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Sarah Boyd
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Targeting the Red Cross?
October 27, 2003 - 08:05 AM
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The bombing today outside the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad was no accident.
A suicide bomber detonating himself and an ambulance expounding the two symbols perhaps recognised more widely than any others in our world.
The international red cross and red crescent.
I try to comprehend this act.
These symbols are the last saviours of life.
Respected through history on any battlefield.
The wounded were local Iraqi Red Cross workers, coming to the aid of those suffering in the attempted “regime change”.
A journalist said this attack “suggests there is no target out of bounds for these terrorists”.
“These terrorists”, the loyalists of the old regime.
The US hit bitten off more than they can chew. Does they not understand that despite his despotic rule, nationalism grew fervently over the last decade?
It may have only been one bomb in a war of millions, but the symbolic act defies my comprehension.
But the US Army is still “making positive ground every day”. Apparently so.
Afghanistan has quietly and conveniently slipped off the map.
I fear for how long Iraq will remain newsworthy.
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Haseeb
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I have two close friends working ....
October 27, 2003 - 10:07 AM
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Its really terrifing and just so complex that one can not say that this place is safe or that if i be here , i ownt be attacked.
I have two very good freinds working for the ICRC in Baghdad, they were with me in the ECFP in Switzerland, and when I heard the news i contacted them to check if they were safe.
Luckily for them , today was the first day of Ramadan and because of that the attendance timeing had changed from 8:00 am to 9:00 and the attack occured at 8:15, so they were safe by a little margin.
But unlike them, reportedly 10 of their colleages (mainly security and police personal) felt victim to this inhuman act.
And countless people injured, whats was it about ?
Why would one attack the ICRC? Its just a mad thing and I cant comprehend whats the message that the doers of such an evil act want to pass?
I know one thing,or lets say i guess the ones doing this or not Al Qaedas, maybe Sadam Loyalist or not, but they sure are Iraqi citizens, citizens who cant see their country be occupied.
This was the case with Russian occupation of Afghanistan , and day by day Irag crisis is shaping as that of the Afghan -Russian fight.
Where, no Algaida nor any one loyal to any former leader was invloved in the resistance and fight, but it was the ordinary Afghans all around who were doing it.
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Red Cross has done a lot
October 23, 2005 - 11:57 AM
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Red Cross should never be targeted. It has done a lot in the humanitarian sector for years now. Its mission is solely to help the less distabilized during war and other humanitarian periods.
Its only fair that its work is appreciated in a positive way and bombing is not one of them.
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Re: Targeting the Red Cross?
October 29, 2005 - 05:53 AM
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"La Terreur"
‘If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, its basis in a time of revolution is virtue and terror – virtue, without which terror would be barbaric; and terror, without which virtue would be impotent.’
--Maximilien Robespierre 1794
i might not seem like it, but the actual amount of terrorist attacks over the years has decreased. The difference is that the attackers pick and choose targets with the most visability and significance...
so what can be done to stop the nationalism becoming fullblown terrorism? is it a case of working with these 'freedom fighters' to fix what is wrong?
afghanistan, could it be a case of "no news is good news"? or am i crazy?
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