---------------------------- The US has been forced to broadcast radio messages warning the people of Afghanistan not to confuse food parcels with cluster bombs that are also being dropped over parts of the country.
In an embarrassing admission of the danger posed by such weapons, the US has warned that from a distance the two items could be mistaken – both are roughly the same size and both are bright yellow
"Attention, noble Afghan people," starts the message broadcast in both Pashto and Dari. "As you know, the coalition countries have been air dropping daily humanitarian rations for you. The food ration is enclosed in yellow plastic bags. They come in the shape of rectangular or long squares. The food inside the bags is halal and very nutritional.
"In areas away from where food has been dropped, cluster bombs will also be dropped. The colour of these bombs is also yellow. All bombs will explode when they hit the ground, but in some special circumstances some of the bombs will not explode." (...) ----------------------------
"Immoral" is far too weak a qualifier this war. Perverted is more like it. Or just plain old, Nuke-the-Nam, bomb-Iraq-back-into-the-stone-age, psycho. This is the Pentagon once again stepping over the edge of sanity, where it otherwise constantly teeters.
Hakki Alacakaptan