Over 1,600 people have died since Wednesday when an earthquake struck Algeria.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/05/23/quake.algeria/index.html

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1,600 people have died since Wednesday when an earthquake struck Algeria.


I happened to have seen a very short local interview this afternoon , it was on an elderly seemingly poor man who lost his entire family . He mentioned how they couldnt do anything for those who were stuck simply because they had no equipment , and were left to what they could do themselves as peoples .

If they only had those wonderfull teams from New York who turned a disaster that could have costed some 30.000 lives only to 3000 , perhaps then only 160 would have died in Algeria , what a shame not everybody can afford such wonderfull rescue teams :rolleyes:

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Yk-sZ

If they only had those wonderfull teams from New York who turned a disaster that could have costed some 30.000 lives only to 3000 , perhaps then only 160 would have died in Algeria , what a shame not everybody can afford such wonderfull rescue teams
The NYC rescue teams saved no-one from within the WTC. They lost far more people than they saved in fact, and none were brought in by promise of monetary compensation. Hell, there was a party of firefighters from here in Ireland that took their vacation time, paid for tickets from their own pockets and flew there to help - that's the kind of thing that was done.
And there have been international teams sent to Algeria, it's just that they didn't get there fast enough :(

I cannot but agree with your lines EI_Sparks , but perhaps you did manage to catch the overal message in mine ?

Ofcourse international help is headed for Algeria , but do you not see the tendency of aiming one's attention toward matters one can more closely relate to ? I cannot but conclude a different approach toward the tragedy by 1000 times , while sofar its just half the victims . Dont get me wrong I am not in anyway trying to degrade 9-11 as a tragedy , but rather to upgrade the other tragedy's we have around the world as well . The way we deal with the matters psychologically reflects the way we are assisting , dont you think so ? I do not wish the peoples of Algiers depend only on mere gestures (http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030523/2003052323.html)
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Yk-sZ

I, too, am saddened by the deaths of the earthquake in algieria

YitzhaKShimshelevitZ,
We are not in disagreement then. I was merely trying to point out that a major contributing factor to the size of response to the WTC atrocity was its proximity and ease of access. That's not to say that we shouldn't have an international rapid reaction disaster team (and I'll slap the first person to say "F-A-B" :) ), just that 9/11 highlighted that there wasn't one, but showed what one could achieve. Algeria just showed what happens when there isn't one and the disaster is difficult for ad hoc groups to reach.