John Kerry on Monday became the first U.S.
secretary of state to pay his respects at Hiroshima's memorial to
victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack, raising speculation that U.S.
President Barack Obama might visit in May.
Accompanied by foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies, Kerry toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum, whose haunting displays include photographs of badly burned victims, the tattered and stained clothes they wore and statues depicting them with flesh melting from their limbs.
The ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States then laid wreaths at a cenotaph to the victims of the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing, which reduced the city to ashes and killed some 140,000 people by the end of that year.
While he is not the highest-ranking U.S. official to have toured the museum and memorial park, a distinction that belongs to then-U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in 2008, Kerry is the senior-most executive branch official to visit.
Everyone in the world should see and feel the power of this memorial. It is a stark, harsh, compelling reminder not only of our obligation to end the threat of nuclear weapons, but to rededicate all our effort to avoid war itself," the chief U.S. diplomat wrote in a guest book at the museum.
After a moment of silence by the ministers, Japanese school children presented them with lei's made of paper cranes, symbolizing peace, in each country's national colors.
At Kerry's suggestion, the ministers also made an impromptu visit to the Atomic Bomb Dome, the remains of the only structure left standing near the hypocenter of the bomb explosion and now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Three days after a U.S. warplane dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Japan surrendered six days later.
Kerry's trip could pave the way for an unprecedented visit to Hiroshima by a sitting U.S. president when Obama attends the annual G7 leaders summit in another Japanese city next month.
A visit could be controversial in America if it were viewed as an apology. A majority of Americans still view the bombings as justified to end the war and save U.S. lives, while the vast majority of Japanese believe it was not justified.
While saying the White House has not yet decided, the senior U.S. official said Obama, who last month visited Cuba, has shown he is willing to do controversial things such as visiting Havana last month.
Hopes for Obama's visit to Hiroshima were raised after his April 2009 speech in Prague calling for a world without nuclear weapons. He later said that he would be honored to visit the two nuclear-attacked cities.
The G7 foreign ministers' trip to the museum and memorial is part of Japan's effort to send a strong nuclear disarmament message from Hiroshima, the world's first city to suffer atomic bombing.
"I think this first-ever visit by G7 foreign ministers to the peace memorial park is a historic first step towards building momentum toward a world without nuclear weapons," Kishida said in a statement.
Kishida said the ministers will discuss anti-terrorism steps, maritime security and issues related to North Korea, Ukraine and the Middle East.
Accompanied by foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies, Kerry toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum, whose haunting displays include photographs of badly burned victims, the tattered and stained clothes they wore and statues depicting them with flesh melting from their limbs.
The ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States then laid wreaths at a cenotaph to the victims of the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing, which reduced the city to ashes and killed some 140,000 people by the end of that year.
While he is not the highest-ranking U.S. official to have toured the museum and memorial park, a distinction that belongs to then-U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in 2008, Kerry is the senior-most executive branch official to visit.
Everyone in the world should see and feel the power of this memorial. It is a stark, harsh, compelling reminder not only of our obligation to end the threat of nuclear weapons, but to rededicate all our effort to avoid war itself," the chief U.S. diplomat wrote in a guest book at the museum.
After a moment of silence by the ministers, Japanese school children presented them with lei's made of paper cranes, symbolizing peace, in each country's national colors.
At Kerry's suggestion, the ministers also made an impromptu visit to the Atomic Bomb Dome, the remains of the only structure left standing near the hypocenter of the bomb explosion and now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Three days after a U.S. warplane dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Japan surrendered six days later.
Kerry's trip could pave the way for an unprecedented visit to Hiroshima by a sitting U.S. president when Obama attends the annual G7 leaders summit in another Japanese city next month.
A visit could be controversial in America if it were viewed as an apology. A majority of Americans still view the bombings as justified to end the war and save U.S. lives, while the vast majority of Japanese believe it was not justified.
While saying the White House has not yet decided, the senior U.S. official said Obama, who last month visited Cuba, has shown he is willing to do controversial things such as visiting Havana last month.
Hopes for Obama's visit to Hiroshima were raised after his April 2009 speech in Prague calling for a world without nuclear weapons. He later said that he would be honored to visit the two nuclear-attacked cities.
The G7 foreign ministers' trip to the museum and memorial is part of Japan's effort to send a strong nuclear disarmament message from Hiroshima, the world's first city to suffer atomic bombing.
"I think this first-ever visit by G7 foreign ministers to the peace memorial park is a historic first step towards building momentum toward a world without nuclear weapons," Kishida said in a statement.
Kishida said the ministers will discuss anti-terrorism steps, maritime security and issues related to North Korea, Ukraine and the Middle East.
