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Problems with citation templates:

They're delivered in attractive packages with lots of parameters that are easy to fill in. (See the icons at the top in edit mode—click on the far-right icon to open the templates; or see the image, right). For example, there are 19 parameters for books, which editors often fill in whether the information is needed or not.

{{cite book |last= |first= |coauthors=|others= |title= |editor= |publisher= |location= |date= |edition= |series= |volume= |pages= |chapter= |isbn= |oclc= |url= |accessdate= |language=}}
New editors complain that, because the parameters exist, they feel obliged to enter something for each of them, leading, for example, to citations that name the publisher of the New York Times. This becomes a bar to editing as new editors struggle to find information that there is no need for them to add.
The consequent in-text clutter in edit mode makes articles difficult to edit, and close to impossible to edit for flow when there are a lot of them (click on "show" below for examples). As a result, the more citation templates there are in an article, the worse the writing tends to be. Articles become lists of sentences, rather than flowing narratives.
They slow down load time considerably when there are large numbers of them; this is a particular problem when using "preview" or trying to retrieve diffs, which can easily take 10–30+ seconds to load. Copy editing often involves using preview many times before saving.
Some of the templates use citation styles that don't exist outside Wikipedia.
Citation styles in articles that use templates can be changed centrally without the authors even noticing.
When they're added to a References section, every entry in the list starts with "c", making it harder to scan the list in edit mode to see where to add a new citation in alphabetical order.
It's just as fast, if not faster, to write citations manually. The templates provide only an illusion of speed and ease.
For information about slow load time caused by citation templates, see Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Citation templates (technical).
Also see Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_101#Wikid77 and new 'fast' citation templates

Examples

Some examples of citation templates in edit mode:

Heather Mills

Two sections below, as of January 25, 2010. Because of the citation template bloat, the page is difficult to edit and very slow to load.

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Early life

Mills was born in [[Aldershot]], [[Hampshire]], to John "Mark" Francis Mills (a British ex-paratrooper) and his wife, Beatrice Mary Mills, née Finlay, who was the daughter of a colonel in the British Army.<ref name="KarmalMarriage">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/heathermills.html |title=Heather Mills Profile |publisher=[[UGO Networks]] |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> Mills' father was adopted at age seven and grew up in [[Brighton]], where his foster parents had a grocery shop, although his foster-father also worked as a mechanic for a [[Formula One|Grand Prix]] racing team.<ref name="TheTodayShow">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.macca-central.com/macca-news/morenews.php?id=878 |title=A Single Step (extract) |publisher=[[msnbc]] |date=2002-10-28 |accessdate=2008-07-20}}</ref> Her mother was born in India, during [[World War II]], but was educated at English [[boarding school]]s. Mills' parents met at [[Newcastle University]], and were married against the wishes of Finlay's father, who did not attend the wedding, and only saw his daughter once more before he died.<ref name="TheTodayShow"/> Mills' mother spoke several languages and played the piano, and her father played banjo and guitar, liked photography (winning an [[Evening Standard]] award) and took part in numerous sports.<ref name="TheTodayShow"/> He was very fond of animals (working for the [[RSPCA]] for a time) and Mills remembered her family always having a dog and a cat, as well as once having a pet goose and a white nanny goat that was allowed to roam the house in Libanus, near [[Brecon]], which was a house Mills' grandparents had.<ref name="TheTodayShow"/> Her family spent their holidays in Libanus and also lived there for a time.<ref name="AmazonBookFirstPage">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.amazon.com/Single-Step-Heather-Mills-McCartney/dp/0446531650 |title=A Single Step |publisher=Warner Books |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref><ref name="MillsVivaInterview">{{cite web |first=Juliet |last=Gellatley |url=http://www.viva.org.uk/celebs/heather_interview.html |title=Heather Mills - exclusive Viva! interview |publisher=[[Viva!]] |date=2008-04-12 |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> When Mills was six years old the family moved north to [[Alnwick]], in [[Northumberland]],<ref name="TheTodayShow"/> but moved shortly after to a [[Apartment building|block of flats]] in [[Washington, Tyne and Wear]], and then on to "Cockshott Farm," in [[Rothbury]], [[Northumberland]].<ref name="KarmalMarriage"/><ref name="FionaMillsAndHeatherPhoto">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/-01miQGJLb0/Sir+Paul+McCartney+Heather+Mills+Divorce+Judgement/EbVdThJm5FQ/Fiona+Mills |title=Sir Paul McCartney And Heather Mills - Divorce Judgement |publisher=Zimbio |date=2008-03-17 |accessdate=2008-07-24}}</ref> Mills attended Usworth Grange Primary school,<ref name="MillsBacksSchool">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/3154150.stm |title=Heather backs school campaign |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=2003-10-01 |accessdate=2008-07-19}}</ref> and then [[List of schools in the North East of England|Usworth]] [[Comprehensive school]] in Washington.<ref name="BNetIndependentArticle"/><ref name="SecretsAndLies"/> (She visited Usworth Comprehensive in 2003, as guest of honour at a prize-giving event and to support the school against plans for its closure).<ref name="MillsBacksSchool"/>

Mills later wrote that she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a swimming pool attendant when she was eight years old,<ref name="BBCBiog"/> but her next door neighbour, Margaret Ambler, who was sexually abused by the swimming pool attendant, alleged that Mills' story was "nothing what she made it out to be", that Mills was never a victim, and the pool attendant did not commit suicide, as Mills had written.<ref name="LiteratureofLying">{{cite web |first=Andy |last=McSmith |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/literature-of-lying-the-cover-is-blown-on-yet-another-tall-story-791342.html |title=Literature of lying: the cover is blown on yet another tall story |publisher=[[The Independent]] |date=2008-03-05 |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref> Although having received a letter from Mills offering £10,000 to stop a court case, Ambler complained that the story had caused her deep discomfort by bringing the incident to national attention, so she sued for breach of privacy, accepting an [[legal settlement|out-of-court settlement]] of [[£]]5,000 in compensation, and £54,000 legal costs.<ref name="BNetIndependentArticle">{{cite web |first=Andrew |last=Clennell |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030510/ai_n12684231 |title=Heather Mills faces legal action over paedophile claims |publisher=[[The Independent]] |date=2003-05-10 |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref><ref name="MarryMeOrItsOver">{{cite web |first=Laura |last=Roberts |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-561161/Scheming-Heather-told-Sir-Paul-Marry-says-friend-10-000-night-ex-prostitute.html |title=Scheming Heather told Sir Paul 'Marry me or it's over', says former friend and £10,000-a-night ex-prostitute |publisher=[[The Daily Mail]] |date=2008-04-22 |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref><ref name="WhoIsMills">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/article/2186/who-is-heather-mills/ |title=Who Is Heather Mills? |publisher=[[NBC Universal, Inc.]] |date=2007-10-30 |accessdate=2008-07-12}}</ref>

