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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Chilling Syrian numbers: 83% of electricity cut, life expectancy drops 20 years
2015-03-12
[THESTAR] Syria has plunged into darkness -- both literally, and figuratively.
Embrace it! Eventually de-civilization becomes it's own solution.
As the country heads into a fifth year of seemingly unending conflict, almost 83 per cent of the lights have gone out.

Using satellite images taken from about 800 kilometres above the earth, the findings were revealed by a team of researchers from Wuhan University in China.

"These satellite images help us understand the suffering and fear experienced by ordinary Syrians as their country is destroyed around them," said Dr Xi Li, the lead researcher on the project, in a statement.

In Aleppo province, 97 per cent of the electricity is off, while 96 per cent of the lights in Raqqa, an area under the control of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, are off.

The findings were presented in coordination with a coalition of 130 humanitarian organizations, which also launched a new campaign, #WithSyria, in solidarity with those caught in conflict.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Interesting.
So Dr., what would this approach tell us about North Korea?

I'm sure the new hashtag campaign has ISJV shaking.

"Hey mahmood, this hashtag says the lack of lights shows we are causing suffering and fear."
"Well, allan yeah! woot! fetch the goat its party time!"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-03-12 13:51  

#2  The Prophet (bpuh ) didn't have electricity. Good faithful Muslims shouldn't either.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2015-03-12 13:32  

#1  Doing their part to reduce global warming, I'd say!
Posted by: Bobby   2015-03-12 13:08  

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