PHOTO: child left behind in Afganistan...one of many bin-forgotten

bush* deserves a LOT of the credit for making these people's lives miserable, and KILLING them slowly by not providing AID after BOMBING them to rubble....Afganistan is finding out just how 'empty' bush* promises and PR-photos and jingle slogans are, and relief aid that never came, money stuffed into the pockets of bush* war-profiteers.....too sad....America ! we are all collectively responsible for this...may God forgive us....


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/19/health/main675152.shtml


Afghan refugee Khalel, 11, tries to keep warm under a blanket at the Chaman-e-Ozuri refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

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Hundreds of Afghans have reportedly died since heavy snow and freezing temperatures set in across much of Afghanistan in late December.....

Some have died in accidents and avalanches, while former refugees even in the capital have apparently frozen to death in makeshift camps, also exposing a lack of shelter and health care despite three years of international aid.

Hardest hit appears to be the western province of Ghor, deep in the Hindu Kush mountains, where deep snow has cut off scores of villages.

Fatemi said 62 children had died there in the past three weeks; 46 had died in Kabul, and 20 had died in Badakhshan in the remote northeast.

He said officials were checking reports of cold-related deaths from other provinces and said a statement by Catholic Relief Services, a U.S.-based relief group, that 265 people had died in western Afghanistan were plausible.

:cry: Ugh. I hate this.