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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 02:47 AM
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France sends "massive" aid to Libya's Benghazi-PM
Source: Reuters

PARIS Feb 28 (Reuters) - France will send two planes full of medical aid to the Libyan city of Benghazi, held by opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, marking the start of a humanitarian operation, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Monday.

"In a few hours two airplanes will leave for Benghazi at the request of the French government with doctors, nurses, medical equipment, and it will mark the start of a massive humanitarian aid operation for the people in the liberated territories," Fillon said in an interview on RTL.

Opponents of the Libyan leader have taken control of Benghazi, the country's second city, and leading citizens have set up committees to act as a local authority and run services.



Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFPISSDE72U20110228
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Kurska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 03:25 AM
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1. Rifles count as medical aid right?
Either way, send them some of those aswell.
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happyslug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 09:13 AM
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2. Rifles count as bibles only, remembering Breecher's Bibles of Bleeding Kansas fame
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beecher%27s_Bibles

"He (Henry W. Beecher) believed that the Sharps Rifle was a truly moral agency, and that there was more moral power in one of those instruments, so far as the slaveholders of Kansas were concerned, than in a hundred Bibles. You might just as well. . . read the Bible to Buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow; but they have a supreme respect for the logic that is embodied in Sharp's rifle."
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 11:44 AM
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3. The Christian way.. If they won't follow our beliefs we kill them..
God approved this post..
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