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Scale of Afghan landslide 'absolutely devastating'
CNN ^ | 5/5/14 | Jethro Mullen

Posted on 05/05/2014 6:09:32 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

White tents line the sides of the valley where the landslide struck. Some villagers weep, others pray.

The remnants of their shattered community lies buried below, submerged under as much as 60 meters of mud.

In the space of one devastating week, natural disasters killed more people in Afghanistan than they did all last year.

At the heart of the destruction was the double landslide that engulfed a village in a remote northeastern province on Friday, killing more than 2,000 people.

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To: TangledUpInBlue

21 posted on 05/05/2014 7:09:14 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: married21
well, I have pity for them

My heart is aching with all of the tragedies, all over the world, manmade and natural.

22 posted on 05/05/2014 7:13:22 AM PDT by grania
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To: married21

There are women and children and elderly men among the 2000 dead.


Female roaches produce little roaches. Little roaches grow up to be big roaches. Old roaches have done their damage to eat away at a free society and as far as I am concerned the roach exterminator just visited the house.

These people are absolute animals and barbarians who live in the 13th century and believe in a child raping god.


23 posted on 05/05/2014 7:49:11 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Mercat

I cannot find any biblical support for praying for souls. The Bible teaches that If you die without Christ, you are locked into your decision.


24 posted on 05/05/2014 8:06:54 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
I look and I see enemies.

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.

He also told us to love those who hate us, and to forgive them. That's the hard part.

25 posted on 05/05/2014 11:00:42 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: DH
Female roaches produce little roaches.

I recall a movie, cowboys and Indians type, in which a soldier said something like "nits grow into lice" when asked why he would slaughter Indian children.

26 posted on 05/05/2014 11:06:07 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Salvation

I can rejoice at the death of Taliban fanatics, but
I also remember that there were families that helped
the Navy seal survive, I do not rejoice in their suffering.
We all pale to nothing against the force of nature.
t.


27 posted on 05/05/2014 11:10:04 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: DH

Sorry. I’m not going down that road.


28 posted on 05/05/2014 1:37:44 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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