KimM wrote:

At this point in TIME, "Who Cares"

We are on the "EVE Of Destruction" as we know it.

No< I still stick by end 2009/start 2010 for the "EVE Of Destruction"
as we know it.

However, having said that, I think we're gonna see a heck of a lot of
lives lost due
to terrorism around the world b4 2009 & this will have a dire impact on
the global economy !

This just off the wires from www.reuters.com/

Triple bombing breaks Baghdad lull, kills 43
Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:11 AM GMT

By Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three car bombs killed more than 40 people in a
coordinated attack on a Baghdad bus station in the morning rush hour on
Wednesday, ending a lull in insurgent attacks as Iraqi leaders resumed
talks on a new constitution.

At least 43 people were killed and 76 wounded, an official in the
Interior Ministry said, adding: "The casualty figure could rise as
there are charred bodies all over the place."

Police and medics were among the dead, struck by the third bomb,
between the bus station and the nearby Kindi hospital as victims of the
earlier blasts were being taken there.

One witness said a bus about to depart for Iraq's second city of Basra,
in the Shi'ite south, had been incinerated by the blast and it appeared
many of passengers were killed.

The multiple explosions suggested an attack by one of the Islamist
radical groups active in the Sunni Arab insurgency against the
U.S.-backed, Shi'ite-led government -- although unlike many bombings by
groups like al Qaeda, police said it was not clear if any of the cars
was driven by a suicide attacker.

If not, then it would have been an elaborately laid trap to place and
time a car bomb to go off just at the point where rescue services were
moving casualties toward medical aid.

The U.S. military said in a statement one bomb -- it was not clear
which in the sequence -- was detonated by its driver, while a second
was concealed in a parked vehicle.

CONSTITUTION DEADLOCK

It was the first attack on this scale in Baghdad for nearly a month and
came hours before political leaders were to resume efforts to resolve
deadlock on a new constitution, following their failure to produce a
draft by Monday's midnight deadline.

Parliament gave leaders of rival sectarian and ethnic groups a further
week to settle their differences.

Sectarian and ethnic divisions over the extent to which regions should
have autonomy and control over oil and other resources remain at the
heart of the dispute, negotiators said.

Bahaa al-Araji, a leading lawmaker from the Shi'ite majority on
parliament's constitution drafting committee, said talks were getting
under way again within the panel in late morning. Only brief informal
contacts had taken place on Tuesday.

Saleh al-Mutlak, a negotiator from the Sunni minority that dominated
under Saddam Hussein, said his group was still opposing provisions that
might give Islamist Shi'ites control over the southern oilfields and
allow Kurds to expand their region's boundaries to annexe the oil
resources of the north.

Senior party leaders would gather later in the day, he said.

U.S. officials say a constitution deal could undermine the revolt among
the Sunni Arab minority. Militants have threatened to kill Sunni
leaders who join the U.S.-sponsored political process, however, and to
continue their campaign come what may.

BLAST SEQUENCE

The first two bombs, shortly before 8 a.m. (0400 GMT), sent a huge
plume of black smoke into the clear sky over the city. One went off
close to an entrance to the Nahda bus station, where coaches, minibuses
and taxis ferry travellers to and from towns across Iraq. A second went
off inside a few minutes later.

A quarter of an hour or so after that, as police and medics were moving
casualties to Kindi hospital nearby, the third bomb detonated, killing
some of those who had come to help.

"We heard an explosion in the garage, we went there and ran towards the
buses for Kut, Basra and Amara," eyewitness Ahmed Jabur told Reuters at
the scene.

"A coach blew up. When we were leaving, another one blew up in the
middle of police cars."

A Reuters reporter saw blazing buses and cars and two lifeless bodies
on the street.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in remarks more critical than
those of President George W. Bush, called the delay in drafting a new
constitution "not helpful".

"The sooner it is done, the fewer Iraqis that will be killed, the fewer
Americans or coalition forces that will be killed," he said.

Asked whether the delay might embolden the insurgency, Rumsfeld
responded, "I think that a delay is not helpful."

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Eight months from now I think most people will be worried more about "Where Can I Get

(Gas) ??? " Than what the CURRENT prices are !!!

Then we have to find alternate fuels & energy sources, quick smart,
don't we ?!?!?

Either that or we're totally FRICKED beyond all repair....

Life certainly won't be a picnic -- & prices will skyrocket...

Unemployment & crime will also skyrocket !

But no nuclear war until 2009/2010...

HOOROO

UNCLE WALLY

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I still think everyone is " MISSING the 'Big Picture' here !!! "

The 'Big Picture' is that there are some very tough times ahead for
all,
but I still think 2009/2010 is the timing of all-out global war.....

The Mayan Calendar is OFF by a few YEARS. (So What, my computer losses 3 seconds a Week

There are now only 2682 days remaining until the end of the Mayan
Calendar on Friday, December, 21, 2012

:-(]


"Uncle Wally da HOOROO GuruT" <stargatedecember2012@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:1124252436.810183.132440@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Petrol prices to go thru the frickin' roof !!

$2 a liter plus in Oz !!

$8 plus per gallon in US !!

aLL by this Chrissie, 2005 !!!

OuchaMUNDO !!!

HOOROO ;-)

UNCLE WALLY ;-)