posted 11-18-2001 11:16            

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A couple of days after the problem was highlighted in a Reuters news story (but several weeks after it had been going on), the Pentagon decided to change the color of the food packages it was dropping in Afghanistan, from yellow to blue, so recipients would be less confused. For several weeks, it had been dropping yellow packages of food and yellow packages of cluster bombs, along with fliers that explained that the square yellow packages were food and the cylindrical yellow packages were bombs, and urging people to open the former but avoid the latter. [Reuters, 10-29-01; Associated Press, 11-2-01]

Kinda gives new meaning to the ole' Bait and Switch

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posted 11-18-2001 13:17            

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I think the sad part is that apparently many of these people are near starvation, and yet they gather up the food packages and burn them... per Taliban orders.

While I know that isn't the case with all of them, I have to wonder how many people are letting their chances at eating burn up?

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