humanitarian aid

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Help me somebody! Jasper's on my back.  I can't keep up with all the
details. I wasn't even resourceful enough to quote Rumsfeld properly.  But
it's been my understanding all along that food to Afghanistan has stopped
since September 11.  I've read it in at least a half dozen articles posted
here, I've heard it on the radio another half dozen times, I'm sure I even
heard it mentioned on TV once or twice.  I don't know what you've been
reading or who you've been listening to, but it's pretty clear in my mind.


----- Original Message -----
From: Jasper Fidget <fakename at tokyo.com>
To: <barbara100 at jps.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: humanitarian aid


> *Sigh*.  Read the following transcript excerpt carefully, Barbara:
>
> Q: The World Food Program today said that it has actually discontinued aid
> shipments into Afghanistan as a result of the strikes, and that's a cutoff
> of about 700,000 tons of food going into Afghanistan today. So it would
> appear that there's actually a net loss as a result of this action. Does
> that concern you at all?
>
> Rumsfeld: Well, I think it would be a misunderstanding of the situation.
> What you have is a group of people, the Taliban, that have repressed the
> Afghan people, contributed to their starvation. And to suggest that what
is
> taking place now is a net loss for the Afghan people would be a total
> misunderstanding of what's taking place.
>
> http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/t10082001_t1008sdm.html
>
> Interpretation: Food stopped going in during the *strikes*, ie
*yesterday*,
> not since Sept. 11.
>
> exhausted,
> Jasper Fidget
>
> ----- Original Message -----