Mills' mother left home when Mills was nine years old, which left Mills, her older brother Shane, and her younger sister, Fiona, in the care of their father.<ref name="BBCBiog">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2031333.stm |title=Heather Mills Can't Buy Me Love |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=2002-06-07 |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref><ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/> Mills said that her father once threw her brother against a window for making a mess on the carpet with crayons. The window broke and her brother had to be taken to hospital, where Mills' father explained that the boy had fallen on some glass in the garden.<ref name="TheTodayShow"/> Fiona Mills said: "Our family were always short of money and our father demanded that we find food and clothes so we turned to shoplifting, learnt to hide from the bailiffs and became experts at domestic duties. I’m not ashamed to say that we were forced to steal because when you are a young child, you’d rather do that than face a beating from your father."<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/> (Their father disputed his daughters' allegations that he was violent towards them,<ref name="WhatReallyHappened">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.channel4.com/video/heather-mills-what-really-happened/ |title=All the best bits from Heather Mills: What Really Happened |publisher=[[Channel 4]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> later releasing home movies of family holidays in Lebanus, showing Mills playing happily).<ref name="ChildhoodDispute">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.list.co.uk/article/7899-heather-mills-childhood-dispute/ |title=Chjildhood Dispute |publisher=The List Ltd |date=2008-04-12 |accessdate=2008-04-22}}</ref> Mills later wrote that she often stole food from supermarkets as a child: "By ten I was an old hand. [[Stealing|Pinching]] food was really quite easy I discovered."<ref name="SupermarketBan"/> In 2006, she visited the [[Sainsbury's]] store in her home town and was refused entry by a member of staff because she had once been caught shoplifting there.<ref name="SupermarketBan">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-407025/Heathers-supermarket-shoplifting-shame.html |title=Heather's supermarket shoplifting shame |publisher=[[The Daily Mail]] |date=2006-09-27 |accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref>

London and modelling

When her father was jailed for 18 months after being convicted of [[fraud]], Mills left home with her sister to live with her mother and partner (''[[Crossroads (TV series)|Crossroads]]'' actor Charles Stapley) in [[Clapham]], London,<ref name="BBCBiog"/><ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/> although her brother went to [[Brighton]] to live with his paternal grandparents.<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/> Mills later wrote that at the age of 15 she ran away to join a funfair, and then lived in a cardboard box under [[Waterloo Station]] for four months, although Stapely refuted this by saying that she occasionally left home at weekends to travel with a young man who worked for a funfair in London.<ref name="BBCBiog"/><ref name="PorkyTest"/> During her stated period of homelessness, her school records indicate that she and her sister were both enrolled at Usworth comprehensive in Tyne and Wear until April 1983, and then at Hydeburn comprehensive in Clapham on 6 June 1983, where they both stayed until 2 July 1984.<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/> Mills remembered that a teacher at the Hydeburn school once said, "there's no hope for her at all", and that she left school with no academic qualifications.<ref name="LifeTogether"/> In the same year, her father had another daughter, Claire Mills, with a new partner.<ref name="AdditionalFamilyMembers">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://darksweetlady.tripod.com/beatleskids/family.html |title=Additional Family Members (Claire Mills) |publisher=Dark Sweet Lady (Tripod) |accessdate=2008-07-30}}</ref>

