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Originally posted by Cowperson+Aug 31 2005, 11:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cowperson @ Aug 31 2005, 11:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Igottago@Aug 31 2005, 02:49 PM
the place is a complete mess...
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Mass panics leading to stampedes that result in mass death aren't uncommon and not peculiar to Iraq.
If I'm not mistaken about 300 were killed in India (power lines falling on a crowd and starting fires) and about 250 killed in Saudi Arabia (Hajj crowds pushing forward on a bridge) in similar mass panic instances in the last year alone. There have also been instances of varying scale in Europe and the America's.
The only peculiarity in this instance appears to be that Muslims were so worried about being slaughtered by fellow Muslims that they began trampling all the other Muslims around them to escape.
Cowperson [/b][/quote]
umm, thanks?? are you telling these facts about other countries to say Iraq isn't a complete mess?? I'm pretty sure this event just added more misery to the obvious devestation this country has already seen.