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man’s amazing road to wealth… In the spring of 2015 M. opened an online
lottery account from his home in Iraq – three months on he’d won a
lottery jackpot of $6.4 million in the US! How did a man from Baghdad
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One
man’s amazing road to wealth… In the spring of 2015 M. opened an online
lottery account from his home in Iraq – three months on he’d won a
lottery jackpot of $6.4 million in the US! How did a man from Baghdad
manage to win an American lottery online?
Driving in Baghdad, He Got a Phone Call that Changed his Life
"Are you sure? Are you sure?!" -- M., a 37-year-old father
from Baghdad in Iraq, kept repeating the question when he got the phone
call with the news he had won the $6.4 million jackpot in the Oregon
Megabucks on 24 August.
M. had only started playing lotteries in the US and Europe through
theLotter three months before he won. "It was a shock. At first, I
thought it was a joke. I was driving in my car, I was going to the bank…
so I get a call from theLotter, from a great person called Christine,
and she told me the great news, so I was in shock! I suspected I’d won
something, but had no idea it was the jackpot."
Jackpot Winner Fears for his Life, Pleads for his Name Not to Be Revealed
After
careful preparation in the autumn, M. flew to Oregon to claim his
millions in December. He requested that theLotter and the Oregon lottery
keep his name confidential because of safety concerns. "The situation
in Iraq is not good. It's very dangerous. If my name were revealed, it
would be a big problem."
Oregon Lottery director Jack Roberts agreed to the unusual request. "The
personal safety risk that he and his family might face seems stronger
than the public interest of knowing who the person is," Roberts told
local media. "I don't want to read that somebody has been kidnapped or
killed because we announce them as a Megabucks winner."
How Can a Foreigner Play the Lottery in the United States?
So how did he do it? How did M. participate in a US lottery from Iraq?
M. played US lotteries online through theLotter, a worldwide messenger
service that was established in 2002. Through theLotter people can
request somebody to physically purchase lottery tickets on their behalf,
even when they are outside of the country or state where the lottery
takes place. theLotter doesn’t operate lotteries, but its local reps in
more than 20 countries across the world purchase official paper tickets
and make a scanned copy available to online players' secure personal
accounts. theLotter enables people to play the US Powerball and EuroMillions lottery online and a host of other draws from anywhere in the world.
Is it Legal to Play the Lottery Online?
I. Nelson Rose, the eminent professor of law at the Whittier Law School in California, said in the New York Times article about the Iraqi lottery winner
that theLotter’s method of providing official lottery tickets to online
participants is “100 percent legal”. The Oregon Lottery officials
confirmed it: their exact words were that “the system is ingenious”. The
method is allowed, because theLotter’s clients do not actually play
online… They merely request that the service’s reps physically go out to
buy official paper tickets on their behalf.
M.’s future, and the future of his children, looks bright. Whilst he had
a hard time believing it was real when he first signed up in the
spring, after his win he said that “theLotter was trustworthy and the
real deal as everyone on staff was so helpful in getting the prize
claimed”.
Asked if he was going to continue to buy lottery tickets: "I'm going to continue to play every day!"
- See more at:
https://www.thelotter.com/iraqi-wins-us-lottery/?affid=167&utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=Iraq_v7_EN#sthash.0khotHVo.dpufdr
One
man’s amazing road to wealth… In the spring of 2015 M. opened an online
lottery account from his home in Iraq – three months on he’d won a
lottery jackpot of $6.4 million in the US! How did a man from Baghdad
manage to win an American lottery online?
Driving in Baghdad, He Got a Phone Call that Changed his Life
"Are you sure? Are you sure?!" -- M., a 37-year-old father
from Baghdad in Iraq, kept repeating the question when he got the phone
call with the news he had won the $6.4 million jackpot in the Oregon
Megabucks on 24 August.
M. had only started playing lotteries in the US and Europe through
theLotter three months before he won. "It was a shock. At first, I
thought it was a joke. I was driving in my car, I was going to the bank…
so I get a call from theLotter, from a great person called Christine,
and she told me the great news, so I was in shock! I suspected I’d won
something, but had no idea it was the jackpot."
Jackpot Winner Fears for his Life, Pleads for his Name Not to Be Revealed
After
careful preparation in the autumn, M. flew to Oregon to claim his
millions in December. He requested that theLotter and the Oregon lottery
keep his name confidential because of safety concerns. "The situation
in Iraq is not good. It's very dangerous. If my name were revealed, it
would be a big problem."
Oregon Lottery director Jack Roberts agreed to the unusual request. "The
personal safety risk that he and his family might face seems stronger
than the public interest of knowing who the person is," Roberts told
local media. "I don't want to read that somebody has been kidnapped or
killed because we announce them as a Megabucks winner."