Mills worked for a croissant shop, but was sacked, and vowed "never to work for anyone else again".<ref name="croissantshop">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/06/09/do0910.xml |title=Macca’s Choice |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=2002-06-09 |accessdate=2008-07-27}}</ref> She later wrote that the owner of a jewellery shop in Clapham gave her a job on Saturdays, but Jim Guy (the owner of Penrose Jewellers) later stated: "Everything she wrote about me was lies, I never gave her a job; she just hung around and made tea. She told me her father was dead. The only thing that was true was she nicked [stole] stuff from the shop",<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/> which Guy said was worth £20,000.<ref name="croissantshop"/> Mills admitted that she had stolen some gold chains and sold them to buy a [[moped]], and when Guy reported the theft, she was put on [[probation]].<ref name="BBCBiog"/> Mills and her mother reconciled in 1989, but her mother died shortly after, during surgery for a minor [[thrombosis]] operation.<ref name="MirrorLiesMills">{{cite web |first=Jon |last=Clements |url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/tm_headline=can-we-believe-heather-this-time-&method=full&objectid=17955608&siteid=94762-name_page.html |title=Can we believe Heather this time? |publisher=[[Daily Mirror]] |date=2006-10-19 |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref> She then worked at a casino, a sunbed salon, and the Bananas cocktail bar in London.<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/><ref name="TarredAndHeathered">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-405387/I-tarred-Heathered-says-Heathers-husband.html |title=I was tarred and Heathered too, says Heather's first husband |publisher=[[The Daily Mail]] |date=2006-09-18 |accessdate=2008-07-27}}</ref> [[File:Die Freuden der Liebe.jpg|150px|thumb|right|The front cover of ''Die Freuden der Liebe'', featuring Mills and a male model]] Alfie Karmal (the son of a Palestinian father and Greek mother) was ten years older than Mills when they met in 1986, while she was working as a waitress at the Bananas cocktail club in Wardour Street, London.<ref name="HeathertheMonster">{{cite web |first=Helen |last=Weathers |coauthors=Simpson, Richard |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-445770/The-making-Heather-Monster.html |title= The making of Heather 'the Monster' |publisher=[[The Daily Mail]] |date=2007-03-31 |accessdate=2008-07-27}}</ref> Karmal bought her new clothes, [[Cartier SA|Cartier]] jewellery and paid for cosmetic surgery when she complained that her breasts were sagging. She later said that she had had a [[breast reduction]] operation, reducing her bra size from a 34E to a 34C.<ref name="LifeTogether"/> She reached the final of the [[Cinzano]] Model of the Year Competition,<ref name="croissantshop"/> so Karmal, who had moved into the computer industry, set up a model agency for her, ExSell Management,<ref name="HelloMagazineBiog">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/heathermills/ |title=She's the peace activist and model who survived a horrific accident and captured the heart of a Beatle. |publisher=[[Hello!]] magazine |accessdate=2008-07-27}}</ref> although it was not successful.<ref name="BBCBiog"/> Mills later tried to sell it for £5,000 but could not find a buyer.<ref name="TarredAndHeathered"/> In 1987 Mills went to live in Paris,<ref name=Judgment/> telling Karmal that a cosmetics company had given her a modelling contract, but became the [[Mistress (lover)|mistress]] of millionaire Lebanese businessman George Kazan for two years<ref name="HeathertheMonster"/><ref name="GoldDiggerMills">{{cite web |first=Ted |last=Morgan |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E63WFktpMIoC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=%22Alfie+Karmal%22&source=web&ots=XHGCwJ_Y1_&sig=163tCc09VWEdLri07yYnyQctaaM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result |title=How to Marry a Multi-Millionaire: The Ultimate Guide to High Net Worth Dating |publisher=SPI Books, (U.S.) |date=2005-12-01 |accessdate=2008-07-27}}</ref> and took part in a photo session for a stills-only German [[sex education]] manual called ''Die Freuden der Liebe'' (''The Joys of Love''),<ref name="DieFreudenderLiebe">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/heathermillsbook.jpg |title=Die Freuden der Liebe (book cover) |publisher=Orion |accessdate=2008-07-20}}</ref> in which she was photographed explicitly simulating sex with an equally nude male model called Peter Wilson. She received about £150. for the session.<ref name="NalkedAndUnabashed">{{cite web |first=Laura |last=Collins |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-390135/Heather-just-stood-naked-unashamed-unabashed.html |title=Heather just stood there, naked, unashamed and unabashed |publisher=[[The Daily Mail]] |date=2008-04-12 |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> She also modelled for [[Erotica|full-frontal]] nude photographs.<ref name="Pageantjudge">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1396085.php/Pageant_judge_Heather_Mills |title=Pageant judge Heather Mills |publisher=M&C |date=2008-03-17 |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref><ref name="ExplicitPhotos">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1378167.php/Heather_Mills_explicit_photos |title=Heather Mills's explicit photos |publisher=M&C |date=2007-12-03 |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref><ref name="MuccasPornPast">{{cite web |first=Victoria |last=Newton |url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article50770.ece |title=Lady Macca's porno past |publisher=''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]'' |date=2006-06-05 |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref>

After returning to London, Mills asked Karmal to marry her. Karmal said yes, but on one condition: "I told her I couldn't marry her until she did something about her compulsive lying, and she agreed to see a psychiatrist for eight weeks. She admitted she had a problem and said it was because she'd been forced to lie as a child by her father." Mills had told Karmal that she had a driving licence, and three [[Advanced Level (UK)|A-levels]], which Karmal later learned was not true.<ref name="TarredAndHeathered"/> On 6 May 1989, Mills married Karmal (who had two sons from a previous marriage)<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/> and moved into a four-bedroom house in [[Dobbs Weir]], Hertfordshire.<ref name="TarredAndHeathered"/> Although Mills proposed to Karmal, she later said that every man she has been out with "has asked me to marry him within a week."<ref name="LarryKingLiveInterviewWithMills"/> While married to Karmal, she suffered two [[ectopic pregnancies]],<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/><ref name="LifeTogether"/> so Karmal paid for her to go on holiday to Croatia with his children and ex-wife (with whom Mills had become friends) in 1990,<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt3">{{cite web |first=Russell |last=Miller |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article392048.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3 |title=Investigation: The girl can't help it (p3)|publisher=[[The Times]] |date=2004-11-28 |accessdate=2008-07-11 | location=London}}</ref> but Mills ended up living with her ski instructor, Pogacar, shortly before the Croatian War began.<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/><ref name="MilosReunion">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20070116/4166/heather-mills-has-birthday-reunion-with-ex-boyfriend/ |title=Heather Mills has birthday reunion with ex-boyfriend |publisher=Fametastic |date=2007-01-16 |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> Mills then set up a refugee crisis centre in London, helping over 20 people to escape the war. She drove by herself to deliver donations to Croatia, taking modelling assignments in Austria on the way to pay for the trip,<ref name="BBCBiog"/> later saying that she "worked on the front line in a war zone in the former [[Yugoslavia]] for two years where there were mines everywhere that weren't marked".<ref name="LarryKingLiveInterviewWithMills"/> Karmal and Mills were divorced in 1991,<ref name="TarredAndHeathered"/><ref name="MuccabeatMEup">{{cite web |first=Emily |last=Smith |url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article68971.ece |title='Liar Mucca beat ME up' says ex |publisher=''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]'' |date=2006-10-28 |accessdate=2008-07-27}}</ref> and Karmal now lives in Vancouver, Canada.<ref name="LinkedIn">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/130/AA1 |title=Alfie Karmal (VP Sales) |publisher=LinkedIn Corporation |accessdate=2008-07-27}}</ref> Mills was later engaged to Raffaele Mincione (a bond dealer for the [[Industrial Bank of Japan]]) in 1993.<ref name="StartingOver"/>

Gaza War

The lead as of July 5, 2009. It's impossible to edit for flow. Very slow to load.

