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otraque

03/13/06 11:24 AM

#6545 RE: otraque #6544

i am arbitarily raising the rapid spread mutation to humans with avian flu to occur within the next 12months from 5% to 15%. ( It now has been reported in 26nations, BUT NO indication yet of a mutation to crossover via its merely being in the air, to humans.
The simplest thing i can say is if ever you open a paper and read 100 new cases in humans have been reported today, with something like this, as an example.
100 new human cases have been reported today, 92 in Hong Kong and 8 in London.
That means the breakout has occurred.
This is NOT like SARS, SARS was not a flu virus, it was quite a bit heavier in weight, it maximum range on a sneeze was about 6 feet.
For the flu virus, it can fill a room and remain suspended in the air.
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Ace Hanlon

03/13/06 6:38 PM

#6550 RE: otraque #6544




Shia cleric blames US forces for Sunday massacre
[ Monday, March 13, 2006 06:52:58 pmIANS ]


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BAGHDAD: Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held the US forces responsible on Monday for the bombings in Sadr city, one of the poorest districts of Baghdad, that claimed over 40 lives.

"I hold the occupying forces responsible for orchestrating this event," Muqtada told a press conference in Najaf.

He said terrorists carried out the bombing "under US air cover" arguing that the halt of telephone connections before the incident was proof of the cooperation between the terrorists and the occupier to "destabilise the security of this Shia region.

"I find Sunnis and Shias innocents of this act," he added.

Two car bombs and mortars in Sadr City late on Sunday killed some 40 and injured over 90 people.

Muqtada also mocked a statement of US Defence Secretary Ronald Rumsfeld, in which he said that US forces would not interfere if a civil war broke out in Iraq.

"This is a sheer lie," he remarked. "What is their duty if they do not protect the security of Iraq?"