Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Oh, crap!
'No survivors' in US Afghan crash From BBC News ...
The statement said there appeared to be no survivors, and two remained missing.
It was the eighth and worst air crash suffered by US forces in Afghanistan since they toppled the Taleban at the end of 2001...
According to the article 16 are dead and 4 were Americans. A couple days ago, I was lamenting the fact that there were very few news items about Afghanistan and Iraq. Unfortunately, there are reports about both, now. Of course, they probably get overshadowed by the big news of the Pope's death and "coming soon to a theatre near you" burial.
Look at this article Iraq child hunger report denied
...Last week's report, by UN hunger specialist Jean Ziegler, blamed the worsening situation in Iraq on the war led by coalition forces.
About 8% of Iraqi children are now going hungry compared with 4% under former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Mr Ziegler told the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva.
U S ambassador has this to say ''The surveys that have been taken... have indicated that the recent rise in malnutrition rates began between 2002 and 2003 under the regime of Saddam Hussein,'' Mr Moley said.
''If anything, vaccination, food aid have improved dramatically since the fall of Saddam Hussein,'' he added.
Color me stupid, but I don't believe it... Unless we managed to kill off a goodly portion of children during our "Shock and Awe" Show. Then the percentage of children, living, would be much less than before we started our bombing campaign.
The statement said there appeared to be no survivors, and two remained missing.
It was the eighth and worst air crash suffered by US forces in Afghanistan since they toppled the Taleban at the end of 2001...
According to the article 16 are dead and 4 were Americans. A couple days ago, I was lamenting the fact that there were very few news items about Afghanistan and Iraq. Unfortunately, there are reports about both, now. Of course, they probably get overshadowed by the big news of the Pope's death and "coming soon to a theatre near you" burial.
Look at this article Iraq child hunger report denied
...Last week's report, by UN hunger specialist Jean Ziegler, blamed the worsening situation in Iraq on the war led by coalition forces.
About 8% of Iraqi children are now going hungry compared with 4% under former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Mr Ziegler told the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva.
U S ambassador has this to say ''The surveys that have been taken... have indicated that the recent rise in malnutrition rates began between 2002 and 2003 under the regime of Saddam Hussein,'' Mr Moley said.
''If anything, vaccination, food aid have improved dramatically since the fall of Saddam Hussein,'' he added.
Color me stupid, but I don't believe it... Unless we managed to kill off a goodly portion of children during our "Shock and Awe" Show. Then the percentage of children, living, would be much less than before we started our bombing campaign.
