NP? read it and weep

[Doug Millison]

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12077

" [...] There was Ramsir, A 24-year-old Tajik mother whose 5-year-old child
is psychologically damaged from the recent bombing. Rasmir's daughter was
at a park in Kabul when American bombs, aiming for the airport, missed
their mark and killed three of her playmates. The women in the park
screamed, "Where's my child?!" Rasmir told me, as they searched for remains
among the shrapnel. After this, Rasmir and her children, who remained in
Kabul through both the mujahedeen and the Taliban regimes, fled the
country. Before the slaughter in the park, Rasmir's neighbor's house had
been hit by U.S. bombs. All nine members of the family were killed, but
Rasmir told me the shock her daughter experienced in the park was too much.

I met Rasmir at the Afghanistan Women's Council, a food distribution,
health and educational services project for refugee women and children in
Peshawar, Pakistan. Directed by Fatana Gailani, the center has recently
been inundated by refugees fleeing not only the Taliban but the American
bombing. I asked Gailani if she supported the U.S. bombing campaign, as I
expected an educated woman from Kabul would. "Like most people, I was happy
at first, as I am eager to return to a liberated Afghanistan," she said.
"But then I started seeing the flow of refugees, almost every one with a
story of civilian casualties. And now I say that the bombing must stop. We
innocent Afghans are paying the price." [...] "