Wisdom Quarterly; Reuters; AP; Hashmat Kaktash, Shashank Bengali (latimes.com)
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| Landslides bury thousands (Ahmad Zubair/AP) |
KABUL, Afghanistan - Hundreds of people are dead or missing after
landslides in remote northeastern Afghanistan buried a village under as
much as 60 feet of mud and rocks, officials said Friday.
The United Nations
said at least 350 people had been killed in Badakhshan, a rugged
province between Tajikistan and Pakistan [formerly Gandhara, India]. Shah Waliullah Adeeb, the
provincial governor, said about 2,500 people were trapped under the
landslides, which occurred Friday afternoon after several days of heavy
rain.
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It was one of the worst
natural disasters in recent memory in Afghanistan, where spring rainfall
and snowmelt make the mountainous northeast susceptible to flash floods
and mudslides. U.N. officials said more Afghans had been killed in
natural disasters in the last seven days than in all of 2013.
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| Say no to war (codepink.org) |
A search-and-rescue effort was underway and eight people had been
found, according to Afghan news agencies. Afghan soldiers and police who
reached the village were hampered by the scale of the landslides, Adeeb
said.
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"We found that it's impossible to rescue those people even...with
machinery. They are covered in about 20 meters of dirt," he said in a
telephone interview.
The first landslide crushed about 300 homes, he said, and when
several hundred people arrived to try to rescue those buried, they were
hit by a second slide.
President Obama said the United States was ready to assist with the rescue effort [presumably by signing secret executive orders to send in swarms of deadly armed drones to euthanize Afghans during rescue efforts, thereby putting them out of our misery and allowing JSOC to continue our U.S. war of aggression and occupation]. More
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Bush Administration unindicted co-conspirator and war criminal Condi Rice's choice not to speak at
Rutgers Univ. makes her just the latest public figure embroiled in a
commencement spat.
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| The reality of life in Afghanistan after illegal US invasion and occupation (RAWA.org) |
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