2005 i think he looked at, at least that s how i read your book, he decide it had wasn t working and decided to remove the settlements. and that was someone who was trying desperately to find a solution to the difficulty that no one has been able to solve. that s right. he worked very hard for peace. when he reached the conclusion that this was the right action, the right act to do, he acted like a leader. he took a decision and executed it. i see no other leaders in those days or now that could have taken that decision and executed it. but this reminds me that he always wanted peace with the arabs. and the arab leaders knew that, as well. for instance, on december, 2004, the egyptian president said sharon is the only hope for peace. so he was fighting terror, but he was fighting for peace, as well. and then there s the book starts with enormous sadness.
2005 i think he looked at, at least that s how i read your book, he decide it had wasn t working and decided to remove the settlements. and that was someone who was trying desperately to find a solution to the difficulty that no one has been able to solve. that s right. he worked very hard for peace. when he reached the conclusion that this was the right action, the right act to do, he acted like a leader. he took a decision and executed it. i see no other leaders in those days or now that could have taken that decision and executed it. but this reminds me that he always wanted peace with the arabs. and the arab leaders knew that, as well. for instance, on december, 2004, the egyptian president said sharon is the only hope for peace. so he was fighting terror, but he was fighting for peace, as well. and then there s the book starts with enormous sadness.
than the shaking from the earthquake, in some communities. then again, the shaking damp was also severe in other communities. so it was spotty like that, and, of course, the most low-lying areas where the wave height was the greatest, damped most heavily by the tsunami. kenneth, can a large earthquake in japan generate another large earthquake on another faultline? perhaps here in the united states? well we don t see it quite like that. so it has been an interesting string of events that we ve had, the december 2004 sumatra and the indian ocean tsunami, earthquake last year and the sue namty generated and now this one. even though it might not seem sequence dental, we think it is. a string of events in rapid succession so spread out we don t think there s a causal connection between them. it s more or less a random pattern of occurrence. just as humans look up at the night sky and see sons
the firefighters not being able to contain that large blaze in an oil refinery. flooding is rampant. in many cities in northern japan. the tsunami is moving upstream. the rivers engulfing cities, farmland, homes. the earthquake magnitude of 8.4. unprecedented in japan. one of the biggest quakes ever to hit the country was the quik january 17th, back in 1995. that had a magnitude of 7.3. it left 6344 people dead. another powerful quake occurred in the indian ocean in december 2004 with a magnitude of 8.9 at the epicenter. the death toll came to 220,000 in ten countries. in more recently a devastating earthquake struck new zealand last month. japan s meteorological agency says the quake registered an estimated magnitude of 6.3.
feuds that developed recently between karzai and u.s. officials whenever they ve gone after karzai s associates on charges of corruption. now, if they investigate hamid karzai s own brother and anger him, that could effect a lot of u.s. operations on the ground in afghanistan. this is a very delicate tight rope that the u.s. is walking right now. background now on hamid karzai. he was educated in yiindia. he served as deputy foreign minister in the afghan government. after the fall of the soviet union, later he briefly aligned himself with the taliban but designed to become taliban ambassador to the united nations. in 1999, his father was murdered in pakistan by the taliban. two years later, mr. karzai worked with the u.s. government to overthrow the taliban in afghanistan. shortly after, he was chosen as interim leader of afghanistan. december 2004, mr. karzai was elected president of afghanistan. remains president right now. can the u.s. government assassinate an american citizen