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Friday, January 18, 2002
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From One Ground Zero to Another: Americans Who Lost Loved Ones in the September 11 Attacksmake a Historic Journey to Afghanistan to Meet with Afghans Who Lost Loved Ones in the U.S. Bombing
Yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell became the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Afghanistan in 25 years.He arrived en route from Pakistan and stayed just long enough to meet with interim Afghan ruler Hamid Karzai.
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"The First Thing to Be Sacrificed During Wartime Is Truth": As the Media Refuses to Report On Civilian Casualties of the US Campaign in Afghanistan, We’ll Look at Fifteen Years of the Mediawatch-Dog G
The war isn’t over, but already Pentagon and intelligence agency teams are going to Afghanistan for a post-mortem onU.S. weapons and tactics. The Air Force has launched a similar effort, code-named "Enduring Look." Yet neither ofthese studies, nor any others planned so far, is set to dig deeply into one of the toughest problems of thewar—civilian casualties. The omission reflects what may be a surprising fact: that behind a screen ofself-congratulatory public statements by senior officials, the U.S. military is tied in knots over the issue, knowneuphemistically as "collateral damage." Since the Afghan war began more than three months ago, fear of criticismabout civilian casualties has spread through the Pentagon "like a virus," as one senior commander put it.
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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