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To: Dale Knipschield who wrote (65399)	8/28/2002 12:13:55 AM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Respond to of 70976

>> Where is your source for that claim? We need some accurate figures.......Please provide your info source. It will take time to find, but I'll look and post it. A couple of months ago one of the national magazines - possibly New Yorker, tabulated the count of civilians killed by American bombing in Afghanistan, and it exceeded a thousand people. How about this source: cursor.org a quote from the above: "Between October 7 - December 6, U.S. aerial attacks on Afghanistan had killed an average of 62 innocent civilians a day. The bombing of a convoy of tribal elders during the night of December 20th is right on the trend line." The most recent attack on the 4 villages near the wedding party killed approx 100 people. There was a single village that was attacked at night killing 90 people in the homes asleep. The justification for attacking that village was that there were concrete sheds near by. According to a recent (a week ago) news story, there were more than 600 people killed while held prisoner in a massacre that the UN is labeling as a war crime. And then there were the six people here, 10 people there, etc... who were killed because one of them was tall and riding in a vehicle. Hopefully, I'll find an accurate count and post it. This is a start cursor.org from the above source: On Monday, October 29th, citing Reuters, The Times of India reported from Kabul, "a US bomb flattened a flimsy mud-brick home in Kabul on Sunday blowing apart seven children as they ate breakfast with their father. The blast shattered a neighbour's house killing another two children …..the houses were in a residential area called Qalaye Khatir near a hill where the hard-line Taliban militia had placed an anti-aircraft gun."18 The Afghan town of Charikar, 60 kms north of Kabul, has been the recipient of many US bombs and missiles. On Saturday, November 17th, US bombs killed two entire families -- one of 16 members and the other of 14 -- perished, together in the same house.19 On the same day, bomb strikes in Khanabad near Kunduz, killed 100 people. A refugee, Mohammed Rasul, recounts himself burying 11 people, pulled out of ruins there [ibid].