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The '''Gaza War''', part of the ongoing [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]],<ref>[http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090202_gaza_war.pdf Anthony H. Cordesman, ‘THE “GAZA WAR”: A Strategic Analysis,’ Center for Strategic & International Studies, February 2009 p.5]</ref> commenced when [[Israel]] launched a [[military campaign]] in the [[Gaza Strip]] on December 27, 2008, codenamed '''Operation Cast Lead''' ({{lang-he|מבצע עופרת יצוקה}}),<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050405.html|title=ANALYSIS / IAF strike on Gaza is Israel’s version of ‘shock and awe’ |last=Harel|first=Amos|date=December 27, 2008|publisher=Ha’aretz|accessdate= December 27, 2008}}</ref> with the stated aim of stopping [[Hamas]] rocket attacks on southern Israel and arms smuggling into Gaza.<ref name="APboat">{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD97HIU0O0|title=Gaza boat explodes in apparent attack, no injuries|last=Weizman|first=Steve|date=April 13, 2009|publisher=Assciated Press|accessdate=2009-04-25}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Hamas+war+against+Israel/Israel_strikes_back_against_Hamas_terror_infrastructure_Gaza_27-Dec-2008.htm "Israel strikes back against Hamas terror infrastructure in Gaza 27-Dec-2008."] ''[[Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]''. January 21, 2009. February 2, 2009.</ref> The conflict has also been called the '''Gaza massacre''' in the [[Arab world]] ({{lang-ar|مجزرة غزة}}).<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/62543/factions-refuse-abbas-39-call-for-unity-meeting-amid-gaza-massacre.html| archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5djtfP92i | archivedate = 2009-01-11}}*{{Cite news| title = Iraqi leaders discuss Gaza massacre| url = http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10270761.html| date = 2008-12-28| accessdate = 2009-01-08 | publisher = gulfnews.com | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5dfW1C8nU | archivedate = 2009-01-08 }} *{{Cite news | title = Israel airstrikes on Gaza kill at least 225 | url = http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2008/December/middleeast_December507.xml&section=middleeast | agency = [[Deutsche Presse-Agentur|Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA)]] | publisher = Khaleej Times | date = 2008-12-27 | accessdate = 2009-01-11 | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5eULZTBGU | archivedate = 2009-02-10}} *{{Cite news | title = Hamas denies firing rockets from Lebanon | url = http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1004526/Hamas-denies-firing-rockets-from-Lebanon | agency = [[Agence France-Presse]] | publisher = [[Special Broadcasting Service]] | date = 2009-01-08 | accessdate = 2009-01-11 | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5djdLfR31 | archivedate = 2009-01-11}} *"Diplomatic race to stop the Gaza massacre" - {{Cite news | title=سباق دبلوماسي لوقف مذبحة غزة |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/middle_east_news/newsid_7810000/7810968.stm|agency=[[BBC]] Arabic|date=2009-01-05|accessdate=2009-01-11|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5djZbRLwy|archivedate=2009-01-11}} *"Victims of the Gaza massacre of nearly 3,000 in the ninth day of the aggression" - {{Cite news| title = ضحايا مجزرة غزة يقارب الـ3 آلاف في اليوم التاسع للعدوان | url = http://www.moheet.com/show_files.aspx?fid=207760 | date = 2009-01-04 | accessdate = 2009-02-08 | agency = Arab News Network (Moheet) | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5ddnm9cIU | archivedate = 2009-01-06}} *"Gaza massacre roused anti-Semitism in Europe" - {{Cite news |title = مجزرة غزة أيقظت اللاسامية في أوروبا | url = http://www.daralhayat.com/opinion/02-2009/Article-20090206-4c6b5e3b-c0a8-10ed-016d-304693d69d55/story.html | date = 2009-02-07 | accessdate = 2009-02-08 | agency = Dar al hayat | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5eQJS6P5i | archivedate = 2009-02-07}}</ref> <nowiki> A [[2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire|fragile six-month truce between Hamas and Israel]] expired on December 19, 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=TIMELINE - Israeli-Hamas violence since truce ended|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE50423320090105|publisher=Reuters}}</ref> Hamas and Israel could not agree on conditions to extend the truce.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7797144.stm | publisher = BBC | title = Hamas 'might renew' truce in Gaza}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/09/israel-rejected-hamas-cea_n_156639.html?page=2&show_comment_id=19558888#comment_19558888 | publisher = Huffington Post | title = Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer In December}}</ref> Hamas blamed Israel for not lifting the [[Gaza Strip blockade]], and for an Israeli raid on a purported tunnel, crossing the border into the Gaza Strip from Israel on November 4,<ref>[http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090202_gaza_war.pdf Anthony H. Cordesman, ‘THE “GAZA WAR”: A Strategic Analysis,’ Center for Strategic & International Studies, February 2009] p.9</ref> which it held constituted a serious breach of the truce.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446805,00.html ‘Israeli Airstrike on Gaza Threatens Truce with Hamas,’ Fox News, November 04, 2008]</ref><ref name=Guardian20091105/> Israel accused Hamas of violating the truce, citing the frequent [[List of rocket and mortar attacks in Israel in 2008|rocket and mortar attacks]] on Israeli cities.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ibrahim Barzak|coauthors=Amy Teibel|title=World leaders converge on Israel in push for truce|url=http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=231334&ac=PHnws|date=2009-01-0s|publisher=Maine Sunday Telegram}}</ref>

