Re: Oops!

These and a score of other wedding guest victims of a recent=20
mortar accident SHOULD provide ample evidence of the folly of=20
demanding pyrotechnic ballistics with your nuptials....I challenge=20
anyone to cite the Koran on the topic......

What did they do before the chinese blessed us with gunpowder?=20
Wash cats?

love,
cfa



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> Civilian catastrophe as US bombs Afghan wedding
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> =B7 250 civilians reported dead or injured
> =B7 Witnesses say attack lasted 2 hours
> =B7 Pentagon: 'One bomb went astray'
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> Staff and agencies
> Monday July 1, 2002
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> US helicopter gunships and jets today fired on an Afghan wedding,
> killing or injuring at least 250 civilians, witnesses and hospital
> officials said. [...] Most of the dead and injured were women and
> children. "We have many children who are injured and who have no
> family," nurse Mohammed Nadir said. "Their families are gone. The
> villagers brought these children and they have no parents. Everyone
> says that their parents are dead." [...] At Bagram air base north of
> Kabul, the US military spokesman, Colonel Roger King, said an AC-130
> gunship, a B-52 bomber and other aircraft joined the attack after
> coalition ground forces came under fire. [...]
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> ...continues at
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,747529,00.html
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> also:
> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-afghan-usa-
> bombing.ht ml
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> Pragmatically speaking, this is probably a good thing, considering how
> many lives the U.S. military action is probably saving -- what's a few
> hundred civilian casualties, after all, when you're hard at work
> slaying evil-doers and keeping the world safe for democracy.
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