WEEKLY REVIEW President Bush, who has taken to using the phrase "the Bush doctrine" to describe his war on terrorism, collected $1 donations from American schoolchildren to help feed starving Afghan refugee children. He praised a young girl from Virginia who raised $45 by feeding chickens. "One way to fight evil is to fight it with kindness and love and compassion," he said. "Winter arrives early in Afghanistan. It's cold, really cold, and the children need warm clothing and they need medicines. And thanks to the American children, fewer children in Afghanistan will suffer this winter." That day, at least one American bomb landed in the Red Cross compound in Kabul, setting several warehouses on fire. The president flew to Shanghai, China, for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. He rode around in a limo and pronounced the city "mind-boggling" and "miraculous." He wore a traditional Chinese silk jacket; it was blue with gold trim. He noted that "there is no isolation from evil." At a joint press conference with President Jiang Zemin, President Bush answered questions about anthrax. "These are evil people and the deeds that have been conducted on the American people are evil deeds," he said. "And anybody who would mail anthrax letters, trying to affect the lives of innocent people, is evil." The president also cautioned that the anthrax attacks could turn out to be "a hoax." It was revealed that in 1944 Britain manufactured 5 million anthrax cattle cakes that were to be airdropped (in "Operation Vegetarian") over Germany; the expectation was that the disease would kill all the cattle and then kill all the Germans. The plan was called off after the success of the Normandy Invasion.
In response to reports of heavy civilian casualties near Darunta, the Pentagon spent millions of dollars buying up exclusive rights to civilian satellite photos of the Afghan bombing zone to prevent the images from falling into the hands of the news media. Legally, the Pentagon has "shutter control" over civilian satellites to prevent enemies from acquiring sensitive intelligence data, but in this case the images had no strategic value.