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“We just don’t know it at the time…”

-The Five People You Meet in Heaven

When Adam felt too weak, sleepy to be precise but he didn’t know what sleep is at that time. He thought it’s the end. Thats how we think about death, something we’ve never experienced before, mysterious and powerful.

When Adam woke up the next day, he had a whole new world to deal with but he also had yesterday to make sense of. Yesterday was a day that had passed and today is a new day that will eventually end too. Our life will end by death, but life on earth will be a yesterday and in heaven we’re going to start a whole new life after we make sense of our yesterday.

Posted in Humanities

Michael Howard in Irbil
Wednesday July 13, 2005

Iraq’s leading Sunni Muslim groups reacted angrily yesterday to reports that 10 Sunni Arab men suffocated to death in the back of a police lorry in Baghdad’s sweltering summer heat.

The men are alleged to have died after being arrested by Iraqi anti-terrorist special forces on Sunday as they visited relatives at a hospital in the mainly Shia neighbourhood of Shula in north-western Baghdad.

A spokesman for the conservative Association of Muslim Clerics said yesterday that 11 men had been rounded up after an incident in which US troops fired at a group of construction workers.

The men, aged between 20 and 30, were taken to a detention centre where they were tortured, he alleged.

They were then herded into a police truck for up to 14 hours, where they lost consciousness and and all but one died. The temperature outside was above 40C (104F). The man who survived used his mobile phone to alert family members.

Posted in Politics