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The Miracle of Banda Aceh
Things to Come ^ | 1/1/2005 | Joel Raupe

Posted on 01/01/2005 7:23:40 AM PST by Prospero

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To: MEG33; backhoe; nw_arizona_granny

NW_AZ is finding messages posted now with efforts to stop the US support to the victims.

The messages are encouraging add to go to the NGOs and all other efforts will be blocked.

Guess that is why Annan came home early from his ski trip.


21 posted on 01/01/2005 9:56:48 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Here is one of the messages that NW_AZ is coming across:

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Sri Lanka
making third
tragedy for
Tamils

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Larry de
Silva
Dec 31 2004, 11:36 pm show options


First one is Sinhala army killing Tamils

second one is Tsunami

Third one is Sinhala government block the AID that goes with Tamils
money and get AID showing Tamils death and never distribute any AID.

PLEASE DON'T GIVE AID TO SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT BUT TO NGO.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layou...

Tamil Hindus working on tea plantations in Thambathamne and Thangamamy
Estates were stopped when they tried to bring rice, vegetables and tea
past a military checkpoint yesterday, and had to reclaim their goods
when the army tried to divert them to a Buddhist temple, according to
Sivam.

A team trying to deliver aid shipments to the hard-hit Ampara district
was blocked at an army checkpoint, despite promises by top local
government officials that clearance would be granted, said Sivam.

Three Tamil relief trucks heading to Kallar, southeast of Batticaloa,
were stopped at the Chettipalayam checkpoint by elite soldiers from the
Special Task Force who forcibly unloaded the relief supplies and took
over distribution, according to Kurukulasingam Thevarajah, Batticaloa
office director.

Another shipment was delayed at nearby Pillaiyarada checkpoint,
Thevarajah added.

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22 posted on 01/01/2005 9:58:35 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

They are doing drops from US planes and helicopter distributions..Good luck...and they also have the carrier making clean water to distribute..The people rushing to the helicopter didn't seem to mind the insignia.


23 posted on 01/01/2005 10:01:54 AM PST by MEG33 (...GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: MEG33

You are right. I think I saw that on this thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311936/posts

Amazing how we have to fight to help these people.


24 posted on 01/01/2005 10:04:41 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/01amit1.htm


25 posted on 01/01/2005 10:05:13 AM PST by MEG33 (...GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Prospero

If they are saying that God Almighty was indifferent to the jihadi's there,

I assert that they are . . . wellll . . .

dead wrong.


26 posted on 01/01/2005 10:06:17 AM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: Calpernia

http://www.tamilnet.com/


27 posted on 01/01/2005 10:10:12 AM PST by MEG33 (...GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: SLB; Vigilantcitizen; Squantos; Travis McGee; neverdem; Cannoneer No. 4

This is an interesting "take". He certainly sees a silver lining.

While I had certainly heard of Islamofascism and Christian persecutions in Indonesia, I had only vaguely heard of Banda Aceh as an Islamofascist stronghold. Any comments on that?

It certainly appears just *gone*, from some fairly hi-res satellite imagery I've seen.


28 posted on 01/01/2005 10:14:45 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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To: Quix
Interesting picture, from the Washington Post.

"A member of the U.S. Navy from the USS Abraham Lincoln prepares supplies for victims at the airport in Banda Aceh." (AFP)

I don't know about you all, but he looks like he just arrived in Tehran.

I hope we're all not too stunned to take advantage of this opportunity, or to muck it up. Getting your first drink of water in five days from someone with an American flag on his jacket might make you think twice about a lot of things your Imam has been telling you about "The Great Satan."

29 posted on 01/01/2005 10:16:14 AM PST by Prospero (Ad Astra!)
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Post 18 in this thread has a link to the satellite images I had seen.


30 posted on 01/01/2005 10:17:00 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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To: backhoe

You're amazing. Happy New Year!


31 posted on 01/01/2005 10:20:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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To: FreedomPoster

Set six before and after has this mosque pic in it.....

http://www.islamicity.com/Culture/Mosques/Asia/bagm.htm

http://www.goodolddogs3.com/bandaaceh6.html

It was a islamakazi stronghold


32 posted on 01/01/2005 10:25:48 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: FreedomPoster

Happy New Year to you and yours.


33 posted on 01/01/2005 10:27:33 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: Prospero

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/125031/1/.html


34 posted on 01/01/2005 10:28:52 AM PST by MEG33 (...GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Prospero

Yes, Lord, speak truth to them through this experience. May they know deep in their hearts, spirits, bone marrow, minds that their Imam's are lying idiots. May they choose life over death in every way. Make yourself real to them. In Jesus' Name.


35 posted on 01/01/2005 10:33:50 AM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/EG22Ae05.html

The other side to Aceh's rebels
snip
Ethnic chauvinism is also evident in GAM's construction of Acehnese nationalism. While Indonesian identity is a civic nationalism which is inclusive, multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and multi-tribal, Acehnese nationalism is ethnic and exclusive. It is based upon the imposition of the identity of the Aceh tribe upon the other eight tribes in the region in order to create the Acehnese nation. This nation is defined by blood ties, tribalism, and Islam.

GAM's ethnic parochialism has been underscored by a narrow, hardline ideology that has defined the movement's attitude toward the peace process. GAM has made it very clear that it is neither interested in negotiating with the Indonesian government nor in a compromise solution. It sees the peace process as a way of internationalizing the conflict with the aim of forcing Indonesia to relinquish sovereignty under outside pressure. Thus it is not surprising that it was not interested in Jakarta's concession of special autonomy for Aceh and even actively worked to undermine its implementation by paralyzing the local administration through threat and intimidation. snip


36 posted on 01/01/2005 10:38:44 AM PST by MEG33 (...GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Quix

Amen!


37 posted on 01/01/2005 10:45:34 AM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)
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To: Quix

And Amen.


38 posted on 01/01/2005 10:48:26 AM PST by Prospero (Ad Astra!)
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To: Prospero; DAVEY CROCKETT

THANKS.

Lord, an ammendment to my last . . .

where the Imam's are 'merely' grossly deceived--please break their deception and woo them to Yourself, too. Where they are knowingly demonized deceivers and liars, with no hope of redemption, please take them out of the equation entirely in your way and timing, in Jesus' Name.


39 posted on 01/01/2005 10:53:50 AM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: Prospero

islamofascist banda acheh ping


40 posted on 01/01/2005 11:04:14 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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