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| Somalia: Tidal waves kill hundreds |
| 2004-12-27 |
| Hundreds of people died and entire villages and towns disappeared when tidal waves hit Somalia's coastline along its central and northeastern regions, a Somali presidential spokesman said. The waves, which hit on Sunday, were triggered by the 9.0-magnitude undersea quake centered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) away. The "human loss is in the hundreds in the central and northeastern coastal area. ... Entire villages and coastal town have been swept away by the tidal waves and there is severe damage to property," said Yusuf Ismail, spokesman of Somalia's President Abduallhi Yusuf Ahmed. The spokesman is based in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where the Somali parliament is based because the Somali capital is considered too dangerous. He said he could not give an exact figure of the number dead because "we're focussing on extending our limited relief to the badly affected people." An Associated Press reporter in the Somali capital Mogadishu said that, according to elders speaking on two-way radios and local journalists, the death toll had risen there to more than 50 people, up from nine people dead Sunday. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #13 File this one under "Allah debates Muzlim a**holes about religion". |
| Posted by: BH 2004-12-27 11:39:49 PM |
| #12 There are plenty of Hindu, Buddhist, Christains and Animists we can help take care of. I'd think that these people would also feel a little bit of gratitude for any help, instead of finding reason to whine about other things. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-27 8:37:27 PM |
| #11 Ask me why I don't give a &^%$. The "advanced" muslim nations can take care of them. There are plenty of Hindu, Buddhist, Christains and Animists we can help take care of. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-27 3:31:44 PM |
| #10 Surf's up!!! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-12-27 3:26:24 PM |
| #9 Seafarious - I don't think they've even got the state-of-the-art buzzing prayer rug right yet. Detectors for natural disasters are way behind that. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-27 3:25:22 PM |
| #8 'Scusi, but oughtn't Somalia be equipped with state-of-the-art earthquake/tsunami detectors by now? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-12-27 3:19:50 PM |
| #7 So--taking bets on how long it will take for the same hands that killed our soldiers in Blackhawk Down to DEMAND aid and assistance from the US? Nanoseconds. Being who we are, we will help; being who they are, they will be ungrateful. Time to step back? |
| Posted by: Jules 187 2004-12-27 3:15:40 PM |
| #6 Wow-there are so many applicable condemnations in there...it's hard to choose. |
| Posted by: Jules 187 2004-12-27 3:09:13 PM |
| #5 Jules 187 - Actually, that would be the 7th Circle, those who commit Violence - if you're into the minutia of Dante's Inferno... The Ninth is for The Treacherous - Traitors. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-27 2:45:32 PM |
| #4 Naw the ninth ring is for Muslims. PS no sympathy here either. |
| Posted by: Rightwing 2004-12-27 2:45:27 PM |
| #3 Hmm-is that the ring dedicated to murderers? |
| Posted by: Jules 187 2004-12-27 2:21:12 PM |
| #2 Somalia holds a special place for me, say Dante's Ninth Ring, and scraping up any sympathy for them seems to be coming up empty. Wonder why that is? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-27 2:13:30 PM |
#1 The spokesman is based in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where the Somali parliament is based because the Somali capital is considered too dangerous.Well, that might be one reason the people weren't warned, even though countries along the African coastline had hours before the tsunami reached there - and should have known of it because of the destruction caused in SE Asia. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-27 1:39:31 PM |