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At least 192 people killed in Northern Uganda attack
Globe and Mail / AP ^ | 2/22/044

Posted on 02/22/2004 6:53:34 AM PST by Valin

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1 posted on 02/22/2004 6:53:35 AM PST by Valin
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To: Valin
The rebels are led by Joseph Kony, who claims to have spiritual powers. They have terrorized towns across northern and northeastern Uganda, forcing an estimated 1 million people to flee. The group replenishes its ranks with children it abducts to use as fighters, porters or concubines.

Sounds like these folks are ripe for Muslim conversion.

2 posted on 02/22/2004 6:56:57 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: Valin
and Idi Amin is still dead.
3 posted on 02/22/2004 6:58:02 AM PST by NautiNurse (Missing Iraqi botulinum toxin? Look at John Kerry's face)
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To: NautiNurse
And this is a good thing!
4 posted on 02/22/2004 7:04:15 AM PST by Valin (America is the land mine between barbarism and civilization.)
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To: Valin; *AfricaWatch
I drew the conclusion a while ago that Africa is just a lost cause.  They're rapidly sliding back to the state they were in before colonization, and perhaps that's just the natural order of things.
 
Our only interest is keeping the Chi-coms out of that continent.  Beyond that, just ignore it.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

5 posted on 02/22/2004 8:00:49 AM PST by End Times Sentinel ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" –Thomas Paine)
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To: Valin
I first became aware of this group when planning a church mission trip to Jinja, Uganda last summer.

They claim to want to set up a government based on the ten commandments, yet rape, torture, dismember and murder to attain their goals. They are notorious for taking the children of a village captive for use as sex slaves.

The pictures I've seen of their atrocities are stunning and sickening.

I would not be a bit surprised to find that they are a muslim-backed terrorist organization. They are in northern Uganda ... check the map.
6 posted on 02/22/2004 8:09:45 AM PST by watchin
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Sounds like they have the fundamentals down to be a muslim group.
7 posted on 02/22/2004 8:20:20 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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Sounds like they have the fundamentals down to be a muslim group.

At the very least, they've been hanging around the Muslims too much -- the Muslims are a bad influence.

8 posted on 02/22/2004 8:28:38 AM PST by Siamese Princess
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Why do we never see human shields in places like this?

Why no protest marches for these people who are being killed?
9 posted on 02/22/2004 11:24:46 AM PST by Prodigal Son
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Amen!

The good news is that we have a president that takes compassion on such and well be addressing this issue shortly.

It is, after all, our justification for the deaths of 500 and growing US Citizens in Iraq.


Lets go help these people.
10 posted on 02/22/2004 12:21:28 PM PST by Kay Soze (NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts. - HA HA HA This is a joke right?)
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To: Prodigal Son
The human shields are USA haters,this is nothing to them.

Friends of our family were working in Uganda but had to leave the northern part of the country about 4 years ago.

11 posted on 02/22/2004 12:25:52 PM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen---caviar and cigarettes.)
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To: Mears
The horror that goes on over there is unfathomable. God help the innocents.
12 posted on 02/22/2004 1:08:13 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (The brighter you are, the more you have to learn)
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To: NautiNurse
"and Idi Amin is still dead."

Nope, he's living a life of luxury in Saudi Arabia.

15 posted on 02/22/2004 3:42:47 PM PST by blam
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he's living a life of luxury in Saudi Arabia

Not since August 16, 2003--although there was talk about moving his body back to Uganda.

16 posted on 02/22/2004 4:05:33 PM PST by NautiNurse (Missing Iraqi botulinum toxin? Look at John Kerry's face)
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"Not since August 16, 2003--although there was talk about moving his body back to Uganda."

He died, huh? Thanks, didn't know that.

17 posted on 02/22/2004 4:11:14 PM PST by blam
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Amin required advanced life support with multiple organ failure for 4 weeks prior to his death. It was reminiscent of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's prolonged death watch. The media were running out of descriptions for "he's almost dead."
18 posted on 02/22/2004 4:15:36 PM PST by NautiNurse (Missing Iraqi botulinum toxin? Look at John Kerry's face)
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To: ican'tbelieveit
The Lord's Resistance Army is a Christian group - their leader is a former altar boy. Most of the victims in Uganda are likewise Christians - this does not deter them. The massacres in Rwanda were also led by Christian militias, and had all these Bible quotes to urge them on.

The Lord's Resistance Army also makes raids into the Sudan, which is the only area they are likely to clash with Muslims.

19 posted on 02/22/2004 4:20:07 PM PST by BlackVeil
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To: Owl_Eagle
I drew the conclusion a while ago that Africa is just a lost cause.

So did I. And I don't think that they are like us, in any way at all. They are at a different, and lower, level of civilization.

20 posted on 02/22/2004 4:21:44 PM PST by BlackVeil
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