How Can a Foreigner Play the Lottery in the United States?
So how did he do it? How did M. participate in a US lottery from Iraq?
M. played US lotteries online through theLotter, a worldwide messenger
service that was established in 2002. Through theLotter people can
request somebody to physically purchase lottery tickets on their behalf,
even when they are outside of the country or state where the lottery
takes place. theLotter doesn’t operate lotteries, but its local reps in
more than 20 countries across the world purchase official paper tickets
and make a scanned copy available to online players' secure personal
accounts. theLotter enables people to play the US Powerball and EuroMillions lottery online and a host of other draws from anywhere in the world.
Is it Legal to Play the Lottery Online?
I. Nelson Rose, the eminent professor of law at the Whittier Law School in California, said in the New York Times article about the Iraqi lottery winner
that theLotter’s method of providing official lottery tickets to online
participants is “100 percent legal”. The Oregon Lottery officials
confirmed it: their exact words were that “the system is ingenious”. The
method is allowed, because theLotter’s clients do not actually play
online… They merely request that the service’s reps physically go out to
buy official paper tickets on their behalf.
M.’s future, and the future of his children, looks bright. Whilst he had
a hard time believing it was real when he first signed up in the
spring, after his win he said that “theLotter was trustworthy and the
real deal as everyone on staff was so helpful in getting the prize
claimed”.
Asked if he was going to continue to buy lottery tickets: "I'm going to continue to play every day!"
- See more at:
https://www.thelotter.com/iraqi-wins-us-lottery/?affid=167&utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=Iraq_v7_EN#sthash.0khotHVo.dpuf
One
man’s amazing road to wealth… In the spring of 2015 M. opened an online
lottery account from his home in Iraq – three months on he’d won a
lottery jackpot of $6.4 million in the US! How did a man from Baghdad
manage to win an American lottery online?
Driving in Baghdad, He Got a Phone Call that Changed his Life
"Are you sure? Are you sure?!" -- M., a 37-year-old father
from Baghdad in Iraq, kept repeating the question when he got the phone
call with the news he had won the $6.4 million jackpot in the Oregon
Megabucks on 24 August.
M. had only started playing lotteries in the US and Europe through
theLotter three months before he won. "It was a shock. At first, I
thought it was a joke. I was driving in my car, I was going to the bank…
so I get a call from theLotter, from a great person called Christine,
and she told me the great news, so I was in shock! I suspected I’d won
something, but had no idea it was the jackpot."
Jackpot Winner Fears for his Life, Pleads for his Name Not to Be Revealed
After
careful preparation in the autumn, M. flew to Oregon to claim his
millions in December. He requested that theLotter and the Oregon lottery
keep his name confidential because of safety concerns. "The situation
in Iraq is not good. It's very dangerous. If my name were revealed, it
would be a big problem."
Oregon Lottery director Jack Roberts agreed to the unusual request. "The
personal safety risk that he and his family might face seems stronger
than the public interest of knowing who the person is," Roberts told
local media. "I don't want to read that somebody has been kidnapped or
killed because we announce them as a Megabucks winner."
How Can a Foreigner Play the Lottery in the United States?
So how did he do it? How did M. participate in a US lottery from Iraq?
M. played US lotteries online through theLotter, a worldwide messenger
service that was established in 2002. Through theLotter people can
request somebody to physically purchase lottery tickets on their behalf,
even when they are outside of the country or state where the lottery
takes place. theLotter doesn’t operate lotteries, but its local reps in
more than 20 countries across the world purchase official paper tickets
and make a scanned copy available to online players' secure personal
accounts. theLotter enables people to play the US Powerball and EuroMillions lottery online and a host of other draws from anywhere in the world.
Is it Legal to Play the Lottery Online?
I. Nelson Rose, the eminent professor of law at the Whittier Law School in California, said in the New York Times article about the Iraqi lottery winner
that theLotter’s method of providing official lottery tickets to online
participants is “100 percent legal”. The Oregon Lottery officials
confirmed it: their exact words were that “the system is ingenious”. The
method is allowed, because theLotter’s clients do not actually play
online… They merely request that the service’s reps physically go out to
buy official paper tickets on their behalf.
M.’s future, and the future of his children, looks bright. Whilst he had
a hard time believing it was real when he first signed up in the
spring, after his win he said that “theLotter was trustworthy and the
real deal as everyone on staff was so helpful in getting the prize
claimed”.
Asked if he was going to continue to buy lottery tickets: "I'm going to continue to play every day!"
- See more at:
https://www.thelotter.com/iraqi-wins-us-lottery/?affid=167&utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=Iraq_v7_EN#sthash.0khotHVo.dpuf
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