Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:39:51 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: U.S. Military Defends Its Food Drop
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<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Attacks-Humanitarian 
-Aid.html>

October 10, 2001

U.S. Military Defends Its Food Drop

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:34 p.m. ET

BERLIN (AP) -- The U.S. military on Wednesday defended its daily 
humanitarian deliveries to Afghan civilians from criticism by aid 
groups that the packages of food being dropped from the sky are 
propaganda.

Planes loaded with the food aid were in the air Sunday at the same 
time that jets were bombing military targets in Afghanistan in 
retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Since then, the C-17 
cargo planes have blanketed isolated areas with 37,000 yellow plastic 
ration packets daily, each containing two meals.

[...]

But the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Medecins Sans 
Frontieres condemned the operation, saying Wednesday that the drops 
were a ``military propaganda operation'' that could endanger future 
aid operations.

[...]



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