[Andy from Beaverton]

speechless

[Ginifer]

Thx for the post. Totally heartbreaking...

[BCrago66]

Cool. What's the link to the site providing these pics?

[geopyg]

Prayers for these people. Note the size of the area in the first picture that shows where these smaller detailed photos were taken. And this is still just one small part of the whole thing.

[GeronL]

wow.

[DSBull]

If you on Drudge and look for Videos there are links to vids of the wave coming in, they are very shocking so be warned.

[Quix]

AWESOME.

THANKS MUCH.

[sinanju]

The horror, the horror.

[kayak]

Amazing photos. Prayers for the survivors of this catastrophe and those involved in relief efforts!

[KoRn]

mark

[F16Fighter]

Amazing

[kipita]

Words cannot describe the suffering the people must have gone through and are going through.

[Bryan]

[Squantos]

Wow.......

[arasina]

Whew. Really makes one think a little differently about any of their own troubles. Such devastation.

[Silver Bird Worker]

Why bother repair this mess. Mother nature pissed off and is going to retake what's hers..
Hurricanes, flooding in LAX.. It's just the begining

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Thanks for the post.

[backhoe]

Crosslinked:

Master source of links here, updated frequently:

The Great Wave- Sumatra Quake and tsunami of 2004

[CounterCounterCulture]

Absolutely brutal. :-(

[stlnative]

Intelligence report: Bin Laden sought Indonesian base (Aceh) Counterterrorism experts say he also checked out Yemen

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/07/09/indo.binladen

From Maria Ressa
CNN Correspondent

MANILA, Philippines (CNN) --Intelligence officials tell CNN that Osama bin Laden wanted to move the base of operations for his al Qaeda terrorist network from Afghanistan to Southeast Asia in 2000.

The plan, according to these officials' intelligence report, was to move the base to Aceh in Indonesia, where members of the Free Aceh movement (or GAM) were working with al Qaeda.

Aceh is a remote Muslim province in which rebels have fought for a separate Islamic state for decades. Bin Laden's No. 2, Egyptian Ayman Al-Zawahiri visited Aceh with al Qaeda's former military chief, Mohammed Atef, in June 2000.

"Both of them were impressed by the lack of security, the support and extent of Muslim population," reads the intelligence report made available to CNN. "This visit was part of a wider strategy of shifting the base of Osama bin Laden's terrorist operations from the subcontinent to Southeast Asia."

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http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/10294.htm

On 3 January 2002 the Jakarta Post reported, "The Aceh or Nanggroe Aceh Darusallam administration has officially put the special autonomy law and syariah (Islamic law) into effect." The article went on to quote Teungku Sofyan Hamzah, an imam at the grand Baiturrahman Mosque. "Asked about feelings of anxiety by some non-Muslims in Aceh following the implementation of the Islamic law, he (Hamzah) said that the minority should not worry. 'The administration will use national law for them.'"

Well - an article appeared in the Jakarta Post on 28 September 2002, detailing how under shari'a law, caning or imprisonment would be the punishment for those who "propagated beliefs other than Islam to Muslims in the province."