May 3, 2011: U.S. and Iraqi forces captured al Qaeda leader Mahmoud al Obiedi, and two of his key aides. This is believed one of the aftereffects of the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound on the 1st. In addition to the death of bin Laden, much data was seized, which was immediately gone over for leads to other prominent al Qaeda personnel. Al Qaeda threatened retaliation for the death of bin Laden, but nothing unusual has happened yet.
Most Iraqis cheered the death of bin Laden, including many Sunni Arabs. This was because most Sunni Arabs want a secular government, while bin Laden advocated a religious dictatorship. Al Qaeda was also responsible for killing over 50,000 Iraqi civilians, many of them Sunni Arabs. The Iraqi Baath Party cheered the death of bin Laden, calling it a blow to Sunni Arab Islamic radicals (especially al Qaeda)
they also note that assasinations of scientists and doctors are common...no reason is given for this fact.
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Pakistan complains that they alerted the US about the compound a couple years ago.
So? They didn't bother to send over a pizza delivery guy to check out who was living there?
or maybe a bunch of kumbaya singing hippies.
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ten percent of American have asthma...
yes, and a lot of the increase is because we now have better means to diagnose mild cases, and easier ways to treat it. Yes, I think pollution increases the rate of asthma, but in the US, the clean air act has really helped improve the quality of air in most cities...the bad news is that this improvement could justify cutting funding to improve things even further.
Why does LA still measure as the worst polluted city in the USA? They are always bragging about being green...
and yes it's a major problem in Manila (not here where I live, where the main problem is when someone burns trash). When I travel to Manila, I have to take my inhaler with me.
In a related item, using Monolukast or a simlar pill is as effective as a cortisone based inhaler.
and a lot easier to use.
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Ghadaffy attacks an aid ship.
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There is a meme that going from "hunter gatherer" to city living results in lower health and shorter lives. LINK
Part of this is because infectious disease spreads more easily, but I wonder how much is because weak babies didn't survive to become weaker adults who died a bit earlier than the strong.
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Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli's mother died while he was in space.
he's been in the space station since December.
In our prayers.
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