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UN Warns of Humanitarian Disaster in Afghanistan

Pre-dawn attacks on Kabul this morning ushered in a sixth day of raids against Afghanistan. US war planes attacked targets around Kabul and the Taliban’s main stronghold of Kandahar. US officials said that B-52 and B-1 bombers had targeted Taliban troops with cluster bombs. The bombing is causing a flow of refugees to continue streaming toward the Pakistani border.
Oct 12, 2001 | Story
The Major TV Networks Crack Down -- On Themselves -- to Restrict Their News Coverage of Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan

The five major television news organizations reached a joint agreement yesterday to follow the suggestion of theWhite House and abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language thegovernment considers inflammatory. The decision is the first time in memory that the networks had agreed to a jointarrangement to limit their prospective news coverage. It was described by one network executive as a "patriotic"decision...
Oct 11, 2001 | Story
The Major TV Networks Crack Down -- On Themselves -- to Restrict Their News Coverage of Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan

The five major television news organizations reached a joint agreement yesterday to follow the suggestion of theWhite House and abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language thegovernment considers inflammatory. The decision is the first time in memory that the networks had agreed to a jointarrangement to limit their prospective news coverage. It was described by one network executive as a "patriotic"decision...
Oct 11, 2001 | Story
As the U.S. Rushes to Support to the Northern Alliance, Human Rights Watch Declares the Group Is Responsible for Widespread Human Rights Violations

While much of the US media lauds the Taliban opposition group the Northern Alliance as heroic, human rights andwomen’s groups point out that their record is anything but clean. After the crisis of September 11 Northern Allianceleader Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was killed two days before the attacks, has been presented as friend to the US. A_New York Times_ piece marveled at the very limited permission given to women in Northern Alliance-heldterritory...
Oct 10, 2001 | Story
Paramedic Who Was 200 Feet From the World Trade Center When It Collapsed Describes His Experience, Slams Washington's War On Afghanistan

Huge cranes continued to dip into a mountain of smoldering rubble at the trade center disaster site, lifting several-ton sections of what were once support beams. The movement of debris released 100-foot-wide plumes of smoke from fires within the ruins. At least one body was seen being pulled from the ruins, draped in an American flag.
Oct 09, 2001 | Story
U.S. Tells U.N. Security Council That U.S. May Attack Other Countries: A Discussion On The U.N. and NATO

As US and British forces bombed the UN de-mining office today, US Ambassador to the UN John Negroponte delivered aletter to the UN Security Council stating that the US was attacking Afghanistan in self-defense. The letter statedfurther that the US reserved the right to attack other countries as well as it prosecuted its so-called "war onterrorism."
Oct 09, 2001 | Story
U.S. Missiles Destroy U.N. Landmine Removal Office, Killing 4 U.N. Workers

Afghan rescue workers dug through the rubble of the U.N.-funded de-mining office in Kabul this morning after a U.S.missile scored a direct hit, killing four people. The men killed worked for the Afghan Technical Consultants, which had an office in a village two miles east of Kabul. The building was totally destroyed, prompting the UN to issue an appeal to the international community in general the US and Britain in particular not to attack...
Oct 09, 2001 | Story
The US and Britain Attack Afghanistan with Bombers and Cruise Missiles to Condemnation In much of the Muslim World

The US and Britain launched a massive air attack on Afghanistan last night.
Oct 08, 2001 | Story
International Aid Agencies Denounce US Aid Drops As a Pr Move As Bombing Worsens A Humanitarian Catastrophe

As US and British bombs and missiles rained upon Afghanistan, President Bush, British Prime Minster Tony Blair and the US media stressed the humanitarian aspects of the attack. President Bush said "the oppressed people of Afghanistan will know the generosity of America and our allies. As we strike military targets, we will also drop food, medicine, and Supplies to the starving people of Afghanistan." The New York Times ran articles detailing...
Oct 08, 2001 | Story
Thousands of People in New York and Students Around the Country Protest US and British Attacks in Spite of a Media Blackout

In New York around ten thousand gathered to march from Union Square park to Times Square yesterday, calling for an end to the military attacks on Afghanistan. A broad New York anti-war coalition called the demonstration several weeks ago in anticipation of US retaliation against the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But yesterday morning, after the announcement that the US and Britain had begun attacks on targets in Afghanistan,...
Oct 08, 2001 | Story

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UN Warns of Humanitarian Disaster in Afghanistan

The Major TV Networks Crack Down -- On Themselves -- to Restrict Their News Coverage of Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan

The Major TV Networks Crack Down -- On Themselves -- to Restrict Their News Coverage of Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan

As the U.S. Rushes to Support to the Northern Alliance, Human Rights Watch Declares the Group Is Responsible for Widespread Human Rights Violations

Paramedic Who Was 200 Feet From the World Trade Center When It Collapsed Describes His Experience, Slams Washington's War On Afghanistan

U.S. Tells U.N. Security Council That U.S. May Attack Other Countries: A Discussion On The U.N. and NATO

U.S. Missiles Destroy U.N. Landmine Removal Office, Killing 4 U.N. Workers

The US and Britain Attack Afghanistan with Bombers and Cruise Missiles to Condemnation In much of the Muslim World

International Aid Agencies Denounce US Aid Drops As a Pr Move As Bombing Worsens A Humanitarian Catastrophe

Thousands of People in New York and Students Around the Country Protest US and British Attacks in Spite of a Media Blackout

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