Oops!

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

These and a score of other wedding guest victims of a recent 
mortar accident SHOULD provide ample evidence of the folly of 
demanding pyrotechnic ballistics with your nuptials....I challenge 
anyone to cite the Koran on the topic......

What did they do before the chinese blessed us with gunpowder? 
Wash cats?

love,
cfa



> 
> Civilian catastrophe as US bombs Afghan wedding
> 
> · 250 civilians reported dead or injured
> · Witnesses say attack lasted 2 hours
> · Pentagon: 'One bomb went astray'
> 
> Staff and agencies
> Monday July 1, 2002
> 
> US helicopter gunships and jets today fired on an Afghan wedding,
> killing or injuring at least 250 civilians, witnesses and hospital
> officials said. [...] Most of the dead and injured were women and
> children. "We have many children who are injured and who have no
> family," nurse Mohammed Nadir said. "Their families are gone. The
> villagers brought these children and they have no parents. Everyone
> says that their parents are dead." [...] At Bagram air base north of
> Kabul, the US military spokesman, Colonel Roger King, said an AC-130
> gunship, a B-52 bomber and other aircraft joined the attack after
> coalition ground forces came under fire. [...]
> 
> ...continues at
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,747529,00.html
> 
> 
> also:
> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-afghan-usa-
> bombing.ht ml
> 
> 
> Pragmatically speaking, this is probably a good thing, considering how
> many lives the U.S. military action is probably saving -- what's a few
> hundred civilian casualties, after all, when you're hard at work
> slaying evil-doers and keeping the world safe for democracy.
>