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Brief Notes
Starvation threatens 7 million
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on 30 Oct. that more
than seven million Afghans are on the verge of starvation, particularly in
view of the dry conditions in the neighboring countries. UNICEF, on the
other hand, said on 4 Nov. that more than half a million children below
the age of five face certain death in Afghanistan, particularly in view of
the impending winter and the fact that they are already malnourished.
War aim blurred
Peter Kilfoyle, former British defence minister, joined the growing
calls for a halt to the bombing because of civilian casualties. He claimed
the war aims had become blurred, and said that protracted bombing would
create more terrorists. Tony Benn, veteran leftist and former minister,
said: "What we are doing now is immoral because it is killing
innocent people who have nothing to do with the bombing of the World Trade
Center."
Congressman racially profiled
Rep. Darrell Issa was the victim of racial profiling when he tried to
board an Air France flight to Paris. The airline denied the California
Republican a seat on a late-night flight from Washington's Dulles
International Airport on 4 Oct., after he showed up at the gate an hour
before departure with "an Arab surname."
US paying past mistakes
Former President Bill Clinton told students in George Town Uni. on 9
Nov. that terror has existed in America for hundreds of years and the
nation is "paying a price today" for its past which includes
slavery and the dispossession of American Indians. "Here in the
United States, we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and
slaves quite frequently were killed even though they were innocent."
Gen. Nambiar: anthrax to divert attention
‘More debilitating from the point of view of their projection as
free and democratic societies has been the attempt by the American and
British administrations to impose bias on media coverage of events taking
place in Afghanistan. For possible adverse impact on the people of
America, of operations in Afghanistan, attention there is focussed on the
anthrax scare.
Turkish man run over
31-year-old Mustafa Chitak was deliberately run over by a vehicle
driven by Dutch soldiers in Amsterdam. He was seriously injured with 21
fractures on 16 Oct. q |
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