There must be a lesson in this story somewhere...
- From: "菩薩" <psychedelictourist@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Aug 2006 11:20:33 -0700
Blast kills 29 petrol scavengers.
hmmmmmm......Every once in a while i'll story in the newspaper
that will synthesisize 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 gasoline 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 indivsual who used a bic
lighter while peering into a gas can....
"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
hmmmmm...
So not only are the people of Iraqi - one of the most oil rich regions
in the world - so desperate for gasoline they have to scavage gas from
an environmental disaster site. ... but somebody had to come along and
"flick his bic" blowing everyone and everything to kingdom come.
Allah Be praised!!!
namaste;
bodhi
http://psychedelictourist.blogspot.com
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.
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