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Politics : War
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To: chalu2 who wrote (15497)6/23/2002 3:05:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 23908
 
Americans would show no such restraint. Indeed, there have been 10,000 collateral casualties in Afghanistan

That's not true. The AP went all over Afghanistan trying to estimate civilian casualties, they came up with an estimate of 600 - 1200 if memory serves. It doesn't stop all the Chomskyites from citing much higher figures, however. (Whatever became of the "silent genocide" of 3 or 4 million Afghans, I wonder?)

Now, if you add in Taliban casualties, I'm sure the figures are much higher, but that's a different ball game.
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