There must be a cosmic message in this news story somewhere....
- From: "菩薩" <psychedelictourist@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Aug 2006 10:02:51 -0700
Blast kills 29 petrol scavengers.
hmmmmmm......Every once in a while i will find a story in the newspaper
that will synthesis to me all the different political, environmential,
spiritual, activist and philosophical thoughts i have swirling in my
head.
This is one of them. At least 29 "petro scavengers" in Iraq died
yesterday while siphoning petrol from around a breach in a disused
pipeline.
Dozens more were missing and may have been killed. Mutilated and
mud-caked bodies lay circled around one wide crater at least 10 metres
wide. One witness said there were still bodies in the pools and under
mud that had not been recovered.......
The cause of the explosion was blamed on an indiviual who used a bic
lighter to peer into a gas can....
check out this link: http://zfacts.com/p/35.html
"The government is to blame for this. It raised the prices of petrol
and forced people to do these dangerous things," an elderly man said at
the scene.
Prices for gas in Iraq are around $3.20 a gallon
At Gas Stations in Iraq, Price Hike Fuels Outrage
By Jonathan Finer and Naseer Nouri
Wednesday, December 28, 2005; Page A15
In the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, the insurgent group Ansar
al-Sunna left leaflets at several gas stations warning employees not to
charge the higher prices and describing them as "apostates," or lapsed
Muslims.
"We have been threatened with kidnapping and death because they think
we are serving the government officials, but in fact we are serving the
people," said Issa Abdullah Hadidi, who has run the Uqba Ibn Nafi gas
station in the southern part of the city for 20 years. He said he has
never felt so endangered.
On Monday night, insurgents bearing rocket-propelled grenade launchers
and AK-47 assault rifles attacked the gas station, killing one person
and wounding four employees. On Tuesday, the same day a gas truck
driver died in a roadside bombing outside the northern city of Kirkuk,
12 members of Hadidi's staff stayed home from work, he said.
Also Tuesday, Iraqi police in Baqubah, about 35 miles northeast of
Baghdad, broke up what they said was an unauthorized demonstration by
about 1,500 students against the rise in fuel prices and alleged fraud
in the Iraqi elections. Similar protests have occurred in several other
cities, including Hilla and Najaf in the south.
....so somebody living in one of the most oil rich countries in the
world was scavaging gas and lite a lighter to see how much he had in a
can and blew everything to kingdom come killing 29 people.....
namaste;
bodhi
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