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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4968918.ece>>
>>Pretty old news there Tracy. I remember Biafra as a child when it was in the news. We did ourselves no credit there, but then no country has done a lot of good in Africa.
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>Interesting. The article is dated Oct 19, 2008 which is today.
Notice the
May 12, 1968: Frederick Forsyth, at this time a freelance reporter, finds the breakaway region is now a charnel house
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
