Posted on 01/07/2005 1:34:19 PM PST by frog_jerk_2004
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan flew over the tsunami-ravaged landscape of Indonesia's Aceh province on Friday and asked "Where are the people?" as Jakarta raised its death toll by thousands.
Secretary of State Colin Powell also expressed shock at the scale of the disaster as he toured another devastated Indian Ocean country, Sri Lanka.
As aid workers strove to reach hundreds of thousands of people thought to be stranded in isolated parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island, Jakarta added more than 7,000 deaths to its tsunami toll. It now stands at 101,318, out of a total of more than 153,000 for the 13 nations affected.
"I have never seen such utter destruction, mile after mile. You wonder, where are the people?," Annan told reporters after a helicopter tour with World Bank chief James Wolfensohn over Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra.
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My educated guess is that he waited for the UN personnel to set up a Potemkim facade to make it look
like the UN was responsible for all the positive work done by the US, Australia, India, NGOs, ...
And I am horrified by Annan....guess we're even
I'm horrified at the Annan disaster. Where will he send his mobs of UN child molesters, thieves and murderers next? Annan is one of Satan's minions dressed in human skin.
He hasn't gotten his money yet for this loss of life.
He couldn't get the ski boots off.
Earth to Kofi. There was a BIIIIG wave and the people are all FUC*IN' DEAD, you moron!!
Yup ;-D
He's horrified that God has more power than he does.
Not this time. The US has allowed the UN to "coordinate" relief activities. But the money will go straight from the donating country to the need they agree to meet.
None of the money will go through the UN.
Bush won this one.
Clinton saved by OKC bombing.
Annan saved by tsunami.
I didn't realize a tsunami hit Rwanda...
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