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July 14th, 2009

Refugee Return in Pakistan

  • Jul. 14th, 2009 at 1:38 PM
The Globe gave me this one:

A Pakistani girl at the Jalozai refugee camp watches as families head for transport to return home yesterday.
A Pakistani girl at the Jalozai refugee camp watches as families head for transport to return home yesterday (A Majeed/ AFP/ Getty Images)

Yup, war is over. I guess that's why the Globe has been censoring it the last week or so.

The website didn't see fit to display this one (located on page A3)
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88993222, Getty Images /Getty Images News
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Shortage Of Food Handouts Sparks Violence In Pakistan Camps

Caption: SWABI, PAKISTAN - JULY 13: Pakistan Military attempt to hold back an angry mob, as they carry a man from Swat, who according to bystanders, was beaten by Police, upon asking for his food rations at the Yar Hussain UNHCR camp in Chota Lahore on July 13, 2009 in Swabi district, Pakistan. Approximately 3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been created as a result of an on-going military operation against the Taliban. Thousands of families have been urged by the government to return to their homes in Lower Swat, Malakand and Buner. Hundreds of IDPs queued today at the Yar Hussain camp to receive their final two month food rations before leaving the camp and departing for their respective homes. The IDPs were not handed out their rations, and according to bystanders, Police in charge of distribution beat a man after he asked for his ration, sparking an angry mob which ransacked the Camp Directors Office and other rations. The army could not keep back the mob of frustrated IDPs, who carried the man from Swats' injured body on a Charpai, or makeshift bed, to present to the camp director. The Army then loaded the injured man onto a truck to take to a nearby hospital. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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The Woman at the Wall

  • Jul. 14th, 2009 at 1:57 PM

Iraqi women walked past walls scarred by a detonated roadside bomb that targeted a police patrol in the Karada district of Baghdad yesterday. One person died in the blast.
Iraqi women walked past walls scarred by a detonated roadside bomb that targeted a police patrol in the Karada district of Baghdad yesterday. One person died in the blast. (Ali Al-Saadi/ AFP/ Getty Images)

That's FREEDOM and LIBERATION, huh?

Btw, world, George Bush's surge FAILED!


"A report issued recently by the Iraqi planning ministry, meanwhile, painted a grim picture of life in the country, saying shortages of clean water and food were growing worse. 

The report found that life expectancy had fallen to 58 years in 2008 - seven years less than during the height of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

Rates of poverty, tuberculosis, hunger, unemployment, and infant mortality have all increased substantially.

“Iraqis are not living in a condition fit for the 21st century,’’ said the planning minister, Ali Ghalib Baban. He estimated that Iraq needs $400 billion in funds to rebuild water-treatment plants, bridges, and other infrastructure."

So WTF have we done over there other than DESTROY the PLACE and turn it into a living hell?

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