The Israeli operation began with an [[Timeline of the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict#27 December 2008|intense bombardment]] of the [[Gaza Strip]],<ref name="Times Online 2008-12-28-b">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5407382.ece</ref> targeting Hamas bases, police training camps,<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/27/africa/28mideast_update.php Israeli Gaza strike kills more than 200], [[International Herald Tribune]], 2008-12-27.</ref> police headquarters and offices.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050432.html|title=Most Hamas bases destroyed in 4 minutes|author=Amos Harel|publisher=[[Haaretz]]|accessdate=December 28, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230111714969&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull|title=A year's intel gathering yields 'alpha hits'|author=Yaakov Katz|publisher=[[Jerusalem Post]]|accessdate=December 28, 2008}}</ref> [[Incidents in the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict#civilian infrastructure|Civilian infrastructure]], including [[mosques]], houses, medical facilities and schools, were also attacked, as Israel stated that many of them were used by combatants, and as storage spaces for weapons and rockets.<ref name="guardian-israel-gaza-attacks">{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/02/israel-gaza-attacks| title=Israeli warplanes destroy Gaza houses and mosque as air strikes continue|last=McCarthy |first=Rory |coauthors=David Batty and agencies |date=January 2, 2009|publisher=Guardian|language=English|accessdate=2009-01-05}}</ref> Hamas intensified its rocket and mortar attacks against targets in Israel throughout the conflict, hitting previously untargeted cities such as [[Beersheba]] and [[Ashdod]].<ref> {{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3645485,00.html|title=Rockets land east of Ashdod|date=December 28, 2008|publisher=Ynetnews|accessdate=December 28, 2008}} </ref><ref name=ynet-school-rocket>{{cite web | title = Rockets reach Beersheba, cause damage | url= http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3647569,00.html | publisher = [[YNET]] | date = 2008-12-30 | language = English }} </ref> On January 3, 2009, the Israeli ground invasion began.<ref name= msnbc-ground-invasion>{{cite news|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28483756/|title=Israel Confirms Ground Invasion Has Started|date=2009-01-03|publisher=[[MSNBC]]|accessdate=2009-01-04}}{{Dead link|date=February 2009}}</ref><ref name="ap-ground-attack">{{cite news|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6568961|title=Israeli ground troops invade Gaza to halt rockets|last=BARZAK |first=IBRAHIM |coauthors=JASON KEYSER |date=2009-01-04|agency=[[Associated Press]]|language=English|accessdate=2009-01-04}}</ref>

[[International reaction to the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict|International reactions during the conflict]] included calls for an immediate ceasefire as in the [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1860]], and concern about the [[humanitarian aid|humanitarian]] situation in the Gaza Strip and the hindrances in delivering aid.<ref name="reuterstruce">[http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLS69391620081230 Israel and Hamas under pressure for Gaza aid truce] Reuters 2008-12-30</ref>  Human rights groups and aid organisations have accused Hamas and Israel of [[war crime]]s and called for independent investigations and lawsuits.<ref name=hs>{{cite news|title=Gaza 'human shields' criticised|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7818122.stm}}</ref><ref name="btselem">[http://www.btselem.org/english/Press_Releases/20070625.asp "Holding Gilad Shalit as a hostage is a war crime"] - B'Tselem press release, issued 25 June 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/13/gaza-israel-war-crimes|title=Demands grow for Gaza war crimes investigation|last=McGreal|first=Chris |date=2009-01-23|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=2009-01-23}}</ref>

Between 1,166 to 1,417 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died in the conflict.<ref name="reuters2009jan12"> [http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5053r7-us-palestinians-israel/ Israel tightens grip on urban parts of Gaza]. By Nidal al-Mughrabi. January 12, 2009. [[Reuters]].</ref><ref name="idf_updated_death_toll">{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727552054&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull|title=IDF releases Cast Lead casualty numbers|date=2009-03-26|publisher=JPost|accessdate=2009-03-26|last=Lappin|first=Yaakov}}</ref><ref name="PCHR_CIV_STAT">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/22/world/main4746224.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_4746224|title=Rights Group Puts Gaza Death Toll At 1,284|last=Younis|first=Khan|publisher=CBS|accessdate=2009-02-17}}</ref> The number of combatant and non-combatant casualties is a subject of ongoing contention.<ref name=bbc-count-contro>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7855070.stm|title=Counting casualties of Gaza's war|last=Bell|first=Bethany|date=January 28, 2009|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2009-02-17}}</ref> Casualty figures have been difficult to verify due to the limited amount of journalists allowed in Gaza during the conflict.<ref name=bbc-count-contro/> In the days following the ceasefire, the BBC reported that more than 400,000 Gazans were left without running water.<ref name="bbcjan192009-earthquate">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7838618.stm Gaza 'looks like earthquake zone']. [[BBC News]]. January 19, 2009.</ref> The BBC further reported that 4000 homes had been ruined, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless.<ref name="BBC|Scale of Gaza destruction emerges"> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7836869.stm 'Scale of Gaza destruction emerges']. [[BBC News]]. January 19, 2009. </ref>

The conflict came to an end on January 18 after first Israel and then Hamas announced [[unilateral]] ceasefires.<ref name="CNN Gaza">{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/18/israel.gaza/index.html |title=Hamas, Israel set independent cease-fires|publisher=CNN International}}</ref><ref name="Journalist Enters Gaza">{{cite news|title=Israel wants rapid Gaza pullout|publisher=BBC|date=January 18, 2009|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7836660.stm}}</ref> On January 21, Israel completed its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7841902.stm</ref> On March 2, it was reported that international donors had pledged [[USD|$4.5 billion]] in aid for the Palestinians, mainly for rebuilding Gaza after Israel's offensive.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7918105.stm |title=Billions pledged to rebuild Gaza |date=2009-03-02 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |accessdate=2009-03-04 }}</ref>

