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Isn't this an interesting "coincidence"?? 3500
Afghan *civilians*, dead from U.S
bombs. 3500 is roughly the official
death toll from the WTC. Remember Bush's
words in the days immediately
following Sept. 11, (before his spin doctors slightly
sanitized
his language) when he spoke constantly of "retaliation" and
"revenge".
Looks like George "Dub'ya" has gotten his pound of
flesh. "Justice" (according
to Bush)?? This is simply mass murder and
hi-tech terrorism!
mart
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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:40 AM
Subject: Afghanistan.
3,500 Civilians Killed by U.S. Bombs
From: "Hunter Gray"
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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
DECEMBER 10, 2001,10:00 AM
CONTACT: Marc Herold
Marc Herold
(603) 862-3375
Andrea Buffa (510) 839-8911
3,500
Civilians Killed in Afghanistan by U.S. Bombs
University of New Hampshire Economics
Professor Releases Study of
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Monday
Morning on Democracy Now!
Radio/TV Show
DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE
- December 10 - More than 3,500 civilians
have been killed in
Afghanistan by U.S. bombs, according to a study to
be released
December 10 by Marc W. Herold, Professor of Economics,
International
Relations, and Women's Studies at the University of New
Hampshire.
Professor Herold will announce his findings on Monday,
December 10 in
a discussion with award-winning journalist, Amy Goodman
of Democracy
Now! in Exile's War and Peace Report
(http://www.democracynow.org).
Professor Herold has been
gathering data on civilian casualties since
October 7 by culling
information from news agencies, major newspapers,
and first-hand
accounts. "I decided to do the study because I suspected
that the
modern weaponrywas not what it was advertised to be. I was
concerned
that there would be significant civilian casualties caused by
the
bombing, and I was able to find some mention of casualties in the
foreign press but almost nothing in the U.S. press," said
Herold.
Herold's data will be available at
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/.
For each day since October 7,
when the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan
began, he lists the number of
casualties, location, type of weapon used,
and source(s) of
information. Following are several examples from his daily
calculations:
* On October 11, two U.S. jets
bombed the mountain village of Karam,
comprised of 60 mud houses,
during dinner and evening prayer time, killing
100-160 people. Sources:
DAWN, (English language Pakistani daily
newspaper), the Guardian of
London, the Independent, International Herald
Tribune, the Scotsman,
the Observer, and the BBC News.
* On October 13, in
the early morning, an F-18 dropped 2,000 lb. JDAM
bombs on the Qila
Meer Abas neighborhood, 2 kms. South of the Kabul
airport, killing
four people. Sources: Afghan Islamic Press, Los Angeles
Times,
Frontier Post, Pakistan Observer, the Guardian of London, and the
BBC
News.
* On October 31, in a pre-dawn raid, an F-18
dropped a 2,000 lb. JDAM
bomb on a Red Crescent clinic, killing 15 -
25 people. Sources: DAWN,
the Times of London, the Independent, the
Guardian, Reuters, Associated
Press, and Agence France
Presse.
Professor Herold has sought whenever possible to
cross-corroborate
accounts of civilian casualties. He relied upon
British, Canadian, and
Australian newspapers; Indian newspapers,
especially The Times of India;
three Pakistani daily newspapers; the
Singapore News; Afghan Islamic
Press; Agence France Press; Pakistan
News Service; Reuters; BBC
News Online; Al Jazeera; and a variety of
other reputable sources, including
the United Nations and other relief
agencies.
The Pentagon has repeatedly denied reports of civilian
casualties in
Afghanistan, and most U.S. media outlets have qualified
their reports of
casualties with the statement "could not be
independently confirmed." But
Professor Herold has been able to confirm
the number of casualties and has
found that the number is climbing
toward 4,000. "People have to know that
there is a human cost to war,
and that this is a war with thousands of
casualties," said Herold.
"These were poor people to begin with, and, on top
of that, they had
absolutely nothing to do with the events of September
11."
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