[ILUG] [OT] FYI: Newsflash

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, kevin lyda wrote:

> a total of four have collapsed if i've heard correctly.  wtc[127] and
> another one.  not quite helpful info.

> astounding?  for dubya and company?  it wouldn't astound me.  
> however there's a possibility that it's related to the civil war
> in afganistan.

it's possible. however, from commentary, the front line of 
Afghanistan's civil war is 50km away from Kabul.

neither side has airplanes, so why would there be ack-ack into the 
sky over kabul if this was a product of the civil war?

> apparently the group opposing the taliban was attacked yesterday
> so what's happening in kabul might be related to that.  the fact
> that they directly nailed an ammunition dump right off (as
> opposed to say, oh, a chinese embassy) seems to be an indication
> of non us military involvement...

fingers crossed...

> wwiii at linux.ie?

eek.

let's hope not. and there's no reason for one. no build-up of 
international tension. so i doubt there'll be a WWIII.

course, with that simpleton at the helm, eager to provide 'firm'
leadership to the many americans who are baying for blood, who
knows...

Gavrilo Princip, firing 2 shots, killed Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and
his wife in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. Austria-Hungary (a mighty empire
then)  decided that it needed to "get tough" with its sometimes
troublesome neighbour and, based upon circumstantial evidence,
declared war on Serbia that same day, and launched an attack the
next.

In less than a week, Belgium was overrun and Austria-Hungary, Serbia,
Germany, Russia, France and Britain were at war.

ah.. but who cares about history anyway - let's get tough with those
bothersome arabs.

> kevin

regards,
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