From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: WWIII update - more civilian deaths [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- AP. 21 October 2001. 8 Die in Kabul Bombing, Residents Say. KABUL -- Cursing the aim of U.S. pilots, distraught residents of Kabul on Sunday pulled the dust-covered bodies of women and children from the rubble of two homes shattered by an American bomb. "This pilot was like he was blind," sobbed neighbor Haziz Ullah. "There are no military bases here -- only innocent people." Neighbors said the victims died when a U.S. bomb struck their homes at midday in the Khair Khana district in northern Kabul. An army garrison and other Taliban installations are several miles away. Afghan officials also reported air attacks Sunday around the western city of Herat, Kandahar in the south and near front line positions southeast of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif. An Associated Press reporter saw the bodies of seven dead -- three women and four children -- at the scene and later at the hospital where victims were taken. Neighbors reported at least eight dead, while Dr. Izetullah at the city's Wazir Akbar Khan hospital said 13 bodies had been brought there -- all apparently members of the same family. Ranging in age from about 8 to 13, the four boys lay under bloodied sheets at the hospital, only their bare feet visible. Izetullah wept as he pulled back the shrouds to display the lifeless bodies. Survivors wailed outside. "We don't care about military targets, if they want to hit military targets, let them," said Bacha Gul, who said his brother was among the victims. "But these are not terrorists." "Now the poorest of the poor have been left in Kandahar," shopkeeper Taj Mohammed told reporters Sunday in the Pakistani border city of Quetta. He said the only people left were "those who cannot afford to leave." As bulldozers cleared the rubble from the Khair Khana homes where the civilians died, another U.S. jet screeched overhead. Panicked rescuers scrambled for cover and an ambulance at the scene sped away. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII
