| Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan
By Professor Marc W. Herold 05/01/2002 At 17:54 When U.S. warplanes strafed [with AC-130 gunships] the farming village of Chowkar-Karez, 25 miles north of Kandahar on October 22-23rd,killing at least 93 civilians, a Pentagon official said, "the people there are dead because we wanted them dead." The reason? They sympathized with the Taliban. When asked about the Chowkar incident, Rumsfeld replied, "I cannot deal with that particular village." A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting "What causes the documented high level of civilian casualties -- 3,767 [thru December 6, 2001] civilian deaths in eight and a half weeks -- in the U.S. air war upon Afghanistan? The explanation is the apparent willingness of U.S. military strategists to fire missiles into and drop bombs upon, heavily populated areas of Afghanistan." Professor Marc W. Herold Ph.D., M.B.A., B.Sc. Departments of Economics and Women's Studies McConnell Hall Whittemore School of Business & Economics University of New Hampshire Durham, N.H. 03824, U.S.A. FAX : 603 862-3383 more at:  http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm  URL:: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2641
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