Terrorism

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'''Terrorism''', despite considerable disagreement about a precise definition,<ref>Angus Martyn, [http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/CIB/2001-02/02cib08.htm The Right of Self-Defence under International Law-the Response to the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September], Australian Law and Bills Digest Group, Parliament of Australia Web Site, 12 February 2002</ref><ref>Thalif Deen. [http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29633 POLITICS: U.N. Member States Struggle to Define Terrorism], [[Inter Press Service]], 25 July 2005</ref><ref name="Abrahm"/><ref name=tws13jan23ab>{{cite news |author= Jean Paul Laborde |title= COUNTERING TERRORISM: NEW INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW PERSPECTIVES: 132ND INTERNATIONAL SENIOR SEMINAR VISITING EXPERTS’ PAPERS |quote= The UN is often criticized for its action (or more accurately lack of action) on terrorism. “Lack of the definition” of terrorism, not addressing its “root causes”, “victims” and other issues are often cited by the critics to highlight UN impotence in dealing with this gravest manifestation of crime. |publisher= ''United Nations'' |date= 2007 |url= http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/pdf/PDF_rms/no71/07_p10-p13.pdf |accessdate= 2010-01-13 }}</ref> is often considered to be [[Intention (criminal law)|deliberate]]<ref name=tws12jan35ab>{{cite news |author= Fareed Zakaria |title= The Only Thing We Have to Fear ... If you set aside the war in Iraq, terrorism has in fact gone way down over the past five years. |quote= "Over the past 30 years, civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Bosnia, Guatemala, and elsewhere have, like Iraq, been notorious for the number of civilians killed. But although the slaughter in these cases was intentional, politically motivated, and perpetrated by non-state groups—and thus constituted terrorism as conceived by MIPT, NCTC, and START— |publisher= ''Newsweek'' |date= Jun 2, 2008 |url= http://www.newsweek.com/id/138508 |accessdate= 2010-01-12 }}</ref> [[violence]]<ref name=tws13janx23>{{cite news |author= Francis Townsend, Bruce Hoffman, Steve Inskeep (host) |title= Experts Explore How To Define Terrorism Act |quote= Incidents like Fort Hood are forcing terrorism experts to refine what should count as a terrorist act. ... When you look at the just basic English dictionary definition of terror, which is the use of violence to instill fear and intimidation, I think it's hard to imagine this wasn't an act of terror. ... Professor BRUCE HOFFMAN (Georgetown University): For me, an act of violence becomes an act of terrorism when it has some political motive. |publisher= ''NPR'' |date= November 25, 2009 |url= http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120809061 |accessdate= 2010-01-13 }}</ref> or the [[Intimidation|threat of violence]]<ref name=tws13jan43d>{{cite news |title= What is terrorism? |quote= One is Britain - the Terrorism Act 2000 is the largest piece of terrorist legislation in any member state. The Act says terrorism means the use or threat of action to influence a government or intimidate the public for a political, religious or ideological cause. |publisher= ''BBC News'' |date= 20 September 2001 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1555265.stm |accessdate= 2010-01-13 }}</ref> directed at [[innocent]]<ref name=tws13janfggf>{{cite news |title= What is terrorism? |quote= Hardly anyone disputes that flying an aircraft full of passengers into the World Trade Center was terrorism of the worst kind. But the outrage has tended to obscure the fact that there is still argument about what the word covers. In other contexts, the debate about who is a terrorist and who is a freedom-fighter is not dead. ... You would get wide agreement across the world that innocent civilians or bystanders should not be targeted - as opposed to being killed inadvertently in an attack on the military. |publisher= ''BBC News'' |date= 20 September 2001 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1555265.stm |accessdate= 2010-01-13 }}</ref><ref name=tws13jan25b>{{cite web |author= Steven Monblatt |title= Transatlantic Security |quote= Most victims of terrorism are innocent bystanders who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. |publisher= ''British American Security Information Council'' |date= 2010-01-13 |url= http://www.basicint.org/transatlantic/counterr.htm |accessdate= 2010-01-13 }}</ref> [[non-combatants]]<ref name=tws13janfggf/> and [[government|governments]]<ref name=tws13jan43d/> to cause [[fear]]<ref name=tws13janx23/> systematically<ref name=tws13jan7464>{{cite news |author= James Poniewozik |title= Is the Media Soft on White Male Terrorism? |quote= The Webster definition of terrorism is "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." |publisher= ''Time Magazine'' |date= June 11, 2009 |url= http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/06/11/is-the-media-soft-on-white-male-terrorism/ |accessdate= 2010-01-13 }}</ref> to attract [[Mass media|media attention]]<ref>[http://www.asap-spssi.org/pdf/asap019.pdf "politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant"]</ref> for causes which may be [[politics|political]]<ref name=tws12jan35ab/><ref name="Abrahm">{{cite journal| last = Abrahms| first = Max| title = What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy| journal = [[International Security]]| volume = 32| issue = 4| pages = 86–89| publisher = [[MIT Press]]| location = Cambridge, MA| date = March 2008| url = http://maxabrahms.com/pdfs/DC_250-1846.pdf| format = PDF 1933 [[KB]]| issn = 0162-2889| accessdate = 2008-11-04 }}</ref><ref name=tws13janx23/> or [[ideology|ideological]]<ref name=tws13jan43d/> or [[religion|religious]]<ref name=tws13jan43d/> and which are viewed as [[coercion|coercive]].<ref name=tws13jan43d/><ref name=tws13jan7464/><ref>{{cite web |title=Terrorism |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrorism |publisher=Merriam-Webster's Dictionary |year=1795}}</ref> An act which meets many or all of these criteria is often considered to be ''terrorism''. There is considerable disagreement about whether the term can describe government or religious leaders and whether the term should be extended to include wartime acts. Further, the distinction between ''terrorism'' and ''crime'' is hard to specify.<ref name=tws13janx23xxx>{{cite news |author= Bruce Hoffman, Steve Inskeep (host) |title= Experts Explore How To Define Terrorism Act |quote= But Hoffman concedes he might not have viewed Fort Hood as terrorism a decade or two ago. Back then, he believed there had to be some sort of chain of command; that a terror network had to be involved for an incident to rank as a terrorist attack. But Hoffman was forced to revisit that view, in light of the Unabomber, the Oklahoma City bomber, and now his conviction that terrorist groups like al-Qaida have learned they don't need to finance or train would-be terrorists directly; instead, they can motivate them to commit terrorism on their own. In that sense, Hoffman sees the Fort Hood attack as a prime example of one of the major trends in 21st century terrorism. |publisher= ''NPR'' |date= November 25, 2009 |url= http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120809061 |accessdate= 2010-01-13 }}</ref><ref name=tws13jan23ab1>{{cite news |author= Jean Paul Laborde |title= COUNTERING TERRORISM: NEW INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW PERSPECTIVES: 132ND INTERNATIONAL SENIOR SEMINAR VISITING EXPERTS’ PAPERS |quote= By defining terrorism as a crime rather than as an international security issue, the General Assembly has chosen a criminal law approach rather than a war model of fighting terrorism. |publisher= ''United Nations'' |date= 2007 |url= http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/pdf/PDF_rms/no71/07_p10-p13.pdf |accessdate= 2010-01-13 }}</ref>

