Al Qaeda threatens 100,000 US casualties

Venom · Post by **Venom** » 11/13/2003, 7:05 pm

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_2.html

discuss

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 11/14/2003, 12:44 am

BBC-The humanitarian situation in northern Uganda is worse than in Iraq, or anywhere else in the world, a senior United Nations official has said.

UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland was speaking to the BBC after visiting the area affected by 18 years of civil war." It is a moral outrage" that the world is doing so little for the victims of the war, especially children, he said. The rebels routinely abduct children to serve as sex slaves and fighters.T housands of children leave their houses in northern Uganda to sleep rough in the major towns, where they feel more safe from the threat of abduction by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

The LRA, under shadowy leader Joseph Kony, says it wants to rule Uganda according to the Biblical Ten Commandments. They often mutilate their victims, by cutting off their lips, noses or ears. "I cannot find any other part of the world that is having an emergency on the scale of Uganda, that is getting such little international attention," Mr Egeland told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.Earlier, religious leaders from the area urged the United Nations to intervene in the conflict. "The United Nations (should) play a great role in scaling down the violence by placing peace observers in the conflict areas," said a statement from the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI), after meeting Mr Egeland.

LRA gunmen last week killed at least 40 people near the north-eastern town of Lira, officials say.Some 3,000 people have fled to Lira town following the upsurge in violence.An army spokesman said the latest attacks seemed to be an act of revenge for the killing of rebel commander Charles Tabuley last month. Lira district resident commissioner Charles Egou told the BBC that the 3,000 people were being housed in displaced person's camps in the area."Scores of civilians were killed at around midnight on 6 November in Alanyi and Awayopiny villages in Lira district," Lieutenant Chris Magezi said. Catholic missionary, Father Sabbat Ayele, told the AFP news agency that witnesses had said the rebels had beheaded some of the victims while a number of grass-thatched huts were set on fire. Thousands of civilians have been killed and more than a million others displaced by the fighting in northern Uganda alone.

Humanitarian organisations say that about 20,000 children have been abducted by the rebels over the last five years, with many taken to LRA bases in southern Sudan, where they are trained as child soldiers while the girls are turned into sex slaves.

FUCK Al Qaeda ! :mad:

LRA is a problem someone needs to work on.

Venom · Post by **Venom** » 11/14/2003, 6:31 am

Whats stopping the UN from going in? Send in NATO. Oh wait we're talking about the UN! They refuse to do anything they are supposed to. There are over 100 other countries in the UN. The US is not the only country that can send troops somewhere. More evidence the UN is useless.

ImAOneManArmy · Post by **ImAOneManArmy** » 11/14/2003, 9:29 am

The UN are pussies, they cant decide on breakfast let alone anything important to the world.

Venom · Post by **Venom** » 11/14/2003, 11:08 am

^ I dunno if I would have put it so bluntly but that about sums it up!

doug · Post by **doug** » 11/14/2003, 1:25 pm

looks like we're all going to die.

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 11/14/2003, 6:22 pm

except me.....cause i'm a brute. :nod:

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 11/16/2003, 12:27 am

Venom wrote:Whats stopping the UN from going in? Send in NATO. Oh wait we're talking about the UN! They refuse to do anything they are supposed to. There are over 100 other countries in the UN. The US is not the only country that can send troops somewhere. More evidence the UN is useless.

Yes, the UN is useless, and were trying to prove that in Iraq, but here's a better idea. let's make it interesting by helping these people while the UN just ignores. why don't we unilaterally go into Uganda too? might as well since we've decided to be so damn generous with our military might and our godamn tax dollars.

Fucking a man, almost every state in the country had a deficit last year, mostly because of national security costs, and instead of federal aid, we have a war.

nelison · Post by **nelison** » 11/16/2003, 2:15 am

They'll never go into Uganda, or any poor African Nation. Why? $$$$$

That's right. What does the US have to gain from helping Ugandan children from their war ravaged lives? How about the Congo? To Hell with them right? The US can't do much with land that's pretty well covered in some of the densest jungle in existence, therefore they're not even remotely close to the agenda.

It really is sickening.

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 11/16/2003, 2:23 am

and why is the Un doing nothing?

nelison · Post by **nelison** » 11/16/2003, 2:28 am

Well since the US has pretty much decided that they're now policing world issues, since they virtually play a role to some degree in just about everything, they should be stepping in here as well. They've decided that the UN is no longer needed, so they should be stepping up to the plate.

liam · Post by **liam** » 11/16/2003, 9:16 am

well the UN are idiots, i believe we've all agreed on that. And the worst part of all this is that they're doing for they're god. For allah, my question is what kind of god wants everyone to die?

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 11/16/2003, 9:31 am

Not every Muslim thinks that Allah wants others to die. These are radicals. It happens with a lot of religions. Catholics, for example, had the crusades.