AFP; Reuters. 23 October 2001. US bombs hit civilian districts in chase for Taliban troops: UN; U.S. Planes Kill 93 Afghans Near Kandahar, Jazeera.
ISLAMABAD and DUBAI -- The United Nations said Tuesday that US air attacks were hitting civilian districts in the Afghan capital, Kabul, because the Taliban was sending troops into those areas. "Reports are indicating that several bombs have hit residential areas in Khair Khana close to health and feeding centres," UN spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker told a press conference in Islamabad. "In addition a residential area called Macroyan has been hit. "Residential areas and some villages around Kabul are becoming more dangerous because Taliban troops are moving into those areas." Meanwhile, Qatar's al-Jazeera television reported that U.S. military strikes on Afghanistan Tuesday had killed 93 civilians in a village near Kandahar, including 18 members of one family, The satellite channel said that at least 40 other civilians were wounded in the attack by U.S. warplanes on the village some 37 miles northeast of Kandahar, which it identified as Chukar. It said the 18 family members who died in the attack had fled Kandahar for safety in the village following U.S. military strikes on the city, a Taliban stronghold. Jazeera broadcast videophone footage provided by its correspondent in Kandahar, Youssef al-Shouli, showing a row of corpses wrapped in white shrouds lined up against the wall inside a room. At least one of the corpses was that of a child and a second was of an elderly man. The television also broadcast footage of children, women and elderly men receiving treatment at a hospital in Kandahar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
