack coalition forces, including in an assault that killed 10 French troops in August 2008. "As coalition forces approached the wanted militant's compound, several groups of armed militants exited their homes and began manoeuvring on the force," the US military said in a statement. "Armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, the militants engaged coalition forces from multiple directions," it said, adding one of the killed militants was a woman who had been carrying a rocket-propelled grenade. The Taliban, an extremist Islamic group, ran the government in Kabul from 1996 to 2001 before being removed in a US-led invasion and are now waging a deadly insurgency that has picked up pace in the past three years. There are nearly 70,000 international soldiers in Afghanistan, including 34,000 US troops, helping the government to fight the insurgents. They run the air power that is regularly called in to help in operations across the rugged land, where commanders have long called for more soldiers. There are regular allegations of civilian casualties in operations, most often air strikes, but there are conflicting statements about how many. International commanders have said they could confirm that just over 200 ordinary Afghans died in operations last year but the figure given by the United Nations is about four times as high.