The term is charged politically and emotionally and has strong negative connotations.<ref name="Hoffman-1998-p31">Hoffman, Bruce "''Inside Terrorism''" Columbia University Press 1998 ISBN 0-231-11468-0. Page 32. See review in The [[New York Times]][http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-terrorism.html Inside Terrorism]</ref> Its meaning often depends on the [[ideology]] of the user and the context of its use. Studies have found more than one hundred definitions of the term.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub207.pdf|title=BOUNDING THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM|last=Record|first=Jeffrey|date=December 2003|publisher=[[Strategic Studies Institute]] (SSI)|quote=The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. This report is cleared for public release; distribution is unlimited.|accessdate=2009-11-11}}</ref><ref>Schmid, Alex, and Jongman, Albert. Political Terrorism: A new guide to actors, authors, concepts, data bases, theories and literature. Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1988.</ref> At present, there is no internationally agreed-upon definition. Governments have described opponents as ''terrorists'' to delegitimize them.<ref name=tws11janx33225/><ref name=tws11jan757>{{cite news |author= Elysa Gardner |title= Harold Pinter: Theater's singular voice falls silent |quote= In 2004, he earned the prestigious Wilfred Owen prize for a series of poems opposing the war in Iraq. In his acceptance speech, Pinter described the war as "a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law." |publisher= ''USA Today'' |date= 2008-12-25 |url= http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/news/2008-12-25-pinter_N.htm |accessdate= 2010-01-11 }}</ref> Some suggest that the term ''terrorist'' is so fraught with conceptual problems that a better term would be ''violent non-state actor''.<ref name=tws11jan4eer>{{cite news |author= Barak Mendelsohn |title= Sovereignty under attack: the international society meets the Al Qaeda network (abstract) |quote= This article examines the complex relations between a violent non-state actor, the Al Qaeda network, and order in the international system. Al Qaeda poses a challenge to the sovereignty of specific states but it also challenges the international society as a whole. |publisher= ''Cambridge Journals'' |date= 2005-01 |url= http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=14A39C376E92196BB12E57159E36C7DF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=274626 |accessdate= 2010-01-11 }}</ref><ref name=tws12jan35ab/>{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} Terrorism has a long history and has been practiced by both right-wing and left-wing [[Political party|political parties]], nationalistic groups, religious groups, revolutionaries, criminals, and others.<ref name="britannica">{{cite web|url= http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9071797 |title=Terrorism |accessdate= 2006-08-11 |publisher= Encyclopædia Britannica|pages=3}}</ref>

2010 Haiti earthquake

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The '''2010 Haiti earthquake''' was a [[disaster|catastrophic]] [[Moment magnitude scale|magnitude 7.0 M<sub>w</sub>]] [[earthquake]]. Its [[epicenter|epicentre]] was near [[Léogâne]], approximately {{convert|25|km|mi|abbr=in}} west of [[Port-au-Prince]], the capital of [[Haiti]]. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010,<ref name="USGS_Haiti">{{cite web | title = USGS Magnitude 7.0 – HAITI REGION | url = http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010rja6/ | accessdate = 13 January 2010 }}</ref><ref name='abc1'>{{cite news | first=Lisa | last=Millar | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Tens of thousands isolated at quake epicentre | date=2010-01-17 | publisher= | url =http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/17/2794190.htm | work =ABC News | pages = | accessdate = 2010-01-18 | language = }}</ref> at a depth of {{convert|13|km|mi|abbr=in}}. The [[United States Geological Survey]] recorded a series of at least 33 [[aftershock]]s, 14 of which were between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php|title=Latest Earthquakes M5.0+ in the World – Past 7 days|last=Earthquake Center|first=USGS|work=Earthquake Hazards Program|publisher=United States Geological Survery|accessdate=13 January 2010}}</ref> The [[International Red Cross]] estimated that about three million people were affected by the quake;<ref name="cbsnews1">{{cite web|url= http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/13/world/main6090601.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.4 |title=Red Cross: 3M Haitians Affected by Quake |publisher=CBS News |date=13 January 2010 |accessdate=13 January 2010}}</ref> the Haitian Interior Minister, [[Paul Antoine Bien-Aimé]], anticipated on 15 January that the disaster would eventually claim between 100,000 and 200,000 lives.<ref name='reutersfirst'>{{cite news | first=Jane | last=Sutton | coauthors= Anthony Boadle, Pascal Fletcher |authorlink= | title=Haiti quake death toll may hit 200,000-minister | date=15 January 2010 | publisher=Reuters | url =http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15143632.htm | work =Reuters Alertnet| pages = | accessdate = 15 January 2010 | language = }}</ref>

The earthquake caused major damage to Port-au-Prince, [[Jacmel]] and other settlements in the region. Many notable landmark buildings were significantly damaged or destroyed, including the [[National Palace (Haiti)|Presidential Palace]] (President [[René Préval]], who was in the building at the time, escaped injury), the [[National Assembly of Haiti|National Assembly]] building, the [[Port-au-Prince Cathedral]], and the main jail. Among those killed were the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince|Archbishop of Port-au-Prince]], Monsignor [[Joseph Serge Miot]];<ref name=apny201013>{{cite news | agency = Associated Press | title = Archbishop of Port-Au-Prince Dies in Haiti Quake | publisher = The New York Times | date =13 January 2010 | url =http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/13/world/AP-EU-Haiti-Earthquake-Archbishop.html| accessdate=13 January 2010}}</ref> Justice Minister [[Paul Denis]]; and opposition leader [[Michel Gaillard]].<ref name="yahoo1">{{cite news|url=http://de.news.yahoo.com/26/20100115/tdefault-boschafter-mehrere-minister-unter-de-7458eeb.html|title=Boschafter: Mehrere Minister unter den Toten|date=15 January 2010|publisher=[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur]]|language=German|accessdate=15 January 2010 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5mrJW31pj |archivedate=2010-01-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/haiti-after-the-quake_100305308.html |title=Haiti After The Quake |publisher=Thaindian.com |date= |accessdate=2010-01-20}}</ref> The headquarters of the [[United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti]] (MINUSTAH), located in the capital, collapsed, killing many, including the Mission's Chief, [[Hédi Annabi]].<ref name="unbriefing">{{cite news |first=|last=|title=Briefing by Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, and Jean Victor Nkolo, Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly |url=http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2010/db100113.doc.htm |work=[[United Nations]] |publisher= |date=13 January 2010 |accessdate=13 January 2010 }}</ref><ref name="bbc16012010">{{cite news |first=|last=|title=Clinton visits quake-hit Haitians |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8463490.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |publisher= |date=16 January 2010 |accessdate=16 January 2010 }}</ref>

