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| Iraq makes Yasser look classy... |
| 2003-02-01 |
| More followup to the space shuttle disaster... 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 it was God's retribution. Ohferchrissake. "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. I'd tend to doubt that, with the tiny size of soul he's got showing in that comment... "Israel launched an aggression on us when it raided our nuclear reactor without any reason, now time has come and God has retaliated to their aggression," Tamini said. "It's all about us." "President (Yasser) Arafat and the Palestinian Authority offer their condolences to the six American families and the Israeli family who lost their loved ones in the catastrophe," Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian official and spokesman, told Reuters. Erekat said Arafat had sent President Bush a message of condolences over the loss of the NASA space agency's shuttle. Amazing. The Iraqis have succeeded in making Yasser look classy by comparison. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 This came from Reuters, which has become a very strange place. What are they thinking? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-02-01 23:01:52 |
| #2 Actually, after 9/11, didn't Arafat only start showing how much he cared after his people went out and celebrated wildly? Of course, not like anyone really believed him anyway... |
| Posted by: Paul 2003-02-01 22:46:51 |
| #1 Similar to what happened in 9/11,when the Iraqis gloated over the atrocity in New York and Arafat was busy showing how much he cared.Arafat is a lousy strategist but a great P.R. man. |
| Posted by: El Id 2003-02-01 16:14:50 |