NP - Starving Children

[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7927-2001Oct17.html

Taliban Seize U.N. Warehouses

ISLAMABAD, 11:15 EDT -- Taliban forces seized two United Nations warehouses 
filled with food for drought-stricken Afghanistan children late Tuesday, 
seriously hindering international efforts to ease hunger in the region, a UN 
official said on Wednesday.

Catherine Bertini, executive director for UN'S World Food Program, said that 
Taliban forcefully seized wheat supplies in warehouses in Kabul and 
Kandahar.

About 7,000 tons of the wheat taken by the Taliban represented more than 
half of the agency's food aid in Afghanistan.

"Our staff was asked to leave because the military had taken over both 
warehouse," Bertini told reporters.



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