Tue Feb 22, 2005 03:57 AM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A strong earthquake hit southeast Iran on Tuesday, killing almost 400 people, injuring hundreds and destroying some villages, a local official told Reuters.
The early morning quake, which measured 6.4 on the Richter scale, also injured more than 1,000 people and was centered on the town of Zarand in Kerman province, about 440 miles southeast of Tehran.
The tremor came just over a year after a devastating earthquake in Bam, about 160 miles southeast of Zarand, in which some 31,000 people were killed in December, 2003.
uh oh, bush rang up god on the phone and had him smite some iranians? lol
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Anonymous2005-02-22 16:08
God favors white christians or else why would so much money and power be consolitated in their hands?
I will not presume to speak for Allah or Any Other Diety but:
As long as people have to live in dangerous places bad things are gonna' happen to them. That's a fact. And if you live in a mud-brick dwelling in an active earthquake zone it will try to kill you when the ground shakes.
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Anonymous2005-02-23 5:53
3 tectonic plates converge within the arbitrary british-drawn borders of "iran"
if iran's nuclear reactor is swallowed up by the earth many will say it was god's hand, perhaps it was destiny that they inherited this piece of tumultuous land
either way the statistical chances of earthquakes in iran is almost higher than the pacific rim area where the tsunami recently came from
iran's geography sucks(besides containing some of the world's largest reserves of liquified natural gas and light sweet crude oil..) guess it balances out, earthquakes for immensely rich natural resources
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Anonymous2005-02-24 17:28
Lol gods. I feel no pity for Iran. In fact, I'd pay to be able to go there and ask the families of the victims, Where was your beloved allah huh? So much devotion, so much yihad, and that's how he repays you? Or is it that maybe he (and any other god, for that matter) just doesn't exist? Lolol. But I'd give them free advice - drop that allah tard and stop yihading the hell out of everybody else living in the planet, and perhaps you'll grow rich as us and will know how to deal with these things (better buildings, places, and health services = a fraction of those deaths).
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Anonymous2005-02-24 20:55
"WHERE IS YOUR ALLAH NOW?"
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ChuChu2005-02-27 9:01
Wow, did you ever think that not 100% of them were crazy suicide bombing maniacs?
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Anonymous2005-02-28 23:23
allah wishes you to remain ignorant and indoctrinated!!
objective education during childhood is the only way to stop terrorism.
the greed of old-power structures that commoditizes education... can be perceived as the root facilitator of terrorism. ignoring the desperately poor and uneducated parts of the world is what leads to an environment of ignorance that allows for fanatical terrorism
educate everyone = old disproportionate powers are highly marginalized. leave entire swaths of the world uneducated = terrorism is fostered in those regions and will eventually seek out the dominant powers
a balance must be struck between humanitarian charity in the form of public world-education and the consolidation and maintenance of old-power by those who have it
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Anonymous2005-03-01 16:44
>>9
Yes, I did, then I realized you can't say about anything without generalizing, and it's fairly reasonable to consider those fucktards fucktards since i) the majority of them are, and ii) they have a hundred times higher proportion of them than civilized countries.
>>10
Lol, you make it sound as if it were our failure that they come and kill us, so we must waste money on those bastards to not get killed (like anybody else paid for our education). That would convert terrorists into a maffia you have to pay not to get screwed by, which is about as bad.
Haven't any of you thought 100000 years ago we were all stupid monkeys humping on trees and we all had equal opportunities? Then some countries developed, and did things. Others didn't. And others relatively did, but then they went backwards, and are now the ass of the world. We have nothing to blame for if they are useless, worthless, terrorist shits. We should build a great wall around them or send them to Mars.
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Anonymous2005-03-01 17:44
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>Haven't any of you thought 100000 years ago we were all stupid monkeys humping on trees and we all had equal opportunities? Then some countries developed, and did things. Others didn't. And others relatively did, but then they went backwards, and are now the ass of the world. We have nothing to blame for if they are useless, worthless, terrorist shits. We should build a great wall around them or send them to Mars.
LOL!!
but seriously... some tolerance is a virtue, we can fix their kids' kids probably
lrn2history. its called the colonial period. when Britain showed up to Africa and started shipping people off to become slaves. i dunno, but imo that would of had some sort of effect on the regions growth, don't ya think? look at all the poor and undeveloped terrorist fuck hole countries, they have all been a colony and had their resources stolen and people raped by some super power of the time.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 16:58
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East Asia got the same treatment. Yet the niggers are still stuck in the Stone Age while the Japanese are building satellites.