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Anyone getting an odd sense of deja vous?
Copper Mine Threatens Ancient Monastery in Afghanistan
Andrew Lawler

A decade after the Taliban destroyed the famous Bamiyan Buddhas-two massive statues that have stood sentry in an Afghan valley for 1500 years-archaeologists are warning that Afghan antiquities are again at risk. This time the threat comes from a venture blessed by the Western-backed Afghan government. A Chinese company intends to blow up an ancient Buddhist monastery south of Kabul to make way for a massive copper mine. The plan has sparked outrage among Afghan and French archaeologists, who have recently uncovered more than 100 statues within a large religious complex that includes seven stupas, or tombs built to house the relics of saints.
Always nice to know that some things don't change. :roll:
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Progress at work... :bangwall:

I seem to recall an adage, something like "Those who forget the past..."
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Hey, it's not a Muslim holy site so who gives a fuck?
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Tyyr wrote:Hey, it's not a Muslim holy site got something they can sell underneath it so who gives a f**k?
Fixed it for you.
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Captain Seafort wrote:
Tyyr wrote:Hey, it's not a Muslim holy site got something they can sell underneath it so who gives a f**k?
Fixed it for you.
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I think this
Captain Seafort wrote:Hey, it's not a Muslim holy site and it's got something they can sell underneath it so who gives a f**k?
is a bit more likely. Do you think that they'd be so willing to destroy the place if it were a thousand year old Muslim temple? I doubt it.
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Depends on what we would be paying them. With as much as they pretend to hate us, they'll crawl on their hands and knees to beg us for money.
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Sionnach Glic wrote:I think this
Captain Seafort wrote:Hey, it's not a Muslim holy site and it's got something they can sell underneath it so who gives a f**k?
is a bit more likely. Do you think that they'd be so willing to destroy the place if it were a thousand year old Muslim temple? I doubt it.
I would be willing to destroy a thousand year old Muslim temple to save a thousand year old Buddhist temple. There are so many of those damn things anyway.
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Deepcrush wrote:Depends on what we would be paying them. With as much as they pretend to hate us, they'll crawl on their hands and knees to beg us for money.
Actually they don't have to beg us. We just throw it at them like confetti for drilling rights and pipeline rights.
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Nutso wrote:Actually they don't have to beg us. We just throw it at them like confetti for drilling rights and pipeline rights.
Actually, they do beg us. Its how we find out about most these places... then we throw it like confetti. :lol:
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