Comparison of Windows and Linux

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Microsoft Windows [[Market dominance|dominates]] in the [[desktop computer|desktop]] and personal computer markets with about 90% of the desktop market share, and in 2007, accounted for about 66% of all servers sold (while not necessarily used).{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} In server ''revenue'' market share, as of Q4 2007, Microsoft Windows had 36.3% and Linux had 12.7%.<ref name="idc server revenue">{{cite web | title = Worldwide Server Market Experiences Modest Growth in Fourth Quarter as Market Revenues Reach Seven-Year High in 2007, According to IDC | url = http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS21114208 | publisher = [[International Data Corporation|IDC]] | date = February 27, 2008 | accessdate = 2008-03-08 }}</ref> As of June 2009, Linux powered 88.6% of the world's most powerful supercomputers.<ref name="top500 os family share">[http://top500.org/stats/list/33/osfam Operating system Family share for 6/2009]</ref> In December 2008, Linux powered five of the ten most reliable internet hosting companies, compared to Windows' one.<ref>{{ cite web | title = New York Internet and WestHost are the Most Reliable Hosting Companies in December 2008 |url=http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/01/02/new_york_internet_and_westhost_are_the_most_reliable_hosting_companies_in_december_2008.html | publisher = Netcraft | date = 2009-01-02 | accessdate = 2009-07-18}}</ref> Linux and Microsoft Windows differ in philosophy, cost, ease of use, versatility and stability, with each seeking to improve in their perceived weaker areas. Comparisons of the two operating systems tend to reflect their origins, historic user bases and distribution models. Typical perceived weaknesses regularly cited have often included the poor [[Out of the box|“out-of-box”]] usability of the Linux desktop for the mass-market{{Citation needed|date=July 2009|reason=Ubuntu, a distribution of Linux, has good out of the box usability, but some distributions might not. Besides, please cite the fact that WINDOWS has good out-of-the-box usability}}, while Microsoft Windows' main drawback is susceptibility to [[computer virus|viruses]] and [[malware]] due to its enormous market share and lack of security features that could thwart this.<ref name=vistamal>{{cite web |url=http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204792070 |title=Malware Beyond Vista and XP |last1=Kalkuhl|first1=Marcus |last2=Preuss|first2=Marco |date=2009-08-14 |work=Viruslist.com |publisher=Kaspersky Lab |accessdate=2009-12-17 }}</ref> [[Free software community|Proponents of free software]] argue that the key strength of Linux is the degree of freedom allowed to the users: "the freedom to run the program [such as Linux]...to study...and change it...the freedom to redistribute copies...[and] improve the program, and release your improvements."<ref name=fsfphil>{{cite web |url=http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html |title=The Free Software Definition |date=2009-12-12 |work=The GNU Operating System |publisher=Free Software Foundation |accessdate=2009-12-17 }}</ref> Windows embedded devices are often configured without disk storage, and may be configured as a “closed” system that does not allow for end-user extension.

!Boot Loader |May boot to multiple versions of Windows through the [[Windows Vista startup process|Windows Boot Manager]] in Windows Vista and newer; or the earlier boot loader [[NTLDR]] in Windows Server 2003 and prior. Graphical configuration tools are available for both, such as [[EasyBCD]] for the Windows Boot Manager and [[MSConfig]] for NTLDR, which can [[Chain loading|chain load]] multiple non-NT environments, including Linux, by referring to [[volume boot record]]s from those environments saved on the Windows partition.<ref name=slackboot>{{cite book |first1=Alan|last1=Hicks |first2=Chris|last2=Lumens |first3=David|last3=Cantrell |first4=Logan|last4=Johnson |title=Slackware Linux Essentials |url=http://www.slackbook.org/ |accessdate=2009-12-18 |origyear=1998 |year=2005 |isbn=1-57176-338-4 |chapter=7 |chapterurl=http://www.slackbook.org/html/booting.html }}</ref> |May boot to multiple operating systems through numerous bootloaders such as [[LILO (boot loader)|LILO]] and [[GNU GRUB|GRUB]]. With these, it is possible to choose among multiple installed [[Kernel (computer science)|kernel images]] at boot time. Graphical configuration tools for GRUB are available including KGRUBEditor<ref>[http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=75442 KGRUBEditor KDE-Apps.org]</ref> ([[KDE]]) and GrubConf <ref>[http://grubconf.sourceforge.net/ GrubConf – GRUB Graphical Configuration Editor]</ref> ([[GNOME]]). GRUB can also accept arbitrary, one-time configurations at boot time via the GRUB prompt. GRUB and LILO also support booting to non-Unix operating systems via chain loading; for a Windows and Linux [[dual-boot]] system, it is often easiest to install Windows first and then Linux because Linux installers such as Ubuntu's installer will easily and fully automatically detect and set up other operating systems for dual/multiple boot with Linux.<ref name=zddualboot>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=599 |title=Dual-Booting XP and Linux: It's Really Easy! |author=Adrian Kingsley-Hughes |date=2007-07-10 |work=ZDNet |publisher=CBS Interactive |accessdate=2009-12-18}}</ref> | |- valign="top" |}