Starving Refugees Ready "To Eat Cats"

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by dgridley, Jul 15, 2007.

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    A Palestinian woman who fled her north Lebanon refugee camp two days before said on Friday there was so little food there that she was prepared to eat cats to survive.

    After nearly eight weeks in the besieged camp, Joumana Wehbe fled along with secular Palestinian fighters and their families to free the way for a final army assault on the al-Qaeda-inspired militants holed up inside.

    Abu Imad al-Wanni, commander of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's mainstream Fatah movement in Nahr el-Bared camp, said his leaders had ordered their departure from the camp Wednesday in order to "open the way for a final army assault".

    The army has pounded Nahr el-Bared camp with tank and artillery fire since they left, but has denied launching a final assault against the Fatah Islam fighters barricaded inside.

    more: http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.asp...ng_news__international_news/&articleid=313950

    Tragic that in times of war, it's often the innocent and dispossessed that suffer the most.
     
    dgridley, Jul 15, 2007 IP
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    Realm Well-Known Member

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    of course...."The Rich wage War and the Poor who Dies"
     
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    Aptly put..

     
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