Suffering seems to be the preferred way of life there.....
courtesy of DRUDGE REPORT
Afghans burn U.S. food airdrops: reports
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 10, 2001 (Kyodo) -- Afghan civilians in Vardak and Ghazni provinces close to Kabul have burned food packages air-dropped by the United States in protest against U.S. air strikes, according to reports from Afghanistan.
A source in Peshawar, western Pakistan, citing witness accounts from Afghanistan, said several hundred people in each of the two provinces gathered the packets of rice and fruit dropped by the U.S. military, piled them up outside their homes and torched them.
"No need for pity," some of them chanted.
"We will fight America to the end."
On Tuesday, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salem Zaeef, denounced the U.S. food drop policy, calling it "an insult" to the Afghan people.
U.S. President George W. Bush initiated the food drop policy, saying Afghans -- long suffering from food shortages brought on by drought -- are American friends and that the U.S. air strike was targeted at the Taliban and alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden and his network.
U.S. officials say more than 100,000 food packets have been dropped in Afghanistan |
