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Features: Bombing of Farming Village Undermines U.S. Credibility
posted by admin on Saturday November 03, 2001 @10:50 AM
from the commondreams.org dept.
News Published on Saturday, November 3, 2001 in the Toronto Globe & Mail

by Murray Campbell

Both sides agree that the Afghan village of Chowkar-Karez was bombed. But that's where the agreement ends.


A Taliban official stands on debris in Chowkar-Karez village, 80 km north of Kandahar, November 1, 2001. Afghan's ruling Taliban took foreign journalists to witness damage, in which residents said around 100 people were killed when U.S. planes hit the village ten days ago. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed
The Taliban says between 90 and 100 civilians, almost the entire population of the village, were killed in an attack by U.S. warplanes on Oct. 22. The Pentagon says the community was supporting terrorists from the al-Qaeda network and deserved its fate.

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An End to Our Holiday From History
posted by admin on Friday November 02, 2001 @04:25 PM
from the commondreams.org dept.
News Published on Friday, November 2, 2001 in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

by Anthony B. Robinson

In a column I wrote just days after Sept. 11, I worried that America might take its cue for its response to the terrorist attacks from the movies. We might turn, I feared, to "Terminator"-type movies as our guide and launch all-out reprisals.

I was wrong. Not, it turns out, in my apprehension that we would turn to the movies. No, I just had the wrong movie. It isn't "Terminator." It's "Dumb and Dumber."

Or maybe you found more comfort and reassurance than I did in the story that the Pentagon has established the equivalent of national suggestion box for the war on terror?

"Send us," announced the Pentagon, "your best ideas for fighting terrorism." "Classified proposals (up to SECRET) must be appropriately marked, sealed and mailed," specify the Pentagon instructions. For all others you can use e-mail.

Please. Tell me we aren't turning this into a radio station give-away contest. "Best idea for the war on terrorism wins a trip for two to Disneyland!"

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