PHOTOS OF THE AFGHANISTAN FOOD DROP

YAHOO ^ | October 13. 2001 | AP

[TheOtherOne]

Afghan residents pick up food packets of U.S. humanitarian aid dropped by U.S. planes, in a field near Khwaja-Bahauddin, in northern Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2001. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

An Afghan woman carries a bundle of U.S. humanitarian aid food packets dropped by U.S. planes near Khwaja-Bahauddin, northern Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2001. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze).

[cheme]

bttt

[ChowChowFace]

Nice to see that some of the food packets are reaching people.
Thanks for the post!

[Recovering_Democrat]

MAJOR HUMAN RIGHTS BUMP!
Who says there's no such thing as compassionate conservatism?

Now, Use-less never bin Laiden, watch yer a**!

[NOLBRLS]

Caption for pic number 6 "One for Osama One for Me ....."

[alice_in_bubbaland]

BUMP! I thought that the locals were burning the MRE's! Hope they like pop tarts! UGH!

[.38sw]

Oh, my! I hope no one gets hit in the head with one of these[/sarcasm].

Doesn't it take a great nation to be more concerned about the people of another country than their own government is? The Taliban is more than happy to let their subjects starve to death. Some of the TeeVee reporters have been more concerned with the civilians of Afghanistan getting bonked by a food package than by the thousands of Americans pulverized and incinerated by hijacked commericial jetliners filled with more innocent civilians, including THE CHILDREN. I just don't get it....

[AM2000]

One woman with a whole bundle?? Ahh well, we'll have to ration them out once we get the UN in there.

[neutrino]

I suppose a strafing run to follow would be considered hunting over a baited field....

[McGavin999]

Thanks so much for posting this. I had read that the people were burning the food because they said they'd rather starve then eat food we sent. I was beginning to think it was a terrible waste of resources when so many in the world are hungry. This disproves the rumor.

I'm so glad these people were able to get to the food.

[Mark was here]

GOD BLESS AMERICA....

[PokeyJoe]

Fox news reported that one of the old guys said after tasing the lentil stew inside, "We don't like this, we need beans and flour to make bread" and then proceeded to feed a few of the containers to his jackass.

[Countdown]

Does anyone know where there is a closeup of the MRE packaging? I'd like to see what they say. What message(s) do the convey?

[AF68]

Amen!

[PokeyJoe]

sorry, the source for the guy feeding his jackass was pMSNBC. they have a pretty good story running on this... one Afghan guy saying in enlighs "thank you, thank you, thank you berry much"

[NetSurfer]

Maybe he'll like the "taste" of starvation, better. Sheesh.

We should make sure the Red Cross site gets a few thousand of these pictures forwarded to them. That way they can stop harping about how "nothing" is reaching the Afghan people and how the food has to be brought in "by truck" to reach the needy.

Supposedly, one-fifth of all land mines are located in Afghanistan...I wonder just where the Red Cross is planning on driving these trucks? Ugh.

[TheOtherOne]

This is the U.S. 'Humanitarian Daily Ration' package of food that U.S. Defense Department said were dropped over Afghanistan, October 7, 2001. Each package contains Beans with Tomato Sauce, Beans and Tomato Vinaigrette, Biscuit, Fruit Pastry, Fruit Bar, Short Bread, Peanut Butter, Strawberry Jam, and utensils package including salt, pepper, napkin and a match. According to Defense Department 37,500 of the HDR packages were delivered over Afghanistan. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters)

[scrambled_transmission]

Actually, according to al-Jazira, Afghanis were collecting and burning the rations because 1) they suspected that they were contaminated by pork, and 2) the US is bombing civilian villages. That can't be dismissed as al-Jazira propaganda, either (they're actually more objective than a lot of US stations)