Commented on own review
Apr 23, 2001 11:58 PM
It may work in the United States, where the economy is everything, but for us, our ideology is
everything. And we believe that it is better to die for something than to live for nothing.
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Zoha
Commented on own review
Apr 23, 2001 11:57 PM
What would you do?
Kofi Annan
And there is Kofi Annan. You know Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of United Nations? He went to Pakistan, and he said he is going to meet our representative there. This man never bothered to come, to talk about these children, he never bothered himself to talk about... six million refugees, and he never talked about the poverty of Afghanistan. He only goes to that region because of these statues. It is really, really ridiculous. These people do not care about children, about people who are dying there, about the foreign interference that still exists; they only care about the statues. And I am sure they don't care about our heritage. They only care about their picnic site one time. Maybe they'll have a good picnic site there, seeing those statues. And I'm sure these sanctions which are imposed on our government will never change us, because for us, our ideology is everything. To try to change our ideology with economic sanctions will never work. Read More
Commented on own review
Apr 23, 2001 11:55 PM
I called my headquarters, I asked them, why are they going to blow the statues, and I talked to the head of the council of scholars of people, who had actually decided this, he told me that UNESCO and an NGO from Sweden, or from one of these Scandinavian countries Norway, Sweden, one of these they h...ad actually come, with a project of rebuilding the face of these statues, which have worn by rain. The council of people told them to spend that money in saving the lives of these children, instead of spending it to restore these statues. And these guys said, 'No, this money is only for the statues.' And the people were really pissed off. They said that, If you don t care about our children, we are going to blow those statues. If you were in such a situation what would you do? If your children are dying in front of your eyes, and you are under sanctions, and then the same people who have imposed sanctions and are coming and building statues here?Read More
Commented on own review
Apr 23, 2001 11:52 PM
Sanctions
Now, we are under sanctions. And the sanctions have caused a lot of problems. Despite that we already had been going through so many problems---
* the 23 years of continuous war, the total destruction of our infrastructure, and the problem of refugees, and the problem of land mines in o...ur agricultural lands --- all of a sudden the United Nations, with the provocation of Russia, is imposing sanctions on Afghanistan. And the sanctions have been approved; we are under sanctions. Several hundred children died a month ago. Seven hundred children died because of malnutrition and the severe cold weather. Nobody even talked about that. Everybody knows about the statues.
Renovating Statues as People Die
When the world is destroying our future with economic sanctions, then they have no right to worry about our past. Read More
Commented on own review
Apr 23, 2001 11:52 PM
He said, that he's going to do the worst thing ever to the United States. And everybody thought that he's going to blow the United States with nuclear weapons. But
he said, I m going to remove their enemy. And then he fragmented Soviet Union. And he was right. After he fragmented Soviet Union, a l...ot of people lost their jobs in the Pentagon, in the CIA, and the FBI, because they were not needed anymore. So we think that maybe these guys are looking for a boogey man now. Maybe they want to justify their annual budget, maybe they want to make their citizens feel that they are still needed to defend them. Afghanistan is not a terrorist state; we cannot even make a needle. How are we going to be a terrorist state? How are we going to be a threat to the world? If the word terrorism is really derived from the word terror, then there are countries making weapons of mass destruction, countries making nuclear weapons, they are terrorist states; we are not.Read More
Commented on own review
Apr 23, 2001 11:49 PM
So our first proposal was rejected. They said they do not believe in our judicial system, and we must extradite him to New York. After the rejection of this first proposal was we said we were ready to accept an international monitoring group to come into Afghanistan and monitor this man's activities... in Afghanistan. So that he does nothing. Even that he has no telecommunications. That proposal was also rejected. The third proposal we gave, six months ago, was that we were ready to try or accept the trial of Osama bin Laden in a third Islamic country, with the consent of Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. That was also rejected.
We are still very open minded. And for the fourth time, I m here, with a letter from my leadership that I m going to submit to the state department hoping that they will resolve the problem. But I don't think that they'll. Because we think, and I personally think now that maybe the United States is looking for a boogey man always. Remember what Gorbachev said? Read More
Commented on own review
Apr 23, 2001 11:46 PM
If we were to go and send 75 cruise missiles into the United States and say that we were going to kill a man that we thought was responsible for our embassy, and we missed that man, and we killed 19 other Americans what would the United States do? An instant declaration of war. But we are polite. We... did not declare war.
Our Proposals
Rather we have been very open-minded on this issue. We have said, that if really this man is involved in the Kenya/Tanzania acts, if anybody can give us proof or evidence about his involvement in these horrific acts, we will punish him. Nobody gave us evidence. We put him on trial for 45 days and nobody gave us any kind of evidence. The United States told us they did not believe in our judicial system. We were surprised as to what kind of judicial system they have? They just tried to kill a man without even giving him a fair trial. Even if one of us is a criminal here, the police are not going to blow his house; he must go to a courtRead More
Commented on own review
Apr 23, 2001 11:45 PM
What is the difference between those acts that bin Laden is blamed for and the 1998 cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan. Neither of the two were declared and both of them killed civilians. If it means killing civilians blindly, both of them killed civilians blindly. The United States government tr...ied to kill a man without even giving him a fair trial. In 1998, they just sent cruise missiles into Afghanistan and they announced that they were trying to kill Osama bin Laden. We didn't know Osama bin Laden then. I didn't know him; he was just a simple man. So we were all shocked. I was one of those men who was sitting at home at night, I was called for an immediate council meeting and we all were told the United States had attacked Afghanistan. With 75 cruise missiles they tried to kill one man. And they missed that man; killed 19 other students and never apologized for those killings. What would you do if you were in our situation. (contd...)Read More
Reviewed Afghanistan - General
Apr 23, 2001 11:38 PM
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I read this and thought Sanyogeeta was so right about her review on Afghanistan. I would like to share this with open minded MOUTHSHUT community.
This is a text of speech delivered by an Afghan leader in the US (University Of Southern California in Los Angeles, on March 10, 2001) regarding cu...Read more
Commented on sanyogeeta's review
Mar 12, 2001 12:29 PM
even though u look like an emotional wreck, u write good reviews
LOL
Commented on sanyogeeta's review
Mar 07, 2001 12:25 AM
I know what u mean Sanyogeeta!!! I am touched by the plight of Afghani ppl myself. But at the same time I dont like their political leadership. Its great that you are doing ur bit for the afghanis. Good work and great thoughts...keep it up
Zoha
Commented on zahid's review
Dec 18, 2000 10:46 AM
Mermaid ,Tropicana has no added sugar ,its a pure orange drink ,ya but for its nutritional fact ,it provide with 22g of sugar :-)
Commented on gurudev's review
Dec 18, 2000 10:38 AM
Ye sharabee kya mast english likhta hai ,baap maan gae!!!
I'll surely not drink this bear :-)
bye-bye
Commented on suraj's review
Dec 11, 2000 04:37 PM
Somebody here likes Akshay kumar's movies too. Suraj, whats goin on!!! There are much better actors still left in India, are you sure you recommend this movie? Beware, if I dont like it after watching it than ure in for some trouble. Newayz ThanKS!!!
Z
Commented on Badshah's review
Dec 09, 2000 07:27 PM
Individual comes and go
A TEAM lives on forever
Where is WestIndies today??
They re one of the worst teams with on of the best batsmen in the world in it. But can he alone make get them the glory of the past where every team member was performing?
Do you have any ONE OF THE BEST players in S...A. I wud think NO...they re not the worlds best, but they perform for the team and get the matches.
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