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Have a read at the article - trust me, the sight of mutilated tongues is bloodcurdling.

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Mosque and government officials have pulled more bodies from wells and sewage pits in a village near the Nigerian city of Jos, victims of what Human Rights Watch said appeared to have been a targeted massacre. Four days of clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs armed with guns, knives and machetes killed hundreds of people in Jos and surrounding communities this week before Vice President Goodluck Jonathan deployed the military to contain the violence. Muhammad Tanko Shittu, a senior mosque official organizing mass burials in Jos, told Reuters on Saturday he had just returned from Kuru...

Less than a week of tribal/religious violence in the central Nigerian city of Jos has left nearly 500 dead, and thousand wounded. This is nothing new. Similar violence broke out 14 months ago, leaving over 700 dead. Thousands of soldiers and police were required to restore order. The current mayhem arose, in part, out of disputes over how rebuilding was done in some neighborhoods (as in putting a new mosque in a Christian neighborhood.) This time, some 10,000 people have fled their homes to avoid the violence. The religious violence in the area (Plateau State) goes back to ancient tribal...

California: While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worries about rising seas, his state sinks below the waves. Don't mess with Texas, they say. But California and the nation could follow its lead. Last Wednesday, Gov. Schwarzenegger released a new report based on research compiled by the California Energy Commission claiming that by 2100 San Francisco Bay would be more bay than San Francisco, with Fisherman's Wharf and Treasure Island under the rising waters of climate change. His show-and-tell, which included a new Google Earth application the commission spent $150,000 to help develop, goes a long way toward explaining the once-Golden State's slide...

JOS, NIGERIA (ANS) -- Nigerian born social worker Helen Bako didn’t expect to be right in the middle of post-election violence in the central Nigerian city of Jos, where she was just visiting. The violence, which broke out on Nov. 28 and left hundreds dead and thousands fleeing their homes, began when Muslims started attacking Christians on charges of vote-tampering. Compass Direct News reported that after officials reportedly refused to post local council election results on Nov. 27 (prompting speculation that a party backed largely by Christians had won), Muslim gangs in the Ali Kazaure area of the city began...

I'm using yahoo because I can't get mail.com to respond but here's a synopsis of life in the big city. There's still much gunfire, burnings, and rampage killings. Many churches and mosques have been burnt and just vandalism on a scale hard to imagine. I have some emails in my computer but I'm using the neighbor's because he has a remote wi-fi so I must wait until I get to a regular email. My neighbor just missed getting hit by stray bullet this morning here on the compound and a neighbor who was gone for a couple days just got...