Archive for the ‘ War ’ Category

Kenya Wounds Won’t Heal Quickly

  Kibaki has stepped down for the betterment of his country saying he is willing and ready to form a government of national unity with Odinga. This isn’t enough for Odinga, who wants the entire election process to be redone in three months time, Kibaki is again being co-operative, and says this too is a fine [ READ MORE ]

Torture Gallery

The Smoking Gun has some pretty messed up art… In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like “blowtorch to the skin” and “eye removal.” Along with the images, which you’ll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, [ READ MORE ]

Shell hits hospital; Baldwin calls his daughter

Maybe I should just stop reading the news. A Mogadishu hospital was caught in the war between the pro-government ethiopians and insurgents. Relatives and medical staff ran from the SOS hospital after at least four missiles hit. Casualties are unclear. This is one of many hospitals that have been bombed in the 8 day clash going on between [ READ MORE ]

Death toll

Sam and I have now posted three individual pieces on the upset from Virginia Tech. …I don’t want to make anyone think that I’m a cold hearted bitch, that I don’t see why this is so upsetting or anything like that - but I’d appreciate it if you’d just… read the following headings. I think [ READ MORE ]

Help is needed!

Gordo has posted a long post about Iraq agencies being in some desperate need. He links to articles about just how bad the situation is. Malnutrition rates in children under five have almost doubled since the US-led invasion - to nearly 8% by the end of last year, it says. Some 17,000 children die every day from [ READ MORE ]

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