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Who Will Count the Dead?

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U.S. Media Fail to Report Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan

from: http://www.media-alliance.org

article by Marc W. Herold

Marc W. Herold is a Professor at the Departments of Economics and Women’s Studies, University of New Hampshire Durham.

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The air attack on Afghanistan began at 8:57 p.m. local time on October 7. The following day, Reuters carried an interview with a 16-year-old ice cream vendor from Jalalabad who said he had lost his leg and two fingers in a Cruise missile strike on an airfield near his home:

“There was just a roaring sound, and then I opened my eyes and I was in a hospital,” said Assadullah, who had been taken across the border to Peshawar for medical help. “I lost my leg and two fingers. There were other people hurt. People were running all over the place.”

full text: http://media-alliance.org/mediafile/20-5/index.html

Comments

2 responses to “Who Will Count the Dead?”

  1. Radon

    Petrol is the most important thing in this conflict, USA haven’t attack Afghanistan before the New York attacks because an american petrol company wanted (with the care of Clinton, now Bush governement) to build an oleoduc in Afghanistan. Now, a brasilian(?) company has the project, the american company has lost the project(…) So Bush may attack Afghanistan, change the leaders with those he traded bevor and lost, have some new leaders, and re-trade a new contract with leaders he choosed. This is not the only cause of Afghanistan war, the pride of USA is an other, but this one, we knew it for a long time…

    Rn

  2. milkplus

    who will count the dead ? i woudn’t dare … since this whole conflict started the americans have made more victims in afghanistan than the attacks in the u.s. in september 2001 … an eye for an eye – tooth for a tooth … an now those silly americans take their so called “hostages” from taliban & el quaida to cuba to be in there ultra isolated (even for press) highteched prison, god knows what happens over there ??! damned !! GI Joe and his army are once again trying to control some sort of situation and it get badly out of hand … damned, i shoudn’t waste my breath but what can i do ? write about it .. that usely helps, but not for the victims (on both sides).