[oceanview]

definitely a scam - 100K increase just comes out of nowhere?

[Ramius]

definitely a scam

Yah. That's it. They staged the whole thing in order gorge themselves on MRE's.

Shame on you.

[LenS]

I doubt that -- the Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia very early on stated that the deaths in Sumatra could reach 400,000 . When you look at the size of the population in the province of Aceh (at least 3.9 million with nearly 40 million on the entire island of Sumatra) AND you realize that much of it was located directly on the coast (and in the path of the tsunami) AND you realize that there was only minutes between the quake and the wave, it becomes clear that the estimates so far have been grossly below reality.

Of course, the govt. will follow Islamic tradition and pretend that the problem is solved so that they can save face. Pathetic and typical.

Besides, once they have the roads repaired, they'll want to kick out the Westerners so they can finish the fight with the Islamofascists. My guess is that any survivors of the tsunami who stay in Aceh will not survive the upcoming fight.

[stands2reason]

Why, do you think these places were unpopulated? Several cities worth of people are simply GONE.

But you're "definitely" sure it's a scam, huh? What facts brought you to this conclusion?

[rwfromkansas]

Yeah, because they did not report every day for nearly a week in a remote part of the world, it has to be a scam.

/sarcasm

[Petronski]

definitely a scam - 100K increase just comes out of nowhere?

Not out of nowhere, out of the number considered missing.

Up until now, there's been a number for dead, and a number missing. If the missing are suddenly presumed dead (far late for that, if you ask me), the number shoots up abruptly.

Does anyone remember the final number proposed about a week after the tsunami hit? 400,000.