Half the population of Afghanistan (26 million)
are children under 16 years old.
About 7.5 million are likely to starve this winter.
10% of the world's landmines are in Afghanistan.
Poll Question:
"Does bombing Afghanistan make your family
or your community safer from terrorist attacks?"
Poll Question:
"Does U.S. bombing make you feel better about
the attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.?"
Poll Question:
"Which makes America stronger:
1) $1,000.000 for a Patriot missile dropped on Afghanistan
2) $1,000,000 for a pediatric clinic in Afghanistan or U.S.A."
According to the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan,
the Northern Alliance supported by the U.S. has the
same attitude toward women as the Taliban.
Poll Question:
"Is God on our side?"
THE OLD woman rose up out of the dust, her black chador unwinding behind her, like an apparition in slow motion, and moved towards the road. 'Food,' she wailed. 'We need food. Give us food.'
The size of Maslakh camp and the enormousness and concentration of human suffering here hits the visitor like a physical assault. The tableau of wretchedness extends for more than three miles and one mile wide along a road cutting through the flat desert plain towards Iran, and more than half a mile back towards a towering mountain range.
Hundreds upon hundreds of squat, mud-walled shelters extending up the slopes of the mountain, winter-proof tents for the fortunate who are receiving aid, tattered black domed tents for the nomadic Kuchi people camped here who have yet to join them, and clumps of human waste everywhere underfoot.