RW> Hello all!   
      
    RW> I note in this morning's COmmercial Appeal here in MEmphis   
    RW> an article stating that all the U.N. food aid distribution   
    RW> sites have been closed down thanks to Al Qaeda suicide   
    RW> bomber attacks, etc.   
      
    RW> Readers of other FIdonet echoes of this type will recall a   
    RW> heated debate over disaster aid and preparedness in another   
    RW> echo I was involved in.  A person essentially on the other   
    RW> side of many of the issues asked why no concern over the   
    RW> flooding and natural disasters in Pakistan.   
      
    RW> Then I stated that with the TAliban and Al Qaeda getting   
    RW> tacit support from the Pakistani government I saw no reason   
    RW> that we should put one dime's worth of aid in their hands,   
    RW> and would still say the same.   
      
    Yet, the plan should be to undermine the Taliban and the   
    Pakistani govt. An awful lot of Pakistanis don't like the   
    Taliban, or Al Qaeda, or their govt. We need to make use of   
    those facts.   
      
    RW> I applaud the U.N. relief agencies' decision.   
    RW> I truly believe that the U.N. relief workers should be   
    RW> evacuated post haste, and all the food stocks and other   
    RW> materials which cannot be taken out with them should be   
    RW> destroyed.   
      
    Uhh... innocent people will die. Remember, Al Qaeda kills more   
    Muslims than non-Muslims. And every time they attack they make   
    more enemies. I do believe a lot of Pakistanis died in that   
    attack, didn't they?   
      
    Remember, when the USSR pulled out of Afghanistan they didn't   
    settle back and rest, they expanded.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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