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Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance
Reuters ^
| 2.1.03
Posted on 02/01/2003 11:20:11 AM PST by mhking
Per Reuters:
Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance Sat February 1, 2003 02:08 PM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew -- including the first Israeli in space -- was that its was God's retribution on Americans. "We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi said.
"God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us," he said.
Car mechanic Mohammed Jaber al-Tamini noted Israeli air force Colonel Ilan Ramon was among the dead when the shuttle broke up shortly before its return to earth.
"Israel launched an aggression on us when it raided our nuclear reactor without any reason (in 1981), now time has come and God has retaliated to their aggression," Tamini said.
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Probably the most rational thing you have said that we can agree on... LOL
521
posted on
02/03/2003 12:20:26 AM PST
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A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: theFIRMbss
I often wonder why a popular religion like that choose to provoke so much hate towards innocent people. How could a "God" send vengeance towards innocent scientists who work to better humen lives and how could a "God" send killers of innocent people to heaven and yet millions (or billions) of its belivers actually believe "it" wholeheatedly.
522
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02/04/2003 11:48:44 AM PST
by
passion
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