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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke

Saturday, January 17, 2004

CHURCH IN PAKISTAN HIT IN TWIN BLASTS BY ISLAMIC TERRORISTS (ANS)

Islamic militants used a grenade to draw large crowds outside Trinity Church, Karachi, and then detonated a powerful car bomb, injuring 13, according to the Barnabas Fund, which works to support Christian communities mainly, but not exclusively, in the Islamic world where they are facing poverty and persecution.


8:58:27 PM    

Myanmar Releases 26 Opposition Prisoners. Military rulers in Myanmar have released 26 members of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy. By Reuters. [New York Times: International]
8:54:09 PM    

China Confirms New SARS Cases (with audio) [VOANews.com Headlines]
8:45:17 PM    

Incensed Chinese Wield Internet Clout to Press for Justice. Widespread outrage over a lenient sentence for a driver who killed a farmer prompts inquiry. [Los Angeles Times World News]
8:43:55 PM    

North Korea Claims Japanese Abductees May Go If Their Parents Come To Pick Them Up, Many Express Reservations On Safety. The problem with North Korea is that nothing is ever as it seems. My hunch is that NK will use the children to threaten their parents that they must stay in North Korea. The only reason North Korea let this particular group of abductees leave to visit Japan, I suspect, is that because of their children, they were deemed 'controllable'. The use of families to control people has been honed to a fine art in North Korea, and in fact, every North Korean who goes overseas is required to leave hostages behind (and they are known to be immediately imprisoned in prison camps where few ever leave, if the now-overseas family member does anything to 'embarass' North Korea, such as... [Free North Korea!]
8:42:58 PM    





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